ankmathur96

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by ankmathur96 5y ago
Because while FB definitely doesn't like that this is happening, it will certainly cement their position. 3rd party ad services that are less tech/ML-forward are way way more reliant on the ID tracking than Facebook is, and this
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by ankmathur96 5y ago
I don't believe this is a realistic take on open-source. There's not a single successful modern OSS project that's not basically controlled by a single organization (or was not at some point in its conception). Control can ta
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by ankmathur96 5y ago
It's not about whether or not it's foolish - the point is buying and setting up a subdomain, handing SEO, etc. is often more complex than some small business owners want to deal with.
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by ankmathur96 5y ago
Apple is literally the one recommending the PSL I have no idea what you're talking about
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by ankmathur96 5y ago
The entire point of these generated subdomains is that you do not have to buy a domain name...
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by ankmathur96 5y ago
Do you have an actual response to this point or are you just criticizing that multiple people made that same argument?
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by ankmathur96 5y ago
Your point about commoditizing an existing market segment is extremely underrated. Companies should use open source where the existing solutions are blackbox but also commoditized. If everyone's doing it but keeping their doors closed,
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by ankmathur96 6y ago
The numbers that are reported are reported by the company. When Pornhub says "118", they're telling you they really didn't try particularly hard. When FB says 84 million, that tells you there's a whole team writin
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by ankmathur96 6y ago
The reality is that this is being made out to be way more insidious than it is. Platforms should work with authorities so that bad actors like known terrorists can’t use a free platform to organize. To the crowd who says “well you can do ba
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by ankmathur96 8y ago
This is easily the most vacuous of all the comments here. You just take statements and call them disingenuous or obvious lies with not even a shred of backup
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by ankmathur96 8y ago
An aspect of this which has not been very well engaged with is how people see Facebook and its products outside of America. A common response to this from pundits is that it's an American company and therefore American values and persp
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by ankmathur96 8y ago
100% agree
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by ankmathur96 8y ago
I think for (1), it's completely fair for a company to investigate the potential financial motivations of their critics (for example, people were not this upset when Google pointed out that the "search rankings are rigged" &q
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by ankmathur96 8y ago
This is a completely absurd claim - if you’ve ever taken a class on modern day systems, you’d know Google is the source of many significant papers that inspired several huge open source projects that power almost every company that needs to