The problem with anonymized data is that it's not really anonymous.
All you need are multiple datasets to figure out who is who. For example, Google buys another dataset from Adobe. Even though no names are in it, they can use patterns in it checked against their own non-anonymous data to figure out who you are.
Anonymized data is just a nice term used to fool the masses.
>The problem with using "just get better" as a justification for accepting growing inequality is that it does not scale. If everyone had PhD's, there wouldn't be enough room for the elite positions, and many PhD's would end up mopping floors and other grunt work.
Sad thing is, the world is already getting to this point. I recently got my PhD, and in recent years I have seen (in multiple disciplines) many more people with PhDs than there are jobs (both industry and academic ones).
What happens is that the 'gig economy' is edging its way into the academic and industrial world too, with many more "visiting" or "contract" positions than there ever was before.
That makes sense, because you're actually paying for Apple products. Facebook offers its services at no monetary cost and its primary activity is data abuse.
That doesn't mean Apple won't try and use any data it has for profit whenever it sees fit. It's just a trend with tech companies these days: everyone is into data. But it does mean that because Apple's business is with its products, it will put selling those products first over data abuse.
Hey, but the fact that we are all providing massive amounts of data to online megacorporations is part of the reason why all the money is funneling into the hands of the few in the first place.
Actually, I use a Micro SD card to avoid using MTP (Android's Media Transfer Protocol) because MTP is far slower, and doesn't behave like a normal file system. It doesn't work with rsync and moving files from one directory to another seems to actually require copying them instead of just moving as in a traditional FS.
Seriously? Slashdot was offline for a couple of days. Go outside for a walk.
I've tried a ton of other websites. Reddit for example, which turned out to be 99% lame whining.
While Slashdot has its problems too, the discussion system is the best I've experienced and even if the comments are sometimes a little whacky, they always give me something to think about.
Thanks to the Slashdot team for keeping this place alive.
Sorry to say, but there is a huge profit to be made from diversity. I don't know about the corporate level, but it's true at the college level. Colleges, especially the liberal arts ones, are promoting diversity big time because catering to groups that have lower education levels (for whatever reason) is a great new source of tuition.
Wow, catastrophically wrong? DIdn't know you had unassailable evidence to issues that have evidence in both directions and so ins't clear.
I've read hundreds of studies in psychology about the biological differences between men and women and there's evidence both ways. I don't think it matters one way or another; Damore's point was that people should be treated as individuals rather than groups to be targeted for equity, and that differences, socially caused or otherwise, shouldn't be solved at the corporate level.
And there will always be politically charged job candidates who decide to make statements, just for attention and their own advantage. Big fucking deal that candidates dropped out. I certainly wouldn't want to work at Google either after their reaction to Damore's essay. In fact, I'm applying for jobs now and I've been purposely avoiding Google.
>300,000 employees and the entire executive suite nets $28/year per employee in cash compensation between them
That's great and all, but those are two extremes. There are other possibilities, and here's a simplified example:
If you have a company with a million employees, each making twenty thousand per year, and one CEO making a million, obviously it doesn't make much sense to redistribute his salary with a dollar to everyone.
But maybe it makes more sense for the CEO to make half a million and the top hundred people make 25000 (a significant increase for them), and the rest make 20000 as usual.
I actually like the idea of making the market decide. But when there is dishonesty or breaking the rules in pure market forces, it is prudent to make sure wealth isn't being too unevenly distributed.
I recently switched to DuckDuckGo. I don't use Google any more except for Google scholar and maps. It works pretty well and I've never wanted for Google for basic search.
They can be. At the very least, many official dealers like Toyota provide dealer-certified pre-owned cars. They cost more than the theoretically same model being sold by individuals, but the higher certainty you get is part of the cost.
When I buy something on eBay or anywere else using Paypal, I just click 'buy with Paypal'. I log in once, click 'confirm payment' or whatever it's called, and then it takes me back to the shopping page.
Seems pretty easy to me. Used it for at least three dozen transactions in the past year.
I see this as bad for the environment. The fewer that appreciate the natural beauty of the outdoors, the fewer people there will be to protect it when humans inevitably carelessly expand to more regions.
However, every file on your hard drive can be converted to a number. Just a very big one. Therefore, every song, every movie, and every creative work is just a number a single number on a hard drive.
Fire and Australia have an intimate relationship. Aborigines and later Australians have been setting fire to this country for centuries to manage agriculture and wild game. Many animals depend on fire to set free the seeds of certain Eucalypts and certain ecosystems also depend on the fire-regrowth cycle. This study adds to the mystique of fire in Australia.
For those who have never visited, if you spend a little time in outback Austrlalia, there is something undefinable here that will burn into your soul.
It's not just about his being fired, though. If a company has an equity agenda, then at some point given two equally qualified candidates, they will make a decision to hire one over the other just based on sex or race. Otherwise, why would they need an equity mission at all?
