It was full names, brokerage numbers, and some account balances with trading activity.
It's a financial sales list, which is incredibly valuable. If you don't agree, then watch the movie Glengarry Glen Ross.
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It's a financial sales list, which is incredibly valuable. If you don't agree, then watch the movie Glengarry Glen Ross.
Better to elude to a nebulous definition of privacy rather than give specifics. Even as a privately traded, for-profit company based in the U.S. with zero accountability for its claims, DDG doesn't even have that much IP to lose (as a Bing reskin) should it ever fold under a class action lawsuit.
That doesn't make them any less of a hate group or less shady.
It reads like they are saying a website = source, and the hyperlink for the sources is dead.
They're beholden to funders who, while wanting to see ROI, also want to make sure they're not missing the next big thing.
This FOMO competition means VCs are more likely to jump of a cliff once that first VC makes the leap, because in the off ~1% chance it's a big thing, the VC can't afford to miss it.
Reddit's engagement model relies on new posts with which to comment on. Being able to easily find previous content means less reposting, and less opportunities to give users a place to engage. A standard, working search function would only hurt reddit's growth metrics.
It's so obvious to the userbase that you have certain users complaining about reposts, or even subreddits that intentionally flag for original content (OC).
The problem with PG is that it's all the same after a while - i.e. one of the chief complaints of No Man's Sky is that all the PG planets look the same after a short period of time.
The real value isn't zero-marginal content, but zero-marginal narration (or story telling) that breaks new ground. Piecing together PG or zero-marginal content isn't enough, any next step breakthroughs will come with higher-level orchestration of said content.
Musk wants to exit his Twitter position, and is using this offer to pump the price before he dumps stock, under the justification of "they rejected my painfully, obviously low offer so now I need to exit".
Except the market has already jumped back down.
The flavors of prejudice that they attract are the direct result of their function. Platforms that start to grow large without controls against hate and other bad actors simply do not continue to grow.
Like the birthday paradox: If there are just 23 people in a room, then there's a 50% probability that two people share the same birthday.
Yeah you can pull data and create snapshots to preserve views, but given the direction privacy and regulatory environments have been going with user data, it's incredibly sexy to be able to not have to dump data in yet another data warehouse just to use a new tool.
This is the real future of 'unbundling'.
I love reading this article because while it sets up the problem and solution proposition quite well, all I could think of was how the author is proving reverse-ETL engines (& not their own platform) are the best investment right now.
Is the government responsible for the inflation observed right now? That's a complex answer, of which current political adversaries of the executive branch leadership would love to pin solely on them.
It will be interesting to see how energy companies respond to this though. Will they play chicken with Russia to see how long it will hold on the price increase? Or will they start dropping the capex to tap the more expensive resources that the higher price point has unlocked?
In most markets where efficiency is not achievable, then businesses are not entitled to exist. This is why things such as tax subsidies and other forms of funding are used to bootstrap new markets (e.g. green energy) that have a net social gain.
Also as a principle, regulating said free markets for QoL improvements (e.g. min wage, HI, disability, comp, soc sec, etc.) affect all participants - both efficient and destined-to-die businesses alike. If you can't exist through playing by the rules that everyone has set, why are you still in business?
That said, depending on the splits, it's much more probable that the cost to "employee salaries" will be less than their typical OOP expenses anyways.
I'm not saying Target's implementation is justified, but surely there's a middle ground for scaling anti-theft ops and using technology responsibly?
There's still a few items that are really hard to find elsewhere though, but that was Amazon's core value prop originally with rare books.
Unless Ebay has overhauled their reputation system recently, you will buy counterfeit/mislabeled goods from a merchant, and then either receive a bribe (as a partial return) to keep a five star rating or you have to open an incident to get a full refund, in which you can't leave a rating and tell other people to beware.
This allows terrible merchants from all parts of the world to push crap on unsuspecting customers.
Some friends and I were discussing this point recently: Etsy has become Ebay, sans the auction veneer.
Truly frustrating that they can't implement some sort of quality control, but that's a hard problem to crack at scale.
It's not though.
Appealing to effeciency is not an appeal to purity, which is what a no-true scotsman is.
A no true scotsman in this regard would be more along the lines of redefining advertising to not include any activities that OP described, i.e. OP wasn't doing true advertising. GP is not doing that here, because GP is acknowledging that OP is doing advertising, but doing it poorly.
Anything that involves clicks (display, search, social) are typically not the most effective advertising tactics when your buying decision makers number so few, but that doesn't rule out other advertising activities.
The simplest explanation is the scene from from Wall-E with the captain of the ship discussing with the A.I. It will be fluently integrated in our everyday lives.