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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Paying off your mortgage is one of the absolute worst investments you can possibly make in an environment where house prices are rising. If they stay still or decline by all means, pay it down faster, but otherwise DO NOT pay off your mortg
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
In 20 years we're all going to be laughing at how barbaric and abusive all these forced arbitration clauses were.
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Yeah one anecdote, ageism must be solved! Good job Google, we did it! You see why people criticize the orange site for worshiping corporate a bit too much?
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Yep. What was even more bizarre is how they never really acknowledged it might be a problem, they just keep taking this arrogant attitude that the plebe users are wrong and just don't understand this amazing new data feature. It was th
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
No I have nothing to do with facebook despite this randomly generated username
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Gypsy is considered a slur by some nowadays, probably shouldn't drop that casually anymore. Sorry, I hate language police too, I'm not actually offended just letting you know in case you drop it in a meeting someday. I'd argu
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
I don't think anyone at Facebook has the bandwidth to deal with a mean tweet from an old employee right now. If rumors are to be believed mass resignations are coming.
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Reminds me when a youtube founder raged against the mandatory google plus login they added on for no reason. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/youtube-founder-go...
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Steve Bannon Oversaw Cambridge Analytica's Facebook Data Program(rawstory.com)
4 points by fancyfacebook 9y ago|0 comments
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Nobody at Facebook pushed a button, but the article was edited to remove an unflattering reference to Sheryl Sandberg after a phone call from Facebook PR. Also, just because you work(ed) at a company it does not mean you are fully aware of
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
I think all of google search results are increasingly becoming more and more "filter bubbly" too, I have to anonymize completely or I know I'm just going to get bullshit results. This announcement is hilarious, their products
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Works out to $2 trillion in liability according to one (highly speculative) article I saw.
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Yes, I think we are ready to grow out of the "arrogant jerk" phase of tech. The tech wizards who build things and run these companies: 1. Are not smarter than you 2. Do not have your best interests in mind 3. Will lie to you repea
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
I'm pretty sure google (and some of the more obnoxious CDNs) just give more rounds of the captchas to networks they despise (including tor and vpn users), if you try to be anonymous at all they want to punish you for it. Understandable
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
This seems like a dream paper if you work in the cattle industry.
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
I think it's more of the long term pattern of the leadership of facebook: anytime things get difficult they just sort of teflon their way through it and ignore everyone. Remember the Facebook Beacon fiasco? That was the first scandal i
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Maybe it's time to move beyond the "optimize for stat X" phase of business and society and start thinking about bigger problems. I mean I get that the MBA programs and stats professors will be upset, but I think we're du
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Yeah today in "not actually a real problem in the physical world" we deal with the plague of really left wing people and their anti-nuclear rhetoric that is plaguing hackerspaces across the globe. Can't we just fission in pea
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Yeah I've been around enough self driving cars to know that they behave a little weirdly sometimes, in a way you'd never expect a human to. We can keep throwing humans under the bus on some technicality every time this happens bec
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Yes the corporations must have high quality records. There is no reason to doubt or question that. Really ever. All hail the CEO, our lord and savior!
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
I'm still baffled by SO, I've been on there for like 10 years now and still can't seem to upvote anything and have no clue why. It's also remarkable how often you'll find "answers" on there that are flat o
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
This fallacy of pre-defending a corporation from ever doing anything wrong or acting against their own (short term) self interests because "their business depends on it" needs to stop immediately.
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Come to Colorado, I've been run over by deranged cyclists four times, twice resulting in hospitalization and once I was able to sue the guy into bankruptcy. They seem to think sidewalks are for them, it's bizarre.
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Is this the end game of consolidation of an industry? Where are the supposed advantages and efficiencies of all that merging and streamlining?
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Everyone I know who got into crypto has the same story: for some silly reason they all bought like 5-10 different coins and it would be inordinately complicated and expensive to sell them all. I'm pretty sure whatever "newbie guid
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Multiple "core" developers left Uber in waves in the past few years, I wouldn't say that means there is "some evidence" they were treated unethically. In fact it's evidence of the exact opposite.
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
The W3C doesn't "have to accept" anything, and the fact that they turned their backs on the web is truly disappointing. There is no standards board for the web, which may actually be a better state than having a corrupt, corp
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
I live right next to a major google office and meet lots of web developers that are supposedly top tier who work there. Every single of them uses ublock origin and specifically makes sure they are blocking google analytics and other tracker
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
Is it even ethical to be or remain an American anymore? We can't claim we don't know better anymore.
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by fancyfacebook 9y ago
About two years ago I opened up a smallish JS file (~100 lines ) and it contained 47 promises, some on the same line. That was the day I decided JS had gotten way too far up it's own ass and abandoned my career in web development. Ever

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