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by cbtacy 5y ago
micdrop
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Exactly. You could assume that it's likely that something like 2.75B (out of the est 2.89B) FB users would happily wear (free) physical spyware in this scenario.
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by cbtacy 5y ago
> How much would it cost to just send every one of them an Oculus headset for free? That's the wrong question. The right question is "how many FB users would accept a free headset that advertisers paid for in exchange for acces
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No Amount of Whistleblowing Can Fix Facebook(nymag.com)
31 points by cbtacy 5y ago|2 comments
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Facebook has known it has a human trafficking problem for years(cnn.com)
14 points by cbtacy 5y ago|2 comments
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"Within one week, Smith’s feed was full of groups and pages that had violated Facebook’s own rules, including those against hate speech and disinformation."
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“we are printing money in the basement, and we are fine.”
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The fear of looking stupid is a profound motivator in many professions. If you want to understand why so many of the stories posted about people using this technique are of more senior folks or people with more authority (bosses, mentors, p
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by cbtacy 5y ago
I know that Twitter would prefer us to ignore the bots and sock puppets as if they were to clamp down their AUMs would plummet but....
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Yup. It's important to understand how the Power Law Curve applies to early stage investing.
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Former Mozilla employee here... I'm not sure you're correct unless you are talking about turning Firefox into a non-commercial open source project supported by volunteers.
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by cbtacy 5y ago
In reality, there are proven issues with heavy use of smartphones. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/691462
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by cbtacy 5y ago
I've been saying for the past 5 years that Amazon (and Facebook) should be RICO targets.
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https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/compact-fusion... "A reactor small enough to fit on a truck could provide enough power for a small city of up to 100,000 people."
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by cbtacy 5y ago
Well said and thank you (speaking as one who also has worked in this area).
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"But while labels like “terrorist” and “criminal” are conceptually broad, they look more like narrow racial and religious proxies once you see how they are applied to people and groups in the list, experts said, raising the likelihood
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by cbtacy 5y ago
mic drop
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by cbtacy 5y ago
It's clearly very hard for folks who have come to rely upon their workplace as their venue for social interaction, and their co-worker pool as their source for social relationships. But to be clear, once upon a time (back in the long l
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by cbtacy 5y ago
> And it's not like they need to sell ads to make money. Actually, they likely do need to sell ads if they want to keep Firefox alive.
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by cbtacy 5y ago
This may be true for entry level jobs, but for senior level jobs the "stain on the resume" issue is very real. A friend was a recruiter for FB until a few months back and has repeatedly stated that over the last 18 months she had
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by cbtacy 5y ago
"And sometimes the universe says, 'go get a different job already.'"
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by cbtacy 5y ago
Reading the comments here is freaking terrifying to me. This is supposedly an educated and scientifically oriented subset of the human race and the levels of ignorance, dishonesty, and flat out lying going on here make me very, very sad. SM
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Peter Thiel claims Zuck agreed to support State-sanctioned Conservatism(thedailybeast.com)
17 points by cbtacy 5y ago|8 comments
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Anonymous Hacks Epik(4chan.partyvan.epikfail.win)
413 points by cbtacy 5y ago|249 comments
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by cbtacy 5y ago
Yup.
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Scoble Discovers the Future of Spatial Computing(scobleizer.blog)
1 points by cbtacy 7y ago|0 comments
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Project Hailstorm is looking to interview startup financial leaders(mach49.com)
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by cbtacy 9y ago
Thank you for understanding this is complicated, it's a relief on this site.
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Human expertise, in this context often called "subject matter experts"
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by cbtacy 9y ago
Wow. "I googled a little and having now knowledge I've decided this is all BS because I'm so damn smart."

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