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Hurricane Michael: One Mile of Devastation in Florida(nytimes.com)
1 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Sure, but when you're talking about a military house inside a military base owned and maintained by the military you have to assume that the military bears some responsibility for it. Just waving your hands and walking away because it&
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Trying to view every problem through the lens of a probability distribution seems to be Google's only way of looking at the world. Converging every answer to the same hivemind mean is not always the best solution, let's start thin
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I cannot track down any screenshots of how Path worked in the early days, only some media buzz around Path declining Google's buyout offer shortly before they launched + So many old apps and services are just forgotten now, it's h
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Facebook is the most consistent company I've ever encountered. They have never really changed and have always hit the same notes over and over. Remember the beacon fiasco? That was the start of the pattern, the fact that they were so b
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
You can't "dox" a company by calling them out for lying and incompetence. Rachel simply does not want to get sued. This isn't some virtuous moral high ground you're standing on, stop pretending otherwise.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
To be fair Google+ just straight up stole the circle idea from that Path social network after failing to buy them.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I think even Maroon 5 fans and band members would agree with you.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Yes I am scared of anonymous sources writing with an agenda that is bullshit as often as not. Not sure when this became the norm in journalism for people to just take everyone at their word just because they are senior and they have an axe
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Putting aside the specifics of this story for a moment: I really hope that we don't enter a new era of tech journalism where we get story after story written by anonymous government sources, because I am about to lose my mind over the
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
This may be the first time in the history of the internet a statement from Facebook has ever been held up as an example of honesty and transparency from a corporation in America. The GDPR has already called out Facebook for lack of info in
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
What percentage of stories like this do you think never come out publicly? 50%? 90%?
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I think the point is that actual honesty from these megacorps would be so surprising that even raising the possibility of it happening is so absurd it feels like parody writing.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
This is interesting in how vehemently all the companies are denying everything. I am pretty clueless about how the feds work so I'll ask: is it possible they would be violating secrecy laws or leaking classified info if they acknowledg
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
And the goal of just growing as quickly as possible to the exit event is questionable at best. It leads to many unfortunate side effects that create unsustainable businesses with illusory short term growth, and the overlooking of unethical
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Based on nothing but my own personal experience when I get tired I get cranky and more truthful, so the sole factor could be nothing but more people filling out the survey honestly. I'm only half joking.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
"Not a media company, just a technology platform"
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Porsche to Cull Diesels in Shift Toward Electric Vehicles(bloomberg.com)
68 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|34 comments
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You Gave Facebook Your Number for Security. They Used It for Ads(eff.org)
2 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Coal plants have killed. NOx emissions have killed. Lead has killed. Nuclear waste has killed. Gamma rays have killed. You're trying to complicate something that is very simple.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
As an American I find it endlessly amusing when Europeans poke fun at us, the history of the 21st century so far makes it almost too easy. The jokes write themselves. But yes, Europeans should be as mad as anyone, the con of clean diesel th
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Not really, Google has pushed the "relevancy customization" to it's extreme limit and the conclusion of this process is search results that are often just garbage. Not just in the filter bubble sense of keeping out any info t
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
It seems like a pretty safe assumption that google will just play along with the Chinese government and force spyware into phones via play or some update mechanism, if they aren't already working on this. Stopping people at random on t
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
In large companies like this you rarely get a choice for which email client you are allowed to use, or a say in which software you are allowed to install.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
The hypocrisy of Google embedding pixel trackers to monitor their own employees while forbidding external images in their gmail service to prevent companies trying to abuse users with pixel trackers is painfully blatant. Do as I say, but my
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Several Wells Fargo executives came right out and openly confessed to fraud and theft of consumers' money, and none of them are in jail and the company has not been adversely affected in the slightest. They paid some fines equivalent t
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I had a conversation two days ago with the CTO of a very large company you've definitely heard of who said "we don't need to worry about our website security, we have a firewall and SSL" I think these types of attacks ar
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Basically they pretended to go out of business and reorganized the company slightly to purge all equity holders they didn't actually want to have equity. I lawyered up but I can only afford a five figure lawyer, at that point they were
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I have had two startups promise me the moon and the stars only to fire me shortly after the product was developed and viable. One found a way to screw me out of all the equity as well, which would have made me a ten something millionaire. O
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
This seems like a great way to give a free pass to any corporate behavior, anywhere. Megacorp is harvesting organs and murdering people? Who cares just look at it statistically, it's only four people on the harvest team. Statistically

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