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by bubble_talk 7y ago
I for one welcome Libra, but only for exactly one purpose. The next time governments bail out another bank, they should just hand them a zillions Libras and ask the banks to collect the actual money from Facebook when they need it. Don&#x27
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
"Remember, what Facebook is doing has never been done before. There are going to be mistakes." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321420
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
Your comments would actually make sense if, say, Microsoft wasn't simultaneously going after Android phone makers to impose an "Android tax" during that very same period [1]. This is like saying: "I was really getting in
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
If Microsoft hadn't embraced open source around the time Satya Nadella took over, by now they would have probably imploded and become irrelevant (I mean in the sense of how Bing is more or less irrelevant to most website owners even th
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
So let us say I go to some page which lists some "potentially well off" folks, like this one: https://github.com/orgs/google/people or this: https://github.com/orgs/microsoft/pe
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
We should create a "privacy hall of shame" (I was tempted to call it the "privacy offender registry") and list the names of all the employees who work on these features, along with an easy-to-read blurb which explains ho
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
>>given the press and the way it's portrayed on HN You forgot to add the most important reason which should be at the beginning of that sentence - track record. And also, hiding important financial details e.g. the so called &quo
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
Ask them how they would invest their money if they suddenly became 100x richer, which for most people isn't something they can easily comprehend. If their answers veer towards things like buying property abroad (or similar stuff indica
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
>>similar level of prestige Assuming this isn't sarcasm, this is how the word prestige is defined - "denoting something that arouses widespread respect or admiration". Facebook lied to ad buyers (customers) about video
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
Since no one else has asked yet: You seem like a nice guy who could probably get a job elsewhere easily. Why are you still at FB?
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
>>Contrast that with e.g. home internet, where in many parts of the US there's literally just a single company providing internet connectivity, a single ISP, and it's illegal to start a competing ISP. You know, you might hav
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
Given that Microsoft now owns GitHub, I would add them into this list too. Also, perhaps some of the focus should also shift towards preventing such acquisitions (Google + YouTube, Facebook + WhatsApp), which the tech community at large can
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
That's an overly simplistic analysis. >>If you owe them billions, it's their problem. It is also entirely possible that if the US decides to actually make this (say) China's problem by overtly refusing to pay back the
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
Yes, you can have a scroll bar - but where do you set the minimum threshold for qualification? If I slap a search box in front of CommonCrawl, have I now created a search engine?
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
I can relate a funny story about this. A Microsoft employee I know very well used to work at Bing and then moved on to another organization within MSFT. He isn't a big fan of Google (surprise!). When similar news came out about Google
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
Unlike, say, the design of an actual rocket ship (where it is perfectly OK to leave everything to the experts), the economy is the truest form of democracy - of the people, for the people, by the people and all that. You cannot really opt o
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
OK, sorry, now I understand. >>the underlying preference for current consumption has weakened substantially I have a feeling this is a rabbit hole I don't want to go down :-) - but has the underlying preference for current consum
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
Are we actually disagreeing? This seems to be a case of ambiguous terminology [1]. But either way, what you said here is exactly what governments want: >>being presented with options like negative interest rates ought to nudge people
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
When I see people defend negative interest rates, I am reminded of this saying by Orwell: "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool." >>One likely factor behin
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
>>My inside-FAAMNG experience has been that most employees seem to be not interested in the politics and are primarily focused on doing good work In other words, you could end up having absolutely no conflicts about scenarios like the
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
If you are going to go after Google, you really should do a much better job. And there are very good reasons to reduce Google's dominance, but this whiny approach isn't helping. 1 Don't be a thin wrapper around an inferior
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
"Only thuggish regimes and failed dictatorships demand for things like removal of encryption."
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
Unfortunately, when it comes to leadership, the key word in that sentence is "believable" and not "lie". The vast majority of people are just waiting for someone to come and convince them that the reason they don't
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
2009: Are you smart enough to be a Facebook engineer? 2019: Are you scummy enough to be a Facebook engineer?
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
This is how it went: Product Manager: And don't forget to add the word free into the copy Marketer: Make sure you A/B test bold text on some part of the sentence Copywriter: Preface it with "We are sorry to hear" instead
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
Facebook engineers know exactly what is going on, and I don't think they actually care. If you want to see exactly how creepy the whole thing is going to get in the future, you just have to take a look at the transcripts from the Softw
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
I cannot explain it, hopefully someone from DDG actually chimes in :-) If they just use the Bing API, how can their results be better than Bing? I suppose they also use other sources.
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
OK, are you suggesting there is a search engine which produces better results for this specific case?
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
For everyone who is suggesting Google search quality has taken a hit, I would suggest a quick test to see for yourself that Google is still WAY better than the competitors when it comes to long tail queries. Example: someone compiled a list
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by bubble_talk 7y ago
>>preferably in a way that does not discourage going back to work. Isn't this much easier said than done? Where will you cap the unemployment benefits so people are not discouraged? How do you come up with the number? How do you

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