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by bryan_w 6y ago
> Facebook was named as one of the "determining" factors in the Rohingya Not to make @noooooo point for him, but you're forgetting about the most determining factor in that, the actual government that was doing the genocid
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by bryan_w 6y ago
But if Google leaves, Microsoft steps into place. How is anyone better off? All Australia gets is one less competitor in the market
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> (Is Hacker News social media ?) It's media that enables you to be social, so I would think so. This is in comparison to TV, Radio, and Newspapers which are for passive consumption.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Also note that the CA events happened in 2014 and all the APIs have been fixed since 2015 (before the "scandal" came to light.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> If two kids, one riding on the other’s shoulders inside of a trench coat walked into a bank and claimed to be an adult, you’d put at least some blame on the bank if those kids walked out with a loan. A kid lying to an adult is differen
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by bryan_w 6y ago
I think it's Google's position that the vast majority of people who go to Google's website don't actually go there to see the news. Hence why they're willing to remove news from search results all together. The regu
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by bryan_w 6y ago
The problem you run into is that while you can load test your website with no problems, when running on shared infrastructure (AWS), you have to account for everyone's website being under load at the same time. That isn't as easy
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Here, on this venture capital forum, the idea of starting your own company is absurd.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Exactly! Today I saw a clip at the top of Reddit of a CNBC clip that was clearly manipulated to generate outrage, but only one person out of thousands even mentioned it in the comments
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Not owe the FTC $5 billion probably
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Shame on Apple for giving such an reprehensible man a megaphone. They should be sued like any other publisher would be.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
It's like a template for getting clicks to their site
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by bryan_w 6y ago
I'm going to just take a guess that the hundreds of replys basically regurgitating talking points have not helped your thoughts. I dunno what the answer is, but good luck man, it's a scary world we live in right now.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Most people who get wet shoes just accept it as part of life. They don't get on Google and ask how to prevent wet shoes because they don't want to go around wearing kayaking shoes all the time. The fact that there exists normal-lo
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Facebook wants to get businesses to use whatsapp and that's where they will get value. Payments + services for businesses will subsidize the E2EE personal chat.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> it's safe to ignore them. Don't engage because they have tacitly admitted to being an unreasonable, delusional individual. We saw last Wednesday that it's no longer safe to ignore them.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> only after it's too late to make a difference. I think you underestimate how much damage he can still do
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Seems like @d2v has fallen for some misinformation. They think this law is "unrepealable" which doesn't even make sense if you take half a second to think about it. Kinda says more about them than anything else I guess.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Nobody wants the punch the monkey ads to come back.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
It's not about getting profile information from users but rather getting attribution for things like tracking ad clicks to product buys.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
It's naive to think that local newspapers would just spring back to life if Facebook disappeared. The internet has changed how people consume and get new information forever and that won't change anytime soon.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
But then who would do the work?
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by bryan_w 6y ago
The comments here are weird right now. They seem overly focused on the spat she and Yann LeCun had a while back when it doesn't seem like this incident is about that? Hopefully some clarification comes out about what her demands were a
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Give whatsapp a try. Doesn't seem to be under the block, lightweight client, made for poor network areas, shares FB infra (as it's owned by FB)
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by bryan_w 6y ago
They have enterprise oculus accounts that you should look into
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> Slavery was very satisfying to users and slaves Where did this site go so wrong? I thought this was a place for intelligent discussion.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
This makes the case for USPS to provide email services.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Twitch are going to drive away their audience by getting too aggressive with ads
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by bryan_w 6y ago
1. Buy a oculus or portal product 2. Use the online help to unlock the account Sad to say, that's the only way other than knowing someone who works for these companies :(
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> And why is anyone driving through a freaking city in the first place? Because I can, and there is literally nothing you can do about it. Heck, sometimes I just get in my car and drive for no reason at all, just because I have the freed

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