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Re:Why Silicon Valley Works by freshflowers on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:45PM (#8554059)
Two of those, Google and Facebook, have made it their core business to prime humanity for a lifetime of exploitation of their privacy in exchange for so relatively very little. How the f is that "improving humanity"?
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Re:Why Silicon Valley Works by parasubvert on Monday November 03, 2014 @11:35PM (#8555157)
My life is quite a bit better because of both Google and Facebook, and I would say a significant portion of the amount of time I spend online touches one of those two entities. I really don't care that much about the privacy compromises for the level I use either.

My experience is at least somewhat similar for at least a half billion to billion other people, so I'd say their impact on humanity is "pretty large".

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Re:Why Silicon Valley Works by pmoriarty on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @06:22AM (#8556011)
Oh come on.

It's not like we wouldn't have basically the same world without Google, Facebook, or virtually any other SV company.

People are just so full of themselves here.

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