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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Sending $5 to a third party pool so they stake it in your stead under the promise it remains your $5 does not make you a bank. It's more like sending $5 to Robinhood so they buy $BAC in your stead under the (legally backed up) promise
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
False equivalence, why is your equivalent to staking (investing crypto) applying for a banking license rather than opening a brokerage account (investing dollars)? With the advent of fractional shares anyone can buy $5 of stocks too, but it
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
They went full minimalist. iPhone XV will have a text based menu to replace app icons.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
>you're effectively acknowledging that cryptocurrency is money While I've never claimed cryptos are not a kind of cash, it doesn't have to be. For TC to be a money (laundering scheme), it just has to have resale value. Art
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Yet labeling a user called anon as a QAnon conspirationist is not an emotional and illogical conclusion?
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
It's funny how much projection people do when speaking of FB, as if their personal experience offers some deep insight into a platform of 3.5 billion users whose usage varies by user, demography and geography.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
But the package is part of the product that we, billions of people, took..
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
My point was with regards to the common insinuation that people (i.e. consumers) will not be using Facebook products because of the company's reputation issues, which I think has never showed up in the underlying numbers. Through all t
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Sounds like you just believe whatever you want then, no? How is 80% of sales in Q4 not a pretty good indicator that people do, in fact, "trust Meta with a new X" (or at least don't care enough)? As for that new intuition, wha
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Have privacy geeks who keep saying "no one would trust FB with X" ever looked at the numbers? I keep seeing this sentiment around Meta and VR, yet guess which VR company has like >70% market share. https://www.statis
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
The featured article being #2 on HN says something.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
That's quite a way to put it. Someone living through 1908 - 2008 would've also witnessed the start of Putin's autocratic Russia as he manoeuvred to keep power despite ending his second term.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Nothing is as unrecognizable as a light grey Mercedes SL55 with no license plate.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Sorry I didn't express that clearly FWIW, didn't mean that literally. It's just that most apps people use are pretty much the same as their respective websites. All of FAAMG's websites work as perfectly fine replacement
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
That's half of the point of having uBlock Origin. Use the zapper to disappear an element for the session, use the picker to poof them forever. They really work on making their webapps as unbearable as possible, but you can get rid of i
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Even then, most apps are just thinly veiled webapps for which the site (with Firefox and uBlock) provides the same or superior experience, ad-free.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
World's most popular mobile OS too. Used to push said browser, ripped of extensibility (I guess they couldn't blacklist ad blockers specifically).
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I get a feeling it inspired this share. They're respectively ranked first and second presently.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Not VPN related, I get the same. As for Google, god forbid we were allowed to scrape the master scraper in peace, so you get automatic captchas (damn grainy ones too) if you try to google with a VPN on, in my experience.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Because breaking up countries, let alone over fuzzy ethnic lines, is seldom a peaceful process that leads to prosperous smaller countries (over one's lifetime anyway). A most common outcome seems to be violence and war short-mid term f
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
UK courts are fighting them over Giphy. US FTC is fighting them over Beat Games (Beat Saber) and Within Unlimited (Supernatural). I'm not saying FAAMGs should be able to spend hundreds of billions unchecked in consolidating M&A, bu
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
>The narrative doesn’t match the numbers. Yet, just look at Amazon's if you want to see how fast it can grow. Or how the app tracking prompt popup compares for their own (pretty CTA for "Yes personalized ads please!") vs t
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
They sure could rip the whole extension store from default Chrome to make sure you don't get one without going the extra step (which like 90%[0] don't) of getting Firefox. 0: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-mark
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
You mean Facebook which is today's scapegoat. They can't buy Beat Saber or Giphy. Microsoft is buying the largest game developer for $70B without skipping a beat.
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
>Maybe Facebook has a way to do this Isn't that pretty much it's default behavior? It seems to know pretty well which handful of people really matter to me, and their "content" always finds it's way to the very t
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Yes, alt-data is different from insider information. You truly don't see a difference between someone analysing corporate flights to find and bet on potential M&A and Bobby Kotick (hypothetically) buying millions of ATVI ahead of a
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Because I could, given enough experience in the industry and money to have servers close enough if it's highly time-sensitive signal, compete with said funds and specialists. But I can't, without bribing executives, hacking into c
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
Saying insider trading of material non-public information is beneficial to free markets because it allows for a handful of connected individuals to front-run the market on non-public news is certainly a take. A really weird one, but a take
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
And we went from 30 minute TV shows on global/national/local channels to 30 seconds clips on finely tuned personal feeds with granular data from billions of users optimizing for watchtime. I know it's a fear as old as books,
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by BbzzbB 4y ago
I guess it's just a little fun site, would've been nice however to have a voting system in random scrolling to provide some highlights (while keeping predictions unvotable in the ranking to avoid typical crowding). >I predict t

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