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Re:Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users ... by greglindahl on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:15PM (#17233881)
The wrong thing about combining not-very-related things is that you're wasting your ire and offending ethical people at the same time. Great for starting an argument, not so great for convincing people.

BTW, your construction example is terrible. Unsafe construction worksites are illegal, and continuous integration and deployment of software is not.

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Re:Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users ... by _jal on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:33PM (#17234266)
But they do appear to be related. You see the same things in the same companies, and the commonalities are consistent with treating consequences of the quest for growth at all costs as acceptable. When you have people racing a (real or perceived) time window, they don't stop pushing when humans are involved rather than software.

> your construction example is terrible

Takes all kinds. Including people who intentionally read things obtusely.

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