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Because someone else in the meeting might say "I'm working on X, I'm stuck and I need help" whereby you might say "Hey, I've worked on X before, chat me up after this meeting and I'll try and help out".

I love Brian Regan but I have to say, even though I'm probably ruining one of his best jokes [0], that the plural form of "box" is not "boxen".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkrMsPiqG6M&feature=youtu.be...

>> Not sarcasm

Alright, that's good, because I would really love for there to be a service that would streamline the way I request data from service providers or request the deletion of data connected to my account, as well as the account itself.

However, your site says:

>> We import and analyze all of your data across your online accounts and give you an audit and a plan of action.

Doesn't that mean that apart from all the, possibly bad, actors out there that have gotten their hands on my activities _you_ are now also in possession of PII connected to me? How does that improve things for me?

For a decent browsing experience I'll take a plain ol' HTTP POST that causes my browser to reload the whole page giving me as a user a clear indication the app has understood my intentions (I wanted to submit information) over the initial page load time, elements jumping around, making me click the wrong element, any day of the week.

Successful/rock star athletes spend 99.9% of their time honing their athletic skills and the rest on advertising deals. Google on the other hand spend 99.9% of its time on making people click on ads. Because that's their athletic skill? No. Because money.

What to me _seems_ to be much more likely though is that multiple cookies are connected to a classification ID that multiple other users may also be connected to and that to identify your PII within their system you'll need to provide your user name.

Is this comment and that website [0] sarcasm? What exactly are you automating? The theft of my PII or the opposite? On this matter your privacy policy[1] confuse me.

Sorry if I'm being a daft punk.

[0] https://www.privicy.com [1] https://www.privicy.com/legal/privacy-policy

Yes indeed!

Can we also agree that we don't need JS in order to produce a decent experience on the web?

Businesses have a tendency to optimize for making money so if the only way for them to do so is by having people click on ads, guess what they'll eventually become great at.

>> were

If you meant to say that Google's top engineers _used to_ work on the search engine but nowadays they work on making people click on ads because that's were the money is, then I wholeheartedly agree with you

>> find an old recording of Haitian voodoo drums give it a listen using good headphones with your eyes closed, and after about twenty minutes you will enter an altered state

I followed your trance recipe to the letter and soon entered a state of mind that on this day was novel to me. It seriously made me happy to be alive and to be human. However, that feeling didn't linger. Now I'm back to my usual miserable self, a blob of cells that all try but mostly they fail to communicate with each other in a way that is pleasant for the vessel, me. I don't think I was in a trance. Perhaps I should have danced.

I'm very intrigued, though, by the idea of rhythm being a protagonist ingredient of "flow". I'm a programmer, musician only by heart, but on Wednesdays instead of instruments I play the rhythmic game of tennis. One time me and my brother, two racket-throwing outwards-acting tennis brats in need of anger management therapy both entered "flow" at the same time and it lasted a good hour and a half. In the middle of our match a large group of youngsters, perhaps thirty individuals, entered the yard and became our audience. They started to discuss our game. They correctly dismissed us as being "not top notch". They chit-chatted. They said this and that. They were merely meters away from us but acted like they were watching TV and that e could not possibly hear them. After the game we both said: were you ever bothered by the ruckus? We concluded that no, we weren't but that we could still paraphrase almost all of the comments we've heard from the audience. But during the game it seemed to us that nothing could get us out of the state of flow. In fact, neither of us understood we were in the flow state until the ruckus began.

This was an out-of-mind, out-of-body and out-of-this-world experience for me that I have not been able to reproduce since. I was untouchable and I loved it.

Prostitution should not be an option for anyone.

How is:

"I was so poor I had to sell my body so as to not starve to death but selling my body made me depressed and so I spent all my money on drugs leaving no money for food, throwing me into a life of starvation."

...better than:

"I was so poor I could not buy food."

...really?

>> Our response was better than Europe's.

US's response to covid-19 was better than all countries in the whole of Europe?

Or, did you mean to say the US's response was better than Europe's, on average?

In what way was it better?

Sars-COV-2?

May I offer my apologies for saying the USA act violent and dominant. You're not all violent and dominant. I'm sorry. Friends?

Wouldn't that lead to USA having more influence, in the world? When it comes to such things as surveillance, I'm not sure they're any better. Behind, yes, but not by choice and not by far, either.

What are the benefits? In this context they are not clear to me.

"If you punch me in the face then, later, I'll punch _you_ in the face".

This type of behavior may be par for the course in USA but how is it good for humanity?

>> I see this ban as a late but fair move.

A late but fair move to achieve what, exactly?

Make $country great again, as a service.

"Hire me as president, I have great connections, beautiful even, to the US, Russia and Djina".

Surely, this will never happen.

>> search literally prints money

Citation is needed. A counter-point to yours would be how Amazon's search is horrible, because horrible search prints money.

>> it probably lacks the 10000x growth potential VCs are looking for :/

Avoiding eternal september sounds like a killer feature to me :P

>> how many online businesses will simply not get created

How many online businesses [that aim to quietly collect PII for their own monetary gain] will simply not get created?

Hopefully none of those actors will get created.

Not much chance of us seeing an improvements in Fourier transform implementations, then.

There is at least one way that I know of to realize your dream. First, disable "do-not-track" header in your browser. Secondly, lobby for organizations to honor the "do-not-track" header. The whole world will thank you.

GDPR defines what is PII and then regulates when companies may use PII. A page visit counter collects anonymous data. Anonymous data is not PII. You cannot tell I was their 345th visitor.

>> Yeah, no.

Exactly.

Gtalk was brilliant! When they launched it my appreciation for Google grew tenfold. It was so un-enterprisey and it just worked! Shortly thereafter they fixed their offering by launching the very Enterprise-friendly Wave.

Mmmmmm, Wave. (drooling dead-eyes Homer impression).

I get the impression you have a grudge towards something but it isn't clear to me what that is.

If you have already cleared the biggest hurdle you can think of, why the grudge? It should be smooth sailing for you from hereon out.

I was always told Russia spans two continents.

Naysayers have already decided they won't invest in AGI. Perhaps if you approached yaysayers instead of naysayers, you'd have a better chance of getting funded. The only question they would have to answer is, why fund you, specifically, instead of someone else.

>> it's trying to make a profit by trying to position itself in a way that's different from Google and in a way that it's hoping is compelling

Looks like DDG is "fighting back" the right for people to have privacy online.