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polyomino··on My experience as a Unit-18 Berkeley Lecturer
I would struggle to find a single meal eating out for that price at this point lol
polyomino··on Ethereum Has Issues
opcodes that are almost all disabled in the real bitcoin
polyomino··on Ethereum Has Issues
You're citing bitcoin sv? Is this a joke?
polyomino··on Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
I'm not denying that they claim to be republican, but their actions do serve both parties. As such, I don't think their claim to be republican is particularly meaningful.
polyomino··on Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
>Stagwell, formerly The Stagwell Group, is a global marketing and communications group. Founded in 2015 by Mark Penn.

>Penn was a chief strategist and pollster in the Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign

polyomino··on Web3 is centralized and inefficient
Yeah, and Apple sold people on "privacy" and now operate a surveillance network against Chinese citizens. They are the archetypical example of this playing out. Promising decentralization and instead you get metamask overriding the blockchain because some jpegs are illegal.
polyomino··on Study: Effectiveness of Apple's app tracking transparency
Facebook follows the rules because they are a big target, others not so much...
polyomino··on I changed my mind about advertising
>if we assume that the market would have converged on the correct price in the absence of advertising

>the value of money is well known and non-negotiable

I wouldn't start with these assumptions since prices fluctuate on their own for somewhat unpredictable reasons. Just because advertising is immoral in some ideal world, doesn't mean it's immoral in a real one.

polyomino··on Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
no
polyomino··on Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands
How long until they sell phones at a loss?
polyomino··on Will charging for posts lead to higher social media content quality?
The problem that comes to mind is that the site is required to grow in accounts in order to continue functioning. In the long term, you'd need to add additional sources of revenue.
polyomino··on Strengthening our efforts against the spread of non-consensual intimate images
That's not a gray area. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.
polyomino··on My First Impressions of Web3
bitcoin can run on a raspberry pi, so probably. It'll probably take a few days to sync though.
polyomino··on Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?
You should switch managers. In this job market, no reason to keep working with them if they aren't working for you.
polyomino··on WhatsApp has removed answer to “how do I choose not to share data with FB”
I think they would have legal write those terms not engineers. Or perhaps some copywriter and then reviewed by legal.
polyomino··on Facebook can pursue malware lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group -US appeals court
NSO group actually produced something that seems to work. In retrospect, Cambridge Analytica was overhyped and largely ineffective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#Assessment...
polyomino··on Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated
This is a new fundamental building block that would help make these types of scenarios possible. However, by the time end users get an implementation, it will likely be more complicated than a single transaction for the reasons you mention and others.

Also note, as exemplified by altcoins it is always possible to trade off decentralization or security for more features.

polyomino··on WhatsApp end-to-end encrypted backups security assessment
Facebook is in china? News to me.
polyomino··on Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment falls due
Technically it doesn't stop, but they are optimizing a complex system, and want to mitigate negative effects on their measures.
polyomino··on Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2021 Results
perhaps you should do the math, 5 cents per user would be 2.81 billion * 0.05 = ~$7 million. They said in the earnings report they will spend $5 Billion this year on moderation.

Feel free to file a complaint with the SEC.

polyomino··on WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
What other candidates are there?
polyomino··on Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices
This reminds me of the time that Steve Ballmer did an Q&A with Microsoft interns saying basically that he's happy everyone in China pirates Windows because then Microsoft sets the standard.
polyomino··on Facebook Recruiter Correspondence
No choice but to create content for hacker news
polyomino··on Coinbase Cloud
Coinbase has been the slowest to adopt new bitcoin features since they realized their business model is actually an altcoin casino.
polyomino··on Tesla pushes U.S. to boost fuel economy penalties
The rich do most of the polluting? How can that possibly be true given the rich are a tiny minority of the population.
polyomino··on Facebook under fire over secret teen research
lets be real, recruiters will take notice no matter what
polyomino··on Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
We don't have enough information to root cause the problem
polyomino··on Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
Same day as onlyfans fold. Coincidence?
polyomino··on The Apple Psi System [pdf]
I guess they have to call them "employees" in California now. Do they do this before or after becoming Facebook moderators?
polyomino··on The Apple Psi System [pdf]
Stop defending Apple! They have always handed over their Chinese users' data to the authorities. They were always willing to compromise user privacy to the state.

They once had a marketing stunt where they wouldn't unlock an iPhone for the FBI only after they had already handed them decrypted backups from the very same phone.

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