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Super interesting idea. I can't seem to find out how they actually operate though. It seems like this would be prone to general abuse with if an individual electing little/no/catastrophic coverage while also using this resource...or do they ask for W2s to verify eligibility?

This. Lifestyle creep at the social level. Smart Phones, dishwashers, Netflix and so on. You CAN still find multi-bedroom homes w/in an hour of large metros that a single income can support. Go to New Jersey and get a <200K one with a 45 min drive to Manhattan.

Complete speculation, but this sounds like a decline of community, where interactions are more transactional rather than personal.

You're neglecting to address enforcement issues such as Criminal Vagrancy which is strictly enforced in some locales and lax in others.

From a supply and demand side, Real Estate Developers would gravitate to high value developments due to potential for making higher returns as well as the prestige in building "fancier" developments.

This premise is interesting in that you are basically saying that homelessness is progressive. I am not sure that your levels encompass all types of homeless out there, given that the data is so scant. By that I mean there are a number of individuals who may refuse offers of shelter or homes (de facto homeless by choice). How do most homeless end up homeless and in places where resources ARE readily available, why do some choose not to use them?

These conversations pop up every now and again on HN. I was getting frustrated with Google Maps a few years ago, when I read one of these articles on here about how Apple Maps is better than Google Maps. I decided to give it a try (and fully uninstalled GMaps so that I would be forced to use it.)

I live around Austin, TX, so there could be variations in my experience, but generally for common use cases, Apple Maps is on par. Where I find it excels above Google Maps is on navigation and directions, hands down. When my wife puts on Gmaps navigation on her phone I put on Apple Maps on mine. (we have same phone and network). If there ever is a mistake, slow update, mispronunciation, etc. it is always on Google Maps side. This has cost us a lot of time, until we finally switched over to rely on Apple Maps for navigation. The search and interface are also about the same, but I prefer the Apple Maps a bit more, but that is more personal preference.

Where it underperforms is in the search and reviews avenue, as it primarily relies on yelp reviews rather than native reviews, which can be hit or miss. I don't really miss it, but if it do, I just search google for the place to read their reviews. Also, Some place results lack correct details in Apple Maps (rare)--I think since many places have to update the info themselves, this might drive the issue. Example would be updated menu links or hours for holidays.

Many of the other posts on this thread point out the differences along other use cases, where Google Maps excels, but for daily, average use, I am happy to use Apple Maps as daily driver.

I mean, the use case is (generally) providing a verifiable transaction chain. We have complex processes in place for doing this IRL right now for assets such as real estate deeds, vehicle titles, etc. Obviously, these all work because we collectively agree on the system in place. Blockchain would provide an alternative process for this. With tokenization, it would be possible to have multiple stakeholder ownership for a real asset.

Exactly true. However the Russian investigation spanned years. These things take a lot of time to work through the investigative process. Take a look here, https://hereistheevidence.com, which provides significant questionable items that still need to be investigated.

Great citations. I think the general point is that there are more specific examples of election irregularities than there are specific examples of Russia interfering.

you add this to your list: https://hereistheevidence.com which provides a detailed breakdown with citations.

I think search algorithms still have a long way to go to really understand the intention. Try your image search results for "white person" "black person" "asian person" "white inventors" "black inventors" "asian inventors" Doesn't quite deliver what would be expected.

The fed provides a boost when demand-side goes down; that's one of its roles in emergencies. Their move here didn't make sense since the initial impact was largely supply-side (demand-side drop is coming...). These adjustments were somewhat knee-jerk and somewhat pressure from the public/Whitehouse.

Their moves so far might float us though a short recession, but it's not clear at this point if it will be enough.

Hard to say what's causing this. try "is abortion good or bad" on Google vs Bing and you get very different results. Bing provides evenhanded results and Google is almost entirely pro-abortion.

Not exactly. There is an implicit expectation of truth when searching on Google, sort of like an encyclopedia. The interference happens when the results do not match reality.

Try these yourself to see how this can change public opinion: Google: "is abortion good or bad" returns almost entirely pro-aborion results. Do the same on Bing and you get actual results such as "Is abortion a good or bad thing?"

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_manipulation_eff...

Is there a service or company that lists this data? I'm curious about what types of data are available.

Well, PII is a bit of a nebulous term. Some websites still transfer some signup/user info in url parameters or unencrypted responses. We would even see SSNs pop up now and then.

Most data being sold has some good faith effort to remove PII, but that's never 100% complete, and by utilizing multiple data sources, an industrious person or team could de-anonymize your data. We were mostly doing this type of work for segmentation and persona analysis. Targeting an individual was never a goal, but would not have been terribly difficult.

I'll give you an example. We might receive all urls a person visited. Many contain person information that would not be caught in usual PII filtering process: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#search/my+viagra+prescript...

I wasn't responsible for the data intake, but I know that the data was extensive, and always included time on page, full URL, other request information (often post stuff).

I know that HTTPS provided a technical hurdle that our company and data providers worked around after about 6 months.

My guess is that some MITM-type collection? Some data providers gave us IPs and some just gave us some Tokenized ID. I don't know if ISPs provided IPs, but probably not.

Note that we did lots of data linking. Let's say an ISP provided us your age, URL, and Timestamp. We would link that into another data provider that provided past purchases, URL, and Timestamp (shopping toolbar/plugins do this) to get a bigger picture of who you are.

Boy have I got a surprise for you. I was an engineer at a web analytics firm a decade ago and yes, ISPs have your web browsing data and are selling it left and right. Also apps, Cell phone companies, etc. Our company bought all that data. and when that wasn't enough, we created apps that collected even more. Every click and ajax request, etc.... timestamped.

Yes, there are analysts sifting through your browsing data (if you're lucky, vaguely anonymized). Yes, I heard countless stories of this data being abused and misused. I simply can't imagine it has gotten much better by now.

This is all well and good for information retrieval, but people are making decisions based on information from search results.

In your vegetarian example, what if 51% of people were vegetarian in an area, and the general population was making decisions off these "localized" search results. We would likely expect that this would influence the minority to the tastes of the majority.

This might be fine for something like vegetarianism, but what about other topics? Should your search results be more racist because you live around a lot of racists? This is best case.

I have tangentially worked with groups that specifically utilize this to provide public opinion sway and consumer capture for their clients.