Smart move by Zuck. If Zuck had to choose one person whose podcast show he could go on, it had to be Tyler Cowen. Tyler is the kind of apologist for big business that you would be hard pressed to find anywhere else. You…
"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical…
>>I am more than happy to leave their shitty website and never come back. Unfortunately, if this is actually true, then you are the exception which proves the rule. That's precisely why I call these people…
Too bad there is no way to make a blocklist to block all freeloaders from visiting websites. The person who actually owns anything at all (the website owner) is somehow expected to give everything for free to someone…
Governments around the world should demand Facebook either place a permanent ad banner promoting WT:Social front and center on their website for everyone from that country, or they can pay $x00 million in fines per…
Given how far computer vision has advanced nowadays, I would be interested to know if anyone has done an analysis of the frequency and delta of over-speeding vs the make of the car as a (not so great) proxy for how rich…
But I would still endorse Apple over Microsoft until MS shows that it cares about user privacy by publicly distancing themselves from Facebook. Plus, Apple stuff just works. You still end up being an unpaid IT support…
I would be much more interested in email leaks about the "friendly fraud" case [1], because I think Facebook actually broke the law on that one. [1] https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-...
>>Doesn't this kind of argument work for almost every type of fraud though? "The customers were paying for the fraud, not what was advertised." Duh... why else would people still be using fiat currency?
The key word, of course, is "often" and not "always". How would you know the difference?
I have never seen a comment which is so ignorant of Facebook's past behavior. Are you aware that Facebook at one point unilaterally decided to allow people to see and comment on photos of friends of friends (i.e. 2nd…
>>I don't know what goes into running this site, but personally, if I know I'm guaranteed to get a totally one-sided take, I'd rather have the one from the people who actually know how to code. In other words, if you…
>> "It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster." Funny, that's exactly what it has looked…
Smart move by Zuck. If Zuck had to choose one person whose podcast show he could go on, it had to be Tyler Cowen. Tyler is the kind of apologist for big business that you would be hard pressed to find anywhere else. You…
"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical…
>>I am more than happy to leave their shitty website and never come back. Unfortunately, if this is actually true, then you are the exception which proves the rule. That's precisely why I call these people…
Too bad there is no way to make a blocklist to block all freeloaders from visiting websites. The person who actually owns anything at all (the website owner) is somehow expected to give everything for free to someone…
Governments around the world should demand Facebook either place a permanent ad banner promoting WT:Social front and center on their website for everyone from that country, or they can pay $x00 million in fines per…
Given how far computer vision has advanced nowadays, I would be interested to know if anyone has done an analysis of the frequency and delta of over-speeding vs the make of the car as a (not so great) proxy for how rich…
But I would still endorse Apple over Microsoft until MS shows that it cares about user privacy by publicly distancing themselves from Facebook. Plus, Apple stuff just works. You still end up being an unpaid IT support…
I would be much more interested in email leaks about the "friendly fraud" case [1], because I think Facebook actually broke the law on that one. [1] https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-...
>>Doesn't this kind of argument work for almost every type of fraud though? "The customers were paying for the fraud, not what was advertised." Duh... why else would people still be using fiat currency?
The key word, of course, is "often" and not "always". How would you know the difference?
I have never seen a comment which is so ignorant of Facebook's past behavior. Are you aware that Facebook at one point unilaterally decided to allow people to see and comment on photos of friends of friends (i.e. 2nd…
>>I don't know what goes into running this site, but personally, if I know I'm guaranteed to get a totally one-sided take, I'd rather have the one from the people who actually know how to code. In other words, if you…
>> "It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster." Funny, that's exactly what it has looked…