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by brisance 8y ago
Thanks for the effort in sharing this. Like most other "privacy" policies, this was written up by lawyers. Note that they make no clarifications as to what is defined as "customer's" data, only that "Clean Map
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by brisance 8y ago
Whatever happened to their plan of sharing home data with 3rd parties? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/roomba-irobot-...
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by brisance 8y ago
The VIX has been steady while CBOE SKEW is at all time high of 159.03. While this by itself means nothing since SKEW has been trending upwards, it is interesting that the yield curve is also flattening.
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Google tracks your movements, like it or not(cnbc.com)
3 points by brisance 8y ago|1 comments
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by brisance 8y ago
IMO it's just a PR ploy to prop up the price. 1. How is Tesla going to raise capital if not through the public markets? Would a PE firm lend them money at better rates (unlikely, with interest rates going up)? They could've gone t
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by brisance 8y ago
Depends on what you mean by "ads". I stopped using FB since April but still use WhatsApp because my contacts use it. In the last 2 weeks, I've been getting email spam notifications to check what these WhatsApp contacts are do
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by brisance 8y ago
In modern Chinese and Japanese, the first Chinese character for the word "bank"（银行）means "silver".
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by brisance 8y ago
She did not expect Vice to dishonor the agreement; she thought it would help her following in China despite it being illegal. Things should've ended by getting her YouTube video taken down but if the allegations of them getting Patreon
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by brisance 8y ago
iOS supports group chat. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202724
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by brisance 8y ago
> No need for annoying ads or invasive data collection. But they've already built infrastructure to do all this surveillance, the incremental cost is minimal. It's just too tempting to pass up on the low-hanging fruit.
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by brisance 8y ago
Your justifications strain credulity. Therefore, you possess the necessary psychopathological qualities to be a successful S&P500 CEO. Congratulations. ;)
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by brisance 8y ago
That's the crux of the argument. Most of WhatsApp users are outside of North America; many of them would balk at paying for a $100 phone, so their value is definitely not $100/user/year.
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by brisance 8y ago
The shareholders can't do anything because they don't have the voting power to effect any meaningful change. It's still Zuckerberg's company and will continue to be until they amends its articles/charter.
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by brisance 8y ago
You may wish to re-read the article, right from the beginning. Mobile phones are already faster and better than the author's computer attached to his 56K modem way back then.
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by brisance 8y ago
Please help me understand by substantiating the statement. Thanks.
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by brisance 8y ago
That didn't really answer my question. What is the benefit of owning FB shares, especially if someone is a retail trader? Quarterly revenue growth is underperforming Apple’s services and it does not have a balance sheet like Apple&#x
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by brisance 8y ago
How does the shareholder benefit from these metrics when no dividends are paid?
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by brisance 8y ago
There's a difference as I explained earlier. In a conventional company ownership structure, owning a share means you can vote on company matters, to elect directors to the board etc. However in the case of FB, the outsized voting power
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by brisance 8y ago
There's an elephant in the room that is hardly discussed, and that is Facebook's multi class share structure. It upends the basic tenet of stock ownership, which is to influence how a company functions. More shares = more equity =
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by brisance 8y ago
It's hard to prove a link that someone knows something about a competitor's company and thus counting on the stock to tank. However, depending on the prosecution they may charge the miscreant with other crimes e.g. possession of t
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MacBook Pro 2.9 ghz review: 2018(austinmann.com)
2 points by brisance 8y ago|0 comments
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by brisance 8y ago
That’s why in my post I qualified that with “depending on your jurisdiction”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue Read the last part about the elderly man who died in a bank and no one offered assistance.
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by brisance 8y ago
That’s the point I was making: it’s not so cut-and-dry as the parent assumed. Depending on the jurisdiction, some actions (or inaction, as the case may be) have consequences. And not all disclaimers are lawful, especially with regards to di
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U.S. Government to Appeal Judge's Approval of AT&T-Time Warner Deal(npr.org)
2 points by brisance 8y ago|0 comments
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by brisance 8y ago
Didn't you know about that time when Apple got screwed over by Nvidia when their chips failed? Had to provide out of warranty repairs for quite a few MBPs.
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by brisance 8y ago
Maybe because they have a dispute with Qualcomm…?
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by brisance 8y ago
You forgot the doozy… iPhone – a smartphone without a physical keyboard. The outrage back then was immeasurably worse. And here we are now in 2018 and where is Blackberry?
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by brisance 8y ago
Have you tried using Touch Bar Zoom? It won't solve tactile issues though. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207258
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by brisance 8y ago
IANAL but here are a few things to consider. Every person has a duty of care to minimize the possibility of harm to others. In some professions the standard is higher and may be codified into statute and/or bylaws of their professional
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by brisance 8y ago
BTW, here’s a bonus question. Explain how the “champion of privacy that doesn’t operate in China” collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled. The practice was stopped only when they got caught, and this only

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