Re:Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
by euyyn on Sunday August 12, 2018 @03:32AM
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One of the things that has had the most profound influence in my life was to apply for and get a fellowship that paid me graduate studies in the US. The only reason I learned of its existence was my mom seeing an ad of it on the newspaper.
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Re:Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
by teddyh on Sunday August 12, 2018 @04:24AM
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Ah, anecdotes. “My grandfather smoked two packs of cigarettes a day, and he lived to be a 110.”
Re:Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
by euyyn on Monday August 13, 2018 @01:11AM
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What a ridiculous argument. I didn't get that fellowship despite the ad, unlike your grandfather who reached an old age despite smoking. I got it thanks to the ad.
Re:Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
by teddyh on Monday August 13, 2018 @07:17AM
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You got the fellowship from the ad despite the vanishingly small chance that anyone would see it.
Re:Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
by euyyn on Monday August 13, 2018 @01:03PM
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You must realize that what you're saying is an argument for better targeted ads. If you don't, I don't know how to help you see it.
Re:Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
by teddyh on Monday August 13, 2018 @05:03PM
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Better targeted ads for some truly unequivocally beneficial things like scholarships might be a good thing, all else being equal. But:
1. Targeted ads requires enormous machineries of surveillance and file-keeping. Having too much information in closely related form is akin to having too much uranium in close proximity; it causes problems all of its own almost just by merely existing.
2. Ads in general, even the beneficial ones are, by definition, distracting from whatever content we were trying to read. See: São Paulo’s “Cidade Limpa”.