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Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Post by MichaelBurge »

AlbertCory wrote: post #530
MichaelBurge wrote: post #456

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Is the cashier's check fake? What happens if you meet them at the listed bank and ask them to convert it to cash right there?

You can find stories about this. I don't have the link, but we have Google for that. Basically, the bank will cash it, and days later, discover it's fake and demand that YOU give them the money back. There's a time delay which the scumbags are exploiting. Cops put "financial crimes" way down their priority list.

If the cashier's bank is from Wells Fargo and you meet them at Wells Fargo, surely WF is able to check the authenticity of their own checks immediately?

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Post by Karawebnetwork »

hutzlibu wrote: post #216
Karawebnetwork wrote: post #154

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What if the future generations never gets to experience those feelings? They would not know what they are missing.

I have met kids, who have never seen a forest in real live and who tried to swipe away real life objects, so yeah, we might get there.

I have seen young people dismiss studies that say that being out in the forest will be beneficial for mental health by saying that for them it's the opposite. Forests gives them high anxiety and being in urban areas will calm them. This included parks.

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Post by dang »

my69thaccount wrote: post #541
schrep wrote: post #313

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I’ve worked directly for Mark and closely with Sheryl for nearly 14 years and this is very accurate.

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Post by baby »

colinmhayes wrote: post #600
baby wrote: post #597

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Ah, I guess iMessage sends it directly right? I’m still confused as to why people wouldn’t switch to whatsapp instead. For example, if your connection sucks iMessage will fallback to text and if you’re abroad or talking to a foreign number then you’ll get charged, that sounds like a massive issue to me.

> I’m still confused as to why people wouldn’t switch to whatsapp instead. Because all their friends use iMessage too. Switching isn't trivial when you have to convince your whole network tos witch with you.

I guess we live in different bubbles, I can count on one hand the number of people I know that don't use whatsapp. Even my 87 yo grand mother uses whatsapp

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Post by chrisseaton »

MichaelBurge wrote: post #601
AlbertCory wrote: post #530

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You can find stories about this. I don't have the link, but we have Google for that. Basically, the bank will cash it, and days later, discover it's fake and demand that YOU give them the money back. There's a time delay which the scumbags are exploiting. Cops put "financial crimes" way down their priority list.

If the cashier's bank is from Wells Fargo and you meet them at Wells Fargo, surely WF is able to check the authenticity of their own checks immediately?

Why would you go through this ceremony rather than just making a bank transfer?

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Post by teachrdan »

dereg wrote: post #382
gkoberger wrote: post #125

I hadn't seen this before today, but NY Times claims that around a year ago (after the Jan 6th insurrection), Zuckerberg and Sandberg started to go their separate ways. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/business/mark-zuckerberg-... "The pair continued their twice-weekly meetings, but Mr. Zuckerberg took over more of the areas once under her purview. He made the final call on issues surrounding Mr. Trump’s spread of…

Sandberg has shown herself to be a true champion of moderation. One of her fine achievements at Facebook was to mobilize a team of enterprising Facebook employees to suppress allegations of harassment made against her then boyfriend, Bobby Kotick, from the news.

Had me in the first half.

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Post by dreamcompiler »

chrisseaton wrote: post #459
MichaelBurge wrote: post #456

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Is the cashier's check fake? What happens if you meet them at the listed bank and ask them to convert it to cash right there?

Why would any reputable person be dealing with a cashier’s cheque in this century?

The last few times I've bought cars I used a cashier's check on a local bank. Car dealers don't like credit cards because they don't want to pay a 3%-5% fee on a $35K purchase.

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Post by bambataa »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #501
LegitShady wrote: post #441

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have you considered that maybe facebook is giving you content based on other datapoints about you? Aside from the occasional scam ad, I mostly get animal videos from facebook.

They do this kind of profile targeting so aggressively it’s absurd. I also almost only get animal content and the occasional post from an ace group I joined, because I generally only post pics of my pup and peak at said group once in a while. Every so often I get lured into looking at something I find politically awful, and just instantly I get inundated with even more awful productized distillation of it. If I so mu…

Back when I had Facebook, I had a contact who posted quite a lot. Often quite interesting stuff so I would read it when his stuff appeared in my newsfeed.

So Facebook just made his posts my... uh entire newsfeed. Like my newsfeed would just be 5-10 posts from this guy, some political bullshit and then another 5-10 posts from the same guy.

Even if that were the stuff I was engaging with, surely it is obvious that I don't want it in that quantity.

I'd love to hear from Facebook newsfeed product managers as it really seems like no humans actually contributed to decisions.

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Post by MichaelBurge »

chrisseaton wrote: post #605
MichaelBurge wrote: post #601

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If the cashier's bank is from Wells Fargo and you meet them at Wells Fargo, surely WF is able to check the authenticity of their own checks immediately?

Why would you go through this ceremony rather than just making a bank transfer?

If you receive a wire transfer to a burner checking account that only accepts deposits and not withdrawals, that would be fine.

I think the only risk there would be identity theft leading to payment with stolen money, but they're almost certain to get caught so it's fine.

If that's a concern: If you make sure the transfer comes from a business checking account, they only have 24 hours to report the fraud before the business is on the hook for the stolen money and not you(I think). I'm not sure if personal vs. business are externally-distinguishable in an automated way, however.

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Post by madrox »

shuckles wrote: post #397
madrox wrote: post #268

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I’m not convinced anyone else would have done anything different. I don’t believe this is a case of “the wrong people in the right place” since any unregulated massive opportunity in history has gone this way. Saying the wrong people were in charge robs us of learning for next time. More useful to say that this is a lesson in human nature and we should prepare for the next Facebook accordingly.

Not sure I believe this. Instagram could’ve conceivably killed Facebook a decade ago if they’d chosen not to sell. Reminds me of Steve Jobs talking about Microsoft bringing about the dark ages of desktop computing: https://512pixels.net/2010/05/the-desktop-computer-industry-... .

Then the question becomes whether Instagram would’ve become Facebook if they kept going. I believe they would have once they hit Facebook’s scale.

Ironically, I believe you could take that Jobs quote, swap Apple for Microsoft, and you’d be talking about the mobile industry. I doubt I’m even the first person to observe that. You really do become the villain if you gain enough market dominance.

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