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by bryan_w 7y ago
Have you tried FB ads?
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by bryan_w 7y ago
What about their current privacy policy do you find hard to understand?
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by bryan_w 7y ago
If nothing else, Libra should help get people accustomed to the crypto payment flow (push vs pull)
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by bryan_w 7y ago
It is literally the cash sitting in your account uninvested
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Someone made the believe that big tech was responsible for getting trump elected
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Exactly! People get down right indignant if you suggest that the negative reporting on tech is a conflict of interest for old media institutions like the NYT, but turns out these institutions are just as corrupt as you would expect
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by bryan_w 7y ago
I'm not sure I agree with everything you said, but I thank you for making a well thought out post that isn't yet another overly cynical "delete FB" post.
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by bryan_w 7y ago
This is only for the last six months. They aren't letting the issue fester, but rather there are enough bad actors out there to try 3 billion times to create fake accounts. They are probably deleting 1000s of accounts per day that they
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Yeah but they still sell you out to Google as soon as you open safari. Apple cares more about $ than privacy
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Also we've seen time and again big players being dominated by newcomers in the online communication space. There's no Myspace, or AOL, or Yahoo anymore and those companies would have be thought of as monopolies in their day.
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by bryan_w 7y ago
You may have forgotten that Facebook owns oculus and is doing some pretty cool things in the AR/VR space
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by bryan_w 7y ago
If it's so easy, why aren't you one?
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by bryan_w 7y ago
I'd add: 5) move the people to less expensive cities. The discussion largely driven by a very small area in a few cities that have been extremely successful at job growth in tech, finance, and lobbying. There isn't a housing affor
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by bryan_w 7y ago
> I don't want the WeChat model, or the current Facebook model, or the new Facebook where their toxic waste is externalized to governments and the public to clean up. Well, what do you want? For people to not communicate?
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Why wouldn't they just go to that users isp and get that info?
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by bryan_w 7y ago
> Imagine if the government would try to nudge people in the way these companies do You've never seen a Got Milk ad, have you?
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by bryan_w 7y ago
> I'm not a tax policy wonk, nor am I qualified to opine Which makes it so easy for the NYT to manipulate you into jealous frenzy. A lot of people see an outrageous headline and too few ask "what's the other side of the st
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Thats not even a little bit true. You've always been able to create a completely independent oculus account
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by bryan_w 8y ago
Yeah, this seems like punishing FB for being too honest. There was no technical reason to disclose the bug. I mean if they just quietly deleted the data that they didn't mean to collect, it doesn't seem likely that anyone would e
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by bryan_w 8y ago
Let's just say someone is building a wall
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by bryan_w 8y ago
Maybe in their privacy policy
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by bryan_w 8y ago
>The newsroom doesn't really have that authority. They could refuse to publish their articles for a corporation with such an "immoral" advertising department, but they don't, because they aren't genuine in their
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by bryan_w 8y ago
This reply doesn't persuade me to belive that persuasion works, thus proving that people can't be arbitrary persuaded into ideas that they don't agree with.
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by bryan_w 8y ago
I'm not sure why you think this point is deceptive. In the 24 hr period, 1.2 mil videos were blocked at upload 300k videos were uploaded, reported and blocked. That's pretty clear from the statement. Am I missing something?
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by bryan_w 8y ago
You don't even have to go that far back. Just 20 years ago the idea that being gay was ok would get you treated like an anti-vaxer today. Go back 50 years and "race mixing" was taboo.
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by bryan_w 8y ago
Funny you should have this reply. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19435955 where someone makes the case that it _isn't_ the police job to notify Facebook. Facebook doesn't seem to be able to win here
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by bryan_w 8y ago
If you read up on FBs response, it's clear that only people who signed into those sites with Facebook would have given Netflix and spotify access to PMs. The user would have to agree to a permission dialog at least before the companies
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by bryan_w 8y ago
Facebook doesn't sell data either. They monetize it just the same as google
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by bryan_w 8y ago
The same could be said for mail.app sending your Gmail password to Apple, but it would be rather unlikely.
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by bryan_w 8y ago
People said the same thing about AOL, Yahoo, and Myspace

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