Slansitartop

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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> In the 1980s the media hated Reagan about as much as they hated Bush or Trump. Before that it was Nixon. But you really only heard about it if you watched the evening news, and that was 30 minutes of the day. It wasn't being fed t
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> CA used data that was collected for research purposes only. OfA didn't violate any rules. Facebook may view its internal policies as akin to the law, but I don't. The fact that CA violated some Facebook policy and OfA didn&#
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Looking at pure numbers, when those are actual people, with lives and families, is the absolute wrong way to frame the question. It's sad, but so many people on HN seem to think their Econ 101 textbook was teaching them ethics and
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> Arbitration itself is not a problem. The selection of the arbiters is. That's true, if the goal is to settle a specific unique dispute between two parties. The problem is that arbitration in the US isn't used as strategy to s
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> The impact is also diminished by the fact that they're complaining about the idea of a powerful social media empire on Twitter. Not really, if twitter is a good platform for him to get his message out, I'm all for it. I also
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No it isn't. I only learned of the political implications of FB data during this election cycle. It's gotten a lot more headlines, and the stories have been much more explicit about the implications. So we've proved "
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> I have Zuck blocked. I thought Facebook forbid you from doing that. Same with his wife.
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> I'm pretty sure that everyone and everyone's mum knew that Facebook was doing stuff like this. "Everyone" knew Facebook was gathering tons of data on its users and everyone else, but we didn't understand many o
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Was this the thing that would put up a notification on your Facebook profile that you just bought a dildo from Amazon (for instance)?
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I know I would have been happy if this whole thread never existed, but alas, the root comment came to be.
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> Any comment pointing out hypocrisy is valuable and interesting in my opinion. I prefer to disregard the opinions of hypocrites. That's actually a pretty closed minded position. I don't think there's a single person who
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Churches pay property tax? I'd always assumed they were exempt.
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> China is (unoficially) close to being the largest Christian country in the world Do you have any reliable information on this?
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It seems nearly every single post where someone suggests people delete their Facebook accounts always has some comment pointing out that the NYT, or Medium, or whatever the article was published has a Facebook share widget or something li
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
I'd be great for retention of they could make the leases conditional on continued employment at Facebook. /s > Google will build 5,000 homes on its property under an agreement brokered with Mountain View in December. Call it Al
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> If they aren't gathering data on users and selling ads then how are they generating revenue? Maybe they take donations, maybe you run your own instance and pay for the hosting. Not having shareholders that expect profits and grow
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
Comments like yours are tiring an meaningless. Facebook and Google have their tentacles in nearly everything . If you want to get a message out, it's going to intersect with their platforms in some way, even if you're directly c
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> I very much doubt that the future of healthy journalism is in the hands of a big company such as Google. Especially one that's shown a willingness to try to silence narratives that are against its corporate interests: http:&#x2F
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> I wish there was a name for this fallacy because it comes up so often. When you have a systemic problem, you do not have a viable solution if your solution requires the conscientious choices of every affected individual. I think that&#
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I'd say there are at least two kinds of privacy: 1) Social privacy from your peers and the public. 2) Technological privacy from customer profiling, data brokers, etc. The OP who was channeling Mark Zuckerberg circa 2010 was talking ab
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> 30 years from now, candidates for president of the United States will have their old social media posts under a microscope. Whatever dumb thing they posted in their teens will be brought to light. In 30 years, the candidates for presid
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That's not a bad idea. From Facebook's perspective, dissatisfied users who delete their accounts are a sort of immune system response. The spread of contagious memes like "Facebook is a pointless, addictive time suck" a
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> Oh, and don't forget to share our article using the little facebook widget at the bottom... These kind of comments add no value and rest on incorrect belief that either: 1) authors control the marketing tech stack on the major sit
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> If the cure is the usual "bomb them to democracy", I'll take the abuses... That's a pretty flippant statement to make. China is an authoritarian country that's moving closer to an autocracy, let's not &quo
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> I merely bring it up because it's something we can improve in the U.S. It does not excuse China, which seems to go two steps further down a bad road. However, the actual effect of bring that up is to: 1) Blunt criticism of this n
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by Slansitartop 9y ago
> Already happened with Wells Fargo, who fired and blacklisted employees that refused to create extra (illegal) accounts for their customers. Those employees couldn't get a job in finance again. It's worth noting that Wells Far
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> Btw, regarding China, let's cut it some slack. No, let's not "cut it some slack" on human rights abuses in the making.
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> Consider the restrictions that US law places on convicted felons. Millions of Americans have been stripped of constitutional rights, often for infractions as minor as stealing a coat or possessing half an ounce of marijuana. Felons oft
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> but would the stars align again for such a huge amount of funding, just for supersymmetry? Maybe not. What we really need is China to build a massive new supercollider as a national prestige project, to show their parity with the West
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> This is antithetical to science. If you're promising a breakthrough discovery, you're approaching the experiment with bias. Whether to build something expensive isn't a scientific question, it's a political one. To

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