Any gap in the market for a privacy phone? i.e. Android customised to block all telemetry by default.
Unfortunately, US carriers are selling the location data based on your SIM card, so even "dumb phones" are still subject to tracking.
Readit Newstrendia commented on Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/pcl
I scanned the article, but this mostly sounds like they are painting this as an application behavior. It isn't true. There are tons of companies that use RAW location data that you cannot opt out of.
AirSage is very clearly offering non-anonymized (read: private) information about individuals. That is, they offer "insights like the home and work locations of people".
> AirSage uses its massive source data and patented algorithms to understand the movement of population and trips start to finish, origin to destination every day for the entire country. It’s not just about the where and when. Through years of research and development, AirSage also knows the “why”, or purpose, of the more than a billion trips made in the United States every day.
> Understanding populations as they relate to the physical world has been the core competency of AirSage since the beginning. For any physical point of interest in the United States, insights like the home and work locations of people seen in an area or duration of stay or frequency of visits are all characteristics that can provide a new level of understanding never before capable.
> Brands and Marketers recognize that the world is not just about what takes place on the screen of a tv, computer or mobile phone. It’s about how technology helps enhance our real physical world. AirSage is a leader in providing insightful information about the audiences advertisers want to reach as they relate to the locations and places that people spend their time.
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trendia commented on 8K is now being broadcast in Japan newsshooter.com/2018/12/0... · Posted by u/kungfudoi
So a 4k H265 HVEC stream is 12mbit./sec. I assume 8k is the double, 24mbit/sec. That doesn't sound too outrageous from the point of view of media consumption. Syndication, multiplexing, production, post production and handling of 8k .. sounds harder
8k has four times as many pixels as 4k, so at the same bitrate/pixel it would be around 48mbit/sec
trendia commented on Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (2014) theguardian.com/news/oliv... · Posted by u/mastax
I'd have to see that study. It seems to me that experience gives you a lot of information about what is not as important that comes in handy even when you are "winging it" with something related.
Also, "experience is one of the worst indicators for job performance...all else being equal" could mean a lot of things:
1) truly everything else being equal i.e. the person with less experience will do better. (surely that is not the case)
2) Of everything, considered equally, experience is the least indicative of performance compared to education, creative thinking, etc.
Can you link those studies and clarify what is meant by "worst indicators"?
Also, what job was that in the evaluated job performance? I know it's definitely not true for trade skills like woodworking.
> In programming specifically, many studies have shown order of magnitude differences in the quality of the programs written, the sizes of the programs written, and the productivity of the programmers. The original study that showed huge variations in individual programming productivity was conducted in the late 1960s by Sackman, Erikson, and Grant (1968). They studied professional programmers with an average of 7 years' experience and found that the ratio of intitial coding time between the best and worst programmers was about 20:1; the ratio of debugging times over 25:1; of program sizes 5:1; and of program execution speed about 10:1. They found no relationship between a programmer's amount of experience and code quality or productivity. (Code Complete, page 548)
https://blog.codinghorror.com/skill-disparities-in-programmi...
There are many regulations that affect data, like HIPPA and ITAR.
How can Windows be used in such an environment if the data collection can’t be stopped?