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by badfrog 8y ago
I think Facebook's "bunny" system is also open source, but I have no idea how easy it is to set up.
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My understanding of the first concern was that users are in trouble if GoLinks shuts down or has an outage. Do you have any mitigation plan for such cases?
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> Instagram provides that illusion by not injecting opinionated content into your feed (The most obvious example: you aren't seeing injected news stories in your Instagram feed, generally its only ads and people you follow, and the
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> Netflix (as TV) provides some healthy entertainment. It's far from obvious that TV is healthy. This article has some discussion of one potential downside and a rebuttal: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article&#
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Yeah, it kind of implies that you should spend 100% of your waking time being "productive", which is not realistic. Everybody needs time to recharge, and depending on your personality, that can be anything from going to a bar with
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> The only reason why you get away with all of this is because it is so difficult to put an actual number on those. It's equally difficult to put numbers on the positive effects, which can be anything from enjoying a joke to organiz
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Indeed. You can be wrong without lying.
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> Even on a simple calculator. Why not? If they're paying people to build this software, they presumably want to make it good. With this data, they can learn all kinds of things to help improve future versions: when/why is it c
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> But how does it change anything related to how bad the product is From OP: > I hear real change from leadership > Fb has invested hugely in protecting elections, possibly more than any single government. They have doubled that on
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> This argument sounds a lot like gaslighting. That's just a matter of whether you think OP truly believes what they said.
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> the main piece of them criticism is that perhaps users shouldn't be trusted with a permission this broad (which had already been fixed 4 years earlier). Agreed. This broad permission was also widely known well before CA. IMO the o
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What's the relation?
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If you click through to the original PI investigation [1], it says: > Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users and logged-out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools. App developers share data with Facebook through
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> They typically try to bypass security/privacy teams to avoid the hassle of dealing with them. The PMs I worked with at FB definitely wouldn't do that. Having those teams find a problem after you've built a feature is muc
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Basically the same. My reasons for leaving were not related to company/product ethics.
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> What you see there is that everyone is trying to maximize their TC (Total Comp). For most people, that's the only goal. The whole "Let's make the world a better place" is something that was sold by PR people. Face
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I worked at FB for three years as a software engineer. The people I worked with basically believed: 1) The core product is good and useful to people/society 2) Most of the negative articles about Facebook are based on some piece of tru
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FWIW, I found very little overlap between the opinions that were popular on blind and the opinions of my colleagues who opened up to me. The people who become active Blind users are the ones who are already frustrated and want to complain l
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It's easy to object to something you can't do. I'm sure there's a decent amount of people who would maintain their objections, but many others would "evolve their values" when such behavior became possible and
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This just means that people who already know your phone number and are already your Facebook friend will see your profile if they search for your phone number. That seems pretty harmless to me.
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> Right across the Internet? Very few, I imagine! Mainly because they don't have the resources to do it.
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> But why the F... would my bank want to notify FB that I am using their app? It's not that they want to notify Facebook. It's that they get useful functionality from libraries that Facebook makes available. And they've ei
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What are the benefits of that?
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It's definitely a thing in the US. 64% of the population lived in urban areas in 1950 compared to 81% in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...
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That's it! I had forgotten the name.
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What's the distinction between addiction and just enjoying something? Is there evidence that Facebook use is the former?
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Do those blacklists break any functionality on these apps?
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Makes sense, thanks for answering!
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And because a much larger percentage of those people want to live in big cities compared to 50 years ago.
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I'm curious why you torrent music still when streaming is so widely available and free/cheap? I did a lot of torrenting back in the 2000s, but thinking back on it I spent a ton of time finding things, organizing my file system, tr

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