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> I would bet, dollars to donuts, this is just terrible timing optically for the executives.

Difficult to prove, but I too suspect it’s just bad timing.

Note that the three executives sold relatively small portions of stock: 13%, 9%, 4% of their respective personal holdings.

> The best doesn't win, the easiest does.

This is the crux of the challenge.

Plenty of people are concerned about Facebook, not only for privacy concerns but also for its impact on public discourse. [1]

But any viable alternative must be mindlessly easy.

Salim Virani’s suggestion of phone and email instead of Facebook works in part — replacing Facebook as a messaging medium — but it doesn’t address the use of Facebook as a personalized news feed informed by your social graph.

We need something better. Something with a good mission [2] but orders of magnitude better.

[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604082/we-need-more-alter...

[2]: https://diasporafoundation.org/

Just as fascinating as Steve Jobs’ comments are the prescient privacy concerns voiced by David Burnham. Incredible that over 35 years ago, the impact of computers on civil liberties was already in public discussion.

Lattice [1] originated as DeepDive [2][3], a statistical inference project led by Christopher Ré at Stanford.

[1]: https://lattice.io/

[2]: http://deepdive.stanford.edu/showcase/apps

[3]: https://github.com/HazyResearch/deepdive

DeepDive was discussed previously on Hacker News [4].

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8736739

Three years in development, ClearBank has forged a partnership with the Bank of England [1] to set ClearBank up as UK’s fifth clearing bank, joining the ranks of the Big Four — Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, and RBS [2].

ClearBank is not consumer-facing but instead offers an API [3] for its core banking platform.

[1]: https://www.clear.bank/about#clearbank-partners

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(banking)#United_King...

[3]: https://www.clear.bank/services/clearbank-api