• Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
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      I’m really digging articles like this where we as a collective are waking up to these practices.

      Next, why does my bank inform doubleclick when I pay a credit card bill? Why does Facebook track when I pay my utility bill?

      I feel like the fight for contextual integrity is just getting a foothold. I’m excited to see this take off.

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        Instead of “one hospital uses multiple trackers” it’s “a shit ton of hospitals use this one tracker without even realizing they did.”

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    If it’s cool to use K to mean kilo, why not also use C to mean centi?

    You could save an entire character in the title by using $3CK.

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      Because it’s less human readable. if you’re writing a compression algorithm, sure good start. Otherwise, no.

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        if you’re writing a compression algorithm, sure good start.

        Definitely debatable

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          Oh, it’s not a good finish. No argument on that. But it’s not a bad naive approach.

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      I’d prefer $0.3M to that.

      Also SI units say the correct term would be Hectokilo = $3HK.