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That’s why we’re the 99%


What would you do with more land? Considering that in the UK there are significant restrictions on what you can do with the land.

It's a silly metric.

As someone else pointed out in this section, you need to look at holding by value not by area. That's the more important figure.

I can by 1 acre of land in the country for say £20k but I can do nothing with it except perhaps mow the grass. But that £20k wouldn't get me 1msq in the City of London - because that land (well more of it) can be used to generate lots of economic activity due to its proximity to/location within the world's economic centre.


A nice post about a really well built social community that got lost because most social media users crave Likes/attention. I can tell you that all your points are good points and I don’t have a BUT neither :) Facebook, insta and Whatsapp make it way too easy for people to use their platforms. Most people take the easiest root and all their friends are there too. For 5 years I’m trying to get people to stop using Whatsapp and step over to Signal. Everyone tells me, that they don’t know anyone on Signal. The same goes for G+ On G+ I had like 20,000 followers on just one type of collection of photos. The people followed it because they where interested in the subject.

Facebook connects people and people are nosy, they want attention and want to see what others are doing. G+ didn’t have that.



My Significant Locations list has always been set to off and I usually advise privacy concious people to switch it off. With a new iPhone it's always a good idea to go through all the settings and make sure it's all setup the way you like it.


The main problem nowadays is that defaults are unsafe. You have to explicitly go through all the settings and make sure there's nothing nefarious going on.


If you believe this is nefarious... Why would you think turning it off was going to help?


And to show that isn't just paranoia:

"When you turn off “location history” Google still tracks your location when you use several of its key services including Maps, search and the weather. Here’s how to really turn all of it off..."[0]

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/14/how-to-tu...


The operative word being ‘Google’.


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Maybe it’s the template keybase uses to verify ownership of your hn account?


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