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What I'm hearing is that universities coast-to-coast should start "researching" Facebook.
by scj 3y ago
What I'm hearing is that universities coast-to-coast should start "researching" Facebook.
- jonahbenton 3y agoSolid fundraising strategy, to be sure. Legit ransomware.
- badcppdev 3y agoAI software platform for analysing company data files... acquired by the company with the most to hide
- geodel 3y agoThat will be excellent research goal. World would be better place if we have output 10K PhDs in Facebook every year.
- graphe 3y agoWe should all research Facebook. ;)
- kbenson 3y agoYou jest, but that is how a well functioning free market would handle this problem, I think. As long as the information about the payments is public (and information being available is an integral part of any free market, which some people seem to miss), then paying would be a losing proposition for Facebook in the long run since there's always another person ready to step and and start looking you'd need to pay off. At best they could hope to buy some time.
- Draiken 3y agoThere's no such thing as a "well functioning free market". It's an utopia. What we have today is how a free market works. The invisible hand always tipping the scales. They would simply find a better way to get the outcome they want, avoiding the issue altogether (something at the federal level, make an example out of a researcher or institution, etc). The word utopia is used a lot when anything other than capitalism is being talked about, but the free market, which is an integral part of it, definitely takes the win. We have so many "free economies" around demonstrating how much of an utopia this concept is.
- golergka 3y agoModern world is a utopia by any reasonable historical standard, yes.
- Draiken 3y agoI cannot see how that could be true. I don't know what world you live in if you deem our current society as a perfect place. Maybe you're a billionaire?
- mrangle 3y agoIt could be true in the sense that you don't live in a cave, weren't murdered because of ever-marginally losing your physical edge at age 35, haven't died of a tooth infection, defecate indoors in a climate controlled structure, and can summon light as if by magic at any time of the day. Ignoring the rest, and acknowledging that this sounds like an aggressive answer. I don't mean it in that way. But there should be some POV on this incredibly rare era, even if it is imperfect strictly speaking. Maybe perfect is also the enemy of happy.
- golergka 3y agoHow many people you personally know have died of hunger? Have been killed in a robbery? How many of your brothers and sisters died before reaching the age of 10? How many of your own teeth did you have (or expect to have) at the age of 30? Have you been able to afford sugar more than 10 times in your life? How many times per year do you afford to wash yourself in hot water? How many people sleep in the same room in you? In your bed? How many fleas, ticks, mites and other insects to you usually scratch out of yourself? How many times have you been physically assaulted by someone in the last year? Just coming from an assumption that you're an average HN reader, your answers to this question are radically different from what most of humanity would have answered before 20th century (first world) or the second half of 20th century.
- Draiken 3y agoI agree, but that's in no way, shape or form, an utopia. It's better than before, sure. But an utopia? Not even close.