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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
There was a time when patio11 was going through a phase calling out Zynga as one of the shadiest companies around. I remember thinking "If Zynga is that bad, then what about Facebook?" Facebook's ability and willingness to ma
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
Rational thought, yes. Critical reasoning, a little doubtful, especially these days. Oral traditions are so inefficient at transmitting multiple viewpoints, at collecting multiple viewpoints, at codifying multiple viewpoints, and eventually
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
Great. The most concerning issue - the question of trusting all your data with a for-profit entity which doesn't get directly paid for the services it provides - gets a token mention as the very last point ("just in case, let me t
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
As Mark Twain once famously predicted - It is better to let people think you suck at innovation than to patent troll Android and remove all doubt.
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
What you are saying might be true, except: There are too many idiots who go and "tag" photos with people who are not active on Facebook and help create a shadow profile. There are too many idiots who willingly give Facebook the pe
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
As the old saying goes, you will eventually run into someone who doesn't give a fuck who or how powerful you are. Meet your Daddy, Facebook. He is called Automattic. :-) As for people who think the exodus out of React was "imagi
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
>> Free Basics puts no obligation on its users to visit or use Facebook at all. Here is a list of possible ways Facebook can triangulate information about people who are not active on Facebook even without controlling access to the in
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
So you are simultaneously saying that the cut throat competition of the telco sector is keeping the data and call rates at global lows (a good thing), and saying that we need not have the same competition when the infrastructure for rural I
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
>> users will be confused and angry What an ironic statement, considering that that combination can be lethal to a company. Besides, have you ever heard anyone say why they prefer to use Facebook even when they are aware that it is tr
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
>> I'd really like to know why it's better for me to have no internet at all than some but not all? Because under the pretext of giving you internet, Facebook is creating shadow profiles about me. Now I would like to know wh
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
At this point, the large compensation package offered at these places is starting to look like hush money to keep your mouth shut and to turn a blind eye towards anything that looks from the outside like some kind of systematic manipulation
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
Create an anonymous account on Twitter. Use the tags #firstname #lastname #fb and add public personal details about someone you know who works at Facebook. Here is how: 1. Go to LinkedIn and search for people who work at FB 2. Go to Google
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
>> Welcome to the over-reaction party Hmmm.. in that case the people who actually need this advice even more would be the maintainers of ZSTD who seem to have hastily changed the license after seeing the backlash from the Apache polic
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
Welcome to the "folks who miss the forest for the trees" club.
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by markyuckerberg 9y ago
This is like saying people who are defending FB have some agenda where they don't like seeing criticism against it. For example, you could be someone who coaches freelancers who might hang out on HN and also be coaching them on using F