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alanlovestea··on Democrat Groups Plan to “Fact Check” Private Text Messages
FB has always censored many of its media. I have no doubt WhatsApp will be the next.
alanlovestea··on Amazon tells bosses to conceal when employees are on performance management plan
It's a government regulation.

An employee can perform terrible for many reasons one cannot control. For example, intro team communication.

In order to avoid future lawsuit, Amazon has to set up an independent project without any external dependency for the person under PIP and document all the progress. So that the person being PIP cannot sue his employer inthe future.

alanlovestea··on My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community
What can ScalaCenter do in this she said he said situation?

If Yifan has any issue with Jon, she shall resolve the issue in court.

alanlovestea··on Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny
Mmm... Chrome won't accept 3rd party cookies to protect user's private. Meanwhile, Chrome is forcing all gmail users to upload their browse histories to Google. In the end, only Google has access to our browse history and can dominate the web ad market.
alanlovestea··on I now have an Oculus paperweight
I make all my expensive electronic items with my AMEX. AMEX has been treating me well over the past 15 years. If a company shutdown my access to it product, I would request a charge back through AMEX. Usually, AMEX accepts my request with in the same day, no question asked.
alanlovestea··on I now have an Oculus paperweight
Because you are not a customer, you aren't paying. Instead, you are the product of facebook. Their business model is to sell your personal information to advertisers
alanlovestea··on Voters overwhelmingly back community broadband in Chicago and Denver
don't under estimate human stupidity and the ability to end its own civil society.
alanlovestea··on No More Google
You can get your own domain name (ie: me@myname.com) so that you avoid vendor lock-in and migrate your email account to other service providers.
alanlovestea··on Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)
the author did not take zoning in consideration. Public housing usually get built near transit centers where there are lots of business. The mix use zoning contribute to the higher revenue number.
alanlovestea··on Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
Be careful, exactly 10 years after I cancelled my Netflix, Netflix started to charge my card again. I contacted Netflix, but they cannot did anything about it. I ended up having my card issuer to issue a new account number to me.
alanlovestea··on What happened to Mint?
You can use Quicken. It is a desktop software and does not store your data/password in the cloud.
alanlovestea··on What happened to Mint?
Credit Card referral was/is a big business. I remember personal finance bloggers were making $50 dollar for each referral. If mint can convince each customer to get a new card every year, it will be a 500 million dollars business. It is not huge but a sustainable business.
alanlovestea··on What happened to Mint?
> Many personal finance products are free, but make money by selling data or trying to upsell you on something else that you don't need (like, say, a credit card you don't need or a tax product that is overpriced [2]). This is what happened with Mint. It became a "top-of-the-funnel" lead generation tool for other products.

Question about MonarchMoney. Is it going to be a cloud service or a standalone old-fashion desktop software? Most of serious personal finance people would prefer desktop software in order to protect their own data. However, most consumers prefer a free and hosted solution. Which market is MonarchMoney going after?

alanlovestea··on New study: The advertising industry is systematically breaking EU law
It has been proven very effective.

Quote: "So successful, by the way, that between 2000 and 2004 with their IPO [Initial Public Offering] documents going public, the first time we got to learn exactly what the impact of this new logic was. And the impact was a revenue increase of 3,590%, just during those years 2000-2004."

source: https://www.econtalk.org/shoshana-zuboff-on-surveillance-cap...

alanlovestea··on Facebook is running anti-vax ads, despite its ban on vaccine misinformation
On the flip side, do you want Facebook or any company to control what you can or can not say?
alanlovestea··on Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
Yea, I had planned to bring my 5 and 2 years old there, but due to the rain, we went to the mall :(
alanlovestea··on Interview with Reid Hoffman
He is funding another one for 2020 election. The stealth startup is crating a new campaign tool and only sells to one side of political spectrum.
alanlovestea··on Interview with Reid Hoffman
Have you talked to people worked for LinkedIn marketing or sales solution?
alanlovestea··on The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
JIRA was quite nice until v4.0
alanlovestea··on Google Is Eating Our Mail
I am in the process to detach Google products, somehow gmail is the only product I cannot find a working alternative.
alanlovestea··on Facebook officially loses $123B in value
There is a less well known news coming out recently. Due to a legal case in Washington state, Facebook agrees to not to prevent customers to receive AD based on ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.

This is mostly making targeting ad illegal and hurt the fundamental revenue model of FB.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-24/facebook-...

alanlovestea··on Trump’s Campaign Said It Was Better at Facebook, and Facebook Agrees
Clinton may spent most money on traditional media channels and wasted her money as described in the article.
alanlovestea··on YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says
don't be fooled by the media. Trump supports legal immigration and is allocating more quota to legal immigrants. As a result, tons of legal immigrants support Trump.
alanlovestea··on YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Males, Lawsuit Says
What does the first number in N(90, 15) mean? the median IQ of a given race? I guess the truth is hurting people's feeling.