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Better business model (definitely for business owner, arguably for customers)

People only care when "bad guys" do it

Smartphones are to blame. The ubiquity of easy distraction causes these problems, not any one distraction in particular. If kids (and adults) only had phone/tablet access for an ho…

Most people experience emotional body sensations - “butterflies in my stomach,” “a weight on my chest,” “steam coming out of my ears” etc.

Whoever downvoted doesn't understand that this is a god-tier joke

> To keep young kids behaving on a car road trip, have a bag of their favorite candy and throw a piece out the window each time they misbehave. This guy is my hero

Just curious if you've used it. I haven't but people say it's way better than they had imagined!

Not sure I agree here. People love to blame social media for stoking hatred. Plenty of people use social media like... well, normal people. Life updates, baby pictures, levity. Som…

Wow I hadn't heard about this. What an awful event. Given the consequences, Facebook should dedicate resources to prevent it from happening again.

> 2018, Cambridge Analytica This is the big one, and it was a bona fide scandal. That said it happened in 2016, the story broke in 2018. Cambridge Analytica was very clearly the ba…

We probably don't agree on tracking being nefarious. I'm personally just not concerned about being represented by a user ID in a database with info attached to it. Every service I'…

Not sure I follow - isn't making more money than you put in a direct result of a high conversion rate? But I'm curious to learn what you mean! I have no direct ad purchasing experi…

I don't think Facebook or Instagram is a monopoly in any sense of the word. Lots of people happily don't use either and there's a boatload of competing social media platforms. If y…

Link a scandal or data leak since 2016 - I may need to update my priors

Agreed on all counts! Except US FB user decline slowing (not instagram, just FB). Add in WhatsApp’s under-monetization and some bullishness on VR and you’ve got my investment thesi…

They don’t sell data, they let anyone who buys ads choose who the ads go to based on anonymized data. They also made it way harder to run political ads after public sentiment chang…

Have you used a Quest 2?

What needs to be regulated?

Unlike search ads, businesses buying fb/insta ads care a lot about attribution (at what rate does someone who saw the ad buy something). If ads aren’t effective businesses will sto…

I agree with your assessment, and I’m a long term holder. I’d love to hear your rebuttal to the following bear case: - $10 billion to Reality Labs R&D in 2021 expected to increase …

Unfortunately this is not how Google hangouts works! No one hangs out there, you have to schedule a call. There needs to be a reason to hang out. Maybe I’m playing a game or watchi…

I’m stoked for VR to gain more adoption so I can hang with my friends who live across the country. That’s the killer app for me - a platform that all my friends use so we can have …

“Could theoretically live forever” implies perfect DNA cloning right? Seems worth studying for anti-cancer or anti-aging purposes.

Pendo | Technical Account Manager | SF Bay Area, New York, Raleigh, London | Full Time | https://boards.greenhouse.io/pendo/jobs/5128506002 Pendo’s goal is to make software product…

Shiller does such a great job explaining finance theory in simple terms! Would recommend