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WhatsApp Co-Founder Tells Everyone To Delete Facebook, Further Fueling the #DeleteFacebook Movement (theverge.com)
"In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 billion, making its co-founders -- Jan Koum and Brian Acton -- very wealthy men," reports The Verge. "Koum continues to lead the company, but Acton quit earlier this year to start his own foundation." Today, Acton told his followers on Twitter to delete Facebook. From the report: "It is time," Acton wrote, adding the hashtag #deletefacebook. Acton, who is worth $6.5 billion, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Nor did Facebook and WhatsApp. It was unclear whether Acton's feelings about Facebook extend to his own app. But last month, Acton invested $50 million into Signal, an independent alternative to WhatsApp. The tweet came after a bruising five-day period for Facebook that has seen regulators swarm and its stock price plunge following concerns over data privacy in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica's misuse of user data. Acton isn't the only one taking to Twitter to announce their breakup with Facebook. The #DeleteFacebook movement is gaining steam following the New York Times' report about how the data of 50 million users had been unknowingly leaked and purchased to aid President Trump's successful 2016 bid for the presidency. For many users, the news "highlighted the danger of Facebook housing the personal information of billions of users," reports SFGate. "And even before the Cambridge Analytica news, Facebook has been grappling with its waning popularity in the U.S. The company lost 1 million domestic users last quarter -- its first quarterly drop in daily users."
It wasn't because Hillary was a horrible choice as a candidate for president. No, it was hackers. That is why she lost to one of the worst candidates ever.
a broken 12-hour clock is correct twice a day.
I'm gonna go ahead and assume we're talking about a clock with arms, not some digital shit. But even then, that's not necessarily true.
It's hands could have fallen off.
Or it could be moving too fast or too slow, and the frequency at which it momentarily lines up with the correct time is less than twice a day.
Or it could be moving at the correct speed, but be off by a significant amount, and the mechanism to adjust the time is broken.
Or its movement could be broken such that it never displays a valid time - for example, the hour hand could be directly on the 3 when the minute hand is on the 6.
Etc.
Now, if we're talking about a stopped clock, then sure. As long as it's stopped in a valid time position, it'll be correct twice a day. Mostly.
What if you've got it stopped at 2 AM in a location that observes daylight saving time?
What if it's stopped at 12:00 noon but it's orbiting Earth above the equator one and half times per day? (But can such a clock be referred to as "stopped"?)