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If it weren't for the bad PR, Logitech wouldn't have done anything here, and I doubt this is the last time they'll be trying to do the same thing since companies have been gradually getting consumers acclimated to this being
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> I was thinking more about the kind of friendly acquaintances that you see regularly. If you see them regularly, why not just exchange phone numbers or e-mail addresses? I just don't understand why Facebook is needed to keep in co
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I guarantee many of you who advocate for basically getting rid of opiates completely as an option for pain management, will be singing an entirely different tune if you ever end up in real pain and realize that "tylenol and advil"
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> you'll be forgotten by all but your strong friends (who don't need Facebook's friend-menu to remember you). How is that a bad thing? It's not normal or healthy to try to maintain hundreds or thousands of "frien
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The craft beer market has been dead to me for a long time. That's not to say that there aren't still a number of very good beers and breweries out there that I enjoy, but to say that the market is saturated. It's clear that
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It would be incredibly interesting to see who opened short positions shortly before this announcement. I'd be willing to bet at least a few of the names at the bottom of that message are among them.
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Perhaps Zuckerberg can ask another member of the Chinese government to name his next child to smooth this over.
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Bitcoin markets are a simulation of what would happen if you replaced the small group of people controlling governments and central banks with a small group of internet trolls, who held 95%+ of all available currency between them.
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> I suspect many many small business people feel that same way, and will abandon Facebook as soon as a less greedy alternative comes along. By sticking around on Facebook waiting for this to happen, you're also contributing to it no
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Pretty soon they'll become bold enough to stop attempting to sugarcoat this stuff with all the "trying to help children grow" language. "Good morning children, and welcome to GoogSchool. Please take out your Google Chro
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> The fast-growing co-working company joins a growing list of billionaires trying to reshape American education with their influence and investments. It's no surprise that many of those same billionaires go out of their way to make
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Always-connected self-driving vehicles in many ways seem like something that would be a dream come true for the government and intelligence/law enforcement agencies (not to mention the advertising companies currently developing some of
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AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy
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If calling out attempts to use those suffering the after effects of a natural disaster as props in the defense of Google's shady attempts to lock down the web "violates HN guidelines", maybe it's your guidelines that are
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> Sometimes things that seem really positive, like facebook helping kids stay in touch ..with Facebook's mass surveillance and manipulation apparatus.
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> What will the People of Walmart make of this? That depends entirely upon whether or not the robots can help deliver their "I thought it was just gas" bathroom babies.
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Asking is way too polite here. No doctors who take it upon themselves to enter exam rooms with Google recording devices on their faces deserve that courtesy.
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I'm guessing there are at least a few employees/founders of startups on this forum who sell products that encourage this behavior. Not too long ago I saw a straight-faced suggestion on this forum that doctors should have cameras i
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What we need to fix that is more of a future "not Facebook", though.
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Sounds like a great way to "tip" people who are neither UPS or USPS.
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> Those technicians were hired and trained by the FBI to seek out this information. Do you think the government is going to pass up the opportunity to do the same with Amazon employees? That is, assuming Amazon hasn't already approa
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I think this house of cards is going to fall even harder than the one MtGox built if/when someone gives it a push.
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Amazon both sells you products, and turns you into a product.
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I'd rather have my car become as "dumb" as my bike.
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They can name the area "Panopticon Village".
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If someone told me 20 years ago that people would become "fans" of massive advertising companies that engage in mass surveillance at levels that would make the Stasi blush, and delude themselves into believing those ad companies &
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> I believe (ot maybe would like to believe) that part of the reason Alphabet was created was to remove these conflicts of interest. I think the more logical thing to believe is that it was created to remove the appearance of conflicts
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Not if we keep letting them acquire every potential competitor.
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It also notifies that central host every time someone visits your home, and provides them with video and audio of that person. That doesn't seem like a "neat idea" at all. "By visiting my front door, you agree to Doorbi

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