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I see. It seems that I was getting the empty page half an hour ago for just that link. Now it’s taking me to the full page.

Interesting. That specific page is blank but others redirect to a more useful 404 https://www.ft.com/thispagedoesnotexist

Of course FB wants to control content. It helps them increase engagement and also monetise.

‘Willingly’? I think unwittingly is more likely.

I’d argue it’s not the same. It certainly gives you a very close and stark window into what it’s like, but it doesn’t compare to the lived experience.

> Companies are hardly going to make tons of money on unapproved therapies anyway, because the word will get out if x patients tried it and had no benefits. That seems wildly optim…

IIRC WhatsApp also cared a lot about making the app available on all kinds of phones. Not just iOS/Android. So all those people in the rest of the world could start using it and br…

> But I guess asking logical questions is frowned upon... I did not consider the questions to be particularly ‘logical’ at all. Naive , perhaps, but not logical. There’s presumably…

You seem to be trying to refute models of complicated atmospheric processes based on (necessarily) over-simplified high school physics. I’m sure there much more reading material ou…

> * The scientific method is such that Science is never wrong. It's god-esque.* You've misunderstood my point. The scientific method is such that 'Science' is always wrong. It's a …

> However, Science makes no effort to own those mistakes. That sounds ludicrous to me. The entirely of the scientific method is about generating hypotheses, testing them out, findi…

> Science is science reporting. No, it is not. This is why I drew the distinction in the first place. > Normal people can only understand what is reported. Which backs up my point …

> (e.g., consuming Y is safe only to find out it causes birth defects, cancer,etc.) Science blames the customer/consumer. It feels like there's a conflation of science and science …

Except that’s not what happened here. In this analogy, that engineer made public statements before the investigation was completed and then the investgating group told them to leav…

> "Respondents were asked to score how each of the social media platforms they use impact upon issues such as anxiety, loneliness and community building. The site with the most pos…

The section of the Wikipedia page probably needs updating. The very next section describes how they went from 50 people, to 150, then lifted the limits entirely. > ...which might e…

I don't think this would work since users would protest and the limits would be eventually be lifted. I have friends who already purge their FB lists now and then, so people who wa…

> It depends when and what was done and at what age, what happened before and after. I can see being forgiving some thing up until the early 20s. People are still developing and pe…

There’s something particularly creepy in what Zuckerberg said and what the folks in Myanmar claim. Zuck says “we detected”, whereas the folks in Myanmar say they explicitly tried t…

I think ‘the sharing economy’ already did that.

> The people who built the radio didn't get called before an international criminal tribunal; it was the broadcasters who did. FB is both though. They built the system & tech (the …