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by alex1138 5d ago
You'd be surprised. They banned Christopher Wylie from Facebook. People routinely report their entire team (building some product for Facebook) getting their accounts banned Zuckerberg takes things personally. It's his entire hist
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by alex1138 8d ago
"And all that" is a linguistic trick to imply "yes, this is being discussed -"
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by alex1138 8d ago
Information wants to be free and all that but there's a sense in which AI really is real intellectual property theft in an ethical sense compared to others and of _course_ it was Facebook who steals from everyone where Zuckerberg perso
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by alex1138 10d ago
I'm getting sick of the ads. It's in every NHL commercial break, Rogan (though I don't know about it now) has them as sponsors Guys, it's predatory. Stop
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by alex1138 10d ago
There are messages, by the way. I'm paraphrasing, but it's something like "So, Mark messaged me saying he thinks it would be a good idea if he bought Instagram, what if I tell him no" "He'll go into destroy mod
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by alex1138 10d ago
CA is a scandal primarily due to account escalation, I thought. Not about who got elected But shadow ads can be a problem too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSMr-3GGvQ (you can be pro-Brexit but ads like this are still a
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by alex1138 11d ago
Yeah +1 to this People use text with LLMs but it's great to have a high fidelity "analyze this image"
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by alex1138 11d ago
I mean there are people who have reported that with their own personal website Facebook's crawlers were essentially DDOSing them
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by alex1138 11d ago
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-election... Here's a fun little interview. They had a program that apparently worked, for much cheaper than Michael Hayden's program (I think Trai
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by alex1138 11d ago
Once again, yet another legitimate comment that was [dead] that I had to 'vouch' for. HN either has broken filters (understandable, combatting spam) or seriously loves censorship
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by alex1138 11d ago
I'm sorry that I keep posting this but it gets said often enough that I'm just going to hopefully kill it permanently People say repeatedly Instagram was a 'great acquisition' (it was. It destroyed Facebook's compet
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by alex1138 11d ago
Apparently buying up everything is "brilliant acquisitions" and something to be celebrated. I don't get it. People just want him to succeed no matter what even after he's shown his true colors
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by alex1138 12d ago
Myspace had certain problems and probably didn't scale well, it had UX problems and management problems, combine that with the fact people wanted better granularity of privacy settings (though to be fair, Myspace was decent about it. T
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by alex1138 12d ago
I don't remember this but I do know about their Free Basics nonsense where people had letters supplied on their behalf by Facebook to India's telecom authority That and a lot else Facebook does is a primary sin, end of story. Th
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by alex1138 12d ago
Ah, yes. The standard pipeline scammy ad/post -> report -> This Does Not Violate Our ... Bonus points if you can get banned for any reason, by contrast, on sites like Facebook Fuck all of you. Shut them all down, jail time for ex
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by alex1138 15d ago
Ok, I have not heard about the airmiles ticket; elaborate?
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by alex1138 16d ago
I play chess and I'm basically with you It's just a board game
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by alex1138 16d ago
You know why? Because Acton and Koum arranged the carrier deals prior to the acquisition. That's what Zuckerberg bought, to enlargen his war chest. It's not his product, it's something he effectively stole
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by alex1138 16d ago
I stand by what I said, and screw you.
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by alex1138 16d ago
People perhaps won't remember the long history of computer chess at least how it played out in the 90s There was a succession of interesting engines (I think The King used to win a number of computer tournaments, this is the one Chessm
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by alex1138 16d ago
HN loves drive-by downvotes. It's a real shame.
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by alex1138 16d ago
Why is it fine in isolation? Should you not get exactly the pushback you'd expect from saying that? As a clear joke, maybe less. I don't think he was joking though
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by alex1138 17d ago
The company is hurting people outside the 'bubble'.
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by alex1138 17d ago
The company has been known to lie before And the thing is, network effects are killer. I'm on it because you're on it because Alice is on it because Bob is on it But, Facebook has apparently been known to censor links to competiti
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by alex1138 17d ago
People generally reply to this with "He was making a point. He wasn't saying he couldn't be trusted, he was saying 'I could be anyone'" I don't get it. I think he meant exactly how it looks on paper
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by alex1138 18d ago
Akshually- Edit: I love HN. I'm obviously joking, but instant 4 downvotes We're allowed to have fun, guys.
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by alex1138 18d ago
People attack Stallman for some things but I guess I'm happy GNU exists and Emacs might be the most visible example
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by alex1138 18d ago
With Facebook, people reported not being able to see their spouses' posts. They were "Married" on Facebook, but the feed just shoved things into their faces they didn't want. It would even edit posts when you went to th
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by alex1138 19d ago
What you mean you don't like Zuckerberg's endless log in to see any page ever hyper aggressive popups
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by alex1138 19d ago
There's also the allegation that a) Facebook greatly overcounted (on purpose) the impressions from autoplaying videos and b) their ads target more people in an area than physically exist "Value" is a tough thing to translate.

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