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Oh, this whole "Boycott Facebook" movement is such a load of feces. Facebook isn't the problem. "Social Media" is such a misnomer; this is really just "people interacting" and wher…

For a subset of users, Facebook leaked "page likes, birthday, and current city". Meanwhile, Equifax leaked the social security numbers of more than 145 million Americans, 200 thous…

Nothing about this problem is new or unique to Google Maps. This was a problem in old phone books too (literally thousands of fake locksmiths, etc). And the yellow pages profited t…

There is a lot of scrutiny regarding Robinhood's attempt to use SIPC to insure money in their proposed checking/savings account offering, which they are now rebranding as a cash ma…

There is: Use something else. I don't mean this in a snippy way, but truly. If it's that bothersome, why not try something else? It seems that most people instead think that they h…

You should see how I defend Facebook or Apple.

Sorry, but I think you are missing the point (please see my follow-up post). The point is, search results are not static even for the same inputs (search string, location, etc), ev…

A contrived example to clarify further: Let's say that there is a link, foo.gov/taxes_in_retirement. Locations with a high concentration of retirees might click on the link more fr…

Google can and should customize search results based on location, and it's not just about "local articles" as the article suggests. If enough people from the same general location …

Note that the original title was too long for submission: "Poor news curation at Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters creating misleading iPhone supply chain panic"

You and your theories... :)

If violence is organized through a phone call, is that the fault of the phone manufacturer or the phone service provider? If violence is organized through the use of protest signs,…

> Kind of funny how the NYT publishes the original story to generate outrage [...] It's not just this; I think there's a clear agenda here by releasing this on the day of Google's …

At least for the remote desktop functionality, there's Chrome Remote Desktop. The Android app is surprisingly useful. I didn't think it would be realistic to control a full resolut…

Dumb question: Since Google Ventures invested in Uber, does that mean that owning Google stock indirectly translates to a [small] pre-IPO investment in Uber? http://www.quora.com/W…

Check out Jsonnet and HOCON. Jsonnet: http://google.github.io/jsonnet/doc/ HOCON: https://github.com/typesafehub/config/blob/master/HOCON.md

So there's no explicit way to distinguish between "new window" calls from other types of calls? I'm kind of shocked that, with all the effort that's been put into browsers in recen…

A bit off topic, but could someone explain to me why it's so difficult for a browser (or extension) to effectively block 100% of all pop-ups/pop-unders? I realize that these accoun…