Lionsion

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by Lionsion 9y ago
He came without being subpoenaed, so not putting him under oath may have been a courtesy. Many of the congressmen thanked him for coming on his own accord.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> For the most part 'shadow profiles' are dead as of 2013-ish when OpenGraph v2 came out. > Facebook knew about shadow profiles and they already addressed it. No, I think you're confused. IIRC "shadow profiles&quo
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by Lionsion 9y ago
Isn't the social graph they've built of nonusers from address books shared with them part of the "shadow profile"?
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by Lionsion 9y ago
Or 4) Facebook has shadow profiles, but Zuckerberg's out of touch, doesn't read his critics closely, and is unfamiliar with the terminology ("shadow profiles") they use.
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AI will solve Facebook’s most vexing problems. Just don’t ask when or how(washingtonpost.com)
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> I think the modern society has forgotten how it is to not have facebook so if that would be forcefully taken away at this point, there would be a lot of angry people not knowing what to do any more. They'll adapt. Facebook isn&#x
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> It cedes leadership because the Chinese companies, modeled after the un-splintered US platforms, have more resources, capability to undertake coordinated action, and can take advantage of greater network effects. The Chinese platforms
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Why is it surprising or even remotely controversial that an app that people explicitly authorized to access their messages (informed consent) then proceeded to access their messages? The app didn't have access to friends' mes
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> That and one can't help notice the irony that on all these articles they're still trying to load the Facebook trackers in addition to the others There's no irony here, just the fact that the author doesn't manage or
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Seems somewhat ridiculous to allow companies to acquire other companies/services just to force them to spin them off. Not really. If Facebook can answer "we're sorry, we'll change and fix it" to every problem,
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> A good first step would be to force Facebook to let users easily take out their data in machine-readable form, including their social graph, posts and media. > They have done that voluntarily for years. It's under your settings
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> You mean seizure of land? That's quite a risky thing to do. Not really, it happens all the time, see eminent domain and adverse possession, etc. It's generally viewed as against public policy for land to be left unused. Perh
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by Lionsion 9y ago
At that time Apple chose CR, UNIX was just one of a multitude of minicomputer operating systems. Compatibility with it would have been only important in hindsight.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Sure, you could argue that you're "better than the other guy" or "they started it", but that's a pretty low bar. It just means you're both unethical. Something about supporting the military when it me
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> The public wasn't turned off of Equifax because they weren't Equifax's customers in the first place. The public aren't even Equifax's users .
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> But if you think there will be people willing to self host and maintain a whole voice assistant service, you're off your rocker. There were probably people who said that about open source operating systems, once upon a time. Extre
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> I'm on the verge of deleting my Facebook account, but for the same reasons as given by OP i'm hesitant. I'm in the same boat. Here's a suggestion: 1) Keep your Facebook account. 2) Uninstall all their apps. 3) Repl
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> That's not even the point, even if they're loosing money at the moment it's almost certainly worth it to capture those new users. > Go to a place where facebook-subsidised connections are the only option that people c
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> And they're definitely on Instagram, which still provides much more targeting ability to an advertiser than every other social site in the world apart from LinkedIn. Can you explain this? I've put far less info into my Insta
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> By subsidising otherwise prohibitively expensive mobile data connections for Facebook traffic only, Facebook has become the internet in many countries. I like to see how much revenue Facebook gets from those countries vs. the US and We
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Most likely the latter. Facebook is for "old people" according to younger family members. However, they're all over Facebook's other properties. However, all those were acquisitions. I think Facebook's doomed
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> I think you're under the impression that facebook's job is to be good at showing you what you want and being useful. I'm pretty sure they think their job is to balance being just useful enough that you don't quit wh
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Given the existence of the shadow profile, FB is exactly as inescapable as a credit reporting agency. That's not true. Facebook has data, but their data isn't as valuable and important to individuals as that controlled by a