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it's not 1999 anymore. you can't create malicious sites and then cry "I'm just a nerdy teeeeen" afterwards
by Invictus0 6mo ago
it's not 1999 anymore. you can't create malicious sites and then cry "I'm just a nerdy teeeeen" afterwards
- antonymoose 6mo agoDevil’s Advocate: I would expect a dumb teen to not understand the history and blast radius of social media like a former teen that grew up on that trash did.
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- ImPostingOnHN 6mo agoThe author explained that he had watched (and quoted) The Social Network, in which Zuckerberg gets in academic trouble for doing exactly this.
- adjejmxbdjdn 6mo agoDevil’s devil’s advocate. He had several rounds of warnings before things escalated (not counting the local bully).
- Invictus0 6mo agoHuh? This is not a "dumb teen" smoking weed in the parking lot, this is a student at IIT Delhi, which has a sub 1% acceptance rate and is one of the most elite schools in the world, that is smart enough to make a social media app.
- crote 6mo ago> this is a student at IIT Delhi, which has a sub 1% acceptance rate and is one of the most elite schools in the world Elite schools are full of dumb people. Being good at math doesn't automatically give you emotional intelligence. > that is smart enough to make a social media app What, like it's hard? I could've sworn making a Twitter clone was in plenty of "Programming for Dummies" books during the 2010s - and they didn't even have access to LLMs!
- 1whizkid1 6mo agomaking the website is not the hard part. Making all the right design decisions, understanding people and virality is the hard part
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- bigstrat2003 6mo agoYou can in fact do that. Kids do stupid things all the time. We need to teach them, not ostracize them.
- Invictus0 6mo agohttps://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/6/5/2021-offers-rescinded-memes/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/6/5/2021-offers-resc...