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by feelin_googley 8y ago
I dont have any issue with editing comments. I use the edit feature constantly myself. Im just making clear I am not trying to cause agitation. Thats not the intent. I try to be sparing with opinions. I dislike having to type prefix or
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Its not a duplicate. @mercer suggested the last paragraph should be removed, so thats what I did. Alas, the edit period had expired. Edit: Notice that youve toned down your original reply, which had statements like "No one cares abou
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Its encouraging to be reminded that still not everyone who uses Apple hardware runs MacOS exclusively. https://sivers.org/openbsd http://www.sacrideo.us/openbsd-on-macbook/ However I have not heard any
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-t... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Comments from me that are skeptical of Apple are always downvoted. Complaining is acceptable but doubting is not. I have tested this over the years and it is remarkably consistent. Its both amusing and sad. The clicks can sometime
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16770774 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/users-would-have-p...
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Facebook, facts, and the problem with `a marketplace of ideas'(cjr.org)
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Its encouraging to be reminded that still not everyone who uses Apple hardware runs MacOS exclusively. https://sivers.org/openbsd http://www.sacrideo.us/openbsd-on-macbook/ However I have not heard any
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"... both incidental and replaceable ." Sometimes it seems like there is an underlying, unspoken presumption that no progress, no innovation making use of the internet could occur unless funding comes from exploiting data gathere
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
This author located in the UK believes FB should be broken up: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/03/26/zuckerberg-m... He believes that Facebook's board is susceptible to Silicon Valley grou
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
He has also announced that he now supports the Honest Ads Act. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy/facebook... Perhaps he will announce next that he supports competition. Isnt it true that before b
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
There really is a feeling of "too little, too late". Not in the sense FB cannot make improvements. Of course they can. What is too little, too late is reversing the direction that the Zuckerberg story has taken. The media can bui
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
How about making ads go away ? FB appears locked in to a business model that relies on continually pushing the limits of invasiveness. Does that model have a breaking point? Does FB know where that point lies?
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Naive questions: What has been the US legal/regulatory framework governing "privacy" that telecomunications operators have had to work within for the past thirty years? Has Facebook had to operate within that same framework?
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
What permission does the user give FB in terms of how FB can use the messages? The message might "disappear" after a few seconds, but at that point FB may have already extracted the information they want from it, information they
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Heres an interesting "letter to Mark Zuckerberg" from a professor of health informatics who has worked with the NHS for the last 34 years.1 It discusses the issue of "the creepy line" and how to manage it in terms of get
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
I do not see the issue with this letter to Zuckerberg as suggested by some of the comments here. I see the issue as one of Zuckerbergs choice of words , how he is portraying the facts. It was his words in the interview that triggered the
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Building 8, who is responsible for this project, is under the direction of the same person who wrote the memo about "questionable practices", incidental deaths and "connecting people". The previous director quit after le
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Send your old comms with Zuckerberg to the FTC for safekeeping. The three sources asked to remain anonymous for fear of "angering Zuckerberg". But they still wanted to share their story with TC.
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Mike Myers (Dr Evil) thinks Zuckerberg is more hated than Donald Trump. https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/mike-myers...
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Apparently Sandberg went on a press tour giving five or so interviews, apologising according to script in each one. But apparently she veered a bit off script in one of them, on the Today show. She said "our service depends on your dat
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
The folks in Myanmar apparently have taken issue with how Zuckerberg referred to FB's "tools" and "systems" for detection of hate speech in his Vox interview. They sent him a letter: https://www.nytimes.
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Some analysts think this may actually be a "good thing" for FB long-term. They are "salivating" at the lower priced FB shares. Large cash reserves, no debt and superior competitive positioning. Are they missing anything?
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
The chief investment officer of the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) deleted his Facebook account yesterday because of FB's management re: privacy. CalSTRS owned $650.4 million in FB shares at end of year 201
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
And these two about Sandberg are the first ones that got downvoted. (But one of them just got upvoted, so... Touche Sandberg PR team. :) The bracketed comments (so-called "commentary") are what drew the demerits I suspect, not
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"I feel deeply personally responsible, because a lot of mistakes were made ," Sandberg said in an interview with Bloomberg. [ Dont feel bad. You are doing a fantastic job! ] "What we didn't do until recently and what
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Facebook has asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project . Facebook was intending to match it up with user data it had co
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"We've seen a few advertisers pause with us and they're asking the same questions that other people are asking ," Sandberg said Thursday in an interview at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California. "They wan
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"By 1982, Stallman's aversion to passwords and secrecy had become so well known that users outside the AI Laboratory were using his account as a stepping stone to the ARPAnet, the research-funded computer network that would serve
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"These days, you might get more applause for not being on social media than for reaching a follower milestone in Europe's liberal hubs such as Berlin or Paris. ... The mechanisms used by Cambridge Analytica and the "malicio

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