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by muglug 9y ago
> Ad Measurement. An advertiser can choose to add the Facebook Pixel, some computer code, to their site. This allows us to give advertisers stats about how many people are responding to their ads — even if they saw the ad on a different
902.
by muglug 9y ago
(2013) should be removed - this page has been kept up-to-date, and includes mention of Cambridge Analytica.
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by muglug 9y ago
FB is worth $500B. $43M is a drop in the bucket.
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by muglug 9y ago
> I see a straight face with no evidence of joking and anyone can watch the video to make up their own mind, I don't expect to change opinions here. I haven't heard what you see on his face or in his voice that leads you to thi
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by muglug 9y ago
> I don't see anyone laughing or smiling in the clip around 1:25 in the video I linked and a court deposition is not a place one would normally tell jokes. I certainly never joked back when I gave a deposition. That's you. I&#x
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by muglug 9y ago
> It's not that simple. There's not much of a public interest angle in Hogan's sex life, so he still had a claim for invasion of privacy I agree it was sufficiently murky to warrant some sort of monetary award. But hundred
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by muglug 9y ago
> “The ability to speak and not have every word you say get distorted, to have wrong ideas and then be able to correct them — these notions were powerfully undercut by Gawker.” That's called reporting. The chief difference between G
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by muglug 9y ago
I was caught up in this, but luckily my hosting provider (MediaTemple) disabled my server due to the large bandwidth overruns. It was fun to spend Sunday night hurriedly reading up on iptables. Still getting a lot of inbound traffic (everyt
909.
by muglug 9y ago
Sorry, this was just a terrible boolean algebra joke that I was unable to delete in time.
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by muglug 9y ago
> His great-great-grandfather was George Boole Is that true?
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Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick a billionaire after $8bn investment deal(bbc.com)
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by muglug 9y ago
> I've spent way too many hours of my life learning quirks of the horrible piece of garbage that is IE8 Son, let me tell you about Netscape 4...
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by muglug 9y ago
> Pretty much any Democrat in the country could have won the election Trump didn't just beat Clinton – he beat a whole bunch of pretty decent Republican candidates. He beat them by saying and doing things that hadn't been done
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by muglug 9y ago
That is fascinating. I’m the author of a static analysis tool for PHP that can generate types, but clearly not at the same level as runtime analysis. I’ll use it on my company’s codebase and report back.
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by muglug 9y ago
Yeah, but that's still incredibly relative to the rest of the world (assuming you're talking about America). However liberal your locality, it's still hamstrung by a variety of state and federal laws that make building effe
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by muglug 9y ago
> There have also been a lot of cases where sex was consensual, but later on one of the parties had regrets, and now it was considered rape Sure, "a lot". But it is a very small percentage of all rape reports (obviously not cou
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by muglug 9y ago
> Unverified allegations are a terrible way to deal with any systematic problem In order to deal with any a systemic problem, you first need allegations to be made. Presumably Google's investigative team (which I've heard is ve
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by muglug 9y ago
> Agreed, but at the same time I think this matter shouldn't be broadcast publicly until the investigation finishes. As we've seen over and over, very often there's no investigation unless the matter is broadcast publicly.
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by muglug 9y ago
When powerful men stop abusing their power?
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by muglug 9y ago
Yes. HHVM has now explicitly diverged from PHP, so compatibility with PHP 7 code is not guaranteed, and so too any given PHP 7 library. If you work for Facebook (or Slack), this is not a problem. You still have talented engineers working to
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by muglug 9y ago
Last time I checked, Robert E. Lee was still in the history books.
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by muglug 9y ago
If Facebook fails, it doesn’t just affect Facebook’s users - it affects the whole world.
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by muglug 9y ago
If Capitalism is your sole guiding philosophy, Facebook is doing nothing wrong. But if you believe that companies (of any size) should seek to "do no harm" in the world, Facebook is coming up woefully short.
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by muglug 9y ago
Except that people don't rely on their gym for 90% of their media diet, and their gym's TV isn't controlled by a company thousands of miles away that can change all the screens in harmony.
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by muglug 9y ago
Facebook was bashed for not doing enough to counter efforts by individuals and foreign governments to spread false and misleading stories in the run up to recent elections. The solution is not to downplay articles from established news org
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by muglug 9y ago
> It is rare for any to publish corrections It happens all the goddamn time, but there are also reasonably stringent editorial controls that prevent blatant mistruths from getting through. RT never corrects the record after it has been s
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by muglug 9y ago
Russia has long played up domestic strife in the US to disprove the notion of American exceptionalism. Embarrassment over America's portrayal abroad was a key reason the Kennedy administration grudgingly supported aspects of the civil
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by muglug 9y ago
Where cost = financial cost to the end user, not the cost to society when private corporations suck revenue out of public transportation systems for short-term market gain.
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by muglug 9y ago
Tesla has been designing and producing road-worthy vehicles for 14 years. If they're in startup-hair-on-fire mode right now, something is very wrong.
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by muglug 9y ago
Yeah, having spent a bit of time in Photoshop, for that particular problem I think the solution is an average of shape centre-of-mass and bounding rectangle centre.

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