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by polyomino 5y ago
I'm not denying that they claim to be republican, but their actions do serve both parties. As such, I don't think their claim to be republican is particularly meaningful.
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by polyomino 5y ago
>Stagwell, formerly The Stagwell Group, is a global marketing and communications group. Founded in 2015 by Mark Penn. >Penn was a chief strategist and pollster in the Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign
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by polyomino 5y ago
Yeah, and Apple sold people on "privacy" and now operate a surveillance network against Chinese citizens. They are the archetypical example of this playing out. Promising decentralization and instead you get metamask overriding th
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by polyomino 5y ago
Facebook follows the rules because they are a big target, others not so much...
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by polyomino 5y ago
>if we assume that the market would have converged on the correct price in the absence of advertising >the value of money is well known and non-negotiable I wouldn't start with these assumptions since prices fluctuate on their ow
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by polyomino 5y ago
no
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by polyomino 5y ago
How long until they sell phones at a loss?
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by polyomino 5y ago
The problem that comes to mind is that the site is required to grow in accounts in order to continue functioning. In the long term, you'd need to add additional sources of revenue.
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by polyomino 5y ago
That's not a gray area. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.
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by polyomino 5y ago
bitcoin can run on a raspberry pi, so probably. It'll probably take a few days to sync though.
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by polyomino 5y ago
You should switch managers. In this job market, no reason to keep working with them if they aren't working for you.
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by polyomino 5y ago
I think they would have legal write those terms not engineers. Or perhaps some copywriter and then reviewed by legal.
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by polyomino 5y ago
NSO group actually produced something that seems to work. In retrospect, Cambridge Analytica was overhyped and largely ineffective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#Assessment...
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by polyomino 5y ago
This is a new fundamental building block that would help make these types of scenarios possible. However, by the time end users get an implementation, it will likely be more complicated than a single transaction for the reasons you mention
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by polyomino 5y ago
Facebook is in china? News to me.
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by polyomino 5y ago
Technically it doesn't stop, but they are optimizing a complex system, and want to mitigate negative effects on their measures.
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by polyomino 5y ago
perhaps you should do the math, 5 cents per user would be 2.81 billion * 0.05 = ~$7 million. They said in the earnings report they will spend $5 Billion this year on moderation. Feel free to file a complaint with the SEC.
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by polyomino 5y ago
What other candidates are there?
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by polyomino 5y ago
This reminds me of the time that Steve Ballmer did an Q&A with Microsoft interns saying basically that he's happy everyone in China pirates Windows because then Microsoft sets the standard.
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by polyomino 5y ago
No choice but to create content for hacker news
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by polyomino 5y ago
Coinbase has been the slowest to adopt new bitcoin features since they realized their business model is actually an altcoin casino.
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by polyomino 5y ago
The rich do most of the polluting? How can that possibly be true given the rich are a tiny minority of the population.
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by polyomino 5y ago
lets be real, recruiters will take notice no matter what
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by polyomino 5y ago
We don't have enough information to root cause the problem
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Apple Reversal Shows it's now Listening to Users (and still scanning iPhones)(bloomberg.com)
2 points by polyomino 5y ago|0 comments
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by polyomino 5y ago
Same day as onlyfans fold. Coincidence?
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by polyomino 5y ago
I guess they have to call them "employees" in California now. Do they do this before or after becoming Facebook moderators?
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by polyomino 5y ago
Stop defending Apple! They have always handed over their Chinese users' data to the authorities. They were always willing to compromise user privacy to the state. They once had a marketing stunt where they wouldn't unlock an iPhon
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by polyomino 5y ago
I don't see why this is surprising at all. Apple has never cared about the privacy of their Chinese users. Privacy was never a principle for them, merely a marketing feature for technically illiterate westerners.
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by polyomino 5y ago
The whole network is a political facade, EEA controls the morals of the system so they can and will do whatever they want.

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