throwawaybchr

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by throwawaybchr 5y ago
I wonder if there are any advertising agencies in Portugal
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by throwawaybchr 5y ago
Cambridge Analytica had pretty much no impact. There was a study on this done in the UK. Much of the world wanted Brexit and Trump. Random ads on Facebook simply aren't that effective.
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by throwawaybchr 5y ago
More accurate title: Ethiopians create posts which are unwittingly optimized for amplification by Facebook's algorithms.
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by throwawaybchr 5y ago
Most Canadians can stop using it then This entire topic is very silly. Parents are free to forbid their kids from using it. Adults can make their own decisions. What it is starting to become is that people want other people to stop using
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by throwawaybchr 5y ago
It is, I chose one example. Do I have to document all such examples?
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by throwawaybchr 5y ago
China has been denying people human rights daily, what does the UN do to them?
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by throwawaybchr 5y ago
If you used Facebook to login to some other service then that account also essentially became inaccessible
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by throwawaybchr 5y ago
Aside from obvious cases of intentional abuse: The world is filled with people who have different ideas about what is funny, what is offensive, what is fun, what is boring, etc. On the internet it is expected to have a clash of cultures sin
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by throwawaybchr 5y ago
With the kind of water resistance that's typically available can you really "wash" the phone like under a faucet?
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by throwawaybchr 5y ago
These tools seem pretty decent for non technical people to build and test out ideas. If anything it forces them to think about their problems and recognise where complexity exists.
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
Is this the only instance in recent history where a traitor has been tortured and/or killed? It's the only one everyone is talking about. The reason for that is for the common folk to develop a bias. A well deserved bias, but a ma
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
If the story didn't blow up they would never have done it. My point remains. There are conspiracies about Russia feeding talking points to members of the US government and that those who are doing the bidding of Russia should be tried
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
What is the reason given for treating Chelsea Manning the way she was treated by the Obama administration?
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
Is it uncommon for countries to leave their traitors alive? Saudi Arabia has had public beheadings, it's not unusual for a place like that to murder a guy who was sitting in the USA and publishing the talking points he was getting from
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
This show started off slow but slowly became an all-time favorite of mine.
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
For many who don't have experience, lisps are intimidating
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
Based on polling there are plenty of folks in both parties who think things were fishy with the election. I am confident that if you took each claim and systematically argued it out in public you would have seen that number go down drastica
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
In India recently, a TV commercial depicted an inter faith marriage. This enraged some hindu groups and the ad got pulled because there was a vocal online outcry, calls for boycotts, doxxing, etc. The corporation protected itself from the n
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
This is absolutely correct, and it would benefit society immensely if #2 is solved quickly. A free marketplace of ideas, no matter how blasphemous, must always exist. President Obama said it best at his speech to the UN when he discussed th
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
In 1954 a Puerto Rican group fired shots into Congress - there was no social media back then. Jimmy Carter pardoned them. The suggestion now is that social media is ok to use as a tool to organize the kind of looting and arson that results
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
This was going to happen regardless of yesterday's events. Anyone working in close proximity to the activist groups on campus knows this already. Yesterday has provided perfect cover for folks to do what they want to by using their pos
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
Isn't it implicit? "We scored a goal, the umpire didn't see it and they stole our championship away from us. This is a disgrace. Go home in peace"
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
The order is important. Despite outrageous A, de-escalate and do B. Had it been the other way around I would agree with you.
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
> On the other hand, today's events are almost opposite. It's been driven/lead by senior members of government. Using lies and propaganda, conditioning a group of citizen sympathizers over a long period of time to distrust
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
The rules are subjective so they are more like whims really. The President put out a video asking people, in plain language, to go home and co-operate with Capitol police. In this same video he reaffirmed his contention that the election wa
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by throwawaybchr 6y ago
Some of the Republican leadership, including the President, have presented evidence of election irregularities. Much of this evidence is worrisome, even if it does not impact a single vote. For instance - if you run a poll monitoring system