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We built an entire industry around increasing engagement stats and trying to convince the permanent servant underclass to buy more stuff.

You'd have to be utterly insane to find meaning in that.

I tried to register for this and after fixing multiple CSS bugs that prevented the form from being rendered correctly I was able to actually trigger the submission which kicked off a wave of javascript errors.

Good old IBM, still the exact same company they were 20 years ago.

If I never hear the argument that "tech is just too hard and bandwidth too unaffordable, poor Zuckerberg/Bezos/Brin are so destitute they would just have to shut down the web and phones completely without behavioral advertising" it would great because it's a very very bad argument.

The chargeback is one of the few tools consumers still have with real power. Sure fraud is still a problem, but it's a really uncomfortable proposition to start making chargebacks an abstracted cost sink for the corporations.

Of course the fact that this is an upsell line item means only big businesses will pay for it, the smallest businesses owned by the people just starting out will be the only ones who actually suffer punitively from chargebacks.

Some things shouldn't be streamlined. Some pain is good. This is a really unfortunate choice by Stripe.

It's not impossible to make it work, and in the future I'd expect more and more automated systems in planes for sure.

But you have to recognize the whole engine hack is just a convoluted workaround to avoid as much pilot training as possible. The entire goal of the project seems to be to avoid ever training pilots for as long as possible. It's a brand new plane, the newest plane on the market, and the first thing you need to do to take off is turn off the cabin air conditioning. Why? Because that's what we had to do 50 years ago in the first 737.

God forbid this plane startup any way besides turning off the cabin air conditioning. If we changed that, we'd have to... gasp retrain pilots!

I hope the irony of Facebook sponsoring a CTF event after having given away all their literal flags on purpose and accidentally over and over again for 15 years is not lost on anyone.

The revolt against surveillance capitalism seems to just be starting in earnest. I think a lot of smart people are finally realizing they have wasted their considerable talents on advertising tech while pretending it was something else and are now very angry.

This is a really good read for stats people, this paragraph in particular kind of freaked me out:

> After 100 years of projected extinctions, the global composition of mammals and birds is predicted to shift to smaller (permutation test: body mass observed mean = 70.3 g, body mass projected mean across runs [minimum–maximum across replicates] = 64.1 g [63.4–64.7 g]; P ≤ 0.001), faster-lived (generation length observed mean = 4.27 years, projected mean = 4.22 years [4.21–4.23 years]; P ≤ 0.001), more fecund (litter/clutch size observed mean = 2.51, projected mean = 2.55 [2.54–2.56]; P ≤ 0.001), more generalist (habitat breadth observed mean = 3.23, projected mean = 3.32 [3.31–3.33]; P ≤ 0.001) and more invertivorous species (diet observed mean = −0.00032, projected mean = 0.0012 [0.00087–0.0014]; P ≤ 0.001) (Supplementary Figs. 5f and 7). These shifts are relatively large for the species pool and temporal scale investigated, for example, Davis et al.10 showed that current median mammal body mass is 14% lower than during the Last Interglacial (~130,000 years ago), while we predict an extra 25.2% (23.9–25.8%) reduction in median mammal body mass over the next 100 years from the current level. These declines in body mass equate to a reduction rate of −0.00011% per year between the Last Interglacial and now, compared to a predicted reduction rate of −0.25% (−0.24 to −0.26%) per year between now and the next 100 years.

People were predicting this as the Chrome endgame years ago. It's playing out exactly as everyone cynically expected.

It's time to eliminate Google from your life as much as possible if you haven't already. Too many wake up calls. They are not a tech company, they are data monopolists. Stop giving them your data.

It is amazing when you consider both the number of and the sheer depth of the problems that would be fixed instantly by moving to publicly financed campaigns.

I know of more than one organization that have decided against Angular in recent years primarily because of Google's backing of the project. Skepticism of the big three (four?) tech giants is growing, especially if you've had some of your market carved out by them.

I had the same experience, but never actually got the groups page to load.

Hey googlers remember a cool little thing called the URI? Can we make that just work again without all this session/auth nonsense wrapped around everything? I am not interested in your accounts.

Judging by the massive growing homeless encampments everywhere I don't think it's really theory anymore. Where I live they have started drilling into trees to set anchor points for clotheslines down by the river, and even have setting up semi-permanent shanty structures out of scrap 2x4s and plywood. TB is a common problem. Everyone bathes in the river.

The USA is looking more and more like Brazil or Saudi Arabia every day. Great times for a select few, shantytowns (or concentration camps) for the rest. At some point that breaks down, regardless of how much you spend on police.

They have a very strong defense thanks to the CDA and DMCA act which these large tech platforms wrote. They wrote themselves blanket immunity for nearly any type of content, in any type of context.

https://www.copyrightcontentplatforms.com/2019/03/the-scope-...

21 years ago was the first time I saw malware delivered over advertising on the web. 1998. I started blocking ads by manually managing my hosts file that day, for the most part I haven't look at ads since.

I'm still not sure why we're now basing our entire economy around advertising crap to people that they don't want or need, the web was ad free and worked great for many years before all this nonsense.

The fact that most all of the smart people in tech have been subsumed into ad tech is one of the most depressing things I could have possibly imagined 21 years ago. What a massive misuse of resources.

It's an open secret that many of the "anonymized" datasets that the large tech giants pass around are very easy to de-anonymize. I don't know much about how Apple works, but people who work with Google Ad products and analytics regularly violate the anonymity agreement because it's so financially lucrative to do so and just never tell anyone.

We need to stop mining people for profit while putting minimal or zero privacy protections in place.

Having a bunch of white tech dudes show up with a startup to "solve" something like mass incarceration is just absurd, and reveals both the massive naivete of this project and the extent to which startup funding has become a meaningless ponzi scheme with no expectation of profitability.

It's also just insulting to activists and others who have been in the trenches fighting these problems for decades.