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by sgregnt 5y ago
So the annotation of the slides indicates that the slides have misrepresented the study. For one thing, before pushing any agenda, it would be good to recognize this fact. (From my perspective, I'm a statistician by training, the misre
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by sgregnt 5y ago
Your language seems unpartial and very biased against facebook. For example, how does you reference [1] shows they lied to FTC? The document cited is the allegations against facebook, was this proven in the court? afaik the case was settled
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by sgregnt 5y ago
> But no one can see the forrest from the trees. Who are the people to be bold enough to speak for "everyone". You are definitely not speaking for me. I personally get a lot of value from facebook. I never had any problem wit
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by sgregnt 5y ago
I believe Zuck became billionaire for creating value for people. For creating something from nothing. So if he has 100 billion, it's just a tiny fraction of the value the society got from him in return. I wish there were more people li
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by sgregnt 5y ago
How this exageration contributes to a discussion here? It is very popular now to bash facebook. This kind of herd conformism and unsubstantiated claims are harming hacker news community in my humble opinion. If you do not bring new evidence
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by sgregnt 5y ago
Is facebook here different than other apps? If you publically post something on internet, good luck trying to delete it...
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by sgregnt 5y ago
> Where I live, Vancouver, we have plenty of new construction - and have been pretty developer friendly for decades now. Developer friendly maybe by comparisons to other place. But probably enormous by absolut value anyway. As an anecdot
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by sgregnt 5y ago
Has this worked anywhere in the world? As far as I know, it never works. The problem is not solved by restricting demand (there is always a way around restrictions), but it is solved by adding supply.
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by sgregnt 5y ago
Just wanted to share my opinion. I'm not sure if the number of existential threads for humanity is now larger than 200k years ago. My take would be it is probably much smallest than even 1k years ago. Nukes will not destroy civilizati
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by sgregnt 5y ago
IMO, that does not it really answer anything. It's just one date point. How many similar contractors are there, say what about India? Another thing, the moderation is a combination of ml technique and human, the next question is how mu
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by sgregnt 5y ago
My two cents: I don't think you can find ANY government (icluding Scandinavia countries, Switzerland and what not) that is NOT engaged in - "donating" money to a government regulator can induce the regulator to cover up and t
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by sgregnt 5y ago
"American Right" you mean anyone that is more conservative than a dem party? That's an interesting opinion to hold...
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by sgregnt 5y ago
That's weird. Here are few examples: There are a lot of useful groups: group for weight loss, for various interest. Facebook helps me stay in touch with my relatives all over the world. On facebook I can find high quality (not as high
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by sgregnt 5y ago
Perhaps if car accidents can't be stopped we should ban cars? It is my opinion that the up side contribution to society from facebook outweighs the inevitable downsides.
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by sgregnt 5y ago
Everything is about money. If you yourself is middle class in a western country. Than you can sell your house buy a smaller one and buy back a few women that are now sold to slavery, or donate money to orgs that fight this, give me good rea
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by sgregnt 5y ago
This is the question to people who accuse facebook of negligence. It's basically guilty unless proven innocent. But why not switch the roles? What is the number for integrity, that you think would solve the problem and why? how so this
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by sgregnt 5y ago
No it is not the same. But you're naive if you think telegram does not have 100x the number of whatever bad is on facebook including slavery, especially in third world countries. The examples, is just what you are *Bombarded* with on t
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by sgregnt 5y ago
My guess would be that this is not feasible. It's probably tens of thousands of ads changes every second. Googling it, there are 720,000 hours of video uploaded every day to YouTube.. this is youtube but my guess is that the scale is
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by sgregnt 5y ago
It is very well known within the industry that facebook employees have a lot of power to change things: "Move fast and break things", "be bold" etc.. It is very open and democratic company. I'd guess that employees
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by sgregnt 5y ago
It would be very convenient for facebook to immediatly censor ALL violating ads... but so far, it is unsolved engineering problem
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by sgregnt 5y ago
If more people would automatically solve the problem, it would already be solved. Facebook hires like crazy, and it's integrity org is massive...
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by sgregnt 5y ago
Sometimes, if in good faith, what aboutism makes people think. It can expose hypocrisy or show that one's thoughts are formed due to popular conformism, or due to hidden virtue signaling, rathar than a honest independent analysis.
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by sgregnt 5y ago
I'd be honored to work for facebook. Most of the facebook customers are small business, that benefit enormously from access to facebook, especially in the third world. They now have access to much larger pool of users. This drives eco
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by sgregnt 5y ago
You wrote: > we used to have inspectors to do such thing I understood it to mean that the inspectors would take care to prevent Iran nuclear weapons. Which I found to be a ridiculous claim but formally correct. The same way my claim that
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by sgregnt 5y ago
In many countries authoruzed military operation on foreign territory against what is perceived as existential thread to its existence is legal. So it is legal by Israeli law, isn't this enough?
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by sgregnt 5y ago
Two things ... First, we used not to blaim anyone without a due process....before you take a stand and blaime Israel, instead maybe you should argue to send inspectors to examine if the article is true, maybe it is not Israel or this never
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by sgregnt 5y ago
This is a leak like hundred of other leaks. But, it seems like you are trying to push a certain agenda and paint the info in a certain way. Here's another way to frame the same info: At least someone tries to prevent a war and prevent
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by sgregnt 5y ago
You mean the demand goes up and supply does not change? That is not really an increase in competition, more like less competition in the market...AFAIS
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by sgregnt 5y ago
AFAIS, defense of anything is often a coercion, yes. There are millions of subtle situations for court to decide who, on the one hand, exercised his freedom and who, on the other hand, initiated a coertion, who responded to a coercion, a
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by sgregnt 5y ago
I'm not sure why you think government is easier to oppose. Or what it has to do with the core principles of Libertarianism. In any case, of cause, the reality is much more complicated, if there is a dispute over property rights or a fo

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