Re:Nipping Libra in the Bud
by throw20102010 on Sunday June 30, 2019 @05:12PM
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You might be right about Zuck being idealistic now, but we have a (much younger) Zuck on record calling his users idiots for trusting him with all their information. He may have matured, but people are justified in being wary. He’s shown some black hat tendencies in the past. I’m a lot more comfortable trusting my money with a bank rather than a company that makes its money selling my information. At least I understand the bank’s incentives.
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Don't mistake my calling him idealistic for any form of praise. I think idealistic people are some of the most dangerous and damaging people in the world.
Re:Nipping Libra in the Bud
by OneGearRulesAll on Sunday June 30, 2019 @09:29PM
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I'd humbly suggest another rewrite. None of us understands "idealistic" the way you do, and this word choice leads to confusion.
Re:Nipping Libra in the Bud
by RobertKerans on Monday July 01, 2019 @06:26AM
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Do you conflate "idealistic" with "good"? Similar to the sibling comment, I do understand people have different mental definitions, but idealism [esp + vast power] can and often does lead to fairly awful outcomes, this is afaik well understood. It just seems that you're misunderstanding what idealistic means
Re:Nipping Libra in the Bud
by aptwebapps on Monday July 01, 2019 @02:15AM
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I was going to jump on you to disagree, but I think you're partly right in that some people do understand something different from the word.
Still, it's important to understand that there are people who disagree with you, and who do things that you view as objectively wrong, that are driven by idealistic impulses.