So far I counted 10 fuck/ings and one nazi calling in this discussion. Please guys, I come here for a civil discussion and not some ragefest.
your username is stfu.
I think he's interested in organizing tenant farmers in the southern USA.
This is a bit f'd, Quora
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quora was founded by facebookers. People who actually have the worst fucking view online about what should be private and what should be public. People who have no digital-cultural compass because the only reference point they have is from working at Facebook, thus they think that "this is how it was thought of and done at Facebook - and Facebook is the most overly hyped company in history, so I must be a fucking gen…
I get your perspective, but I think Facebook is basically correct in the long term. Privacy is basically a historical accident belonging to the few hundred years in the west where transportation tech got ahead of information technology. An excellent read on the topic is David Brin's "The Transparent Hand". He basically makes the argument that we face one of two futures: either all of us know everybody's business or a…
More likely it'll be the small elite (who stay private) maximizing profits using the info that the vast majority made public. Those who make their "private" info public will likely on average pay higher interest & insurance rates, have smaller salaries after taking longer to find jobs, etc.
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#183The views feature isn't enabled until you read the announcement which is forced into the view on top of the page when you view the web site, you have to specifically click Hide to remove it and acknowledge the new option.
If you turn it off, it will retroactively remove any of your views, you can turn it off here http://www.quora.com/settings
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#184I understand people's outrage at this invasion of privacy - but honestly why do people think that anything they have ever done online hasn't already been tracked and recorded (not being paranoid or anything - just being realistic). There is a lot of value in figuring out who someone is, what they like and don't like and what they are likely to buy (ad networks/trackers etc.). Hence you MUST assume that everything you…
> why do people think that anything they have ever done online hasn't already been tracked and recorded
Because their friends, family, and coworkers don't get to see those records, and it is difficult (important, but difficult) to care about the unseen omnisciency of Google/Facebook data junkies.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quora was founded by facebookers. People who actually have the worst fucking view online about what should be private and what should be public. People who have no digital-cultural compass because the only reference point they have is from working at Facebook, thus they think that "this is how it was thought of and done at Facebook - and Facebook is the most overly hyped company in history, so I must be a fucking gen…
I get your perspective, but I think Facebook is basically correct in the long term. Privacy is basically a historical accident belonging to the few hundred years in the west where transportation tech got ahead of information technology. An excellent read on the topic is David Brin's "The Transparent Hand". He basically makes the argument that we face one of two futures: either all of us know everybody's business or a…
> Privacy is basically a historical accident belonging to the few hundred years in the west where transportation tech got ahead of information technology.
I don't think privacy should be dictated by whatever is possible with technology, it should be explicitly decided by people. Whichever way they decide.
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#186I understand people's outrage at this invasion of privacy - but honestly why do people think that anything they have ever done online hasn't already been tracked and recorded (not being paranoid or anything - just being realistic). There is a lot of value in figuring out who someone is, what they like and don't like and what they are likely to buy (ad networks/trackers etc.). Hence you MUST assume that everything you…
I can't think of any other situations where merely viewing a page is made public.
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#187I am very surprised that there is so much support for this feature. I can't think of any other situation where such a passive action is made public.
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#188This is my post. I didn't expect this on HN, but I shouldn't be too surprised I guess. I just want to stress that I really do love using Quora. It has some of the most unique content on the internet. It is because of this that I even care about my activity syndication there.
I upvoted your post for the same reason that you posted it - in hopes that Quora will decide not to kill privacy on the site. Now I kind of wish I hadn't since the sentiment on this thread is so anti-Quora.
I love Quora, too. The amount of knowledge you gain from even a few minutes there is truly incredible. If HN'ers could get over the fact that Quora is a social site started by Facebookers, I truly believe they would love it too. Quora (and the world) would benefit from more answers from the HN community.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think what I'm saying is that you're upset about a thing that is a necessary reaction to the telling of truth.
The reddit thread in question had an absurd amount of victim-blaming. Not to disparage reddit as a whole, but there's a lot of close-mindedness and misogyny in the more populated subreddits.
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I'm still confused how that gets by Google. The full text shows up in search results, but is blurred by CSS for humans. Isn't that not allowed? Even experts-exchange includes the readable plaintext answers way at the bottom if you scroll down, for that reason. edit: removed discussion of googleoff/googleon directives in the HTML source. Seemed suspicious, but apparently it's something to do with Google Search Applian…
I just asked about this on Quora (ha). Apparently the full results do not show up in search results: http://www.quora.com/Quora/Why-hasnt-Google-banned-Quora-for... (If anybody has a counterexample I'd be interested to see it, but try to make sure it's not just an old result that hasn't been re-indexed since the change.)
Why do I find it so funny that that question is being asked on Quora?