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by numair 5y ago
If you work at Facebook, you’re working on this. There is a team within your org that’s dedicated to these sorts of “operations.” Get them to leak.
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Facebook is promoting civil war in Myanmar(twitter.com)
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by numair 5y ago
I can guarantee you, from conversations I have had with senior executives at these companies, that they fully believe they’ve got the regulators in their back pockets. Until we throw people like Nick Clegg in prison for their revolving door
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by numair 5y ago
I appreciate the reply. I think you have good intentions. If you’re going to leave the Elixir world, it would be good to open source whatever you can on the way out.
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by numair 5y ago
Great quote. Particularly the end. Thanks for sharing this. The Silicon Valley people who are playing in the art world are perfectly described as “soft predators.” A lot of the men in the art world could be described that way... I like it.
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by numair 5y ago
Here, let me help you out with ways to find hard data that disprove these conjectures. > Android Take a look at recent court documents about the size of the Play Store revenues. It’s a multi-billion-dollar cash cow after paying off the
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by numair 5y ago
This is an excellent meta-link that demonstrates how the art world works: a bunch of rich people and their friends get together, they buy and sell between each other, a couple of the rich guys put the pieces in their “foundations,” “museums
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by numair 5y ago
I was wondering why Brex left Elixir, and what happened to all of the tooling they created to work in the language. From their blog[1]: > Building and maintaining internal libraries to support Elixir as our primary backend language becam
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by numair 5y ago
> Each customer is verified with a valid government-issued photo ID to help ensure everyone signing up for Novi is who they say they are. And from their privacy policy: > Novi will only share information with other Facebook Companies
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by numair 5y ago
If this is all illegal, the stories I was told by early Facebook employees about how Chamath made his money are more confusing than ever.
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by numair 5y ago
I can’t find the OpenDNS citation — could you post a link? I would be super disappointed to find out that the founder of OpenDNS was involved in this sort of behavior.
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by numair 5y ago
> As a financially-insecure immigrant, I knew this deal would change my life. What is it with this guy and his desire for a hero narrative? First he took credit for the Like button, now this... His cousin Dara is totally insufferable i
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by numair 5y ago
Everything about this app is about as dystopian and stupid as you’d expect. It’s run by a former Facebook exec who was part of the group that proudly got rich “gamifying” and ruining everyone’s lives with what late-2000s Facebook was obsess
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by numair 5y ago
> Maybe the answer is money that doesn't settle instantly.. Kind of like how your paypal payments are "on hold" whenever you get them to give the sender time to realise they've been scammed. Maybe all payments take 2
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by numair 5y ago
This is close. There was something that introduced Aqua to the world and played up the combo of PDF and OpenGL... Probably also explained in some WWDC 2001-ish video.
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by numair 5y ago
As I understand it, each iOS application is sort of like its own 3D plane within a larger environment, hence why the launcher shows up without any lag. I hope someone can do the work of pasting the original Aqua framework overview that’s pr
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by numair 5y ago
There is a principle I live by, that most people used to live by before we entered this strange neo-savage era: “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” I expect the same from the companies with which I do business.
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by numair 5y ago
This guy had an inside deal with Facebook for his platform app, yet he claims that Facebook somehow screwed him over and ... wait ... did he really state in writing that he thinks his company came up with the Like button? Oh my God, where
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by numair 5y ago
Buried in that article is this very fun and creepy link: https://genesis.malwarebytes.com/api/v1/wai.gif Not sure I would ever trust any privacy claims from a company that stores this type of made-for-fingerprinti
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by numair 5y ago
This is the second time these PayPal mafia-types have tried to make a California exodus happen. First time was right after their liquidity event, when they moved to all of the usual states where you go (Washington, Nevada, whatever). It did
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by numair 5y ago
The public can walk there from Paradise Cove, which you can access from PCH after Bob Morris lost his big lawsuit. The combination of over-tourism (accelerated by way too many Airbnbs), social media and rising sea levels means that this bea
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by numair 5y ago
I lived on Zumirez Drive when this happened (well, actually, on the corner of PCH and Zumirez). I was super-excited to show CaliforniaCoastline.org to all of the neighbors, telling them, “isn’t this cool? We can see our beach on here!” I gu
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by numair 5y ago
Your problem is not with “boomers.” It’s with a population pyramid that has actually just fallen apart — but those effects won’t show up for another 20+ years.
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by numair 5y ago
So you’ve never used anything connected to Facebook?
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by numair 5y ago
> Crypto is for the ultra banked. Sometimes the bottom of the comments stack on HN has the most profound comment in the entire conversation. I think this is a good example. By the way, congrats sub7, you invented the phrase “ultra banked
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by numair 5y ago
Remember, you can trade stocks without trading stocks. What do I mean? Mark Cuban sold a collar on his Yahoo stock through Goldman for $[I forget] billion dollars. That was an off-market trade in which someone bought his entire block off of
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by numair 5y ago
I thank myself every day that I was never an employee of Facebook. I remember being in boarding school and having kids point to others and say, “he thinks he’s so cool but we all know where his family made their money,” and I never wanted t
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by numair 5y ago
They’ve got both sides covered. The fact that you only know about one side should tell you that the other side, and where it places its money, might be worth looking into. You think Thiel and the Trump election was interesting? Go look at t
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by numair 5y ago
He controls them. He doesn’t own them. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS275871279920151202 > At Facebook, Zuckerberg’s stake, worth some $45 billion, comes with more than 53 percent of the votes in any shareholde
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by numair 5y ago
Pro tip: there’s people other than Mark Zuckerberg who own those super-voting shares in Facebook, who keep his power unchecked. One of them is considered a darling investor in Silicon Valley and pretends to be a voice of social justice (and

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