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by bertil 7y ago
I raised that point at Facebook when I joined (I had lived in Finland soon prior and didn’t speak a word of that terrifying language). My back-of-the-SQL estimate was several percentage points of ads were shown to someone who couldn‘t under
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by bertil 7y ago
> This was one of the biggest scams related to Facebook. It actually wasn’t but no one will listen to people familiar with what happened.
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by bertil 7y ago
There was a very inspiring response from the original founding Facebook team about Sorkin’s movie (right around the time they had the entire company go and see it): like most people here know, starting a company isn’t glamorous, at all, cer
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by bertil 7y ago
There’s no clear separation of “political ads”: - candidates can be serious or not so much, but it’s unclear where the line is between the GOP and Vermin Supreme. - PACs represent the bulk of “political” spending: it’s also unclear where yo
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by bertil 7y ago
The tweet appears hidden, replaced by a text explaining that it’s unacceptable and a link to reveal the original message. It seems little but it does send the message that the content is not welcome. I don’t know of any large scale attempt
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by bertil 7y ago
Yes: > let users quote-tweet to allow ordinary users to express their opinions.
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by bertil 7y ago
If you think someone else should, I’m sure that Twitter would be happy to delegate that role to anyone more legitimate… Anyone, really. They probably would also love to pay that person. Facebook is trying to set that up, for instance — with
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by bertil 7y ago
Thank you for the link. I understand the general rule against violence, but I feel like, when dealing with elected officials, you have to specify a difference between legitimate military action and calls to civilian violence. I don’t think
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by bertil 7y ago
Has there been anything unpalatable shared by or sent from @potus? (I could check, but I’ve blocked the other account for my sanity.) As I understand, most of the less palatable insults come through Trump’s personal account.
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by bertil 7y ago
Good question, but no more than a local newspaper owned by an Australian: the company has a local subsidiary which is legally responsible. There’s been instances where (Uber IIRC) country managers were jailed (for a day). In general, legisl
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by bertil 7y ago
In most cases, the subreddits openly advocated for crimes, often violent, which I understand is the type of speech that isn’t protected by even the most relaxed definition of free speech.
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by bertil 7y ago
It has happened multiple time before —almost often in Football Association— and the official reaction are generally to treat those with mild disapproval for “outbursts”. The message is clearer: athletes are welcome to advocate away from the
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by bertil 7y ago
Reddit has to make a lot of decisions, some were soon after she joined. Not sure CEOs of social media company get involved in making that decision personally, rather than name people who would -- Pao might be an exception, though. From all
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by bertil 7y ago
I’m surprised to quote FIFA as an example but on that point, they have had fairly exemplary approach [0]. Players occasionally try to make political statements, and Fifa has a progressive take on infractions. An unexpected outburst after a
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by bertil 7y ago
Not the OC, but I use uBlock, not pi-hole simply because: - hardware, and I’m lazy (admittedly, that doesn’t really qualify as a good reason); - I browse on mobile, at work, from cafés, etc. I like the idea of having a device that handles m
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by bertil 7y ago
What I’ve found work quite well is to remove the mid-point entirely, event graphically, represent the edges with more than three significant numbers (which I’d happily argue against, except): it makes the mental math to find the average har
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by bertil 7y ago
Don’t say “3 +/- 15”, say “between -12 and 18”. Avoid showing the number you don’t want them to see.
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by bertil 7y ago
Not the OC, but I’ve heard that comment line often: - what appears like sweatshops are actually significantly preferable working conditions for the local population; workshops are hot and crowded sure, but it’s sheltered and beats back-brea
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by bertil 7y ago
I use uBlock Origin aggressively and I see it as necessary for TechCrunch.
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by bertil 7y ago
> Ultimately, this thread does feel a lot like the author making a dreadful scandal about himself. This is what Hoffman is saying, and it would be very on-brand for Giriharadas to do so.
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by bertil 7y ago
In case of a default, what would happen to all the companies who could on WeWork operating for their office to remain functional?
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by bertil 7y ago
> Is it possible that Google does have "control" over the data after broadcast, albeit legal control via contracts with advertisers (as opposed to technical control)? That distinction is important. I’m happy that privacy advoca
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by bertil 7y ago
Thank you: that explanation is the first that makes sense to me. I get the impression that this structure would require an exchange: retailers would not trust each other otherwise. Wouldn’t commercial pamphlets, interviews with salespeopl
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by bertil 7y ago
OC is likely referring to Custom Audiences. Facebook let you hash a list of emails or phone number, share it with them, so they can compare with their own. It allows businesses to target their customers or prospects separately.
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by bertil 7y ago
There isn’t an economic balance for ransom: if a gang ransomed someone, know that the security issue won’t be fixed in the next month, they could sell the name to another gang. Even if it’s not in the long-term interest of the gang, members
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by bertil 7y ago
I think standard car manufacturers and insurances would be in awe if their car safety improved at that rate.
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by bertil 7y ago
It’s mainly a different lobbying tactic: - Uber and Lyft and more toe-stepping and will encourage their contractors to paint outside the line, deal with the consequence once the administration has caught up with them and is presented with t
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by bertil 7y ago
> How could it be good for a corporation to hire psychologists to manipulate customers into spending more time on their product? The effort was precisely to offer a different objective than time spent on the site, that is a reasonable fi
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by bertil 7y ago
That would be the worst if it happened. I don’t think that Cambridge Analytica had the ability to do that.
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by bertil 7y ago
There’s are companies trying to help you lose bad habits that let you program alerts, set budgets, etc. - Freedom, RescueTime do that for your web-use; - my bank (Monzo) and a stealth company by alumni thereof do it for your spending. There

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