Im sure you get ideas that are below your threshold for engagement... most people do until someone makes them aware and they have an “aha” moment..
Pick a topic, product, food, restaurant, etc. at random and think of (then write down) at least one way to improve it (even if subjective).
Now for each propose at least one method of doing it. If you don’t know how, then take a minute to google the processes that lead up to the improvement... slowly you internalize that knowledge and it becomes second nature.
It’s an exercise, but after a week or two you will come to do it naturally. Just make sure you tell people your ideas if your not going to use them.
I’ve found that when you “release” an idea, better ones follow.
Why am I not surprised that super-liberal Slate says my right to privacy should be overlooked because some idiot with an iphone wants to record every conversation?
Pervasiveness-of-technology should not ever be a reason to obviate the rights of the individual.
Most likely, one of your competitors negotiated a deal where you were deplatformed as a condition. $57M over 13/14 years, or $100M right now... easy choice for Facebook.
I'd suggest it's much more likely that they tripped some automated spam protection or a moderator thought they looked suspicious, than there's a conspiracy against the company by a competitor.
That conspiracy would be of a high reputational risk to Facebook and the competitor, and would have a paper-trail in contracts that guarantee Facebook that ad revenue for the deplatforming.
It seems highly unlikely to me, as much as I believe Facebook to have poor moral standing.
Sounds like something that could be tortious interference but how could it ever be proven unless someone on the inside talks? The absoluteness of the communication cutoff certainly makes it seem like Facebook has something they want to ensure doesn't have any possibility of accidentally leaking.
Why didn’t he use a binary protocol to convey his disdain for text protocols? Simply because nobody would understand it, which is the entire idea behind text protocols... and language.
To be fair, doesn't bypassing paywalls kind of the defeat the purpose for these sites to be able to provide content without ads? Thus, ad driven content is the only way for them to keep the lights on.
The WashPo paywall is the worst -- it rewrites your address bar so you can't even bookmark the URL for later or copy/paste it to share. Really frustrating on mobile when you can be in an app that's not logged into WashPo. Why would the product team make that decision?
Paywall content is explicitly ok on Hacker News. From the FAQ [0]:
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> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.
> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here. [1]
That depends on your personal health. 50% deadlier to someone with existing issues that make the more likely to have a bad outcome (death) is worse than 50% more transmissible. The former cannot be managed, but the latter can by isolation or other means.
Not to say 50% more transmissible isn’t also bad, but not the worst, for them at least.
Pick a topic, product, food, restaurant, etc. at random and think of (then write down) at least one way to improve it (even if subjective).
Now for each propose at least one method of doing it. If you don’t know how, then take a minute to google the processes that lead up to the improvement... slowly you internalize that knowledge and it becomes second nature.
It’s an exercise, but after a week or two you will come to do it naturally. Just make sure you tell people your ideas if your not going to use them.
I’ve found that when you “release” an idea, better ones follow.