GTA V made $7B. Minecraft was worth it.
Pop Quiz: Which two companies had their first office at 101 University Avenue in Palo Alto? The answer says quite a lot, I think.
He started X.com. The founders of PayPal were forced by their VCs to merge the two companies, because X.com had a massive cash position, and a banking license.
Here's how Zuckerberg's testimony works: 1. When he says he doesn't know, he actually knows. 2. When he says he knows, and that the answer is "more AI," he doesn't actually know.
Facebook and Zuckerberg will tell you that they disagree with Boz's comments. He wasn't fired. He wasn't demoted. He was promoted. His responsibilities were expanded. If that's not a silent endorsement, a message to the…
Not sure why this has been posted here. The app is nearly abandoned and dead at this point. I know we all want alternatives to the status quo, but you're not going to find it among a bunch of copycat services that…
So much of VC funding is just about being in the right place at the right time. A lot of these guys seem like geniuses because of winning bets, but that's because nobody talks about their flops. It's entertaining…
Experian et al do not have a two-way channel they can use to run psychological experiments based on your usage data and communications with others. Facebook can, and does. These hearings are just the tip of the iceberg.…
> Facebook does contribute to efforts to improve our digital lives, including one on youth education at the center I co-founded. Why isn't this disclosed at the top of the article?
All communities have leaders, whales, whatever you want to call them. Even Bitcoin is now controlled by a small group of mostly Chinese people. Decentralization does nothing other than put control in the hands of an…
Any experience on how well these things run Linux?
This actually seems more damaging and disgusting than all of the Cambridge Analytica news. Facebook employees actively working to help scammers get billions of dollars out of uneducated poor users. Despicable.
Albee started lobbying for the company on Oct. 30 -- two days before his former boss, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, grilled Colin Stretch, the company’s general counsel, in a hearing. Yeah,…
> The meeting, which is scheduled for 10AM PT, will be led by Paul Grewal, the company’s deputy general counsel. What? Paul Grewal was a judge who presided over Facebook court cases. How is that legal?
Seems like the real Mark Zuckerberg comes out at the end of that article.
I'm not American, and I'm not middle class. Thanks.
"Free and Open Internet" You mean, the network created by the US government for the use of military and research institutions? The idea of the Internet as an anarchist state is a far more temporary concept than that of…
There is only one real tax on the wealthy: a revolution in which all property rights are reset. Everything else is a war between the wealthy themselves to redistribute things in their favor.
My point is that these are not people who can be trusted to keep secrets.
> Without question Uber has been horrifically served by its board of directors — all of them. Some of them are VCs. If you are raising funding, don't tell them anything confidential.
> I do represent Facebook on open source matters, but I did not draft the BSD+patents license grant. On what planet is this not a conflict of interest? Why isn't this at the top of the article? Are there any people out…
GTA V made $7B. Minecraft was worth it.
Pop Quiz: Which two companies had their first office at 101 University Avenue in Palo Alto? The answer says quite a lot, I think.
He started X.com. The founders of PayPal were forced by their VCs to merge the two companies, because X.com had a massive cash position, and a banking license.
Here's how Zuckerberg's testimony works: 1. When he says he doesn't know, he actually knows. 2. When he says he knows, and that the answer is "more AI," he doesn't actually know.
Facebook and Zuckerberg will tell you that they disagree with Boz's comments. He wasn't fired. He wasn't demoted. He was promoted. His responsibilities were expanded. If that's not a silent endorsement, a message to the…
Not sure why this has been posted here. The app is nearly abandoned and dead at this point. I know we all want alternatives to the status quo, but you're not going to find it among a bunch of copycat services that…
So much of VC funding is just about being in the right place at the right time. A lot of these guys seem like geniuses because of winning bets, but that's because nobody talks about their flops. It's entertaining…
Experian et al do not have a two-way channel they can use to run psychological experiments based on your usage data and communications with others. Facebook can, and does. These hearings are just the tip of the iceberg.…
> Facebook does contribute to efforts to improve our digital lives, including one on youth education at the center I co-founded. Why isn't this disclosed at the top of the article?
All communities have leaders, whales, whatever you want to call them. Even Bitcoin is now controlled by a small group of mostly Chinese people. Decentralization does nothing other than put control in the hands of an…
Any experience on how well these things run Linux?
This actually seems more damaging and disgusting than all of the Cambridge Analytica news. Facebook employees actively working to help scammers get billions of dollars out of uneducated poor users. Despicable.
Albee started lobbying for the company on Oct. 30 -- two days before his former boss, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, grilled Colin Stretch, the company’s general counsel, in a hearing. Yeah,…
> The meeting, which is scheduled for 10AM PT, will be led by Paul Grewal, the company’s deputy general counsel. What? Paul Grewal was a judge who presided over Facebook court cases. How is that legal?
Seems like the real Mark Zuckerberg comes out at the end of that article.
I'm not American, and I'm not middle class. Thanks.
"Free and Open Internet" You mean, the network created by the US government for the use of military and research institutions? The idea of the Internet as an anarchist state is a far more temporary concept than that of…
There is only one real tax on the wealthy: a revolution in which all property rights are reset. Everything else is a war between the wealthy themselves to redistribute things in their favor.
My point is that these are not people who can be trusted to keep secrets.
> Without question Uber has been horrifically served by its board of directors — all of them. Some of them are VCs. If you are raising funding, don't tell them anything confidential.
> I do represent Facebook on open source matters, but I did not draft the BSD+patents license grant. On what planet is this not a conflict of interest? Why isn't this at the top of the article? Are there any people out…