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by alex1138 3mo ago
If by throwing shit you mean copy everybody No other company in the internet age has done what Facebook has. Zuckerberg - Copies every product he sees. Copied Twitter, Snapchat. Lifted features from Google+ Overwrite people's public-fa
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Why? Why is this not a concern?
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I'm a civilian, not a VC. In my own case, I'm worried how many things pass through the CCP. How censorship of mentions of Tiananmen Square is something they're quite interested in
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by alex1138 3mo ago
The famous story of La Chorrera is that Dennis is the one that went seriously off the rails but it's Dennis in some of his public statements and book that cast skepticism on a few of Terence's ideas What you shouldn't do is j
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I don't believe that that can be true. Taibbi is far too respected a journalist to just be willy nilly tricked like that. There really was government directed censorship
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I know. I'm just, allowed to be sad As far as I'm aware, the Pirate Bay raid essentially only happened because the US threatened Sweden with trade repercussions. Like, thanks, guys? Way to show you have superior ethics to the pira
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I'm so incredibly happy police resources are being used to "protect" the rest of us from... harm...?
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I don't think you're allowed to define what good faith is if you can't read my mind And I don't even know what they censor now, it's just that the old system was more publically known Please don't be intentiona
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Which is kind of odd Would they have done that to the Winklevosses' ConnectU? Was ConnectU purely a 'dating site'? As far as I know it was them who onboarded it using college connections
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I was just trying to say old Twitter had a serious problem but apparently that goes against the hivemind so I accrue mass downvotes despite posting my comment in good faith
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by alex1138 3mo ago
> the cave thing Yeah, this does matter to me. I was willing to give him a pass (still am) in a vacuum regarding the Twitter thing given the mass censorship of the old regime (sorry - no, it wasn't acceptable, in any way shape or fo
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by alex1138 3mo ago
The death of Districts kills me. As far as I know this was baked into the origin Geocities (Yahoo, why the fuck did you buy it and then shut it down? albeit, 10 years later, but still). Neocities? It was a page someone made, and it's n
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I consider Facebook to be the worst of all worlds. Frankly They don't show you what your friends actually post. Someone saying "hey - I'm in the parking lot at some place, I need help moving this thing" 5 minutes ago? Yo
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I do just want to focus on the 'even without the politics' asterisk though because sometimes there is a risk people think everyone on x side (x meaning 'a given side', not x.com) is wrong You can claim Elon bought x as s
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by alex1138 3mo ago
tl;dr
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by alex1138 3mo ago
And also even if they never had Onavo you have Zuck furiously backpedaling in an email about I'm not saaaaaaaying we should acquire IG to wipe them out from the landscape of competition, but........ And then you have the WA founder (Ac
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Yes and then Facebook did everything they could to subvert granular privacy controls (Myspace was decent, it had a wall but that was about it) which is of paramount importance for people with real safety issues FB would have been invented.
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by alex1138 4mo ago
Possibly Snapchat? Snapchat already has spectacles whereas apple doesn't have their own glasses
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by alex1138 4mo ago
"How much on user account support?" "..........."
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by alex1138 4mo ago
Fun fact: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496533
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by alex1138 4mo ago
Yeah this type of conflation gets used a lot A common one is "users don't care about privacy. that's why they use facebook. [zuckerberg was right?]" No, you silly, silly people. People want to use products that allow the
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by alex1138 4mo ago
I'm sorry if it's a non sequitur but I feel even beyond superintelligence/AI/LLM whatever of the last few years... they've always done this, it's always been somewhat hamfisted Examples abound of "I report
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by alex1138 4mo ago
Well... uh 'When it started' was 2003. The same year as his 'dumb fucks' quote or hacking reporters who were investigating him That's not 'being a nerd [nice person] when it started'
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by alex1138 4mo ago
It should also be said Niemann has also had incredibly good results since the whole thing So it casts doubt on what Magnus said somewhat (Of course, on Rogan, I think, Magnus defended the allegations. And of course he's world's st
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by alex1138 4mo ago
- Paul Morphy, lawyer (I think). One of... well. Greatest of all time discussions are hard (times evolve) but he murdered his competition relative to his time
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by alex1138 4mo ago
Just an editorial note here, it's not clear that it was a suicide. The official diagnosis was some heart thing
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by alex1138 4mo ago
Naroditsky played a match against Magnus that he streamed where it ended (this a 1+0 time control; yes you can cheat in bullet but it's clear he wasn't) in a 40-40 tie, this after he lost the first game from being distracted getti
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by alex1138 4mo ago
cries in canada Yes, fine - 'land mass'. (ditto US) But land mass doesn't make corporations lobby and collude
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by alex1138 4mo ago
No, not really. I haven't been "radicalized" into anything. Go look at what Youtube actually does to content creators
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by alex1138 4mo ago
Great deal except when you get demonetized for partisan reasons

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