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Theory 1: It’s because Russia, a market with a very small iOS user base, can pressure Apple into doing what it wants. Theory 2: It’s because Telegram raised more than a billion dol…

Just wondering.

It seems that you, and most of the people who have replied to you, would rather live in a world where people don’t spend capital on taking risks that potentially move the world for…

It’s a company created by the Chinese government. They’ll just create another one to replace it.

How is this not an illegal state subsidy? The WTO is a joke.

Why do we feel sympathy for people who invade a natural environment they barely understand, and then suffer the consequences? How is this a natural disaster when it’s only a disast…

Dissent is in. The old guard is being slowly boiled alive, but they’re blind to it. You’ll have lots of opportunities for jobs, because lots of employers will want to look morally …

Yes, it does. And your client side “steps to reproduce” do not, in fact, reproduce server-side client fingerprinting to correlate between two disconnected browser identities.

Cultural rot, combined with an unrepentant leader, means the company can’t be saved.

It seems that HN and YC are censoring Facebook related posts from hitting the leaderboard. Can someone explain this?

You would probably integrate this into a self contained application binary.

Facebook executives repeat this line that they don’t sell or share your data. Except, they share your data, because that’s what got them into this mess. Why don’t they ever explain…

You are mistaken. At Facebook, the devils advocate would argue in favor of government regulation.

You and all the other former Facebook employees sound like people who are working hard to defend the money you made there. Because the dirty looks members of the general public now…

Whenever anyone tells you that Facebook and Palantir have nothing to do with each other, remember that when Facebook vacated its original headquarters on University Ave, Palantir m…

This is cute, but does little to address tracking via IP and basic behavioral sniffing. Facebook buys lots of third party datasets, including data from ISPs (actually, it is given …

Are we going to talk about the fact that a whole bunch of these employees are former elected officials, or related to one? Which is part of why Zuckerberg isn’t actually concerned …

FarmVille had the benefit of being owned by an early Facebook investor, Mark Pincus. It was favoritism all around.

Let’s not waste a perfectly good crisis. Ask Zuckerberg to reveal all of the psychological test data he has, which shows the mental health effects of spending too much time on Face…