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by ionised 7y ago
But he didn't make a statement, he asked a question about why the previous poster mentioned Japan with regards to extraversion when they have such a thing as hikikimori. By comparing the two he appears to be suggesting that hikikimori
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by ionised 7y ago
Hikikimori is not synonymous with introversion.
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by ionised 7y ago
That's not how I interpreted his post. Not sure why you did.
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by ionised 7y ago
Absolutely. There are many aspects of our primitive selves we suppress or condition and educate against in order to have a better functioning society. Tribalism should be next on the list.
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by ionised 7y ago
I don't think anyone alive today was at that meeting.
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by ionised 7y ago
I use ads to tell me which companies I should avoid. Oh what's this now, an advert for Coca Cola? How obnoxious. Guess what I will never ever be buying.
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by ionised 7y ago
Ah yes, the 'invisible hand'.
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by ionised 7y ago
He means no telemetry. None whatsoever. At the very least a default opt-out.
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by ionised 7y ago
You say the issue is not insincerity but I beg to differ. Microsoft has never been particularly sincere about the reasons it does the things it does. It has been a deceitful bully of a company for a long time. Indeed, one of the main reason
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by ionised 7y ago
> I totally understand, though about trust. We've been asking users for feedback for 20+ years, I hope we've shown ourselves to be good actors! I don't believe you have, sorry (Microsoft I mean, not you specifically). I ge
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by ionised 7y ago
I'm trying to interpret your post in the most charitable way possible but the common theme I'm seeing (and I apologise if I'm wrong) in all those paragraphs is "You are not fit to make decisions regarding your own life
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by ionised 7y ago
People really need to stop listening to what Zuckerberg says and judge him on his actions. That way, you'll see that the 'dumb fucks' comment his made in his youth was not merely an example of immature cockiness tempered over
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by ionised 7y ago
I was simply making an observation of Facebook's business model. It employs staff whose entire job consists of making Facebook's product more addictive; to keep people clicking, liking, viewing and handing over data to facilitate
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by ionised 7y ago
> Because you have value. Unless you're literally hitler, you have value, and probably a lot of it actually. This is such an economists view on humanity and I can't help but wonder that assigning 'value' to people is
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by ionised 7y ago
The problem is that for some people, that 'drunk' state is chronic, never-ending and for all intents and purposes, permanent. Depression isn't just the low feeling after a bad breakup, or a job loss or some other life hurdle.
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by ionised 7y ago
I think its selfish and unfair to judge other people selfish and unfair just because you want to save yourself the pain of loss. That said, I do think people have the right to voluntarily end their own existence, but clearly many suicides a
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by ionised 7y ago
US forces are also a major contributor to instability in the middle-east (and the world) that have had negative consequences for much of Europe, Africa and South America. The US os a rogue state by its own definition of the word.
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by ionised 7y ago
The high from cigarettes comes from satisfying an addiction. The actual high from nicotine in cigarettes is very slight. Satisfying an addiction is not the same thing as providing value.
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by ionised 7y ago
> The world wants Facebook. I haven't seen anything that has convinced me this is true. I don't consider the dopamine-driven compulsions of its users to be evidence of 'want'.
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by ionised 7y ago
It's engineered to be addictive in order to keep people on the platform handing over data. Facebook has employees whose entire job is to make this service addictive and to keep people posting. In that sense, the 'value' is ha
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by ionised 7y ago
> 1) billions of users' behavior disagree Facebook is engineered to be addictive and to keep people engaged and present on the platform so they can be exploited for data. If you are going to say Facebook provides these people value
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by ionised 7y ago
Most slang does until you hear it enough.
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by ionised 7y ago
That's why you add new laws to prohibit things you find damaging to society.
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by ionised 7y ago
> Well, he did understand how to turn the customers data into a product. He is one of the key persons who formed the whole data economy thing; that's quite a big deal - he formulated the way of making money for the 21st century. You
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by ionised 7y ago
Those CCTV cameras are owned and operated by a variety of different individuals, organisations and private companies though. It's not like its all state surveillance.
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by ionised 7y ago
Perhaps this isn't the community for you, if it is failing to meet your standards.
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by ionised 7y ago
I think it's pretty clear that his views haven't changed. Judge him by his actions, not his PR.
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by ionised 7y ago
Well it's a nice way of not having your wealth taxed isn't it? Then, when your children are all grown up you can get around those promises you made to the pesky public about not giving your privileged children billions of dollars
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by ionised 7y ago
1% of anything's value is pocket change. It's not about how much money it is to you or me, but how much money it is to Facebook. And it's not a lot.
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by ionised 7y ago
The only people who find this annoying seem to be Facebook employees, shareholders or people with vested interests in being allowed to go about the kind of cavalier data collection that Facebook does. On the contrary, I think we need to kee

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