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by avalys 5y ago
Well, perhaps whoever generated this report was simply reporting the truth and not trying to fabricate or distort the truth in order to make Facebook look better? The fact that the author of the linked article apparently just presumes that
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In most states, you can claim under almost any circumstances that a person came at you with a weapon (a rock?) and you shot them in self-defense. It is up to the criminal justice system to investigate and determine if you are lying. This si
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This isn't a problem for about 90% of the population in the US. At best, Toyota would offer it as an option.
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You know, you don’t need to watch any TV at all.
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Boost the volume of trades appearing on the exchange, and the apparent market value of the asset.
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> Except in this case companies are stealing personal agency and using it to create reality. What does this mean?
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Anyone who uses the terms "spying" and "surveillance" to characterize this business model is being misleading in order to push an agenda. These terms imply some kind of personal connection. The police will put a suspect
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A nonprofit using tricks to get your attention as they ask for donations? Say it isn’t so! In other news, NPR pledge drives are so annoying .
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This is ridiculous. The article contains an observation that the Facebook app reads accelerometer data. It contains no evidence that Facebook retains this data, stores or uploads it to Facebook servers, or uses it for any purpose other than
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That's kind of my point. Engineers are about black and white because that's what's required to make decisions, to ship things, to actually make something work. Actionable truths are black and white. Anyone can say "Oh, i
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Has anyone outside of the "I'm deeply concerned about online privacy" brigade even heard of DuckDuckGo?
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If you want the truth, talk to an engineer, not a scientist.
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I understand what they’re trying to say, but…this would also be true if they were just irrelevant.
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Am I breaching the privacy of the people I saw at the grocery store yesterday because I can remember what their faces look like?
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AirBnB has such good brand awareness that it’s not surprising they don’t need to advertise very much anymore”. On the other hand, advertising might be a pretty good investment for their competitors, like VRBO.
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This is exactly what Reader View does. On my iPhone the address bar flashes “Reader View Available” when I load that site. But you can also get to it from the context menu that includes other website settings.
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Does regulation make selling liquor to an alcoholic any more moral?
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Are liquor stores immoral? Owners of liquor stores? Microbreweries? Vineyards? Something like half of the alcohol industry's revenue comes from people drinking at levels dangerous to their health.
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Ford knows that children get injured, even killed, in traffic accidents in Ford vehicles. Yet, knowing this, they still sell these vehicles and profit from them. Does this mean they are choosing profit over people?
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Signal and Telegram facilitate the commission of crimes and the spread of child pornography. Are their authors immoral?
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This is hardly news. You can sway a democratic election, by definition, by changing the opinion of the median voter. Which means political campaigns focus their energy on the median voter. And targeted advertising makes it easier and more e
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That certainly isn't what they claim as their major selling point to advertisers. Do you have any evidence or documentation for this statement? What Facebook offers to advertisers is the ability to choose who sees their ads very accura
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Facebook has released the original decks, with their own annotations added on the side. https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/research-teen-well-being-a...
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Sure, but if you separate the carbon from the oxygen and return the oxygen to the atmosphere you reverse the process and you’re back to, simply, having to deal with roughly the same mass of fuel as you originally burned. Which is obviously
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I’m stupefied as to how someone who didn’t know him socially can miss the CEO of a giant faceless corporation Would you have called Apple “faceless” if Steve Jobs were still CEO? I miss Steve Jobs because he did great things and he inspir
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The tea party and birtherism predate all of Facebook’s content ranking algorithms - so I would say you’ve proved the GP’s point.
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If you're not careful, your body will start failing at age 65 and you'll live a drab decade until croaking at 75. If you want to avoid that, and want to stay healthy and vibrant until 75, you have pretty much the same goals as som
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This is a common anti-pattern when smart people start thinking about (brand) advertising. “I have such strongly held opinions about my favorite soda! No amount of advertising will change my mind. I am immune to advertising!” And then they g
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I don’t really like the stuff the Guardian is doing. What can we do to rein in the Guardian?
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I remember reading this article back in 2019 when it was originally written. Unclear why it is being dusted off now when it is still just as wrong as it was then. Yes, it is probably hard for a large, well-known brand like eBay or Procter &

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