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> It's deceptive to list the revenue in dollars and the loss in dollars per share.

It's just convention. Earnings per share (EPS) is a very commonly used metric, sales per share much less so.

It doesn't get into the numbers, but it expressly gets into the problems.

Googlers are definitely loud and politically opinionated at the NYC office.

Seattle/Kirkland tends to be older, more domestically settled people hired from Microsoft/sometimes Amazon, so just demographically it’s no surprise that they don’t agitate as loudly for social justice.

Once you hit any significant volume on Square, you can call them and move to a cost-plus rate.

Wix is roughly a fifth the size of Square by market cap (4B vs 20B respectively). Makes this Weebly acquisition seem like a great deal for Square.

Next Square will expand Weebly into offering more tightly integrated online presence management services for small businesses. E.g. a SinglePlatform competitor for restaurants. They can then use their existing relationships with small businesses to cross-sell (which has been their modus operandi for a while now).

In what way is this Github repo of yours a “model of Facebook likes data”?

Interestingly, Salesforce was originally planning to build a 14-acre campus in San Francisco (the Mission Bay neighborhood), but had to scrap those plans due to growth[1].

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Salesforce-s-fast-gr...

In what way is this deceptive? When you delete emails do you expect it to disappear from the other person's inbox as well?

> some people view it as, yes, completely and totally a net-negative on the world [...] I think the good that facebook does do is both incidental and replaceable.

OP wasn’t claiming that Facebook is a net positive for the world, just that it indisputably provides a valuable service for at least some people[0] and improving the privacy features is only a good thing. It’s unproductive and misguided to attack Facebook for this.

[0] https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/ex-flds-new-chapt...

Apps on iOS don’t need to ask for network access.

In what sense is this “arbitrage”?

Every exchange that I’m aware of has a rule allowing them to roll back clearly erroneous transactions. “Clearly erroneous” isn’t always clearly defined, but it would obviously apply in the GS case (huge volume executed at $1).

Nothing about this is fraud.

What if a group of users believes and behaves similarly, without coördinating amongst themselves?

Should that be prevented? It's not really distinguishable from the scenario you prevented.

> There's no way to run userscripts/WebExtensions on IOS. Your device is no longer a user-focused tool to access media, your browser is closer to being a "smart tv" than a customize-able information explorer and augmenter essentially controlled by no one.

I have (personally) never had the desire to write/run a userscript on iOS. If my device being a “smart tv” lets me focus more on other areas of my life (i.e. projects, hobbies, and career) rather than fiddling with my tools, then that’s a trade off I’m more than happy to make.

I suspect many other people share this point of view.

That was Freebase, which was acquired by Google for use in their Knowledge Graph.

Many companies provide household income data (e.g. Acxiom, Epsilon). It's available to anyone who'll pay for it.

There is nothing to suggest Uber "[does] not know if you are poor", they could very easily be buying this data on their users.

> One of the signals they were getting from that study was suicide rate. I'm not certain how it was measured; I don't care. I saw that it was measured and decided that it was not a place I could stand to work.

Where did you see that suicide rate was measured? Did you work at Facebook?

It’s obviously not within the boundaries of what Facebook was willing to tolerate, given that they changed how the APIs worked 3 years ago to prevent this behavior.

I very much doubt that most employees at Facebook share your viewpoint that Facebook is a net negative for society. It’s almost a tautology—people who feel that way won’t seek employment there.

I can guarantee you (at least one) other major tech companies have the same system in place. Companies that operate in multiple jurisdictions don’t want all of their assets compromised because of a raid in one city/state/country.

E.g. Brazil was at odds with WhatsApp over their message encryption — Brazil wanted WhatsApp to stop encrypting messages so that it would be possible to subpoena chat logs. If Brazilian police raided a hypothetical WhatsApp Brazil office, would it not be prudent for Facebook to cut off data access from that office? Especially given that the nature of technology means that once police have an employee’s laptop and can compel them to enter their password, they have access to essentially all of the company’s data worldwide.

> Never once did I ever refer to any of our customers or clients as "dumb fucks". Why? What did they do to Zuck?

> Although, I did refer to AOL executives, FBI agents, Secret Service agents, federal prosecutors and lame wannabe hackers as dumb fucks. Both then and now. And I work with the federal government, with an agency that's often unfairly demonized by a variety of people.

Your argument against the possibility someone has undergone personal growth is that you yourself have not experienced personal growth?

Some of us can imagine having conversations like that, jokingly or seriously, in our teens while having better taste/a better worldview now as adults.

crucible

noun cru·ci·ble \ ˈkrü-sə-bəl \

2: A severe test

> We should be asking why even an authorized API that can't stop you from copying the data doesn't count as a systemetized data breach.

Is your argument that no company should offer any developer APIs at all? It's impossible to stop apps from storing data that they have access to, given malicious intent.

This is like saying that the existence of the Google Calendar API is a "systemetized data breach" because an app could copy data from it once authorized by a user.

That’s the point. People in cars have to be able to avoid objects in front of them (whether that’s drivers suddenly stopping or other obstructions) and so do bicyclists.

Be surprised, because they do not require a charge after every use.

What would homeless people do with the scooters? They can’t ride them without paying, because the scooters need to be unlocked in the app, and there doesn’t seem to be an incentive for them to vandalize the scooters.

> Thank you! Almost anyone could have just made a cat's cradle reference. You went straight to the source and elevated the conversation in the process.

Polywater wasn't the "source" for Cat's Cradle. The book was published in 1963 and (per Wikipedia) the West didn't take notice of polywater until 1966 at the earliest.

From his bio:

> information security research. ceo @ sudo security group (https://verify.ly).

> previously: founder of "Chronic Dev Team" responsible for many years of iOS jailbreaking solutions (24kPwn, absinthe, corona, greenpois0n, etc).

Quantified self apps e.g. Human, Moves.

> why should Citi be forced to "wealth re-distribute" these funds from one set of customers to another set?

Nothing leads me to believe that the second set is different from the first. In fact, the word “refund” suggests they’re the same.