GreeniFi

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   by GreeniFi 8y ago

   That’s a really good question. I guess one of the options would be to require social media companies to obtain a licence, subject to their non-monopolistic activities. My guess is that there will be a FB sell-off today. Other countries will
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   by GreeniFi 8y ago

   I would say that your assumption about the nature of humans is a construct of the society you have grown up in and the institutions which have shaped the behavior of your fellow-citizens.
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   by GreeniFi 8y ago

   What did I deduce from today’s hearing: 1. The weird question/answer format was probably a negotiated condition of Zuckerberg appearing. 2. This underlines the power of Zuckerberg: setting conditions for the EU Parliament is quite a sh
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   by GreeniFi 8y ago

   This is really interesting - thanks for posting. What strikes me is that a court ruling implicitly took a view on the meaning of “fairness”. But fairness is a deeply subjective concept, something courts in a lot of countries would avoid goi
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   by GreeniFi 8y ago

   1. Your point about signal and noise is accepted in principle. 2. However, the relational database which FB has built is “unparalleled in human history” in its scope for surveilling the world. 3. The dictators I name would undoubtedly hav
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   by GreeniFi 8y ago

   I appreciate your desire to maintain a civil tone - I’m usually decorous. But what in points 1-5 above is incorrect or overwrought? And what in the comparison?
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   by GreeniFi 8y ago

   I’ve got a really good idea as to how to run a country: 1. Establish a dominant arbiter of fact. 2. Place as it’s head a decidedly odd person with some very curious ideas. 3. Ensure via voting rules that he is accountable to no-one. 4. Allo
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   by GreeniFi 9y ago

   Legend! Well done lass!
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   by GreeniFi 9y ago

   Thanks. Very insightful. Hopefully UK parliament will pick up on his obfuscation and prevarication when they interview the CTO. For what it’s worth, I don’t think MZ was straight up today - and as legislators realize that, it makes it more
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    Welcome to Restaurant Facebook. If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    I would say that most Brits I meet are good. But there is a certain kind, usually an Englishman, who is pure selfish evil. I’ve lived in a few countries where SCL/CA has been active, and its destabilizing propaganda resulted in death a
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    There is sadly a very clear reason why China banned Facebook - its use has the potential to destroy social consensus, which is necessary for social cohesion. I’m not surprised Zuck has been hiding, in his heart of hearts, he realizes his in
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    This: “There's no outside attacker bringing Facebook down. It's a circular firing squad that stems from the company's fundamental business model of collecting data from users, and using that data to sell targeted ads.” It alw
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    I'd warn Greece about Elon Musk. Never trust a Geek bearing gifts.
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    A friend reported going to the wedding of German first cousins who married. The groom opened his speech with, "just in case you're still wondering, yes it's legal". No, they were not the British royal family. And apparen
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    I should probably point out that I only joined all the dots on the gangster bits many years after I left. At the time I only saw legal but morally dubious deals. Basically - if your business generates substantial negative externalities, you
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    PE firms buying businesses off gangsters before selling them on fat margin to more established investors. However it was the straight up corporate clients at the firm who were always on Human Rights Watch lists that depressed me most.
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    I was a bored private equity lawyer, working like a ninja, ashamed by my firm’s clients. I did a one year Masters in Environmental Economics, did some really interesting work and then joined someone else’s start-up and ran a few side projec
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    By design or a bug in the system?
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    The biggest beef I have with GDP is that it does not capture how we run down natural capital to create financial capital. Pollute our seas, cut down our forests, poison our air: this is all a capital loss, but reflected as a financial gain
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    by GreeniFi 9y ago

    I run a company which provides a credit scoring system for banks which helps them include environmental and climate criteria in credit decisions. Our underlying motivation is that if we want to create sustainable supply chains, the incentiv