volak

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by volak 9y ago
It's not facebook's fault people are uninterested and uneducated. Every company has one responsibility and one responsibility only - to make money for investors. People who use facebook make a choice, consciously or not. They are
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by volak 9y ago
My only point is - your entire statement is basically "trust facebook" - no one should trust facebook. Personal information is the product facebook sells - it should surprise no one when that data is sold.
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by volak 9y ago
What's so bizarre to me about this whole ongoing story is the complete lack of perspective and common sense. You give facebook all your information willingly and for free - and then people are surprised when facebook sells the informat
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by volak 9y ago
be on gmail -> click google images picture -> click caption link to small video -> click another youtube video -> ERROR 4 links away from gmail - not allowed. Pretty simple
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by volak 9y ago
Without NN there would be a ton more providers to choose from because we'd be able to compete on more than price. Comcast's of the world can oversell their lines by 4x what we can because they can simply get the word out to low-tr
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by volak 9y ago
You may or may not be surprised that many tools needed to provide an "email only" service already exist and are quite easy to implement. Something as easy as allowing email + 3-4 links past email would solve virtually all problems
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by volak 9y ago
To eliminate support calls I would simply design a system where any place they went FROM their email would work - maybe up to 3 or 4 links past email. And of course monitor account usage and call up tech-savvy granddads who email themselves
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by volak 9y ago
There is an entire undeserved niche from the dialup crowd who are extremely unhappy paying more than $10 a month - so yes it could be well worth the investment. As for caps - which do you think would sell people better: "You have full
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by volak 9y ago
Because they want all their grandchildren's pictures too. Telling a customer they have full access to anything on their email vs telling a customer they have 500mb a month. Which do you think sells better?
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by volak 9y ago
I work for a growing medium sized ISP - and I'm against net neutrality. I could write an entire essay about the unintended consequences, hypocrisy, ridiculous internet memes, and monopolies but I'll only leave one point that hope
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by volak 9y ago
I'm surprised its only 71%
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by volak 10y ago
No what would appease practically everyone would be if r/all - the "frontpage of the internet" - had clearly defined rules as to what that means. Is it a collection of top up-voted content from a collection of subreddits? A
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by volak 10y ago
Trouble is that too is your opinion. As a frequent of r/all after the first TD purge I see 2-3 TD links there a day. Nothing so outrageous. It kind of bothers me that people let companies like facebook, twitter, google, reddit, etc p
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by volak 10y ago
Well I could write a r/hillaryclinton upvote script and post on gists in a few minutes - doesn't really prove anything. The only people who could have real evidence of rule breaking would be the admins and from the little we know
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by volak 10y ago
The bandaid was to allow people to filter subs themselves (which is great). Writing code to target a specific community crosses the line
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by volak 10y ago
Fiber lines are someone else's platform. If Comcast was limiting access to huffingtonpost.com it would be their right as its their platform. I don't think I'm confusing anything.
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by volak 10y ago
I don't buy the argument that they are exploiting anything - but I do recognize that their community is very overly active but I wouldn't call that exploiting
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by volak 10y ago
As a liberal - its been my view to respect and fight for anyone's right to say whatever they want, regardless of my own views. If there are bugs with the reddit platform that are being exploited, there would be no reason to "preve
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by volak 10y ago
I don't really want to comment - but I'd just say to anyone (including the writer of this article) to imagine someone artificially limiting the impact of your favorite platform of free expression. Hell just turn the mental corne
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by volak 10y ago
I love the game and have played it many times over the last 5 or so years... But does anyone else feel kind of betrayed/insulted that the project is not open source? The team is mostly just supporting 1 or 2 core devs who take years t