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by 394549 8y ago
> Simple: delete your Facebook account. Many of us already have. Nothing will send a stronger message than people doing this en masse. Even if they don't get the message or don't care, it's the only way to protect yourself
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> This is why acquisitions such as IG and WhatsApp are crucial. If they purchase the next cool thing, they never really go out of fashion. FB has gone from throwing sheep at your friends to this. I don't think they are stopping anyt
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>> For example: describe how you would stop doing business with Equifax. > I can't speak to every area of their business, but as a credit consumer: You freeze your Equifax credit report and only work with lenders who will acce
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> If you want to look at some history, I will unfortunately have to invoke godwins law, by using the example of IBM, which everyone condemns now for working with the Nazis. Godwin's law has been repealed: https://www.thes
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> A company complying with the laws of the country it does business in seems fairly uncontroversial to me, even if you may not agree with those laws. Stopping your analysis at legality/illegality is morally bankrupt. Local laws can
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Adtech is still tech, and some of the biggest tech companies, Google and Facebook, are adtech companies. When I said "traditional advertisers" I meant old-school advertisers that were used old-school techniques like consumer surv
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> Why the sudden concern over tech companies mining our habits? Because tech companies have broad, detailed, individual-level visibility into our habits. Neither traditional advertisers nor the government have ever had data that detaile
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>> China will not allow a foreign company to compete against its home grown search engines, so why bother? > Bing is allowed in china It's probably more accurate to say the Chinese government will not allow a foreign company t
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> You mean, except for criminal law? I don't see how this is in any way equivalent to adding ads to Whatsapp. It's not against the law to lie to me in most cases, but I still have the same expectation/requirement that peop
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> Yes and the only way you can “require” anything when doing business is through a written contract with clauses that specify what happens when the contract is breached and the jurisdiction where the breaches will be adjudicated. I expec
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>> What year would it be ok to be naive enough to think that any for profit company’s main motivation is not to make as much money possible? > There is such a thing as business ethics. > Facebook's complete disregard for th
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> I think the difference is that companies exploit an entire regulatory system which is harder to update and takes longer. Airbnb, Uber, Mechanical Turk, are all examples of exploiting a regulatory system by creating a product and then q
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> Firstly, news reporters with little understanding of the subject matter try to explain it to the masses, and the results are disastrous. Do you have a better alternative?
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> That report doesn't say that Apple no longer retains control of the keys. Even if it does (which is unclear), do you think Apple will be able to refuse if the Chinese government asks for them? I wouldn't be surprised of &quo
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> If that's the real reason everyone is angry, then they should support Trump's tariffs and boycott everything manufactured in China. They very well may. However, it's not yet possible to "boycott everything manufact
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> How about we hear from some Chinese people about how they feel about the developments? How open do you think a typical Chinese person is going to be with you about how they think about their government's censorship? Unless they k
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> According to three sources familiar with the incident, Google leadership discovered the memo and were furious that secret details about the China censorship were being passed between employees who were not supposed to have any knowledg
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The site's title for the post is "So You Want to Launch a Rocket? The FAA is Here for You." HN title has been editorialized to "Launching a rocket? The US Govt will have its hooks into you."
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> On the other hand, storing hand luggage overhead is one of the most time consuming parts of the boarding process, which is even worse with Ryanair's short intereuropean flights. All that time spent on hand luggage costs money, and
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> Sometimes we see a lot of news articles and news regarding X, Y, Z topic from anonymous sources Those sources aren't "anonymous sources," they're more accurately called confidential sources . You may see an story b
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> Every president has declared the ICJ irrelevant. The Pentagon would send tanks to the White House if a President so much as hinted at accepting ICJ jurisdiction. Are you seriously claiming there would be a military coup in the US over
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> It can't last that long. Eventually the disputes will reach a WTO tribunal, at which point both sides will either need to acquiesce, or risk going it alone outside the WTO system, or perhaps destroy the WTO altogether. It probably
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> The Shenzhen special sauce is the high density of complimentary industries and specialized workforce. > It's certainly possible to replicate, but history has shown that it can be difficult. It would be like trying to supplant H
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> Meantime, other soybean manufacturers will dial up production, so when the tariffs are dropped by China, the US soybean manufacturers will be selling to an oversupplied market, dropping the price. I don't think so. Doing some Goo
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Also, soybeans are a fungible commodity. As China buys up non-American soybeans, American exports will (with effort) be redirected to the customers who were originally planning to buy non-American soybeans that the China bought. The tarif
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> I’m not sure. Tim Cook seemed to suggest the iPhone couldn’t be manufactured anywhere else. Translation: Apple invested massively in China-based manufacturing, and he doesn't want to have to repeat that investment elsewhere.
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>>> unless the device is redesigned to be slightly thicker and larger – decisions which Apple is specifically unwilling to make compromises on for their overall design. >> Sounds like Apple. > As opposed to Belkin who puts
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>> The trend has been clear for the past decade, and it has been going in the wrong direction, at increasing speeds. > Tools to block tracking have gotten better. Spyware is more difficult to spread, etc. I'm not convinced it&
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I think the big difference is that one can potentially be far more targeted than the other. Sort of the difference between publishing an update package to a software repository and SSH'ing into my computer and running commands (or hav
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> Why do people still support the company? Shouldn't people suspect something is fishy with that company's offering? > My assumption to begin with is that consumers were turning a blind eye in order to keep using the service

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