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Any guesses what tipped the automated system off? Two guesses: 1. The Big Lebowski uses the word "fuck" many, _many_ times, which may start to look abusive to an online system that doesn't know any better. 2. The movie contains references to nihilists and Nazis which an irony-unaware system may not be able to distinguish from actual endorsement.
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...of Ulm ;) Name forms really should just be: Your full legal name: [accepts anything, modifies nothing] Shortened name of your choice for our UI: [can have restrictions, esp. length]
I feel like the pattern of names in the UI comes from wanting to justify collecting the name in the first place. What is it actually good for?
How To Cook For Forty Humans
There are so many ways to have a problem with Facebook and be unable to get help. The list of ways grows... My "favorite" is if you once had a spare FB account for playing some game, and later FB has blocked that account (for inactivity, or being obviously fake _after_ they instituted the real name policy)... but you still get occasional emails from FB begging you to come back and login - your friends miss you! Of co…
You can also download your data in bulk so that you don't "lose" your photos.
Facebook is trying to administer a 2 billion member virtual city with about 20k people. Most of the fires that start and actual administration details are just conveniently left to real world politicians, bureaucracies, journos, school boards, parents and police depts to work out. This retarded unsustainable model has been sold as the magic of Scale. Scaling user base = Scaling up issues. No free lunch. Regulators ca…
This assumes that facebook creates the problems that exist on their platform. All of Facebook's problems exist independent of Facebook. Facebook's existence guarantees that those problems will become a part of them. I'm not saying they shouldn't be held responsible for not doing their due diligence, but the argument that they ought to be charged for "offloading" problems on the "real world" isn't great. That's like s…
Devil's advocate but why shouldn't they? At the end of the day _someone_ has to bear that cost, why should we force society at large to deal with issues that arise as a result of a small group of people finding a new way to enrich themselves?
There are so many ways to have a problem with Facebook and be unable to get help. The list of ways grows... My "favorite" is if you once had a spare FB account for playing some game, and later FB has blocked that account (for inactivity, or being obviously fake _after_ they instituted the real name policy)... but you still get occasional emails from FB begging you to come back and login - your friends miss you! Of co…
I tried that for a while, I would go months without logging in, but for one reason or another I would log in to check something. The last time I did this my news feed left me feeling so negative I decided that I was done and I deleted my account. So far it has been easier to say "I don't have a facebook account" than to explain why I never post anything or answer did you see what I posted questions.
Deleted my account and it was perfect, no emails, no getting drawn if, if someone wants to talk with me there's a dozen chat service to choose from besides facebook.
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...of Ulm ;) Name forms really should just be: Your full legal name: [accepts anything, modifies nothing] Shortened name of your choice for our UI: [can have restrictions, esp. length]
I feel like the pattern of names in the UI comes from wanting to justify collecting the name in the first place. What is it actually good for?
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I feel like the pattern of names in the UI comes from wanting to justify collecting the name in the first place. What is it actually good for?
Indeed. I consider "gender" even sillier - e.g. Facebook adding 100s of different genders to their website - how about just removing the field altogether? Same about "legal sex" - why would the government care in the first place?! ( Doctors might, but the rest of the government, not really.)
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It is capitalized when used without a first name. (and the author is Hans de Zwart)
More precisely: the first letter of a name is always capitalised. So in "Hans de Zwart", the 'H' is the first letter, and therefore capitalised. But in "De Zwart", the 'D' is the first letter, and therefore capitalised, even if it normally wouldn't be. There might be an exception to that if that letter is not part of a whole word. "De" is a word, but I once knew a guy whose last name was 't Zet . The "'t" is not a wo…
That's a curious way to present it. "het" is gendered, it corresponds to the neuter gender. There is nothing neutral about it, that's just a (bad) name. In Russian for example, they call it the middle gender. Dutch nouns take one of two genders (three in some Belgian dialects), just like in French.
Both Latin and Proto-Germanic had three genders, which correspond to what we would now call male, female and neuter. Over the span of centuries Latin merged male and neuter into one, leaving French with male/female, whereas in the Germanic languages usually male and female merged into a common gender, leaving common/neuter. But apart from that, it's exactly the same phenomenon.