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by Puer 8y ago
I wonder what the NYT will write about when FB and Trump finally stop being newsworthy?
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by Puer 8y ago
Ah yes, more unsubstantiated claims about Chinese tech and culture on HN. Can you back up a single thing you've claimed?
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by Puer 8y ago
In an alternate universe where Apple produces babies, they'll eventually become so thin they'll snap and bend if you look at them funny.
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by Puer 8y ago
My office replaced our 2015 Macbook's with the "latest and greatest." I hate sitting next to my coworkers who use them now. They're good typists and prior to the switch I didn't even notice their keyboard noise, but
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by Puer 8y ago
The NYT editorial board seems to have a personal vendetta against FB/Amazon in particular. Twitter and Google get passes in mainstream media, for whatever reason. I wish they would give the same scrutiny they gave to FB for the past ye
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by Puer 8y ago
The vast majority of Americans don't know/care what the active ingredient in Tylenol is because its effects have been extensively studied and tested and there's strong evidence consuming it over long periods of time has minim
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by Puer 8y ago
This is the Nirvana fallacy. You aren't addressing the main point of the article, which is even if marijuana is legalized its use perhaps shouldn't be widely promoted because its health effects--both positive and negative--aren&#x
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by Puer 8y ago
I wish the NYT gave Equifax half the scrutiny they give FB.
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by Puer 8y ago
Anecdotal, but I am not a heavy phone user at all. Within a year of purchasing my brand new iPhone SE, the battery capacity dropped from 100% to 82%, causing it to begin to lag considerably doing even basic tasks and shut down randomly two
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by Puer 8y ago
Not that there's anything wrong with reporting on the same topic by multiple publications, but this article just seems like a poor copy of this WSJ article published in August: https://www.wsj.com/articles/airplane
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by Puer 8y ago
You're right, but the aforementioned "12/13" years ago was only 2006. I don't think many significant changes have been made in that period, but I may be wrong.
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by Puer 8y ago
I would also be interested in this. Many soft drink recipes are well-established and rarely adjusted because even small, well-intentioned changes can damage the brand and customer loyalty. Furthermore, it seems counterintuitive that produce
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by Puer 8y ago
That sounds like poor parenting more than anything else. Also, the "sugar -> hyperactive ADHD kids!" thing is a myth.
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by Puer 8y ago
My greatest accomplishment as a kid was beating BG2 on "Insane" difficulty as a solo character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa8JV3z-Oeo I must have played through the game at least two dozen times and I never
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by Puer 8y ago
Nice resource, thank you for sharing. It's been a why since I've used Ocaml but this will be a good opportunity to review.
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by Puer 8y ago
Elements of Programming Interviews in Python is excellent imo. The authors give a crash course in all of the data structures and all of the code is written extremely cleanly. Most of the problems give standard solutions and also idiomatic o
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by Puer 8y ago
The author's thesis is fundamentally flawed. They say it isn't clear why everyone was so excited to have a Facebook, but that's exactly the answer - because everyone had a Facebook . One of the biggest appeals of Facebook, I
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by Puer 8y ago
I said this this morning and I'll say it again: There's a lot of indefensible stuff Facebook has done in the past 5-10 years that they rightly deserve to be criticized and called out for. The NYT is an esteemed news publication wi
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by Puer 8y ago
Well in the latter the user specifically gives permission to Spotify when they choose to connect their FB account to Spotify's desktop app. NYT's wording makes it sound like they have unilateral control regardless of user consen
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by Puer 8y ago
I apologize if my argument wasn't clear enough. My issue isn't that they aren't being factually incorrect, it's that they're seemingly using "facts" to be misleading. Example: Saying Spotify has full edito
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by Puer 8y ago
News organizations as established as NYT understand the weight of their words because every single one is scrutinized by a board of editors. "Facebook also allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and delete
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by Puer 8y ago
They needed those permissions to allow for sending/receiving of payments over Messenger. NYT is being intentionally misleading with what "permissions" mean here.
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by Puer 8y ago
1) This is just a duplicate of the NYT article already on the front page 2) NYT seems to intentionally not elaborating on the "access to users' private messages" part and conflating app permissions to actually scanning, parsi
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by Puer 8y ago
Facebook isn't tapping your phones microphone 24/7. It's a nice little dystopian theory that's been disproven time and again. A far more probable and less exciting explanation is that your credit card provider (or the st
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by Puer 8y ago
They'll go right in the same comfy cell as the Equifax execs. Oh wait...
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by Puer 8y ago
Yep. I've never put any kind of personal information on FB aside from a profile picture and a name. My profile has otherwise been blank for the past 10 years. I've never liked any pages or products or left any meaningful comments
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by Puer 8y ago
(Citation needed)
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by Puer 8y ago
Boy, if you think the amount of data FB sells is creepy, wait until you find out how much information your insurance provider sells, or your cell phone provider, or your credit card provider, or your health provider... If you ever get in a
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by Puer 8y ago
Yeah, I think nytimes is intentionally being misleading here. I don't doubt FB made some shady deals with the big tech companies, but it seems like they're conflating granting app permissions so that certain functions like sharing
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by Puer 8y ago
I don't care about how many likes or how many followers I get. I use Instagram to share my photography which is my hobby. I only follow my friends and people whose posts I genuinely want to see. Through Instagram I've been able to

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