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Infinitesimus
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"They only look better if you're not a photographer and/or don't know what you're doing" That would mean they look better to the majority of people who consume photos...
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4y ago
Then you take if from there - if you regret your experiences, perhaps try different choices and learn from them. If you don't, then there is much to celebrate.
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> what if they don't? Why should they? They will because they are a for-profit company and there's profit to be had. Apple will likely find a strong marketing angle for their Ad network (won't be the first time they'v
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4y ago
There are many interesting ways to spend a billion - funding other founders, investing in under-invested areas globally or in your community, starting a scholarship fund for folks less fortunate, building a big yatch, etc etc. Another good
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4y ago
To clarify, I'm not affiliated with Meta. Just an internet nerd who likes following how organizations think and evolve
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Oh but they did! Meta leadership has always anticipated this risk. The problem is that they have not been able to fully mitigate it. Facebook Phone (rebranded HTC) was released in 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_
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4y ago
What does sorting by performance look like to you? The curve determines rating and compensation, influences promotion decisions, projects people get to work on and what opportunities come their way. The seems like a sort to me given that bu
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4y ago
I think the weird part is that they still exist despite all this.
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4y ago
For cross-platform communication, Messenger/Whatsapp win over the above. (Telegram, Signal, etc in some circles).
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4y ago
I have no horse in this race and pardon my nitpicking but those two phrases are not equivalent. For E2EE,you describe the base level capability: Secure message between two parties. For Mixers, you describe an act that the capability of maki
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4y ago
That is true. Islam has had many more centuries of practice (and quite a few Muslims drink depending on how strict they are ).
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4y ago
<not a snap employee> I'd bet most of them just want to work, get paid enough, and left alone to do other things with their lives. Strong opinions about what a founder does to their comp package is something people who are either
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4y ago
There isn't really an incentive for them to support anything beyond iMessage for now. End game will be their own private networks but that's still a while away
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4y ago
Some ISPs throttle Netflix. Not sure your background but it might be helpful to have more details about the type phone (I'd expect a difference in 13 pro max vs an old 7) and ISP to see if others have similar problems.
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4y ago
They did in fact launch a clone https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/launching-reels-on-faceboo... but it has not taken the world by storm. The hard work is figuring what dethrones TikTok and building _that_
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4y ago
If they rejected you based on your profile, you wouldn't know would you?
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4y ago
Amazon Pharmacy still exists though and I'm sure you know there are always many projects within Amazon that don't become public until much later.
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4y ago
What's your definition? They certainly do a lot of driving related things pretty well and others quite poorly (much like humans but we have different failure modes). If you life in San Francisco, CA, you'll often see Cruise cars r
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4y ago
Now I'm curious, what did you replace it with and which model did you have?
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... it'll be fun if you start from what happens when the enter key is pressed- the mechanics and electronics involved in submitting that URL (and some chemistry and physics behind what your eyes see on the screen), the physical transmi
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4y ago
> is said to To most consumers, this will only be interesting if it's shipping in laptops.
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Those are some very strong assumptions you're making about why people have children. I'm glad you've figured out that that's not for you so definitely don't have kids and continue (hopefully?) to contribute to the b
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4y ago
There are over a billion people on the continent with several countries and hundreds upon hundreds of languages. You're gonna have a hard time assuming things about Africans as a group regardless of your stance
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380 isn't even close to the max possible level. If this was an Engineering role, that a mid level salary. Your past experience can be a proxy for the role and level you're targeted for and thus, the comp target.
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4y ago
And yet, every other streaming app that is not YouTube is quite laggy across devices...
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You might be underestimating the complexity of being a good CEO (not to say he is) at a public tech company under a lot of global government scrutiny.
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That's a different conversation entirely about what you think of boarding schools and your reasons for having children. Hopefully your reasons for having a child are compatible with the child spending time away from you cos that's
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I think it's more about the UX. I don't actively use either platform but the experience of asking "I wonder where my friends are", going to a map and going "huh, I guess I know someone currently in XYZ place" i
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"Best and final offer" is certainly a weak claim but it doesn't seem your argument about Twitter's value is much stronger. Yes Twitter was $70 a share in the past but it was also sub $30 in the past and it's not cle
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5y ago
Well, OP just said they're not a white male so this shouldn't be surprising. They're commenting on something they likely understand better.
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