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1. 721.▲
   by alex1138 2y ago

   Mr. SnapEgo referring to Zuckerberg?
2. 722.▲
   by alex1138 2y ago

   I think Whatsapp is the clearest possible case that can be made of any company? They violated the condition of not sharing user data with Facebook Willing to listen to other opinions on other companies, but surely Whatsapp
3. 723.▲
   by alex1138 2y ago

   It doesn't have to be bots or astroturf either, you get a bunch of ideologically-leaning mods to ban anyone they disagree with, make them control a bunch of subreddits (potentially), some subs will even ban you for posting in other sub
4. 724.▲
   by alex1138 2y ago

   I'm in favor of whatever semi-monopoly enables fine grained permissions so Facebook can't en masse slurp Whatsapp (antitrust?) contacts
5. 725.▲
   by alex1138 2y ago

   At least some of his appointments make perfect sense as well (Tulsi, RFK, Bhattacharya)
6. 726.▲
   by alex1138 2y ago

   Please, engineers, invent actual linking books that work
7. 727.▲
   by alex1138 2y ago

   We have detached this thread, as it was off-topic
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   by alex1138 2y ago

   You know what I've always wanted for remakes? When it has something tangible to improve the game with People like the FF7 remake but it's in a wildly different frame than the original game, whereas I maybe would've liked to s
9. 729.▲
   by alex1138 2y ago

   Also in general it may well be that nothing on the internet will ever take off in the way we were used to because we've crossed that threshold of "this is new and exciting" and it's taken for granted now (although some o
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    Yeah like connecting with people you'd like to reach (which Facebook doesn't do a terribly good job of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712 ) but people here seem to think email/calling is the only acc
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    Not strictly accurate if a) they create shadow profiles b) it's almost impossible to permanently delete an account c) the site puts a login wall on every single page forcing you to have an account to access anything
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe Dorsey was personally involved in any of this
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    Yeah I've seen a few comments on here about Zuckerberg's dumb fucks quote along the lines of "I would have said the same thing" (would you? I hope your employer doesn't find your screen name) Combine that with a few
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    It's often described as "you can't steal an idea" But if he stole code, that's different If he stole the rollout strategy (to selected universities first) that's also different I don't know how much he act
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    Yeah but also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719 So not only is Facebook historically engaging in creepy contact scraping, but when they finally do get the world connected (for various definitions) they don&#x27
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    I really hope you don't actually work in tech and are putting your thumb on the scale of decisions
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    Susan made a personal pledge to tackle "misinformation". Like these people https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html (you actually can find the shortened version on Youtube, but all of those people
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    I know your comment isn't about Elon specifically and I have my own reservations about some of what he does, but it's important to point out (and maybe this depends on what you call "misinformation", it shapes all future
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    Not really. That doesn't disprove anything. "Company defends itself" is not the real story
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    Brian Acton ensures I'll never use Whatsapp. Clear antitrust case
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    I might quantify by saying that one really nasty thing was to block archivers from at least saving content/context I'm pretty angry with a lot of what Yahoo did. It's very idealistic to frame it in words like this but it&#x27
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    And no - not "misinformation".
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    Covid-19: A Second Opinion (2022)(rumble.com)

    2 points by alex1138 2y ago|1 comments
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    Maybe, and you can argue it was a bad practical choice, but the way it usually gets DESCRIBED is basically "Fischer missed bishop get trap lol". It's really braindead
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    Well Fischer wasn't an amateur and there's no evidence he just missed a one-move refutation
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    One thing that's really fun is getting inundated with spam from random accounts "user sent Translation Request"
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    It's almost a certainty Fischer didn't just "not notice" the bishop would be trapped, he just miscalculated further down the line (in fact if you plug it into an engine, it shows an equal evaluation) It's one of the
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    Enough Is Enough: The Criminal Case Against Mark Zuckerberg (2021)(thebignewsletter.com)

    7 points by alex1138 2y ago|1 comments
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    by alex1138 2y ago

    I generally trust Anthropic vs others, I think Claude (beyond obligatory censorship) ticks all the right boxes and strikes the right balance