Theory: Strategies which sound good to the current occupants of the White House may sound ungood in smaller countries bordering the Russian Empire.

> I'm wondering if at some level we always knew ...

Roughly speaking, the folks who truly cared knew.

Corporations have obvious market/regulatory incentives to say they're good guys.

Most people want to believe such statements, with the immediate incentive being a happier worldview.

Incentives for an extremely powerful corporation to actually be good are far weaker.

While it may be harder for some, that is not the point.

Zuck has seen that the current regime strongly incentives certain sorts of compliance. He is showing them the outcome which they desire.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair

Maybe you will. Maybe not.

But if you can "quit and stay dry", then it's extremely likely that you'll end up happier/healthier/saner, long-term.

KISS Theory: Apple didn't want to reinvent wheels, so they used the same mechanism for all iOS push communications.

2 days ago, 17 points, 23 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195226

Extremely cool, but it doesn't sounds like music agencies need worry about the competition.

I'd bet the actual list of surveilled sites is far longer, and actually kept secret.

Every right-thinking plutocrat knows to use catastrophized language for any serious drop in his paper wealth. Otherwise, how would he argue for a fat government bail-out?