Calvin02

You forgot music videos and magazines!!

I remember a time when music videos and magazines were the leading causes of teen mental health decline.

Also, what is social media? My nieces and nephews spend more time on messaging than they do on TT or IG.

Let’s say we get rid of TT and IG, do we think that all the issues surrounding YA mental health will go away?

If I were running a social network, I would prioritize using AI to describe photos and using that as part of the targeting data over the 1-1.5 seconds of audio in Live Photos.

I'm old enough to remember that the same media that's complaining about Social Media's affects on Teens is the same media that was after video games, Hollywood, music videos.

Moral panic has always sold newspapers.

I'm not saying you're wrong but I think this perspective has helped me see things a bit differently.

So, my anecdotal parental evidence suggests otherwise.

My oldest was upset that her friend didn’t acknowledge a message she had sent and apparently changed the topic. Apparently this friend always does that. My daughter was complaining that it is unlikely that this person didn’t see the message that my daughter had sent.

It is a complex world. I just live in it. I will never understand the subtle nuanced rules. I’ve made my peace with it. I just listen.

What is social media? My daughters use messaging more than they use TikTok, IG, or BeReal. They send 100s of messages to each other in a span of 5 mins.

However, even within their close circle of friends, I see the same social issues (peer pressure, need for validation, etc.).

Great. Let’s copy and paste China’s rules on western social media apps and apply them to Chinese owned social media apps in the US.

I wonder how many people in the US will use TikTok if the rules require government censorship and data sharing.

Yeah, and that she joined just as the internal demand was probably going down. She was hired in anticipation of a need that didn’t materialize. Kudos to her for “fighting” for work. Most people would be tempted to slack off.

I'll preface this by saying that I'm not a crypto fan, but I felt that NFTs were at least a promising use case for blockchain (* in addition to money, to avoid derailing this discussion).

They solve a real world problem of ownership of digital assets in an interesting way. We need a solution here and NFTs proposed an "open" one. I wish we keep exploring this space.

Does she work more than 40 hours / week? If so, she very likely gets paid 1.5x for any hours worked above 40.

Do you think Apple and Foxconn are paying Indian women time and a half for hours above 40?

That said, I'm nearly 100% certain that these women would rather have these jobs working in a clean facility than the alternative.

On the contrary, FTC seems to have given up on pressing problems for the American consumers (like price gouging in broadband, generics, etc.) and is instead going after "trendy" topics that will get them and their leaders more press coverage.

Not specifically this but for its part Google typically bundles these under “Traffic acquisition cost”.

This is the amount of money Google pays to third parties to get traffic into its services.

To add to this, can we put a rest to asking founders who sold out and are no longer connected with the acquiring company about their opinions?

It isn't like Google's advertising model was a secret or difficult to envision where it was going.

If that wasn't a problem when you sold out, why is it a problem now? Or if you were already worried about this, why'd you sell to Google?

It is the latter.

Heat pumps are much better for the environment compared to the other sources of heating. Depending on where you live, you still need to heat your place and if so, heat pumps are better than other traditional methods like natural gas, wood, oil, or electricity.

Similar to air conditioning, if you want to minimize your impact on the climate, you could set your temperature lower in the winter and put on a few more layers and/or set the temperature higher in the summer to minimize your usage of heat pump/air conditioner. This puts less pressure on the grid and demand for electricity generation.

Not saying that you're wrong but it'll be an uphill battle for Snap.

Snap's focus on salacious content turned off a lot of my friends. People wanted something a bit more wholesome than Snap but not as sterile as Instagram. TikTok fit the bill perfectly.

Yes, but it also comes with giving Plaid all the data and history about your bank account transactions.

I'm genuinely curious: Have you compared their efficiency levels with newer appliances?

Certainly better than the alternative headline: gaps in or lack of security led to <some> tragedy.

These are both self feeding machines. Protestors go to Davos because they get media coverage. WEF, while not directly supporting protestors, also benefits from the coverage of protests because it keeps an otherwise unnecessary forum in the news.

I think the premise that no social media = no depressed kids is pretty weak, imo.

Also, what's social media? Are messaging apps not social media?

This feels like another one of those 'violent video games are bad' arguments.

I was under the impression that FTX US wasn’t implicated yet and only FTX Bahamas was. While SBF likely broke US laws, it’ll take a while to investigate those and charge him.

Additionally, this didn’t really touch “mainstream” investors in the US.

Is that not right?

I know this feels trite but do other industries do a better job of messaging layoffs?

I was laid off from a non-tech company in 2006-2007. There was no message from the CEO, no public admission of fault, etc.

We knew the layoffs were coming. On the Friday of the layoff, my manager came around and took me to the HR office. I stood in line with others to sign some paperwork. I was then escorted back to my desk to collect my things and walked outside. My commute was about 1.5 hr and had I known, I wouldn't even have bothered showing up. The company laid off about 15% of its workforce. There wasn't any sign of contrition on part of the CEO. Heck even the HR people didn't seem to care.

Perhaps our standard of how to do these have changed?

Have you considered how much of your current car is made in China?

I think you're underestimating the resilience that people and systems have built up in countries where power is unreliable.

For example, I'd be willing to bet that most household don't even have candles or a battery operated flashlight.

When power has been nearly 100% reliable for as long as you've been alive, there's no reason for you to worry about those things and you don't build that resilience.

Someone in Alaska is probably more prepared for surviving a power outage than someone in Manhattan. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that life might continue as normal far longer in remote areas than it would in big cities in the event of a major outage.

Yikes... If this is your stance, there's no point in debating this with you.

Wouldn't a more effective strategy be to put pressure on tax companies to stop using this data for advertising? Which, I guess, is what the article is trying to do.

> Meta is one of the most deplorable companies in existence

Interesting take.

So, a third party decides to use Meta's advertising tools. Why is this Meta's fault? Why not the third-party?

Also, if these companies are willing to send this data to Meta, did you stop and ask where else they might be sending it?

I hope the author will make the firmware available to others for research.

Interesting! I hadn’t heard about this. This would make it so that Signal could say that they don’t know the message pair.

Signal is not P2P. Signal servers relay messages to/from clients.

I don't think that's accurate.

Pretty sure both work the same way regarding metadata. Think about it: if Signal didn't know that A was messaging B, how would they route that message to B's phone? A has to be able to find B's ip address someway. B can't broadcast its ip address to all the Signal users -- that would be a huge security hole.

It probably works like this: 1) A sends encrypted message + B's phone number to the server 2) server looks up the ip address for B's phone number 3) server routes the message there.

Also, both WhatsApp and Signal hash the contacts data the same way. Signal does seem to go a bit further, however.

WhatsApp's implementation: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/information-for-people-who-do... Signal's implementation: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

I’d imagine that they have some pedantic readers who’d get upset with the misspelling.