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Re:Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to ... by leesalminen on Friday April 06, 2018 @10:23AM (#16773432)
Barely. I think FB engineers deserve more than “some” of the blame here. Surely they could see the negative consequences of linking health data into their graph.
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Re:Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to ... by LinuxBender on Friday April 06, 2018 @10:57AM (#16773695)
The ones I know are proud of the fact they can pull in thousands of data sources. They will show off what they can do using big data, AI and other bingo terms with your data.
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Re:Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to ... by leesalminen on Friday April 06, 2018 @11:53AM (#16774192)
Scary stuff. Glad I never drank the FB Kool-Aid. Don’t think I’d even consider a job offer from them.
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Re:Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to ... by ShabbosGoy on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:30PM (#16774530)
It’s easy to say that when you are financially secure and comfortable.
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Re:Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to ... by 794CD01 on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:55PM (#16774796)
What kind of person is facebook interested in hiring who can't become financially secure and comfortable working elsewhere?
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Re:Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to ... by leesalminen on Friday April 06, 2018 @01:56PM (#16775546)
Agreed. If you can get hired as an engineer at FB, you can get hired as an engineer at a less shitty company.

If FB started hiring unskilled laborers and promised to train them up to be a software dev, I could see this argument having some weight. But, AFAIK, they don’t.

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