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by akarma 6y ago
Thank you for the full quote, it does give it much more perspective! (It wasn't in the linked article). If a manager within the company wants to publicly express her frustration with leadership, then this is an alright message to send
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by akarma 6y ago
> "You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity... is acknowledged or valued in this company," she said in the email. "Stop writing your documents because it doesn't
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by akarma 6y ago
You do, but as the above commenter mentioned, you also need to have a Facebook account in order to be a customer of Facebook Ads, and for many other uses. Purposely keeping that feature exclusive to employees shows that Facebook understands
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by akarma 6y ago
The most ridiculous part of Facebook’s anti-privacy crusade is that FB allows its employees to “lock their account,” making absolutely all information private / only visible to friends, even cover photos. FB’s website claims the featur
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by akarma 6y ago
I am a happy end user of Apple, and I vastly prefer the walled garden. When I was younger, I preferred a Windows to a Mac as I liked to customize everything and make it look fun and cool and unique, and to be able to use many niche programs
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by akarma 6y ago
Subverting the rules doesn’t equate to making the world worse. Assuming just $10m for 2 of his children to be admitted? That’s enough to fully fund the education of ~50 low-income students [1]. I personally believe we should turn these quie
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by akarma 6y ago
Not a customer (yet), but I worked at a startup where we had chatted with NanaGram. From our interactions, Alex seems like one of the kindest people we've ever come across, and I'd highly recommend anyone to give this a try if the
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by akarma 7y ago
Stolen from Twitter [1]: "Government: You owe us money. It’s called taxes. Me: How much do I owe? Gov’t: You have to figure that out. Me: I just pay what I want? Gov’t: Oh, no we know exactly how much you owe. But you have to guess tha
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by akarma 8y ago
There's been a whistleblower or two on HN about how Plaid scapes and sells your bank account transaction history to third parties. It seems more unethical than most selling-user-data strategies in that the users don't even know Pl