That is discrimination. Although discrimination happens all the time to all sorts of people, and I myself have experienced it in the form of racism not infrequently, I do not think the way to fight it is with more discrimination.
To clarify, these types of primes aren't useful for cryptography as they are much too large and not 'typical' primes.
From a theoretical perspective they are quite interesting: they are in bijective correspondence with perfect numbers and no one knows whether there are infinitely many. For all we know, this one could theoretically be the last.
Mining data will only give behavioural averages, and on that you are an anomaly. Sadly most people will just be heared by the latest trends and advertising without thought. And people like you can keep on driving:)
It's not actually free if you're paying for the airline ticket. So you should still shop around for prices and what's important to you. However, included in this evaluation should be the convenience of not having to micropay for ten minutes of wifi.
Exactly. In my field of academia, the only thing that really counts is number of publications. So you have a couple of people that sit at their desk from 9-5, but many that do 99% of their best work in the middle of the night and never show up at the office. Both get good work done.
I'm not so sure the bubble will burst. Since Bitcoin has an upper bound on the total amount of Bitcoins, it seems like it might have a chance at becoming like a collector's item, especially as it has significance as the first successfully implemented cryptocurrency.
I totally don't understand people continually bringing up the influence of these huge companies, except if they are trying to deflect the argument away what net neutrality really is.
None of these companies are essential to use the internet. You can even block their tracking with extensions. People can choose to use them or not. I've even switched to DuckDuckGo for search and it's pretty good. If Facebook suddenly vanished tomorrow, people would still use the internet and it would still be great. Even if you still use Google, there's nothing wrong with that and if one day they start to censor results in a way you don't like, just switch search engines.
If ISP's want to roll out their own Search Engine or Media Platform, let it compete on features rather than throttling.
Social media is actually more like sugar than smoking. Humans evolved to like the taste of sugar because it represents a source of easily digestible calories and fiber in the form of fruit and of properly chewed carbohydrates.
Modern food processing has made sugar into something eaten in far larger quantities and in a far purer form than is good for people, and is now a prime factor in heart disease.
It's the same with social networking. Facebook and the internet have made socialisation into an entirely new form that counts on our gratification of traditional social interactions and refines it into something that is not really that healthy but widely used.
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The problem with anonymized data is that it's not really anonymous.
All you need are multiple datasets to figure out who is who. For example, Google buys another dataset from Adobe. Even though no names are in it, they can use patterns in it checked against their own non-anonymous data to figure out who you are.
Anonymized data is just a nice term used to fool the masses.
The employees know, obviously. They're just in an uproar that someone made them look bad.
>The problem with using "just get better" as a justification for accepting growing inequality is that it does not scale. If everyone had PhD's, there wouldn't be enough room for the elite positions, and many PhD's would end up mopping floors and other grunt work.
Sad thing is, the world is already getting to this point. I recently got my PhD, and in recent years I have seen (in multiple disciplines) many more people with PhDs than there are jobs (both industry and academic ones).
What happens is that the 'gig economy' is edging its way into the academic and industrial world too, with many more "visiting" or "contract" positions than there ever was before.
That makes sense, because you're actually paying for Apple products. Facebook offers its services at no monetary cost and its primary activity is data abuse.
That doesn't mean Apple won't try and use any data it has for profit whenever it sees fit. It's just a trend with tech companies these days: everyone is into data. But it does mean that because Apple's business is with its products, it will put selling those products first over data abuse.
Hey, but the fact that we are all providing massive amounts of data to online megacorporations is part of the reason why all the money is funneling into the hands of the few in the first place.
Actually, I use a Micro SD card to avoid using MTP (Android's Media Transfer Protocol) because MTP is far slower, and doesn't behave like a normal file system. It doesn't work with rsync and moving files from one directory to another seems to actually require copying them instead of just moving as in a traditional FS.
Seriously? Slashdot was offline for a couple of days. Go outside for a walk.
I've tried a ton of other websites. Reddit for example, which turned out to be 99% lame whining.
While Slashdot has its problems too, the discussion system is the best I've experienced and even if the comments are sometimes a little whacky, they always give me something to think about.
Thanks to the Slashdot team for keeping this place alive.
You are dead wrong here.
Sorry to say, but there is a huge profit to be made from diversity. I don't know about the corporate level, but it's true at the college level. Colleges, especially the liberal arts ones, are promoting diversity big time because catering to groups that have lower education levels (for whatever reason) is a great new source of tuition.
Wow, catastrophically wrong? DIdn't know you had unassailable evidence to issues that have evidence in both directions and so ins't clear.
I've read hundreds of studies in psychology about the biological differences between men and women and there's evidence both ways. I don't think it matters one way or another; Damore's point was that people should be treated as individuals rather than groups to be targeted for equity, and that differences, socially caused or otherwise, shouldn't be solved at the corporate level.
