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ljk··on Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenue in 2016
as another non-snapchat user, i feel it's like the quote "The only winning move is not to play"
ljk··on Ask HN: Online Security Tips for Newbie Freedom Activists?
any recommendation encryption for linux?
ljk··on New seat alert app for pregnant commuters
too passive-aggressive for my taste
ljk··on Will Mark Zuckerberg Be Our Next President?
that's assuming people still use Facebook at that time
ljk··on There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
seems like the original thread has fallen off the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13389935
ljk··on There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
> Walmart

I can use cash at Walmart

ljk··on Ask HN: Favorite subreddit?
https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/
ljk··on Introducing: The Facebook Journalism Project
pretty clear line:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/technology/facebook-censo...

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38073949

http://www.forbes.com/sites/xiangwang/2016/11/24/doing-busin...

list goes on

ljk··on Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
> Yes, she wasn't able to keep the ship from sinking. But I do think she put in a good-faith effort.

yahoo was a sinking ship already but she illegally fired men because they were men and got rid of remote workers, is that really considered "good-faith effort"?

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-marissa-mayer-told-remote...

ljk··on Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
they could make it opt-in from the beginning, but that'll never happen
ljk··on Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
i'm guessing to work for facebook the employees probably know what they're signing up for so it might not feel like "the wrong side" for them
ljk··on Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial
> Therein lies the irony: If Facebook doesn’t save faces in its database, it may save face in court.

is this irony? isn't it just a pun?

ljk··on Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
iirc it's the same for facebook: if they think you're using a fake name, you'll have to mail them your government-issued identification to get your account back.
ljk··on Building Jarvis
he isn't the type of the person to reach his goal regardless of rules...right?
ljk··on CHVote: Open-source e-voting system from Switzerland
relevant Tom Scott video on E-voting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
ljk··on 'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience
1. could the user run this in a VM and avoid some of the hassle?

2. part of the hate should go toward the proctorU company too right? they're the company who made the software

ljk··on Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him
Hm you have a good point...
ljk··on Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him
> I hope Spez can take a nice relaxing weekend holiday and let someone else deal with this shit-hurricane.

how are people defending Huffman right now? He should be fired over this, not a "nice relaxing weekend holiday"

ljk··on Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him
totally agree. he only came clean after getting caught. Who knows how many times he's done this.
ljk··on Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China
what are the chances this story will be considered as "fake news" and end up getting buried by facebook?
ljk··on MacBook Pro
seems to me Apple's implementation is just lazy...

sent from my macbook

ljk··on [dead]
seems like it http://downdetector.com/status/reddit
ljk··on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
(un?)fortunately big companies like these have enough resources to have failed experiments..
ljk··on Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Steps Down
money, power, connection, take your pick
ljk··on OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak
offtopic, but how does someone "discover" it? by sheer luck?
ljk··on OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak
like Tay? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
ljk··on Medical school can be brutal, and it’s making many of us suicidal
> They put the students through hell because that's what they had to go through, and they're rent seeking.

that's what i think too, especially when students go through rounds in the hospital they get "pimped"[1] it's like hazing on top of rent seeking

[1] https://drottematic.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/pimping-in-medi...

ljk··on Medical school can be brutal, and it’s making many of us suicidal
I wonder if the high salary is worth the mountain of debt on top of all this.

Could part of reason why the education is so expensive due to the monopoly in all the tests med students have to take? http://endstep2cs.com/petition/

ljk··on Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]
disrupting the $200 trillion industry!
ljk··on Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]
same here, seems like a gimmick, anyone remembers "frebble"?
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