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ike77
6y ago
It's 1/10000th of their global revenues. And 1/3000th of their US revenues. Assuming a Zipf distribution for their clients spending, it easily place them in the top 1000 biggest spenders. I wouldn't call it small.
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Well yes and no. FB revenue in 2019 was 70e9$. I also assume that Freebies spending was not constant over the 16 years. So their spending represented almost 1/10000 of FB revenue. I agree you can probably afford to lose that as a busin
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I cannot wrap my head around how that could even be possible? They mention they had FB representatives physically received at their offices. Couldn't they join those directly? I expect that if you spent 57 mio $ in any business, the mi
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6y ago
Maybe it's not for the worst, as otherwise there might have been less push for exFAT and this inefficiency would have persisted much later..?
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6y ago
> your lawyers can compel $ORG to produce the original voice recording Isn't it why they claim that the calls are "randomly" recorded, so that their lawyers would review the call and claim that the specific call you reques
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ike77
6y ago
Yes I think it makes sense to consider the caller query to record the call as a tacit authorization for you to record it as well. (At least in my country it's interpreted that way)
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6y ago
Your second paragraph is really insightful. It's very simple, perfectly describe the behavior of countless people in various situations, and is not a mere criticism of people in general as this kind of behavior is perfectly rational fr
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It's true that I might not fully grasp what happens if I root my phone and it's part of the problem. It seems that the process of rooting my phone already requires me to download an APK's (KingoRoot?) from sketchy websites. A
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I want to add a personal anecdote to this very interesting article. Basically as soon as I fully understood that all my voice communications were stored by the NSA, by my ISP (and can be accessed by my countries government without me knowin