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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
BBC has shifted from being neutral in the recent years, and there are demands to stop public funding of BBC. No, BBC today is a bad example. BBC 50 years ago, I don't know.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Don’t count someone else’s money.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Facebook and Twitter exploited 0-day security vulnerabilities to collect private data? Can show the proof link please?
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Perhaps damage to Z would result in damage to FB for more than 5B (company market cap would definitely fall for more than that, and it could result in large mismanagement in the following years), so he is worth it.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Investors sue because they can, not because they are unhappy.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
If you are planning to catch Osama bin Laden, then you probably can't rely on speculations. But if you try to plan a good hiking route, guesses might help you spot something interesting which you wouldn't notice otherwise because
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Except satellite maps are not meant to be not-"realstics", not-"believable", not-"fake". They are meant to help with navigation, property purchase etc. If fake images help with that better than real images, tha
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Anyone with a retirement account can pick a different fund. They can be even buy individual stocks to collect their own portfolio. Or even buy anti-Facebook security. But there's no demand for that as far as I see. So I guess sharehold
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
"Personal inconvenience/embarrassment" will hurt his ability to operate the company efficiently. Protecting CEO is (usually) in the best interest of minor shareholders. This is why companies pay for personal security of CEOs
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
At least ads are not trying to deceive, they are usually explicitly marked as ads. This is clearly an attempt to fool the recipient.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
"We" are not uniform. Vast majority of people is good, and all evil in the world is done by very small share of people.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
I'm not sure it's just lustly pleasure. It might be in the public best interest to know who are these people committing crime. E.g. are they skinheads or hipsters? In the UK (AFAIK) law enforcement (and probably even newspapers) a
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Is your browsing experience better now? Or you think it makes world a better place? I like certain ads. For example, I often click of property ads just to learn what they are building in the city I live, what is the price range etc. Because
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> Even for adults, ad targeting based on gender or age (or race) seems… wrong? Wrong how? I don't mind ads target based on my gender (e.g. male suits, not cocktail dresses), age (no teenager sneakers), race (probably not interested
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
If you are the soldier in Abu Ghraib torture photos, you should be judged by the court of law, not bullied by neighbours and online mob who make mistakes too often. > Do you want Google drawing that line? Yes, this is the correct questio
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
It is a good parallel. Obviously if your relatives live on another continent, flying is the optimal, but for example you can ride a bus from SF to LA instead of flying.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
You comment is downvoted, but generally yes, it's likely they want to expose some bias, like racism, sexism, favor of republican party, support of antivax or anything else which may start twitter storm and respectively ads revenue stre
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> The population here is visibly smarter You pick your Facebook friends, you subscribe groups which you prefer with mods you like, and you are free to ban whatever Facebook recommends you. My Facebook feed is interesting, I even click ad
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> You don't need FB to comfortable communication with friends. You don't need planes to meet your distant relatives, but flying is often much more convenient than other modes of transportation. > So there is no reason to use
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
But it is too high risk that these extensions will share something else like friend list or phone numbers. Even if extension authors have honest intentions (we cannot verify that), we cannot trust their account and the extension itself won&
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
Many (like me) believe Facebook is net good for the world. I’m able to stay connected with friends (many of whom live very far), like know what’s going on in their lives and share my world.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
For UK the statistics is skewed. Their definition of homeless people include people in temporary accommodations (like in council houses). From wikipedia: > The UK homeless charity Shelter estimated in 2019 that the number of people in th
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> I don't think downvotes are the problem. > I think the problem largely comes from the echo-chamberization of platforms Echo-chamberization is a result of downvoting. When comments close to the borders of Overton window are down
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> tech is not really controversial Unless it is a topic about Rust and how it is better or worse than C++. Try to make a claim C++ is better, and nobody is going to read your bullet point explanations, you just get tons of downvotes. (I&
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
No, it is better to get comments, even emotional and not well written. Because with comments I might understand where I was wrong, or at least know where exactly my opponent disagrees with me, because it I could have written a wall of text,
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> Democratic control over the workplace would make lots of things possible, including lowering profits Yes. > increase wages No.
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> This is substantive reason for unions. Union exists to improve working conditions. I never heard of unions protecting working disagreeing with top management policy making, that would be silly. > Employees run the company No they do
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> What if Amazon bought up all the farmable land in the country/world and started charging prices that were unaffordable to 90% of people and causing starvation. That would cause anti-monopoly intervention by the government. > Th
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> Most capital is inherited. This is a common myth. (I should say, marxist myth.) > Of those folks, 67.7% were self-made, while 23.7% had a combination of inherited and self-created wealth. Only 8.5% of global high-net-worth individua
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by asteroidbelt 5y ago
> It gives me the sense that you think maximizing profits for shareholders is "the greater good", moreso than doing what(in the opinion of employees) is right. This is correct. This is win-win for shareholders and employees. An

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