Lionsion

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Is Facebook Leaking Contact's Shadow Profile Information in Profile Archives?
3 points by Lionsion 8y ago|0 comments
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The guy could have collected $336M, if he had just stayed for 2 more weeks. If it were me, I would have just grinded out those 2 weeks, and given the extra $300M to my favorite charity. I guess he must have really hated being at FB...
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Yeah. I love their commitment to privacy and security, but I only wish their platform wasn't so locked down. The only reason I went with Android in the first place was so I could side-load personally-built apps. IIRC (I could be wro
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Did Apple let the Newton trademark lapse? I clicked on this totally expecting it to be some before-its-time innovation from 1993.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> There's a federal law from 1928 (I kid you not) that says no state can impair the ability of parties to agree to arbitration. Do you have a citation for to the statute or the USC for that? This is something that I'd like to w
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Would people who avoid facebook because of privacy concerns use any dating sites at all? Why would they? The privacy problem with Facebook is its size and the amount of personal data it integrates. If you're privacy conscious, u
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The deal’s opponents were led by Ted Frank, director of litigation for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based conservative think tank. They said the deal violated procedural rules in U.S. law requiring settlements to
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> If critics don't use this feature, they can put the blame solely on them. Once this rolls out, I'm going to be posting instructions to my feed. One of the only reasons I still keep Facebook around is to publicize articles cr
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> In principal, I completely agree with you. I have just found the effort futile. This could be the circle of friends I have are just drawn to this. Yeah, I think it's more of a marathon than a sprint. Right now, I'm satisfied
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Do you believe that we are manipulated to be addicts? I believe the companies do their best to try (under the banner of metric-driven "engagement"), but people experience the addiction to varying degrees, with varying degrees
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by Lionsion 8y ago
>> Media Consumption Strike [list from OP] > Seems kind of extreme to me. Not really. Literally the next paragraph after that list is this: > Don’t be a fundamentalist about the rules. Rules are meant to be broken. If it’s art,
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> They have to experience enough negative effects to reach out for help themselves. I think, when it comes to social media, the harmful effects are much more subtle and harder to identify and articulate than those for addictive drugs. T
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> This article makes it sound like people are forced to be social addicts. I think "forced to be social addicts" is a misreading of the article. I think a more accurate rephrase is that "people are manipulated to be socia
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by Lionsion 8y ago
This is terrible. The country is already polarized enough as it is, we don't need businesses that cater to one tribe and exclude the other. Also, I think it's creepy and a turn-off to get any kind of faux-informal mass-message &q
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by Lionsion 8y ago
What would you use then? I don't think a manufacturer should be judged too harshly based on if they have vulnerabilities or not, since all software does, but rather on how they respond to and patch those vulnerabilities.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> WhatsApp and Facebook have many users in the developing world who could not afford a subscription unless the price was extremely low. I would make sense to me to scale the price to the market. Make it $5 in the US and 5 rupees in Indi
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The network effects would have not worked, because there are many people that can not afford $10 a year. These people would have used an alternative and at the end everyone would have used that alternative (because network effects). Th
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I know it’s out of fashion in 2018 to acknowledge that TOS exist and that users should have read them before agreeing to them (or at least before complaining after the fact), but this is the reality. It's not "out of fashion,
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by Lionsion 8y ago
>> They didn’t realize quiz apps would harvest a huge amount of data about their profiles. > They would've known, had they read the dialog they had to accept to access their much desired quiz. You do remember Facebook would sh
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Fun (scary) fact – significant portions of the IRS tax system is still written in assembly. It's basically the original codebase plus 40 years of additions and patches as the tax code changed. > They were working on projects to
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The IRS' IT "upgrade" is just a huge money grab. Nobody has the slightest interest or desire to do anything properly - they simply want in on that lucrative IRS money. This is factually wrong (at least for the most curre
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by Lionsion 8y ago
The IRS already nearly developed a system to automatically translate their mainframe assembler logic into Java and check its correctness, but the main developer was hired on some special kind of program (to bypass the government salary st
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Suggesting that people and companies are independently and collectively spending 1 trillion dollars for zero results without any form of verification is absurd. > But, if you really want to go there. Plenty of companies only adverti
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Google has about 1 trillion dollars per year in revenue that says otherwise. Online advertising became so huge because it works. That's a non sequitur. Online advertising could be huge because of an irrational belief that it wo
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> This way you are adding more complexity which in turn adds more loopholes. I don't agree. Simple but dumb rules lead to easy to exploit loopholes . Saying they shouldn't be fixed in the name of "simplicity" is li
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Consider https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4417... . and consider is that useful? Yes. > curated? It's not a worthless question. If you're talking about subjective questions, ob
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by Lionsion 8y ago
That's sloppy thinking. Here's and example why: what if a new regulation new banned targeted advertising? That would kneecap FB's business model and unique value proposition while making it easier for new entrants, since th
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> It's easily gamed by contracting out for lower paid workers. What if Facebook came in at highest median pay because it relies more on contractors than other companies? Easy gaming like that is easy to anticipate and account for.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> That sounds interesting but would probably be a paradise for tax lawyers. You just create a network of companies, one for each income band. That way, an employee never makes more than the average. Of course only large corperations can
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Google has the lowest ceo/pay ratio since their CEO gets $1. That's misleading, because their CEO gets paid in other ways. Garbage in garbage out.

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