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I wonder if there are any advertising agencies in Portugal

Cambridge Analytica had pretty much no impact. There was a study on this done in the UK. Much of the world wanted Brexit and Trump. Random ads on Facebook simply aren't that effect…

More accurate title: Ethiopians create posts which are unwittingly optimized for amplification by Facebook's algorithms.

Most Canadians can stop using it then This entire topic is very silly. Parents are free to forbid their kids from using it. Adults can make their own decisions. What it is starting…

It is, I chose one example. Do I have to document all such examples?

China has been denying people human rights daily, what does the UN do to them?

If you used Facebook to login to some other service then that account also essentially became inaccessible

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Aside from obvious cases of intentional abuse: The world is filled with people who have different ideas about what is funny, what is offensive, what is fun, what is boring, etc. On…

Is protected class an American concept?

Does anyone know when this will be available on RDS?

People must be fired for blatant disobedience and non adherence to policy that violate the company's existing agreements. Such employees should not be in this kind of position. Sur…

More accurate title: Zuckerberg spent his own money to avoid litigation

What are some use-cases for this?

With the kind of water resistance that's typically available can you really "wash" the phone like under a faucet?

One party thinks minorities have magic powers, the other party thinks tax cuts have magic powers. Yang thinks giving people $1000 a month will magically solve many problems. It's j…

I can't seem to get on board with the new hotness like Tailwind and whatever else the cool kids are using these days. I tried tailwind in a couple of projects. The dependency on Pu…

These tools seem pretty decent for non technical people to build and test out ideas. If anything it forces them to think about their problems and recognise where complexity exists.…

Does it require the other party to know what gpg is?

Ivermectin is interesting because the in vivo indications seem to suggest that to replicate the same result in humans, the dose would need to be pretty high. High doses of Ivermect…

These kinds of claims are near impossible to prove with certainty so it all seems very self gratifying

Whats the worst thing that happens if a talk goes poorly? Some loss of approval from peers? Why is this valued at all. It's not like any of those peers would have done it better.

Saudi Arabia routinely dismembers their criminals, and has done so for many decades. They don't need training to do this. Khaashoggi was working with the Qatari government against …

Yes I'm sure they price their MacBooks in India based on the same logic

At this point the Chinese can do what they want. The own the guy in the White House, and they own Mitch McConnell so nobody can stop them. The only person who had the temerity to d…