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by alex1138 5mo ago
(Please understand I'm being sarcastic. You should interpret this post as a joke) Hi. I'm a VC bigwig and I'm very interested in purchasing your company. I, too, believe in Not Being Evil
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by alex1138 5mo ago
It had a "plot". You "upgraded weapons" ...also it was what you played when you had no internet
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by alex1138 6mo ago
That sbemail, Virus, literally had virus-affected-Homestar removing links on the page. Something you just can't do in a Youtube video Edit: and real popup windows
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by alex1138 6mo ago
It's worse than that, people have reported that even going to someone's page, FB determines the order posted. Also, psychological experiments FB has done; also, it's kind of the definition of addiction, because FB, in the beg
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by alex1138 6mo ago
He'd please a lot more people if the feed hadn't been filled with crap - out of order, at that - that nobody ever subscribed to in the first place, causing them to miss actual posts from friends (whatever you think of 'social
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Don't worry! There was a link about how Facebook Workplace censored the word unionize
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Do you know what Zuckerberg said in an interview? I think it was to Lex Fridman but I could be wrong "Apple hasn't come up with anything new in 20 years" Very likely in response to Apple's granularity. Poor Zuck can&#x27
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by alex1138 6mo ago
While encryption already ruined FB Messenger (no comment on IG encryption or lack of but people have hated Insta since Zuck took over) While they ALREADY probably only have Messenger for nefarious reasons https://news.ycombinator
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by alex1138 6mo ago
That's the card graveyard. I play Pot of Greed. It allows me to draw two cards. I've drawn Monster Reborn. It allows me to claim the stash
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Some of it was the death of Flash (though with Ruffle now there may be hope) but the web now just feels much less diverse. Or possibly I just miss being a teenager. Or some combination
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Christopher Hitchens (by now, of course, most certainly dead. In fact 15 years this year) had this in Hitch-22, he discusses mortality. They'd (the newspapers) made a mixup and depicted him as "the late Christopher Hichens" (
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by alex1138 6mo ago
The internet is rather trending in that direction, isn't it? Youtube got rid of downvotes and apparently upload dates, which seems like an easier way to trick people into ads. And Reddit, like you said If these platforms had to listen
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by alex1138 6mo ago
It might come down to shareholder/IPO stuff but you can tell Reddit doesn't actually care to put the effort in to crack down on bots (however you'd do that) because they already don't give communities proper moderation t
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by alex1138 6mo ago
> In case you haven't caught on yet, some of us will just never be interested in being manipulated by those brain-rotting, never-ending homepage feeds you love shoving in our faces the moment we log in. Quite. I always feel if platf
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Fun fact, if you link AA on FB it gets removed
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Honestly, too rich potentially off fraud Consider the case of someone who gets banned but Facebook keeps collecting money on their business account. Or consider the case of Facebook's video metrics scandal, or... whatever. It's a
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by alex1138 6mo ago
> Meta also stripped [copyright management information] from the copyrighted works it stole. It did this to conceal its training sources and facilitate their unauthorized use. WTF
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by alex1138 6mo ago
And also I think MIT didn't defend Aaron but maybe I'm wrong about that
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by alex1138 6mo ago
(I'm being sarcastic. Zuck gets rewarded for continually copying Snapchat features into his products)
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Had Aaron copied Snapchat 5 times the DOJ would've been fine with it all. His fault for not having the foresight
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Google/Alphabet is a big company On the one hand, Waymo seems to have a better safety record than Tesla does. That's not nothing. For someone nominally in charge of SpaceX like Elon is, it's a red flag On the other, Google do
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by alex1138 6mo ago
You're absolutely right!
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Because it's important to Remember The Human while we have fun asking Deepseek to solve math problems
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Does it censor mentions of what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989?
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Thiel might be, but Thiel is also someone who gets infinitely mocked With that having been said a lot of the health industry is fraud
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by alex1138 6mo ago
If anyone hasn't seen the Jeeves and Wooster series with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry they're missing out
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Hey, have you used Claude much? What are your experiences with it
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by alex1138 6mo ago
Sad news. This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E25jgPgmzk was interesting back in the day
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by alex1138 6mo ago
It sure justifies the creepy People You May Know though, doesn't it? Which apparently outs sex workers and whatever else If you're going to move fast and break things and connect the world full steam ahead (and damn the consequenc
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by alex1138 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16278631

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