What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica

Re:What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge An... by ryanmarsh on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:30PM (#20802409)

Relevant quote from TFA: Dave Karpf, who has written two books on the use of data in modern campaigns, calls Cambridge Analytica “the Theranos of political data.” Eight GOP political consultants told Ad Age’s Kate Kaye that the company was “all hat and no cattle.”

Maybe it's because I'm from Texas but "all hat and no cattle" is about as damning an insult as they come. It's the equivalent of "full of shit".

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Re:What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge An... by pacaro on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:15PM (#20803299)

Or as they would say in Cambridge, "all mouth and no trousers"

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Re:What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge An... by w4tson on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:50PM (#20803626)

Or as they say in Yorkshire: all fur coat and no knickers

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Re:What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge An... by tzs on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:06PM (#20804256)

Apparently they would be more likely to say "all mouth and trousers", which is believed to be a corruption of the more logical but less commonly heard "all mouth and no trousers" [1].

[1] https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/19/messages/511.ht...

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Re:What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge An... by blauekapelle on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:14AM (#20809762)

Never heard that saying once in Cambridge, lived here 20 yrs

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Re:What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge An... by pacaro on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:26PM (#20824136)

Lol, well you must never have run into me either between 1990-93 or again 1999-2002

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