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I have friends who work at Facebook. I still don't know how they rationalize their employment.
Really simple. They need to pay their bills. I'm sure your frinds rather be working for some project that would make the world better (hey Linux, I'm at you!:) But, still, they have to pay bills. That's life. Don't like it? Change it.
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Really simple. They need to pay their bills. I'm sure your frinds rather be working for some project that would make the world better (hey Linux, I'm at you!:) But, still, they have to pay bills. That's life. Don't like it? Change it.
I've never bought the excuse about "needing to pay the bills". If you are wiling to compromise your convictions for money, how strong are those convictions in the first place. It reminds me of a friend of mine whose wife works for the TSA at the airport. Honestly, I have zero respect for her, but hey, at least she can pay her mortgage right? While Facebook isn't on the same level as working for the TSA, it is definit…
2nd ¶: your friend loves her, and she helps him to lift the weight. Who are you to question that?
3rd ¶: thank god your parents are such great persons.
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Really simple. They need to pay their bills. I'm sure your frinds rather be working for some project that would make the world better (hey Linux, I'm at you!:) But, still, they have to pay bills. That's life. Don't like it? Change it.
Anybody working at Facebook can get multiple job offers in the bay area within a week.
HN, I will be disappointed if by this time tomorrow I don't see "Show HN: government id image generator (no numbers, so it can't be used as an fraudulent ID)" For FB's, they have to excuse from making an open source client side pre-upload number-removing tool.
Terrible idea, you'll likely be a felon for distribution of fraudulent federal Identification. Same for anyone who uses it.
I am tempted to join instagram just so i can upload a picture of ian lavender - "Don't tel Him Pike"
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In addition to that, they do some good for the larger community, such as starting the Open Compute Project ( http://www.opencompute.org/ ). That effort is what has me considering Facebook as a next career step (I would love to work on that stuff). Now, this is not an attempt to defend Facebook's actions here or in their other recent efforts. I am merely providing another point of evidence to support MichaelGG's point…
Yes, I know all of that but weighed against the new social graph search and (what appears to me) to be a disingenuous and constantly shifting privacy policy, it isn't much.
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It seems like a legitimate way to reconcile one's conscience with the realpolitik of modern IT employment, engaged as we are in building the surveillance state/police state/nanny state we were all warned about by 20th century novelists and historians. I try to do this when I buy an RIAA-published album or watch a Hollywood film. I make sure I donate an equivalent amount to civil-liberties orgs (EFF, ALA, and others)…
Kinda funny, when I inadvertently buy a TV show or movie that features global warming propaganda, I donate the same amount of money to Climate Audit or Bishop Hill.
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Kinda funny, when I inadvertently buy a TV show or movie that features global warming propaganda, I donate the same amount of money to Climate Audit or Bishop Hill.
Just to clarify, you think that there is no "climat change" a.k.a. "global warming"?
Your comment's actually a pretty good illustration of the effect the grandparent is (probably) talking about.
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I'm thinking of a visual catalog. Where if I commit a crime and Facebook can be used as evidence, if one of my photos is my license, it guarantees that it's me. Maybe catalog isn't the right word, but some means for quickly matching a profile to an individual.
It doesn't. Ebay asked me for a scan of my passport a while ago. I changed all of the details, including my name, and they accepted it.