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He gave away, or atleast appeared to give, 99% of his wealth away. I can think of better PR stunts for much less money. He is still a net positive person for me, who inspires me more than most others.
You are correct. He cut and pasted MySpace then spammed beyond anyones belief to voyeristically spy on chicks he could not get while at Harvard. Facebook will go the way of Compuserve, AOL, TheGlobe, Geocities, Friendster, MySpace. Too boot, the founding team called their users dumb fucks? How does a company like this even exist. Google is orders of magnitude more valuable in terms of real technology and real revenue…
Peter Thiel view on the $1B offer from Yahoo Starts at 1:15 https://youtu.be/54NIcx3HJSE?t=75
Sigh. Mark Zuckerberg is not the fellow to listen to if you want to build the future. He's only managed to re-invent the past. AOL, MySpace, FriendFeed, and probably a few others I'm forgetting. edit: Folks are getting a bit philosophical so I'll clarify. There are better models to look up to if you want to invent the future: Bret Victor, Elon Musk, Alan Kay, Richard Feynman, etc. Each of those people did invent the…
But that's all the future or the present or anything is... Iterating on old ideas. There aren't any new ideas, creativity isn't pulling things from the ether, it's looking at old things in new ways. Geocities was an iteration on having your own webserver, myspace was the new geocities, facebook was the new myspace, $x is the new facebook ... it's just continuing on and on. Netflix is the same on-demand video that had…
And from that evolved mechanisms for learning, consciousness, culture and technology. Amazing creative power in such a "small" task. I think the drive for survival is the root cause of all the other reinforcement signals that drive the brain development, such as the need for food, sex, sleep, companionship, learning and so on. Shaped under the influence of these reward systems, the brain evolves to create the subjective, intelligent and ineffable experience we all know we have but can't properly explain.
> I heard this story recently that at this conference where > someone has built a machine learning application where you > can take a picture of a lesion on someone's skin, and it can > detect instantly whether it's skin cancer with the accuracy > of the best dermatologists and doctors in the world. So who > doesn't want that, right? I wonder what that app is? Is it SkinVision[1] or IBM's proprietary medical techonol…
What about privacy? Doctors in my country (France) are legally obliged to respect the privacy of their patients and the confidentiality of medical data. A third-party cloud service, not so much.
Edit: To be more precise, I'm not saying that medical apps can't be done right. I'm just disagreeing with the implication that an efficient medical app is automatically a good thing.
You are correct. He cut and pasted MySpace then spammed beyond anyones belief to voyeristically spy on chicks he could not get while at Harvard. Facebook will go the way of Compuserve, AOL, TheGlobe, Geocities, Friendster, MySpace. Too boot, the founding team called their users dumb fucks? How does a company like this even exist. Google is orders of magnitude more valuable in terms of real technology and real revenue…
Please leave HN if you are going to post emotionally charged, baseless, unfounded, irrational thoughts. I've learned nothing from your comment and I'm worse off for having read it.
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=mar...
See the revenue here: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG/key-statistics?p=GOOG
You should leave HN for trying to suppress truth and free speech.
If you disagree with someone copying and pasting myspace, essentially, and then calling their users "dumb fucks" you need to leave HN, now.
In principle, you do not call fellow humans "dumb fucks". No decent human being disagrees with this.
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Interviewer: What about the bigger bets, like making a large acquisition or the rollout of News Feed or something like that? How do those decisions work? Mark: So I actually think when you do stuff well, you shouldn't have to do big, crazy things, right? So you actually want to evolve in a way where you're working with your community and making steps and learning. So take News Feed, for example. There was a relativel…
Interviewer: Another thing that I think Facebook has done exceptionally well is hiring, and I always tell founders that this is the thing you have to get good at. So how have you hired your team and what do you look for when you bring people on? Mark: If you think about it, I started the company when I was 19, so I can't institutionally believe that experience is that important, right, or else I would have a hard tim…
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