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by waterphone 8y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46302140 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/facebook-role-rohingy... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology&
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by waterphone 8y ago
Because Facebook is a horrible company and an increasing amount of information about just how bad they really are is coming to light lately.
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by waterphone 8y ago
The article explains why. Facebook is a genuinely evil company with genuinely evil people doing genuinely evil things to manipulate the world in negative ways, and I want nothing to do with them. They've been immoral/unethical fro
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by waterphone 8y ago
I'm not going to tell anyone else what they should do, but I am unwilling to use or associate with any of their services or properties.
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by waterphone 8y ago
Am I the only irritated by these inevitable questions from people with no sense of literary craft any time an article from the New Yorker is posted on HN?
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by waterphone 8y ago
It was first implemented under Obama, but it was authorized by Congress in the 2006 Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act. https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS-109hr5785ih.... https:&#x2
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by waterphone 8y ago
The Wireless Emergency Alerts system, authorized in the 2006 Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act. https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS-109hr5785ih.... https://en.wikipedia.or
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by waterphone 8y ago
Considering that it's run by FEMA, and they are mandated by law to only use it in national emergencies, and multiple FEMA officials have to sign off on any message sent out, political misuse of it is fairly unlikely.
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by waterphone 8y ago
Because the 2006 law authorizing this mandated that Presidential Alerts not be able to be disabled. https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS-109hr5785ih....
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by waterphone 8y ago
There are a few possible scenarios where a national alert makes sense: ICBM launches that they either can't yet predict the target of or on a scale that is targeting across the country, massive cyberattacks targeting national infrastru
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by waterphone 8y ago
Upvoting is not an expression of support for the content, it's a "I think this article should be seen by more people" signal.
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by waterphone 8y ago
The First Amendment doesn't obligate private companies to do business with people or other businesses they don't want to be involved with. If the U.S. government were ordering his accounts closed, you might have an argument.
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by waterphone 8y ago
I was referring to the failure of whatever mechanism would be used to cancel an alert that appears post-fall.
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by waterphone 8y ago
It does this by default without a subscription service in the event of a detected fall if you do not respond to an alert within a certain amount of time. Hope nobody falls on their watch and are uninjured but break the touch sensor, prevent
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by waterphone 8y ago
Yes, it's an imperfect predictor of the future. No one else does a very good job predicting economic futures either, however.
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by waterphone 8y ago
Investing in total market index funds is literally investing in the economy as a whole. (Or as much of a whole as the index represents.) So while yes, they will crash with future market crashes, of which there will be many in each of our li
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by waterphone 8y ago
One of those is based in fact and reality, the other is not. The reason you're having a hard time finding "neutral" news is because reality is not inherently neutral.
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by waterphone 8y ago
Oh, I understood what you meant, I was just providing an additional data point for this particular conversation in response to what you were saying re: search queries vs. results.
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by waterphone 8y ago
Number of search results: AFAIK: 8,600,000 AFAICT: 346,000 AFAIUI: 14,600
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by waterphone 8y ago
"AFAIUI" is nowhere even close to as common as your other examples. I have never encountered it before, and Google Trends doesn't even register it in a comparison between the others. https://trends.google.com/
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by waterphone 8y ago
Getting freelance web development work. Maybe the markets are just changing, but in the past couple years my opportunities for new clients and projects have dropped off significantly and it's become very hard to sustain myself anymore.
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by waterphone 8y ago
All the more reason to constantly tell people the right thing to do and why and strategies to avoid letting fear and other emotions get the better of them in those situations. We can all be susceptible to such things, but with a little educ
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by waterphone 8y ago
And those people are the reason everyone else says not to do that, not to time the market, and to invest for the long term. If you stick to an established plan, adjust your allocation according to that plan, and don't panic sell, histo
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by waterphone 8y ago
The assets in your 401k (if invested in the market, especially if invested in broad market index funds to be highly diversified) actually have value beyond simply being a speculative asset. They're shares in businesses with a lot of mo
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by waterphone 8y ago
Russian interference and manipulation went far beyond that. They've been buying election machine companies, sending spies to funnel money and influence to U.S. politicians, hacking and offering stolen information on opponents (which th
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by waterphone 8y ago
No one should browse the web without an ad/script blocker enabled all the time at this point. Exposing your computer to the web without one is like unprotected sex given how malicious advertising has become between tracking behavior da
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by waterphone 8y ago
I live 30 miles from the Mexico border along multiple heavily used smuggling routes. I hike and backpack frequently in mountains used by those smugglers and have encountered groups of smugglers many times over the last 7+ years. I have neve
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by waterphone 8y ago
What I support has nothing to do with it, they can do what they want. I already don't use Twitter, I don't care one way or another.
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by waterphone 8y ago
Companies have no obligation to allow hate speech and incitements to violence on their platform. And because of how media bubbles work, it's very easy for people to get in a part of the internet where all they see is Alex Jones-type co
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by waterphone 8y ago
Fire suppression is a major problem, for sure. But it wasn't all natural in the past, either. Humans have been managing forests through the use of fire for a very long time, setting fires to thin out the understory and make areas more

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