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by henryfjordan 2y ago
here's a Techcrunch article from the time: https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/09/facebook-to-acquire-instag... > Last year, documents for a standalone Facebook mobile photo sharing app were attained by Te
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
Facebook, wary of someone doing to them what they did to MySpace, was going around buying anyone who might be the next thing. It wasn't necessarily clear that Insta would blow up in the way it did but it was clear that was Facebook&#x2
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
A move being anti-competitive and it being against anti-trust law are not the same thing. You also need to establish that the defendant is improperly exercising their own size/market-power to force the deal through which is a much high
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
> "The FTC's lawsuit against Meta defies reality. The evidence at trial will show what every 17-year-old in the world knows: Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp compete with Chinese-owned TikTok, YouTube, X, iMessage and many othe
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
You should triple-check the configs for your Firebase instance, make sure you understand all the security implications. If you release the app as open-source make sure you remove references to your specific Firebase instance. I'll also
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
I met some engineers who worked for LDS at a conference, maybe they'll even have a job for you!
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
According to the Wikipedia there's even a weird subset who view Benedict's resignation as the point of separation (not Vatican 2). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism People get up to the wildest idea
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
We basically had a single table that we wanted to be able to nest on itself arbitrarily. Think categories and subcategories, maybe 100k nodes/rows Postgres worked fine but cypher is so much more expressive and handles stuff like loop d
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
I had almost exactly the opposite experience, although my dataset was pretty small. We wanted to store a graph in postgres and ended up writing some recursive queries to pull subgraphs then had NetworkX layered over it to do some more compl
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If these companies were just putting their models up as Open Source, then your "pencil manufacturer" argument might make sense. But in reality where AI operates the models as well, the analogy is more like "Give me a rough id
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
The evidence and reasoning by Congress was all "non-justiciable" by the courts. Congress looked at some evidence and made a decision. That is their purview and our checks-and-balances do not allow the courts to second-guess Congre
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
I can think that China is up to no good with my data and still be mad at my own Govt for doing the exact same thing. The outrage is not that TikTok is banned, it's that Zuckerburg is doing the exact same harms to America that China is
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
That's fair. I do think China would probably just omit viewpoints rather than outright lie and it'd be hard to detect. I guess I don't personally fear China as much as Congress does, I view them more as a rival than an enemy.
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
That's how women earned the right to vote in this country...
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
Wait, so your position is that the US is harmed by being the global master of the internet (through companies like Meta that are synonymous with the internet in some places in the world) and that we should build the great American firewall
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
If social media is so bad let's regulate ALL of it, US firms included. Personally I fear US-controlled social media more than Sino-controlled ones. It's not like the CCP can come and arrest me here in the US, or really use my data
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
From the ACLU amicus brief (linked in the article) > Although the D.C. Circuit ostensibly applied strict scrutiny in upholding the ban, it subjected the government’s assertions to little genuine scrutiny in the end Does the author unders
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
Tortious Interference might apply, but how much money was actually lost? 2 days of ad revenue on a video from 2017 is not much, certainly not enough to pay the lawyers for a lawsuit.
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
Actually probably not, you can't use your position in one market to benefit your position in another. But antitrust law is hardly enforced so yeah probably.
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
That sounds like a classic Anti-trust suit waiting to happen. CAD company and NVIDIA colluding to drive sales exclusively to each other. That's illegal and exploitative.
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
> In theory we could sue for our money, but the imbalance of power between an enormous multinational company and our small agency makes that utterly nonviable. Have you even talked to a lawyer? You had clear contract terms, you delivered
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
Work with your IT dept. A company I previously worked for had a policy that if you had any company data on your phone, they had the right to force you to unlock it and look through it (not sure if they ever actually did but it was in the em
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
At what point does "knows how to use a calculator" equate to knowing how to do math? Feels pretty close to me...
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
Most of the legacy chain restaurants do this. Outback Steakhouse has a chicken tender ghost kitchen, Denny's has a grilled cheese / melt brand, etc
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
It's a way of signaling how the product should be used. Plug it in, hit the power button, put it down, and never turn it off again. For many users that's probably the only time they will ever interact with that button (or want to)
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
Emergency situations where you are trying to coordinate is maybe the only time I would talk to a cop, and if you can talk to a fire fighter or EMT instead I would do that. In the case of the fire I wouldn't say anything except "Li
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
Never talk to the police. Do not "just give a statement" to get them to let you go. Identify yourself when asked, ask for a lawyer, then shut up. If communicating something to the police might be helpful for you, do that through y
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
You need to know the input space as well as the output space (hash size). If you have a 32bit hash but your input is only 16bit, you'll never have a collision (and you'll be wasting a ton of space on your hashes!). Image files can
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Google assigned the hashing algorithm (maybe, assuming it wasn't chosen in some law somewhere, I know this CSAM hashing is something the big tech work on together). Once the hashing algorithm was assigned, individual values are compute
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by henryfjordan 2y ago
The judge doesn't really understand a hash well. They say things like "Google assigned a hash" which is not true, Google calculated the hash. Also I'm surprised the 3rd-party doctrine doesn't apply. There's the

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