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“People are saying…”
“People say trust Facebook because they control the e2e and I can’t imagine an attack vector”
So much for those “many stories”
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It must be really hard to navigate the world when you think there should be never changing rules for every possible situation. I feel really sorry for you and anyone who things that laws are IFTTT style rules. Hope you find happiness at some point
And you still didn’t answer the question. Do you think that government regulators should block foreign content on the internet if they find that content producers are also distributors? Where do yoh draw the line about what type of media should be able to be distributed on the internet? Are you going to fine companies for putting their own content on thier own website without going through an intermediary and how doe…
I did answer the question, your questions are stupid and don't deserve an answer.
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oh the "monetization wizard" team. driving excel with hundreds of sheets to squeeze regulated products till the last drop. while documenting all the tweaks for the next round of certification with trepidly named forprofit industry self regulatory watch dogs. all the sexy stuff like Bluetooth beacon, and reverse email targeting etc are all before your team, because they're still not regulated and are profitable. i bet…
There’s a new thing happening in Silicon Valley particularly and technology generally: we don’t need people like you anymore. As with a lot of terms, “brogrammer” is one that initially referred to something progressive but got co-opted by the kind of people whose value add is “shady games”. There’s a breed of elite hackers now who understand power dynamics, the importance of optics, the value that accrues to which pa…
you are a tool. like i was when in ad fueled tech.
you have no grasp of the business, but you made bank thanks to people who made much much more and did understand all the shady deals they had you unknowingly work towards.
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There’s a new thing happening in Silicon Valley particularly and technology generally: we don’t need people like you anymore. As with a lot of terms, “brogrammer” is one that initially referred to something progressive but got co-opted by the kind of people whose value add is “shady games”. There’s a breed of elite hackers now who understand power dynamics, the importance of optics, the value that accrues to which pa…
you are a tool. like i was when in ad fueled tech. you have no grasp of the business, but you made bank thanks to people who made much much more and did understand all the shady deals they had you unknowingly work towards.
I might be a tool, but I certainly don’t make any mega bucks from anything ad or social at all, I left FB in 2018.
I did have a few extremely high-earning years (I think I broke 7 figures twice). And there’s a meme that I sort of partied it away or something (and in fairness, as a guy who grew up in the kinds of neighborhoods and houses sufficiently marginal that at 100x the legal limit for OSHA on factory workers, pediatric led poisoning probably wiped like, half my IQ off the board. I was lucky, I was just licking my fingers after touching walls, my brothers were young enough to be eating lead paint chips off the floor, so they had like 10x that, with that kind of background I went down one of the two routes poor kids go down after catching some cash and I blew easily a few hundred grand if not half a mill on pure conspicuous consumption. Easier than my kid brother, easily the greater natural talent, he drowned himself in a bathtub a couple years ago).
But most of it went to the 52.2% combined state and federal income tax that I told my CPA not to optimize at all. A modest but non-trivial amount went to a reasonable settlement around a failed marriage, and the lion’s share by far, like north of 75-80% went to misguided “support” of insolvent friends and family. My grandmother (may she rest) was a widow of an active duty US Navy submarine sonar operator in the Korean War, the mother of an active-duty Sidewinder tech on the USS Nimitz who saw action in Gulf One, and the country threw her to the wolves with like, 800 bucks a month in pension in San Diego (where I grew up, hence all the military stuff) that didn’t cover so much as rent: my grandfather’s deathbed request was that she would want for nothing, and she wanted for nothing. And really no one around me did.
Which makes me more than a little annoyed that people I’ve defended and continue to defend on e.g. HN like Bosworth or someone make shit up and spread it around, like that I got fired in 2018, and not quit in disgust at the cost of what would have been in today’s market like 7-12 million in RSUs. I gave 60 days notice and they asked for 90, I have this in writing. I increased Instagram’s revenue in 2017 personally by 10%, so, I don’t know, like well over a hundred billion by now and I’d done bigger launches. Seemed a pretty shitty send off, but this is the NFL, I get it.
I’m a pugnacious late-bloomer who would be at CERN if I had slightly different starting conditions and went into debt last year to KLA after the Nth round of coordinated wage fixing.
I appreciate that’s a bit of a biography, but it was a bit out of line with the Will Hunting thing about stepping outside. I felt I should explain myself.
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And you still didn’t answer the question. Do you think that government regulators should block foreign content on the internet if they find that content producers are also distributors? Where do yoh draw the line about what type of media should be able to be distributed on the internet? Are you going to fine companies for putting their own content on thier own website without going through an intermediary and how doe…
I did answer the question, your questions are stupid and don't deserve an answer.
Just maybe your ideas weren’t fully thought out?
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I did answer the question, your questions are stupid and don't deserve an answer.
Just maybe your ideas weren’t fully thought out?
My ideas are fleshed out just fine, you are being needlessly pedantic. Noone needs to enumerate every contingency to agree with a law passing or being enforced.
You live in a fantasy world.
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#219The article skips a lot of context to make it sound significantly worse than reality. Facebook didn't just randomly give Netflix access to everyone's messages. Specific user would need to purposefully log in to the Netflix app with their Facebook account in order to grant Netflix access to the chat functionality (intended to send movie recommendations to Facebook friends inside the Netflix app). https://about.fb.com/…
And if a user consented to Netflix-based chat, Facebook overshared all chat data, instead of only the Netflix chat data, because they couldn't be bothered to build a properly isolated API? That's like asking permission to read and write your entire phone, just to provide the ability to write and read back a file.
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So much for those “many stories”
lol I’m not going to try convince some nobody who thinks he’s safe cos Facebook makes a claim.
That’s a huge leap. I never claimed that anyone was safe. I just think your assertions have no basis or citations and you’re posting them from a throwaway. This is the equivalent of writing something on a bathroom stall.