Readit News1. Use dark patterns to make withholding consent inconvenient or impossible
2. Compensate users for the use of their data (e.g. giving discounts or providing free products in exchange for giving up your privacy)
Obviously many companies would rather do #1 if they can. #2 is the Google approach and also the “put this OBD2 dongle in your car for cheaper insurance” model. But its even more profitable for an insurance company if they can avoid giving discounts to the smallish subset of good drivers who consent to being tracked, and just price all “reckless” drivers higher (because then the good drivers who still don’t want to be tracked aren’t compelled to switch insurers to get a good price). Of course, in this scenario the insurance company doesn’t need to care about the good driver whose rates unfairly go up because of a rarely triggered software bug that mischaracterizes his driving, so long as on average the classifier is mostly accurate.
My point here is that any effort to just make consent “more transparent to the consumer” is fruitless, because when users are actually given the choice, like the iOS dialog to allow Facebook to track you, they overwhelmingly won’t give consent unless there’s something in it for them. So automakers will probably just make the TOS checkbox consent slightly more onerous and annoying, to appease regulators, and it will end up like cookie banners.
As well as strongly regulating sales of data/data brokers, of course.
The data is still there, but it's in a forgotten file format.
What's the point of spending all that time covered in dirt fishing in the muddy waters in the freezing rain for treasure when even in the best case scenario, when against all odds you pull a 1000 year old sword from the depths, some pencil pusher leaps from the woodwork to snatch it from your hands and leave you with no reward? The next guy will think twice. This is why English society does so poorly. They don't properly manage incentives.
You don't do this to try to make money, you do it for fun, knowledge, and the occasional cool (but not very valuable) item.
This article makes me angry. Anyone who would be confused by this does not belong in management because they do not understand people, full stop.
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There's not much value in training it to simulate a redditor, but there's a lot in modeling bad behavior.
Well, that and the API changes that drove away something like a third of the users.
That doesn't seem as likely to grab the attention of people who watched Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
The antikythera mechanism is a (bad) predictor of planetary locations. People have recreated it in its entirety using legos. There isn't much mystery about what it does.
However, a new high resolution X-ray of the device inspired some scientists to do some neat math on it. I read the paper, it's good work. I'd love to a chance to get an article published about one of my papers, even more if regular people had even the slightest chance to understand it.
Besides that, things like the number of holes in the calendar ring matter.
Check out Clickspring on youtube, he's one of the people who narrowed the hole count down to 2 numbers, and this paper argues hard for one of those.
He's building a replica of the mechanism using period tools, and it's amazingly precise so far.