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The reason it's difficult to differentiate is because currently media backlash is actually the only accountability any of these tech companies have for doing the right thing. For e…

When we're talking about whether Facebook should be fact-checking the lies of public servants, we're missing the point. We shouldn't be having public servants that are lying to us …

sounds easy but in practice hard. You can run ads on political and social issues that directly correlate with one candidate's campaign. What about those ads? But then you could als…

I don't think Twitter actually hade much political advertising at all before tbh. It's like Bing traffic compared to Google.

But the answer you get isn't necessarily the truth, because humans don't make decisions based on reason. 90% of the time, decision-making is based on emotion, and the reasoning com…

even for a consumer, file synchronization is very painful without a filesystem. I usually use Resilio Sync between my devices, but I couldn't get it to work properly on an iPad wit…

Yea I would like it if the author offered a one-time purchase for the app without sync functionality at say $60. I mean if you are having trouble with server space for hosting text…

Regardless of how people feel about Facebook in general, I think this is a step forward. Groups and messenger are what I primarily use, and both of those are completely in my contr…

Strange, I have yet to meet a single Google interviewer who was looking for perfect syntax during the interview. Last year I forgot the syntax for a data structure, told my intervi…

I definitely agree with this for mathematical notes. Writing LaTeX is so mechanically different from writing down actual mathematical expressions and proofs that I feel like it dis…

Doesn't work. Spammers still manage to blind call my actual cell phone number even though I've given it to absolutely not a single person, dead or alive.

I think recommender systems are the biggest culprit in this. Most recommender systems are probably trained with a simple objective of maximizing the amount of time the user spends …

I used to watch tons of Starcraft, but I feel like at least half the reason was to find inspiration for new strategies and playstyles whenever I got bored of playing standard. For …

"sophisticated" here could be as simple as buying a mass-produced 3d filter sized for the dual lens on the iPhone, installing a companion computer program, running it, uploading a …

How would you implement 2FA without making your personal phone number publicly available for anyone to attempt to authenticate with? It's not the same as your bank calling you when…