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Mozilla does seem to be trying very hard to make those of us who have been trying to lead people away from Google/etc and onto their browser look like hypocrites.

You say that like those are the only options. They may unfortunately be the most common, but outside of the Silicon Valley brogrammer bubble there are companies working on real problems, and not just trying to expand corporate mass surveillance while patting themselves on the back for "changing the world".

"In order to verify your identity so we know it's really you trying to delete your account, please send a picture of your government ID.. and also some nudes." - MZ

I question the sanity of anyone working at uber who isn't at least making preparations to abandon ship at this point.

I'm sure this Facebook propaganda will give us an unbiased and honest point of view on this!

> "In this post, we want to give you some insights into how the research team at Facebook works with our product teams to incorporate well-being principles"

This must be why they perform unconsented-to psychological studies to see if they can make hundreds of thousands of users more depressed.

> This sounds extremely foolish. Why would anyone intentionally wish to hold such a large amount of a token that all evidence points towards being actually worthless

Yep. Which makes the "institutional investors are handing Bitfinex hundreds of millions of real dollars in exchange for Tether" claims people are pushing even more ridiculous.

Do the downvoters care to explain themselves instead of just trying to bury my post? Do you guys think the constant forks, obvious coordinated market manipulation, constantly changing story about what Bitcoin is supposed to be, and general obnoxiousness and ridiculous behavior of the majority of Bitcoin cultists makes Bitcoin look good to outsiders?

As someone who has been involved with and supportive of Bitcoin for several years (I started mining in 2011), the fact that it's impossible to point out any of the negative aspects of Bitcoin and the community surrounding it without just being downvoted or accused of "not holding any Bitcoin and being jealous" is starting to become incredibly tiresome. Denying the negative aspects of this sector is just going to encourage those negatives to continue. You guys are your own worst enemy.

I know a number of people who won't touch Bitcoin with a 500ft pole because of this shit. These are people with large sums of money that could be flowing into the sector, who are being chased away by the stupidity and shysterish behavior of the Bitcoin community and shady exchanges.

Gloating is a strong indicator of insecurity.

Why do you need validation from randoms on the internet so badly?

Solid trolling.

The Bitcoin "community" seems to try very hard to prevent that from happening, even if you ignore all of the shady activity various exchanges are engaged in.

What you're trusting is people who are putting their mouths where their money is, hoping to create more greater fools to keep their investments going.

TV doesn't have the ability to tailor targeted brainwashing for each individual viewer based on a profile created from thousands of data points.

> it's really no different than emailing pics or breaking out wallet snapshots during parties.

It's more like breaking out wallet snapshots at a party, handing them off to a middleman who scans and stores them for future analysis, then maybe shows them to your friends (with some advertisements mixed in) depending on whether or not their algorithm decides it's profitable to do so.

They will change the world, just not in the same way Google's PRopaganda team would have you believe.

The main change will be that Google gets to record and analyze even more of the world's private interactions than they do now.

I'd be pretty upset if I grew up to find out that my parents had been sharing pictures and details of my life with an advertising company from an early age. You've taken away his ability to make an informed choice whether or not he wants Facebook to have a permanent record of his entire life from birth... and for what? Internet points?

It does have some similarities to an MLM scheme. Mainly the part where a bunch of obnoxious people are doing everything they can to con others to buy in and make them money.

That wasn't really the point I was making, which had more to do with the fact that having a middleman recording everything you do will be so normalized to them that they'll never give it a second thought.

However, that is related to the point you made.. though you seem to be trying to write it off as a non-concern by using the 8 year old with a pony example.

Right, but "<incredibly young child> does <thing child didn't actually do>" is a tried and tested clickbait method that seems to work every time. That's what they were going for.

"6 year old's parents make $11M posting videos of their child on youtube" doesn't have the same clickbait value, though.

It's kind of sad that this clickbait is already sitting the the top of HN.

BBSes weren't collecting psychological profiles, facial recognition data, credit card transaction histories, public records, etc.. to build profiles with which to manipulate their users on a mass scale. BBSes didn't encourage users to share information about their friends and family who weren't on those BBSes with them. BBSes didn't follow their users around on other BBSes and document everything they did or said on them. BBSes didn't track their users' physical locations 24/7. They also didn't have psychologists on staff helping them to figure out how to make their services as addictive as possible by exploiting various flaws in human psychology. Nobody ever said "if I stop using this BBS I'll lose contact with my friends and family".

Beyond the very basic fact that people sometimes communicated with each other over BBSes, there is absolutely no comparison between them and what is happening right now.

I'm terrified to see what happens when the generation of children who are being sold out to Facebook/Google/etc by their parents from birth grows up and ends up in positions of power.

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If you replace "education" with "indoctrination" in that statement, you end up with what he actually means.

Targeted brainwashing as a service

> What's wrong with being identified with your beliefs?

Depending on what your beliefs are, maybe nothing.. for now. However, if government or corporate interests decide that your beliefs are an issue for them at any point in the future, having them permanently stored could become an issue for you in the future.

> I would love to hear other perspectives.

You are hearing other perspectives. You've just chosen to write them off as "the evil media being angry that Facebook is replacing them and lashing out".

I think the current Bitcoin hype cycle is ultimately going to be damaging to the future of the sector as a whole. Bitcoin's capability to actually be used as it was supposed to be is currently a terrible joke, and thousands of people who couldn't grasp the most basic concepts about it even if they tried are throwing large amounts of money at something they don't understand at all. The current state of Bitcoin tech is so far behind what the hype would have you believe.

The number of posts from people who delusionally believe Bitcoin is a sure thing, "safer than a savings account", and has nowhere to go but up has increased exponentially in recent weeks.. along with posts from people taking out loans to "invest".

That's going to leave a bad taste in the mouths of many new 'adopters' (speculators) when the rate of incoming greater fools slows down and the market takes a massive downturn.

This won't end well.

I might get smacked down by the mods for this, but I don't really care in this particular case, because someone needs to say it. It takes a seriously repulsive human being to justify/defend what Duterte is doing. You should really re-evaluate your belief system, because it's severely defective.

"Each of our workstations is infused with playa dust from the temple at Burning Man before shipment"

The number is "growing" to give Duterte and his friends justification to ramp up and continue their mass murder campaign and allow them to continue convincing the brainwashed masses that they're in constant danger and need their "protection" from the evil drug zombie hordes.