thotaway

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by thotaway 8y ago
Theory 1: It’s because Russia, a market with a very small iOS user base, can pressure Apple into doing what it wants. Theory 2: It’s because Telegram raised more than a billion dollars for a virtual currency that does an end-run around Appl
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Ask HN: Is Hacker News GDPR Compliant?
4 points by thotaway 8y ago|9 comments
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by thotaway 8y ago
It’s a company created by the Chinese government. They’ll just create another one to replace it.
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by thotaway 8y ago
How is this not an illegal state subsidy? The WTO is a joke.
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by thotaway 8y ago
Dissent is in. The old guard is being slowly boiled alive, but they’re blind to it. You’ll have lots of opportunities for jobs, because lots of employers will want to look morally self-righteous.
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by thotaway 8y ago
Yes, it does. And your client side “steps to reproduce” do not, in fact, reproduce server-side client fingerprinting to correlate between two disconnected browser identities.
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by thotaway 8y ago
Cultural rot, combined with an unrepentant leader, means the company can’t be saved.
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Ask HN: Facebook censorship?
1 points by thotaway 8y ago|0 comments
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by thotaway 8y ago
You would probably integrate this into a self contained application binary.
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by thotaway 8y ago
Facebook executives repeat this line that they don’t sell or share your data. Except, they share your data, because that’s what got them into this mess. Why don’t they ever explain what they actually DO do with the data?
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by thotaway 9y ago
You are mistaken. At Facebook, the devils advocate would argue in favor of government regulation.
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by thotaway 9y ago
You and all the other former Facebook employees sound like people who are working hard to defend the money you made there. Because the dirty looks members of the general public now give those who made their money from Facebook probably gets
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by thotaway 9y ago
Whenever anyone tells you that Facebook and Palantir have nothing to do with each other, remember that when Facebook vacated its original headquarters on University Ave, Palantir moved in. And Peter Thiel indirectly funded Cambridge Analyti
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by thotaway 9y ago
This is cute, but does little to address tracking via IP and basic behavioral sniffing. Facebook buys lots of third party datasets, including data from ISPs (actually, it is given to them).
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by thotaway 9y ago
Are we going to talk about the fact that a whole bunch of these employees are former elected officials, or related to one? Which is part of why Zuckerberg isn’t actually concerned about the political fallout?
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by thotaway 9y ago
FarmVille had the benefit of being owned by an early Facebook investor, Mark Pincus. It was favoritism all around.