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Re:DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine by renaudg on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @09:03PM (#11819616)
This sounds like a bug / coincidence.

I've never got a later email about something that happened live while I was browsing the site, and was already notified about.

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Re:DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:18PM (#11819910)
A couple of times is a coincidence. I stopped counting after seven.

So you're saying that there's a bug. And the bug waits for me to stop using Facebook, then emails me things from Facebook.

I find this quite difficult to believe. At the least, it's a very convenient bug.

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Re:DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine by jimrandomh on Thursday June 02, 2016 @12:22AM (#11820345)
They might be doing this to only a subset of their users, for example as part of an A/B test.
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Re:DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine by renaudg on Thursday June 02, 2016 @10:54PM (#11827981)
The bug isn't that you get emailed about things only after you've left, that's the feature.

The bug would be to get emailed about things that happened while you were using the site and were notified in real time about already.

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