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Well, it's a bankruptcy, so anyone can file a claim. The states have, but so have the victims and their families directly (as a class).
IANAL, but I don't think this would help the victims (and incidentally, that could have still happened even with the settlement). If there were a criminal lawsuit of the Sacklers, and if that lawsuit was successful, the…
Negative outcome. Some important points that the article here did not emphasize: 1) The Sackler family was not actually a party to this litigation. They came to the table (with most of the settlement money) specifically…
Interesting post. A possible more general restatement would be "under consequentialism (or utilitarianism) everyone's happiness (including the crime perpetrators') is weighted equally. Should that be the case?" I…
You're right, it's just that the word "abuse" is doing a lot of work in that statement. I've still never seen any example of any person being actually damaged by the "tracking", so calling it "abuse" feels pretty harsh.
> People ask that right now, and adtech is one of the things that have killed it. I don't think this is actually true. When I think about the old internet vs new internet, a lot of it is about people running their own…
So, out my now 15+ year career, only about 4 were in AdTech, and I've been out of that game for more than 7 years. But fair enough - happy to play 'ad-guy' for the purposes of this discussion :) I guess my main…
Ammonia has been mentioned a few times in this thread, but I will expand a bit, because I believe it is the most promising hydrogen-based approach. Essentially, the idea is to use ammonia directly as fuel. There is an…
Incidentally, similar arguments are going to play out around trying to sue oil & gas companies for climate change (and will probably use the same public nuisance statutes). The o&g companies lobby against emissions…
This is being framed is as miscarriage of justice, and from a moral perspective it definitely is. The problem is that the legal grounds on which Purdue (and the Sacklers) can be sued are actually kind of weak. Broadly,…
I think you are right - this was a brain dump of some things I've been thinking about, specifically on how the fight against cookie tracking is making centralization worse and companies like Facebook more powerful. This…
Well, it's hard to prove the absence of a negative - I think that it's on the people claiming harm to provide some examples. However, I'm not even sure what a cookie data leak would look like. The large advertising…
The premise is slightly different. I'm mostly differentiating between cookie tracking and social networks (and some other large online platforms). The large online platforms don't need to track you - you give them your…
I'm trying to differentiate between data that is anonymized (cookies), and data that is not. I'm unaware of any data leak of anonymized data that resulted in any harm, but if I'm wrong I'd love to hear about it.
Honestly, I'm kind of sick of how bad a rap advertising gets. Now sure, companies knowing a lot about your personal life is creepy on an intuitive level, but the fact of the matter is that cookie tracking data has NEVER…
Relatedly, I'd like to plug Wikibabel (http://www.wikibabel.com/). It's translating wikipedia from English to Swahili, with hopefully more languages to follow.
I completely agree that we need better generic libraries. I was mostly commenting that I really believe that there are huge wins that can be achieved in the "generic distributed execution engine" space, and that people…
I expected that there is overhead to distributing the computation, but I was surprised by the magnitude of the speedups available.
I know that Spark has had a lot of work put into it, but my personal experience with it has been pretty negative. I've spent a lot of time at my job trying to tune it to our workflows (extremely deep queries), with only…
Some people that are complaining about C++ templates (and suggesting generics from other languages as alternatives) are missing the code generation aspect of templates. Generics operate entirely at the Type level. For…
Yup, but we're all running these apps on laptops, which have a fixed amount of RAM that is sometimes impossible to increase (looking at you, Apple)
Actually I think that you're just looking at the situation from a different angle than many of us. The reason I have some distrust of unions is that they sometimes seem to promote inefficiency as a policy. The…
That's not quite accurate. Willingness to Pay indicates the true preferences of people who have money. If you try to take it as a metric of the preferences of society you will get the preferences of individuals weighted…
"They're making black people sit in the back. Let's make white people sit in the back instead!"
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