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>> FB will try to acquire Reddit soon

That's just about the worst thing I can imagine

When it's gone, the "old internet" will be gone

Are you talking about at the schema design level or more from a stored procedure point of view?

Can you give an example of the business logic you have in mind?

>> oligarcies and plutocracies are bad >> the pernicious effects of wealth snowball as generations pass

I feel like the exact situation that our country is in right now is the exact outcome I would fear from such a situation as you describe.

I sometimes think about debt the same way. In college I scraped by on ramen noodles and avoided doing anything that cost money. For example I wanted to go camping but didn't have say, $100 for a tent. If I had just put the $100 on my credit card, I'd probably have happy memories with friends, but now I can't get that experience back for any price.

I'd be okay with it, if it stopped all these shootings and bombings, but that doesn't seem to be working out too well. :-(

No. NO interaction with the Internet.

Serious WTF. Is this okay with people in Wisconsin?

I want to add one more thing. The ads weren't just for a travel destination. It would be something totally out of character for us like "Let's build a tree house and rent in out on AirBnb" and there would be ads for renting out tree houses.

I have seen this first hand. At one point, I think I had figured this out because I the Facebook app had access to "Siri results", and "Siri results" is just about anything you do on your phone. We turned off Siri results, but we would still be discussing something out loud like "maybe we should go to Bali some day" and lo and behold, my wife would see ads for Bali in her Facebook stream within 1-2 hours.