Also see this Twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/Chronotope/status/151390041563242...
Vodafone is now testing a service that adds an ID to every request a user makes so that ad companies can track the users.
Readit News_gfrc commented on Trustpid: Keeping the Internet Free trustpid.com/keeptheinter... · Posted by u/_cv7i
_gfrc commented on Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B investors.intuit.com/news... · Posted by u/marc__1
Those don't exist in Germany. I don't know about other countries, but that's already 10+% of Europe where they're not a thing.
Maybe we are talking about different things, but you can definitely pre-fill your tax form with employer and social security data in Germany. In that case, you only have to add information if you want to claim deductions higher than the "Werbungskostenpauschale".
Things usually only get difficult when you are self-employed or have difficult deductions.
_gfrc commented on Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend twitter.com/nandoodles/st... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Well no one has a plausible explanation on it yet but with some of the highest A/B testing ratio and best Data Scientist Amazon too seems to think this works.
And yes I agree it sucks.
Actually there is. There is a certain chance that you're unhappy with your fridge and you'll return it. So the assumption is that you are more likely to buy a different fridge than any other item. That's why they show you other fridges.
_gfrc commented on Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine netflix.github.io/conduct... · Posted by u/swyx
Very interesting. Looks a lot like zeebe [0], which uses BPMN for the workflow definition. This makes it easier to communicate the processes with the rest of the company. I never used it in production, just played around with it for a demo.
_gfrc commented on What Is the PCI of Bank Payments? moderntreasury.com/journa... · Posted by u/mattmarcus
Do IBANs allow debit without reliable authorization? In the US having a bank account number (and I suppose maybe a name/street address for more plausibility) is enough to print a check and then withdraw money from it. Do IBANs let a random person do that, or do they need verification from the account?
They don’t need verification. In theory, you are supposed to have a direct debit mandate, but that is basically just a click.
If you want to take out a direct debit you need to be registered though, the process isn’t trivial and you need to deposit a security that can be used for a dispute. That makes it rather unlikely that the system is abused - though not impossible.
A Statement of Tim Cook for the House of Representatives claimed that "For the vast majority of apps on the App Store , developers keep 100% of the money they make." [1]
How can this be even remotely true if Apple takes a 30% commission for every sale in the App Store?
[1] https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20200729/110883/HHRG...
Two options:
1) Free apps with advertisements. Paid apps are by far the minority.
2) I guess this statement is related to subscription models like spotify. If you acquire the user outside of the apple ecosystem and they subscribe on your own website and then download your free app from the app store, you get to keep 100% on the revenue that the user generates as well.
_gfrc commented on Top EU court overturns US data transfer agreement in Facebook case dw.com/en/eu-us-data-tran... · Posted by u/tpush
_gfrc commented on Top EU court overturns US data transfer agreement in Facebook case dw.com/en/eu-us-data-tran... · Posted by u/tpush
The judgment is here: https://noyb.eu/files/CJEU/judgment.pdf
Start at page 28 if you want to skip the recap of EU law, or start at page 35 if you want to skip the details of US law and surveillance programs as recap by the Irish court who referred the ruling.
In addition there is a short PR statement available for media use:
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/202...
_gfrc commented on Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on their AWS bills · Posted by u/kavehkhorram
If it works then I would expect Amazon to acquire it so they can break it.
That’s not the experience I have with AWS. They are really trying to help you get the most out of their platform - including costs.
I’m not saying their pricing is not confusing, but the account managers and sales engineers I’ve worked with always did a good job navigating us through it - and being honest when something can be achieved a lot cheaper.
Better have a customer optimize their usage, pay less, be happy, and stick with AWS than switching to a different platform.
Amazon is gutting its voice-assistant Alexa. Employees describe a division in crisis and huge losses on 'a wasted opportunity.'