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Re: Facebook

May 25th, 2018, 9:33 pm

Something's wrong with your amygdala, ppauper.
 
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Re: Facebook

May 25th, 2018, 10:02 pm

Something's wrong with your amygdala, ppauper.
When the amygdala is damaged, previously threatening stimuli come to be treated as benign.
I'm too mellow these days?
 
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Re: Facebook

June 4th, 2018, 5:29 am

Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
so does this contradict his testimony to congress?
 
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Re: Facebook

June 4th, 2018, 5:42 pm

Dem lawmaker: ‘Looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress’
so if he lied to congress, what do they do about it?
 
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Re: Facebook

June 4th, 2018, 6:25 pm

 
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Re: Facebook

July 11th, 2018, 9:00 pm

 
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Re: Facebook

July 26th, 2018, 4:56 am

Facebook plunges more than 24 percent on revenue miss and projected slowdown
zuckerberg lost $16B in minutes.
He's still got plenty left
 
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Re: Facebook

July 26th, 2018, 7:48 am

According to some experiments one typically says that to feel happy/safe you need 50% more than you currently are worth. 

But that only applies to normal people.
 
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Re: Facebook

July 27th, 2018, 8:51 am

I read somewhere that FB plunge of ~19% yesterday was the biggest 1d fall of a US stock ever. Is that correct?
 
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Re: Facebook

July 27th, 2018, 9:14 am

in dollar terms it would seem so
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Re: Facebook

July 27th, 2018, 9:16 am

19% is nothing! Black Monday was worse...and that was for the entire market! $ value perhaps. Inflation adjustment though?
 
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Re: Facebook

July 27th, 2018, 9:41 am

as one example, apple lost 51.9% on 29 Sept 2000
apple's value sliced in half
 
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Re: Facebook

July 27th, 2018, 11:25 am

It also seemed to me modest losses, but it was written in big on CNBC....
Please don't ask if I buy/sell on Cramer's daily act.
 
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Re: Facebook

January 24th, 2019, 7:24 am

dinner with the zuckerbergs
What was your most memorable encounter with Zuckerberg?
Well, there was a year when he was only eating what he was killing. He made goat for me for dinner. He killed the goat.
In front of you?
No. He killed it before. I guess he kills it. He kills it with a laser gun and then the knife. Then they send it to the butcher.
A . . . laser gun?
I don’t know. A stun gun. They stun it, and then he knifed it. Then they send it to a butcher. Evidently in Palo Alto there’s a rule or regulation that you can have six livestock on any lot of land, so he had six goats at the time. I go, “We’re eating the goat you killed?” He said, “Yeah.” I said, “Have you eaten goat before?” He’s like, “Yeah, I love it.” I’m like, “What else are we having?” “Salad.” I said, “Where is the goat?” “It’s in the oven.” Then we waited for about 30 minutes. He’s like, “I think it’s done now.” We go in the dining room. He puts the goat down. It was cold. That was memorable. I don’t know if it went back in the oven. I just ate my salad.
It’s hard to find a metaphor in that.
I don’t know what you’re going to do with that, but hopefully that’s not the headline. Revenge is a dish best served warm. Or cold.
 
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Re: Facebook

February 14th, 2021, 11:29 pm

I thought I'd try out Facebook, against my better instincts. I managed 24 hours before being banned. I hadn't even used it except to give them my name and a couple of photos of me. Was it the one with the moustache that was the problem? Their algorithm says that Democrats don't have moustaches, I expect.