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by traek 7y ago
Facebook announced earnings today; other new information besides the fine contributed to the after-hours jump.
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by traek 7y ago
I’d say it’s the media and general public that want Facebook to curb “fake news”, more so than Washington.
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by traek 7y ago
I thought so too, but I’ve had (non-tech, non-Bay Area) friends start ordering household items from Target instead of Amazon because of experiences like knockoff nail clippers and purple shampoo. It could just be my circle of friends, but f
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by traek 8y ago
Affordable air travel is in most people's interests.
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by traek 8y ago
They have updated the article to say > it contains plaintext (i.e. unprotected) passwords for 22,000 users and > The passwords are presumably for the “At the Pool” app rather than for the user’s Facebook account, but would put users a
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by traek 8y ago
Nothing here indicates a prank to me. The Instagram post was from half a year ago and is from an account that semi-famous in NY for making fun of finance bros. The author just included it as an example of how the vest is associated with fin
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by traek 8y ago
Given that Workplace (the enterprise version of Facebook) has supported Markdown for a while now, I think it’s a safe assumption that they’ve built the UI to handle it.
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by traek 8y ago
Really? You can’t think of any reasons why he wouldn’t say that? How about: because he was hired to take the company to an IPO, and they’re selling a growth story in that IPO.
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by traek 8y ago
In what way is that gaslighting?
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by traek 8y ago
> B. is the 7th largest internet company in the world By what measure? Just checked and it's not market cap, not revenue, not number of employees, and not earnings.
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by traek 8y ago
> Also, this article seems like an advertisement/blogspam It's written by Bolt, a hardware-focused VC which was founded by some pretty technical people and has a history of publishing teardowns (e.g. the Juicero one[0] which wa
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by traek 8y ago
Universities in the UC system are definitely not getting $150k from each student. Tuition doesn't even cover the cost of educating each student. You can see UCLA's financials here: https://ucla.app.box.com/v/a
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by traek 8y ago
> The plant milk phenomenon is all about allowing massive agribusiness to take over a big product category that has remained regional. You don't need plant milk for that. For proof just see Fairlife, the Coca-Cola Company's att
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by traek 8y ago
> Oat milk is really yet another industrial corn product. The caloric content isn't cloudy stuff squeezed into water, it's fructose from corn. This is just factually untrue. Here's the ingredients for the most popular oat
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by traek 8y ago
Circular logic is "No person would be on BOLO without credible cause, and the credible cause is that they're on BOLO". What they're saying is that there is a valid reason for each person on the list to be on it. You can
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by traek 8y ago
> Currently, a person living in Nagoya, Japan would have a one-way commute to central Tokyo of about 100 minutes. That’s almost too long to live in one city and work in the other. I don’t know, I have friends with one-way commutes longer
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by traek 8y ago
> it looks like jumping stilts allow you to deliver a lot more energy in a short period - for instance, running up to 25mph, or jumping over cars - but you pay for that with significantly increased calorie burn and the use of many more m
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by traek 8y ago
> Facebook's current share price basically values it as a utility already Market cap is a measure of investors' beliefs of a company's future free cash flows. Regulated utilities have capped profits, so their valuation ten
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by traek 8y ago
This is the worst case scenario for consumers. An "open and documented protocol" is what led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal; most people are not informed enough to properly manage permissions and even if they were, the persona
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by traek 8y ago
They’re definitely not sanitation workers. On my street the homeless constantly empty full public trash bins all over the sidewalk looking for bottles and cans.
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by traek 8y ago
> But there are plenty of areas where you need a lot of creativity and deep knowledge to make progress. This is also true for many other skilled trades.
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by traek 8y ago
What makes you believe the autonomous car project comes at the expense of Mac improvements, rather than being unrelated?
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by traek 8y ago
It's not, it's a nationwide thing enforced by the FTC. WA and some other states have stricter laws which include pupillary distance. https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...
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by traek 8y ago
> For 538, this just meant publishing numbers that were way too confident. This isn't the case for the 2016 elections. 538 ended up having a much more robust forecast because they accounted for systematic polling error (bias). http
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by traek 8y ago
> They are so cheap there is no reason not to do it this way. Besides the environmental cost, maybe.
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by traek 8y ago
Fixed, thanks.
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by traek 8y ago
It's a US newspaper. Do you also ask the German media to specify Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel in every headline?
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by traek 8y ago
> We came to the conclusion that the vast majority of feeds are filled with posts from sites that other like-minded people also have in their feeds. This causes the comments on those posts on your feed to mostly be filled with people who
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by traek 8y ago
It literally is quoted in the article from Facebook's head of VR/AR: > neither coordinated nor directed from the company. From an internal post at the launch: “We, unequivocally, DO NOT want Facebook employees to engage in leav
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by traek 8y ago
NPR has more info about motivations: > Building a system to stock its own stores is a way for the company to better manage supply and costs, especially because poultry companies are trending away from raising chickens to be sold whole. &

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