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by alex1138 6d ago
Ok, I have not heard about the airmiles ticket; elaborate?
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by alex1138 6d ago
I play chess and I'm basically with you It's just a board game
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by alex1138 7d ago
You know why? Because Acton and Koum arranged the carrier deals prior to the acquisition. That's what Zuckerberg bought, to enlargen his war chest. It's not his product, it's something he effectively stole
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by alex1138 7d ago
I stand by what I said, and screw you.
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by alex1138 7d ago
People perhaps won't remember the long history of computer chess at least how it played out in the 90s There was a succession of interesting engines (I think The King used to win a number of computer tournaments, this is the one Chessm
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by alex1138 7d ago
HN loves drive-by downvotes. It's a real shame.
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by alex1138 7d ago
Why is it fine in isolation? Should you not get exactly the pushback you'd expect from saying that? As a clear joke, maybe less. I don't think he was joking though
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by alex1138 8d ago
The company is hurting people outside the 'bubble'.
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by alex1138 8d ago
The company has been known to lie before And the thing is, network effects are killer. I'm on it because you're on it because Alice is on it because Bob is on it But, Facebook has apparently been known to censor links to competiti
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by alex1138 8d ago
People generally reply to this with "He was making a point. He wasn't saying he couldn't be trusted, he was saying 'I could be anyone'" I don't get it. I think he meant exactly how it looks on paper
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by alex1138 8d ago
Akshually- Edit: I love HN. I'm obviously joking, but instant 4 downvotes We're allowed to have fun, guys.
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by alex1138 9d ago
People attack Stallman for some things but I guess I'm happy GNU exists and Emacs might be the most visible example
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by alex1138 9d ago
With Facebook, people reported not being able to see their spouses' posts. They were "Married" on Facebook, but the feed just shoved things into their faces they didn't want. It would even edit posts when you went to th
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by alex1138 9d ago
What you mean you don't like Zuckerberg's endless log in to see any page ever hyper aggressive popups
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by alex1138 10d ago
There's also the allegation that a) Facebook greatly overcounted (on purpose) the impressions from autoplaying videos and b) their ads target more people in an area than physically exist "Value" is a tough thing to translate.
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by alex1138 10d ago
I had to 'vouch' this comment. It was [dead]. Why? Who sits here lurking this site flagging every single thing they disagree with?
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by alex1138 11d ago
It's funny because I think the original Streisand 'effect' was done in good faith. She just didn't want people taking photos of her private home. It's since been used to justify all manner of silencing actions on th
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by alex1138 11d ago
But the view apparently is Zuckerberg bought it when they were 'barely a company' Yes - and he's utterly ruined it. And we know from his emails it was anti-competitive
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by alex1138 11d ago
Well, I can say about that that Facebook seems to be the worst about it. They've locked stuff behind logins forever, while also messing with their users privacy settings, while also effectively DDOSing sites with their AI Google does n
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by alex1138 12d ago
What do we want the web to look like? Lock everything down behind logins, in the name of 'security' when the real goal is nyeh nyeh nyeh you can't see anything, sign up so we get more user metrics
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by alex1138 13d ago
I've been told repeatedly Zuckerberg was 'making a point' with 'dumb fucks'. That he's not exactly the type of person it's suspected he is
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by alex1138 13d ago
Google is a top-notch researcher among all the problems people have with it. It has a mix of great products, terrible automated systems (though, I suspect, not as bad as Meta's?) and some historical disappointments
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by alex1138 14d ago
Sorry for the wrongthink. Obviously I deserve my downvote, so I can never reach the 500 karma necessary to downvote others. I don't have the right opinions . (Site guidelines: don't comment on downvotes. Yeah, I know. But I'
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by alex1138 14d ago
I'm upvoting you purely because I'm sick of comments being made in good faith getting an automatic downvote
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by alex1138 14d ago
I have less sympathy for Facebook/Meta. Zuckerberg is on record as saying IG can hurt us. The Whatsapp co-founder Acton saying "it's time. delete Facebook". The fact Zuckerberg's engineers were apparently specifical
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by alex1138 14d ago
That's hilarious. They don't think about "hey, maybe not show this, we might have nervous passengers"?
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by alex1138 14d ago
It's a shame Google crams it ham-fistedly into search results and that Google has some of the reputation it has because I actually really enjoy Gemini and I don't even use it for the reason people often list which is that you can
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by alex1138 15d ago
A fish doesn't always rot from the head but it does when the guy in charge has a long history of bullshit and majority voting rights Didn't he also want people's friends to also be AI? He's a sociopath that lucked into t
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by alex1138 16d ago
No need for mouse heuristics. Sandwich Lady will wreck your shit
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by alex1138 16d ago
This is not a solution. Do better, on a site like this

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