gcbpp | 6 years ago | on: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro reportedly tests positive for coronavirus
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gcbpp | 6 years ago | on: Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
makes you wonder if the side that can do less damage (enlisted serviceman) require the more draconian agreement after all.
gcbpp | 6 years ago | on: The automotive industry’s value-destroying addiction to capital (2015) [pdf]
older car models are not made in 3rd world because of some grandiose benevolent plan to bring robustness and cheap cars to the poor pitiful people.
older models are usually more expensive to produce, less economical to run, have less confort and everything, and the margins are lower. BUT, the tooling and RD cost is already paid for. so with zero investment (simply shipping what would be scrap metal otherwise) they can extract profits from markets starved of any other offering. And let's not forget they negotiate tax breaks on top, after all they bring jobs to the poor pitiful people.
gcbpp | 6 years ago | on: Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”?
every single advertising company already sell advertisements by "household" where they clump together all accounts assumed to be from one user and their family/roommates, effectively going back to aggregate IP targeting, but not saying its using IPs because that tarnish things with GDPR et al.
also, even if not using household, they sell by "people targeting" vs the old "device targeting", which again breaks all account separation people here assume.
I strongly suggest people minimally interested in privacy or advertising to create an account with any advertising network, or at the very least look up youtube videos on how marketers create and target campaigns.