Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

Post by vsareto » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC

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>Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix I'm sorry, but that show was really, really dumb and unrealistic and I couldn't sit through it. 3 engineers (notably: cringey white dudes) are never following one single user and controlling his interactions like that and it did more harm than good by pretending it works that way. This implies someone is directly accountable, showing up to work every day and fucking with people'…

They weren't engineers. It was shows attempt to humanize the algorithm. I agree it was cringy but the shows intent wasn't bad.

Post by threatofrain » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC

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Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix, see how far off the rails the industry has gone, then come back and tell me that Apple is the bad guy here. Someone needs to start standing up for what’s right, and Apple is probably the only one with the size and cash reserves to be able to do it. For all the free market cheerleaders, remember this: we already have laws in place preventing or regulating businesses from engaging…

Apple is a giant corporation with varied interests. In some areas they align with consumers (they’re not heavily in advertising... yet) while in others their anti-competitive behavior is harmful. Writing these impassioned posts like you’re defending the decisions of your favorite sports team that can do no wrong... oof.

Post by chutsu » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 4:48 PM UTC

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What are you on about? The show is about how Apps are made addicitve regardless of race, why are you pulling the race card when the tech is indiscriminant? Its like saying I shouldn't watch a documentary on the NBA cause the documentary is not diverse enough, where are all the brown, white, yellow people at? xD

>when the tech is indiscriminant It sometimes isn't, but why did they put 3 white dudes in charge of messing with someone's life when they know that's the prevailing stereotype of SV engineers? Could it be that they were trying to capitalize on that stereotype for shock value? I'd think so.

Post by vsareto » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 5:06 PM UTC

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>when the tech is indiscriminant It sometimes isn't, but why did they put 3 white dudes in charge of messing with someone's life when they know that's the prevailing stereotype of SV engineers? Could it be that they were trying to capitalize on that stereotype for shock value? I'd think so.

> why did they put 3 white dudes in charge of messing with someone's life Maybe because they earnt their position through merit? Maybe because white males are still a majority of the work force in Google, Facebook, and may more? The probability of picking 3 random senior people who are white are not that slim. I as an Asian man take issue that just because you see white people in the show and automatically assume wha…

Post by falcolas » Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 5:42 PM UTC

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> I have no desire for Apple to market my software for me Yet you do have a desire for it to run on Apple's hardware, under Apple's OS. And thus you have a desire to do business with them. That you disagree with their rules for doing business by itself doesn't make them the bad guy. They're offering many of the same terms offered by Microsoft, Google (Android Play store and Stadia), and Sony after all.

This is the mistake, as a developer I want my app to run on your hardware, and the hardware of millions of others, it hardware that you happen to have bought from apple, but it's no longer theirs, and if you want to run my app, and I want you to, that should be our choice, not Apples.