And there will always be politically charged job candidates who decide to make statements, just for attention and their own advantage. Big fucking deal that candidates dropped out. I certainly wouldn't want to work at Google either after their reaction to Damore's essay. In fact, I'm applying for jobs now and I've been purposely avoiding Google.
>300,000 employees and the entire executive suite nets $28/year per employee in cash compensation between them
That's great and all, but those are two extremes. There are other possibilities, and here's a simplified example:
If you have a company with a million employees, each making twenty thousand per year, and one CEO making a million, obviously it doesn't make much sense to redistribute his salary with a dollar to everyone.
But maybe it makes more sense for the CEO to make half a million and the top hundred people make 25000 (a significant increase for them), and the rest make 20000 as usual.
I actually like the idea of making the market decide. But when there is dishonesty or breaking the rules in pure market forces, it is prudent to make sure wealth isn't being too unevenly distributed.
I recently switched to DuckDuckGo. I don't use Google any more except for Google scholar and maps. It works pretty well and I've never wanted for Google for basic search.
They can be. At the very least, many official dealers like Toyota provide dealer-certified pre-owned cars. They cost more than the theoretically same model being sold by individuals, but the higher certainty you get is part of the cost.
If anything, respect should be an attitude towards people who make certan decisions in corporations, not for the corporations themselves.
The American personification of the corporation bewilders me.
I don't understand your experience.
When I buy something on eBay or anywere else using Paypal, I just click 'buy with Paypal'. I log in once, click 'confirm payment' or whatever it's called, and then it takes me back to the shopping page.
Seems pretty easy to me. Used it for at least three dozen transactions in the past year.
I see this as bad for the environment. The fewer that appreciate the natural beauty of the outdoors, the fewer people there will be to protect it when humans inevitably carelessly expand to more regions.
However, every file on your hard drive can be converted to a number. Just a very big one. Therefore, every song, every movie, and every creative work is just a number a single number on a hard drive.
Fire and Australia have an intimate relationship. Aborigines and later Australians have been setting fire to this country for centuries to manage agriculture and wild game. Many animals depend on fire to set free the seeds of certain Eucalypts and certain ecosystems also depend on the fire-regrowth cycle. This study adds to the mystique of fire in Australia.
For those who have never visited, if you spend a little time in outback Austrlalia, there is something undefinable here that will burn into your soul.
It's not just about his being fired, though. If a company has an equity agenda, then at some point given two equally qualified candidates, they will make a decision to hire one over the other just based on sex or race. Otherwise, why would they need an equity mission at all?
That is discrimination. Although discrimination happens all the time to all sorts of people, and I myself have experienced it in the form of racism not infrequently, I do not think the way to fight it is with more discrimination.
To clarify, these types of primes aren't useful for cryptography as they are much too large and not 'typical' primes.
From a theoretical perspective they are quite interesting: they are in bijective correspondence with perfect numbers and no one knows whether there are infinitely many. For all we know, this one could theoretically be the last.
Mining data will only give behavioural averages, and on that you are an anomaly. Sadly most people will just be heared by the latest trends and advertising without thought. And people like you can keep on driving :)
It's not actually free if you're paying for the airline ticket. So you should still shop around for prices and what's important to you. However, included in this evaluation should be the convenience of not having to micropay for ten minutes of wifi.
Exactly. In my field of academia, the only thing that really counts is number of publications. So you have a couple of people that sit at their desk from 9-5, but many that do 99% of their best work in the middle of the night and never show up at the office. Both get good work done.
I'm not so sure the bubble will burst. Since Bitcoin has an upper bound on the total amount of Bitcoins, it seems like it might have a chance at becoming like a collector's item, especially as it has significance as the first successfully implemented cryptocurrency.
I totally don't understand people continually bringing up the influence of these huge companies, except if they are trying to deflect the argument away what net neutrality really is.
None of these companies are essential to use the internet. You can even block their tracking with extensions. People can choose to use them or not. I've even switched to DuckDuckGo for search and it's pretty good. If Facebook suddenly vanished tomorrow, people would still use the internet and it would still be great. Even if you still use Google, there's nothing wrong with that and if one day they start to censor results in a way you don't like, just switch search engines.
If ISP's want to roll out their own Search Engine or Media Platform, let it compete on features rather than throttling.
Social media is actually more like sugar than smoking. Humans evolved to like the taste of sugar because it represents a source of easily digestible calories and fiber in the form of fruit and of properly chewed carbohydrates.
Modern food processing has made sugar into something eaten in far larger quantities and in a far purer form than is good for people, and is now a prime factor in heart disease.
It's the same with social networking. Facebook and the internet have made socialisation into an entirely new form that counts on our gratification of traditional social interactions and refines it into something that is not really that healthy but widely used.