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I’d say it’s the media and general public that want Facebook to curb “fake news”, more so than Washington.

I thought so too, but I’ve had (non-tech, non-Bay Area) friends start ordering household items from Target instead of Amazon because of experiences like knockoff nail clippers and purple shampoo.

It could just be my circle of friends, but from my vantage point it feels like Amazon is starting to do serious damage to their brand.

Affordable air travel is in most people's interests.

They have updated the article to say

> it contains plaintext (i.e. unprotected) passwords for 22,000 users

and

> The passwords are presumably for the “At the Pool” app rather than for the user’s Facebook account, but would put users at risk who have reused the same password across accounts.

Nothing here indicates a prank to me. The Instagram post was from half a year ago and is from an account that semi-famous in NY for making fun of finance bros. The author just included it as an example of how the vest is associated with finance culture.

Given that Workplace (the enterprise version of Facebook) has supported Markdown for a while now, I think it’s a safe assumption that they’ve built the UI to handle it.

Really? You can’t think of any reasons why he wouldn’t say that?

How about: because he was hired to take the company to an IPO, and they’re selling a growth story in that IPO.

In what way is that gaslighting?

> B. is the 7th largest internet company in the world

By what measure? Just checked and it's not market cap, not revenue, not number of employees, and not earnings.

> Also, this article seems like an advertisement/blogspam

It's written by Bolt, a hardware-focused VC which was founded by some pretty technical people and has a history of publishing teardowns (e.g. the Juicero one[0] which was popular here on HN a while back).

[0] https://medium.com/@BenEinstein/heres-why-juicero-s-press-is...

Universities in the UC system are definitely not getting $150k from each student. Tuition doesn't even cover the cost of educating each student.

You can see UCLA's financials here: https://ucla.app.box.com/v/acct-pdf-AFR-16-17

Tuition and fees netted $833MM in 2017. The cost of the undergraduate schools alone was well over a billion dollars.

> The plant milk phenomenon is all about allowing massive agribusiness to take over a big product category that has remained regional.

You don't need plant milk for that. For proof just see Fairlife, the Coca-Cola Company's attempt to turn milk into a branded good.

> Oat milk is really yet another industrial corn product. The caloric content isn't cloudy stuff squeezed into water, it's fructose from corn.

This is just factually untrue. Here's the ingredients for the most popular oat milk brands, found from a Google search:

1. Oatly: Oat base (water, oats 10%), rapeseed oil, calcium carbonate, calcium phosphates, iodised salt, vitamins (D2, riboflavin and B12).

2. Califia: Oatmilk (Water, Oats), Sunflower Oil, Minerals (Dipotassium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Tricalcium Phosphate), Sea Salt

3. Pacific Foods: WATER, OATS, OAT BRAN, CONTAINS 1% OR LESS OF: GELLAN GUM, SEA SALT, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, VITAMIN D2. *ORGANIC

4. Silk Oat Yeah: Oatmilk (Filtered Water, Oat Extract), 2% or less of: Sunflower Oil, Vitamin and Mineral Blend (Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D2, Riboflavin (B2), Vitamin B12), Malt Extract, Dipotassium Phosphate, Gellan Gum, Sea Salt, Sunflower Lecithin, Locust Bean Gum, Ascorbic Acid (to protect freshness).

None of these have corn syrup or added fructose.

Circular logic is "No person would be on BOLO without credible cause, and the credible cause is that they're on BOLO". What they're saying is that there is a valid reason for each person on the list to be on it. You can take issue with that as a matter of factual accuracy, but there's no tortured use of language happening.

> Currently, a person living in Nagoya, Japan would have a one-way commute to central Tokyo of about 100 minutes. That’s almost too long to live in one city and work in the other.

I don’t know, I have friends with one-way commutes longer than that from SF to the peninsula.

> it looks like jumping stilts allow you to deliver a lot more energy in a short period - for instance, running up to 25mph, or jumping over cars - but you pay for that with significantly increased calorie burn and the use of many more muscles.

I wonder if they could be used for more efficient exercise.

> Facebook's current share price basically values it as a utility already

Market cap is a measure of investors' beliefs of a company's future free cash flows. Regulated utilities have capped profits, so their valuation tends to be lower. Facebook absolutely does not have the valuation of a utility. Name a utility with a market cap of 400 billion USD (hint: the largest electric utility in the world has a market cap of $86.16 bilion).

This is the worst case scenario for consumers.

An "open and documented protocol" is what led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal; most people are not informed enough to properly manage permissions and even if they were, the personal data of friends would necessarily be available via this protocol. Posting something on this new platform-ized Facebook would be akin to sharing with every app each of your friends has authorized.

They’re definitely not sanitation workers. On my street the homeless constantly empty full public trash bins all over the sidewalk looking for bottles and cans.

> But there are plenty of areas where you need a lot of creativity and deep knowledge to make progress.

This is also true for many other skilled trades.

What makes you believe the autonomous car project comes at the expense of Mac improvements, rather than being unrelated?

It's not, it's a nationwide thing enforced by the FTC. WA and some other states have stricter laws which include pupillary distance.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...

> For 538, this just meant publishing numbers that were way too confident.

This isn't the case for the 2016 elections. 538 ended up having a much more robust forecast because they accounted for systematic polling error (bias).

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gav...

> They are so cheap there is no reason not to do it this way.

Besides the environmental cost, maybe.

Fixed, thanks.

It's a US newspaper. Do you also ask the German media to specify Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel in every headline?

> We came to the conclusion that the vast majority of feeds are filled with posts from sites that other like-minded people also have in their feeds. This causes the comments on those posts on your feed to mostly be filled with people whose feelings align with your own.

This is pretty well-trodden territory, cf. 'filter bubbles'.

It literally is quoted in the article from Facebook's head of VR/AR:

> neither coordinated nor directed from the company. From an internal post at the launch: “We, unequivocally, DO NOT want Facebook employees to engage in leaving reviews for the products that we sell to Amazon.” We will ask them to take down.

https://twitter.com/boztank/status/1085966442820886528

NPR has more info about motivations:

> Building a system to stock its own stores is a way for the company to better manage supply and costs, especially because poultry companies are trending away from raising chickens to be sold whole.

> According to Will Sawyer, a meat industry economist for the Denver-based farm lender CoBank, chicken producers are growing bigger chickens to sell in parts. "The vast majority are processed into chicken breasts or leg quarters or thighs, or they're further processed into strips or nuggets," Sawyer said. "That's where the industry has gone over 50 years now."

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/22/659561091/costco-builds-nebra...

Anecdotally, I just ran a speed test and got 140Mbps up/35Mbps down with 31ms latency on LTE. I’m in SF.