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Re:Thermometer Tells Your Temperature, Then Tells Firms Wher... by cwkoss on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:05PM (#18295393)
Need some sort of deterministic bias based on user ID? Each user offset 1*Math.rand(hashseed) miles from location at randVector(hashseed)
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Re:Thermometer Tells Your Temperature, Then Tells Firms Wher... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:22PM (#18295535)
Why does it have to be deterministic per-user? Why not completely randomized across every user?
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Re:Thermometer Tells Your Temperature, Then Tells Firms Wher... by cwkoss on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:14PM (#18296469)
I guess depends on the application. Consistent offset would allow measurement of distances, but that does leak some information, so perhaps all-random is better for many uses.
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