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Can you go into more detail or give examples of the companies ethical beliefs? This is the first I've seen someone speak differently about it, and I'm very interested to hear what you have to say.

But those are probably allowed to be publicly available by those users. Which is what Zuckerberg is saying in this statement. What he _isn't_ including in his statement is content created by FB about a person (used for marketing, etc.).

> “Every piece of content that you share on Facebook, you own and you have complete control over who sees it and how you share it, and you can remove it at any time,”

This sentence has been bothering me because it feels like his lawyers wrote it. It's specifically worded to not include issues like this one.

Ref: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/techburger/article/Zuckerbe...

Which is a little surreal. I think I get the same way though. It really freaks me out, but there's not much I can do about it, so I'll laugh it off. I don't use social media (although I'm still on Reddit), and I still feel this way.

Reply All did an episode on this that was really good: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/109-facebook-spying#ep...

The thing I thought was interesting is just how adamant people are about FB spying via mic.

They also had an update in their year-end episode: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/113-reply-alls-year-en...

Both worth a listen.

Maybe I've just never really noticed before. Maybe a case of glancing and just imagining the `.com` after.

Side note: I didn't know Google had their own TLD. Is this new? Seems weird that an organization has that ability to do that.

Thank you for this! They give a surprising information about companies and their practices. This will definitely help with purchasing ethical and quality clothes.

I had just heard about these guys too, and actually have been looking for stores like this. I'd like to switch out all my clothes that wear out fast with responsibly sourced, quality clothing. Hopefully this one will deliver.

Some people need it because their brains is just plain imbalanced, I get that. For some, that imbalance can be fixed with lots of work, however for some, it can't. I'm _hoping_ to be able to fix mine, but I'm willing to work with a doctor to figure out if that's possible.

Thanks for the reminder. I'm trying to tough out a month, because side effects tend to wear off within 3-4 weeks, and review with my doctor and therapist then.

This is the main reason I stayed away from medication for 12 years. That is until 3 weeks ago.

I decided late 2017, after a major depressive episode, that I needed to get help after 12 years of dealing with this depression. I kept thinking that I had a handle on it, and then it coming back weeks, months or years later.

I read The Depression Cure (https://www.amazon.com/Depression-Cure-6-Step-Program-withou...) about 5 years ago, and it helped for awhile, but it started to worsen again, and after awhile, getting the right diet, exercise and sleep seemed impossible because of the depression and anxiety.

I started therapy about 3 months ago, and finally agreed to try medication. I started taking Zoloft 3 weeks ago, and the side effects are downright awful. I made it through the first 3 weeks though, and I'm starting to feel a lot better.

Zoloft might not end up being the right medication for me, and there might be a better one, but my goal is to find something that takes 10%-20% of the depression and anxiety symptoms away so that I can start my path to curing this beast with the methods Dr. Iliardi outlines in The Depression Cure. Once I'm at a point where I'm better, I'm going to try and ween off the medication and try to live a healthy, great life without SSRIs.

My main problem with this study is that it's only in the Bay Area. I live in Ohio, and I've actually found Waze to be MUCH better. I tend to be at my destination before my estimated time, unlike what this article describes. This may have to do with several factors though: Less traffic density, less people using Waze, etc.

In all seriousness though, wouldn't sending a validation email that has them click a link suffice?

From his writing, it doesn't sound like he's angry, just sharing what he got from using the site.

Definitely looking for a solution.

I actually loved Lanier's "You Are Not A Gadget", it was the first deep dive of technology philosophy that I've ever read, and was definitely worth finishing.

I'll definitely check out some of these other ones you mention. Thanks for the recommendations!

Not sure if it was intentional, but Crichton here uses the same Pollan metaphor that Johnson makes in his book, The Information Diet. In fact the tagline is right on his site: http://informationdiet.com/

I just got finished reading the Information Diet a couple weeks ago and was pretty disappointed in the book overall. Same with this article. Both seem to have a problem that I agree with: we should be more intentional about the information we consume. However, the "solution" in both isn't fully realized or it's tainted with an agenda of some sort.

I'm really ready for a good book on this topic as I raise my kids in the junk knowledge/misinformation age.

Anybody have any recommendations?

This is kind of what I'm thinking. I have anxiety issues that I take meds for. This doesn't seem like something that would work for me.

I guess I should have clarified, I didn't want to sound snarky while asking what the benefit would be, I'm actually curious.

Asking honestly, what would be the benefit of this?

Huh. This is an interesting concept. The homepage talks about CS concepts being "separated from the distractions and technical details of having to use computers", and that is definitely a key factor for us. Thank you!

This was helpful and enlightening. We have kids that we're planning on homeschooling. Finding curriculum or even good information on how to introduce technology to kids in a meaningful seems difficult.

This is my concern with buying anything like this, or even using languages like Scratch. I learned by using a computer with the languages that exist for production software and web applications. The biggest thing for me is, how do we teach some of these concepts to our kids at a young? What does that kind of curriculum look like?

I found "Teach Your Kids to Code" (https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Kids-Code-Parent-Friendly/...) the other day, and it looks promising, but I'd be interested in other resources as well.

EDIT: I may be wrong about Scratch's usefulness as a teaching tool, it has just been a concern. I'd be glad to hear personal experiences!

I had never heard of this until I saw it at the end of this article. That picture made me so uncomfortable. Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy came to mind.

However, this technology seems like a really great step forward.

I think this year we will see more therapeutic apps that deal with mental illness. I also think, that this is just a simple beginning and that we'll see bigger and better apps, maybe even this one will greatly improve with time.

This reminds me of another app I saw recently, Calm Harm (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/calm-harm/id961611581?mt=8). At first I thought that was a strange approach, but as I looked through the screenshots, and read the reviews, I realized that this really seemed to be helping people. I don't struggle with self-harm, but I do struggle with depression and anxiety, so I'm glad to see apps like this being created.

I was pretty bored with the app ecosystem in 2017, but Calm Harm gave me hope that there are still some people out there innovating and actually working to use our existing technology to help people for good rather than just making some money off advertising or Yet Another To Do App.

The only thing I get concerned about with these apps is the storage of this data and how it can be made personally identifiable. Hopefully these angles are tackled with people's privacy in mind.

These seem to be more about how to read poetry and literature critically. I guess I'm looking more along the lines cutting back how much information I take in, and choosing better what information to take in.

This is actually something I've been thinking about lately. I'm nearing the end of reading The Information Diet (which is just OK IMHO) but that one thing that stuck is that he mentions getting more information about your local news so that you can get involved in your community.

I can't stand the local newspapers because they are very regularly inaccurate. But there really isn't much else in the form of good local news source.

Only problem is, I fell out of love with Google awhile ago. I don't really want to use their products due to how much data they gather and also fear of them killing the product within 5 years.

It was 12 and 27 for me. I can't wait to read these to my kids as they grow up. So many lessons within.

Congrat Bootstrap team!

I have been really impressed with Bootstrap 4. I've been updating our site with each beta release. Glad that there are no breaking changes between beta 3 and stable as promised!