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"You can be unethical and still be legal that’s the way i live my life" - Mark Zuckerberg
Note for the downvoters: this is literally what he said.
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Yup. All the headlines following the pattern "${billionaire} {gains|loses} ${x} billion this week" are mostly just fluff, the marginal share price of any given stock wanders all over the place even without forced sales or people trying to buy them out. There's some interesting exceptions, like how Musk has managed to sell Tesla shares totalling more or less as much as the business itself has made in total lifetime re…
It doesn't seem to be mostly just fluff to me. MacKenzie Scott (Jeff Bezos' ex wife) show it can be turned into real money. As of December 2025 She had given away $7.1 billion in 2025 charitable donations, and $26.3 billion since 2019. In reality there is the ability to execute on the shares to turn them into real money. Jeff Bezos holds less than 10% of Amazon stock himself. Which is a huge amount of money, and a no…
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https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/ Cory Doctorow wrote a nice summary of the Zuckerstreisand book by Sarah Wynn-Williams. "First, Facebook becomes too big to fail. Then, Facebook becomes too big to jail. Finally, Facebook becomes too big to care."
> Eventually, [Zuckerberg] manages to sit next to Xi at a dinner where he begs Xi to name his next child. Xi turns him down. That Mark never fails to deliver.
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I'd love for that to come out during discovery when the lawsuit hits, but it probably never will. Blowing the whistle is also not a great option in this economy, although I wish more people did.
If it wasn’t written down and there’s no recordings of it, hard to prove.
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Note for the downvoters: this is literally what he said.
I downvoted because this was from an IM to a friend back in 2004, when Zuckerberg was twenty years old. I'm sure if you already hate him, this is so juicy and interesting, but I don't find 99.99% of the dumb shit young adults say to their friends in private conversations to be informative of almost anything.
I make an exception for Mark because he never changed his attitude or behavior, and if anything, he simply doubled down on it. I will never, ever, ever, EVER trust him to be a moral or ethical person.
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Yeah, I dont know how anybody stays sane without it. I have a list of over a thousand ASNs I blackhole at this point... Mine is a daily bash cronjob that fetches a text-based database and uses grep to build an nftables-apply script with all the IPs for the blocked ASNs. I keep meaning to share it, but it's embarrassingly messy I haven't had time to clean it up...
It's been a real game of cat and mouse over the last few years. I used to do daily iptables updates to block repeat scrapers on my small niche stats site I run. About 5-6 ago it become more common to see broader ranges - so I started blocking ASNs which worked great (esp for the regulars like Alibaba, Tencent, compromised DigitalOcean/OVH, ...). In the last 2-3 years though the overall bot traffic has skyrocketed - i…
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Yes it is a different kind of worth, but it is not worth less because of it. This common argument to not take market cap valuations seriously doesn't hold. True, Meta as an entire entity is not liquid. A forced sale in entirety would produce a massive reduction in compensation. But that is a highly unlikely and contingent reduction. It is also true that if you have Meta's equivalent in cash, the value of the cash is…
Would it be accurate to say market cap valuations are intrinsically valuable because they drive people to buy shares by projecting success?
Or do you mean a greater vs. lesser market cap? As compared to what?
If market cap was intrinsic value underlying itself, the business would be irrelevant. That is a circular “origin” of value that even novice investors would want to sell out of. That doesn’t work.
Success that matters for investors isn’t evidenced by a high market cap. But by a market cap not keeping up with business growth. I.e. shares becoming undervalued. By actual/predicted growth increasing faster than cap, or cap falling faster than actual/predicted downturns.
All those lawsuits against students who downloaded but didn't even redistribute mp3s. Less than a fair use transformation. Just the file download itself. ... Lesson learned: those students should have stolen millions instead!
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There is zero evidence Trump informed the FBI about Epstein. Trump was Epstein's close friend for many years. There are many photos of Trump partying with Epstein and young women. It is impossible that Trump did not know what Epstein was up to. At a minimum, he knew about tremendous abuse of children and did nothing to stop it, despite being a wealthy and powerful man. At worst, he fully participated. Fuck you and yo…
There is evidence that Trump informed the FBI and local law enforcement about Epstein. You may not find it convincing, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive. History is an ordered list. Yes, Trump was friends with Epstein for a number of years. But then what happened? Yes, Trump knew Epstein was a creep. The documentation indicates that he did do something about it. You can yell at me and be rude all you’d like thoug…
It's extremely clear that Trump did not do that. He continued the friendship.
What would you do in that situation? I'd burn that friend to the ground, legally, socially, every way I could. I certainly wouldn't still be hanging around with him, talking about how cool he is, etc.
Your standards for human behavior suck.