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Different prices for different customers

lundi 5 juin 2017 à 02:00

Even supermarkets are starting to demand different prices from different customers, based on secret algorithms.

I wonder what they will do to people like me, that don't carry a portable tracking device.

I wonder what will happen when customer A sees price P on the price display on the shelf, because customer B is nearby at that moment, then gets charged a higher price.

Cáceres wins posthumous victory

lundi 5 juin 2017 à 02:00

Berta Cáceres has won a posthumous victory: the sponsors of the dam she tried to stop have withdrawn funding.

Tory politicians receive gifts from Salafi Arabia

lundi 5 juin 2017 à 02:00

Tory politicians received luxurious gifts from Salafi Arabia. Perhaps that is the mysterious reason why they support the Salafi war of aggression in Yemen.

The troll

lundi 5 juin 2017 à 02:00

World leaders should treat the troll as a child, not as an adult.

Proprietary software

lundi 5 juin 2017 à 02:00

Idaho started using proprietary software to decide how much support to give to Medicaid patients. It turns out that the program used a bogus algorithm based on a subset of the historical records, with bogus results.