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by alex1138 2mo ago
I want someone to actually smack Steve Huffman. Not hard, but enough to get through the veneer of We Take Your Feedback Very Seriously And- No. Enough. The community is fucking screaming at you Someone that loves their users does not fire t
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by alex1138 2mo ago
> not leaving It's hard to leave a monopoly, and you can't contact your friends any other way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433 Anecdotally, someone I know deleted their account, had it reactivated
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Mark Zuckerberg is the ultimate mendacious prick We know they want to be a monopoly. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791198 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433 Site doesn't wo
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Again, the site needs more transparency. The amount of censorship is shocking with how bad it is. This stuff needs much more manual review
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by alex1138 2mo ago
'Closed because scraping' is a big problem of hypocrisy Let's say in a pretend world where Facebook gives a shit about anything (so, they combat marketplace scams, they don't randomly ban users, they faithfully show you
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Zuck's DNA is clear. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791198 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRYnocZFuc4
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by alex1138 2mo ago
I know full well what sarcasm is and I don't think he was being sarcastic given the rest of his behavior
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by alex1138 2mo ago
It's the biggest fucking antitrust red flag of all time (ok, maybe not all time. Humans are scummy. I'm sure bigger examples exist in meatspace) Zuck buys company to steal phone numbers, establish monopoly. Founder says "it&#
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by alex1138 2mo ago
> let instagram be instagram Like... give it back to the original founders? The company that was bought because Zuck said "they can hurt us"? Like not having a login wall on every page? Like being a site for photographers lik
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by alex1138 2mo ago
That book is hilarious. In a bad way. (Not the book. I mean that it's a bit tragic) Zuck refuses to meet with WORLD LEADERS in the morning because he's tired from the night before. Kaplan can't even find certain countries on
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Check out the 'explaining react's license' thread and all the complaints over that
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by alex1138 2mo ago
WHY was it an insightful comment Do you not realize that outside of that he said "If you need any info on people at Harvard just ask"? Or "I'm going to fuck them [the Winklevoss twins] in the ear"? Or when he was re
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by alex1138 2mo ago
I can't get over his negative externalities Just like closed AI vs open AI, his views on the covid situation might be fine in a bubble (though even with AI they have apparently lied about Llama's benchmarks) but it's one of t
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by alex1138 2mo ago
I've only skimmed it but Simon Singh's book on it seems reasonably accessible to non-experts One interesting thing of FLT is Wiles is on record as saying it opened the door (I think. This is from memory) to Langlands Program, a se
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Throwaway? Which one. "Dumb fucks"? "If you need information on anyone at Harvard, just ask"? "I'm going to fuck them [Winklevoss twins] in the ear"? Applies nowadays? Ok, when? When he copied Snapchat int
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by alex1138 2mo ago
+1 The credulity amazes me but mixed in with the brilliant minds here are some real 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires'. It's embarrassing, all right.
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by alex1138 2mo ago
The site itself is slow The site doesn't have... an identity. Other than "being fake" with everyone showing off corp-speak to everyone else. Which is a human thing, except that the platform is full of recommendations and spam
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by alex1138 2mo ago
> bans on encryption It's a bit of a tangent, but Meta actually really annoys me Is the general war on encryption bad? Yeah Meta? Meta forcibly upgraded people on Messenger. Now chats are broken. First they took away your friend
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by alex1138 2mo ago
I grow increasingly skeptical of HN's "moderation"
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Unaccountable flagging is a massive problem here and it's amazing the site doesn't have more protections for astroturfing Comments that people don't like, which are clearly not just "spam" get flagged all the time.
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In a bad or good way
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Youtube is annoying about it "aaaaaaaahahahahahaha" [translate to english]
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by alex1138 2mo ago
FB can't even be absolved for Myanmar, first off because they try to actively be a monopoly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791198 (not restricted to India; multiple countries) and second, per Careless People h
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Fun, this is currently on the front page at the same time this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187977 is
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by alex1138 2mo ago
> When you have a billion users What if they make a shadow profile for you? Do you count as a user? What if you've tried to delete your account and you can't? (I meant a real account here, not even a shadow profile. People have
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Including this by the way Part a) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24201306 part b) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24776748
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Yeah sure, I think we basically agree I'm just bemoaning the fact FB can't even pretend they care when they're so busy banning people for nothing
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by alex1138 2mo ago
> and ran across Facebook, Threads, Messenger and Instagram. So it's the SAME AD PLATFORM? Even in MESSENGER? My god. Not only is this whole thing horrible but it's doubly so
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Yeah and/but also the case it's not bidirectional enough The eternal question of tech platforms - should we be responsible for what users post? (Ads are not user posted, so we can eliminated that factor. Even if posted by 'us
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by alex1138 2mo ago
(This reminds me of, and not to be political. This is a technological, rather than political angle) There's a TED talk by Carole Cadwalladr about "Facebook's role in Brexit" in which she talks about the ads the Leave cam

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