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by Willish42 4y ago
It's a national security concern (and international?) if Twitter can be compromised by nefarious actors and/or brought down via said compromised access. The idea that this isn't worthy of whistleblowing because Twitter is a c
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> There are a ton of middle managers at big tech companies who exist only to get promoted and to empire build. You could, in my opinion, take everyone from L7 (M3 at Google, M2 at Facebook) to VP and fire 75% of them and be perfectly fin
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by Willish42 4y ago
This rings true to me as well. > The entire team could read a changelist and know exactly what the consequences are; they could just read the diff and run the complete test suite in their head. So there was no need for them to spend the
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by Willish42 4y ago
Exactly. There are tons of smaller businesses not focused on infinitely growing that get by just fine. Especially in rural areas like these
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by Willish42 4y ago
They're actually not even as "resource constrained" as this comment implies, as the numbers here are off. Per https://abc.xyz/investor/ , Alphabet made $75 billion in Revenue in Q4 . They made $76 billio
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by Willish42 4y ago
If anything, parent comment's usage of orthogonal might've been a typo/mistake. People usually use orthogonal as a metaphorical term to imply "no correlation" [1]. My read of the OP is that anxiety powers others&#x2
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by Willish42 4y ago
To me, this reads like somebody who's surrounded by successful people who were already so ambitious they have converted their anxieties into more ambition. For every one of these Silicon-Valley-personality-type people, there are tens o
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by Willish42 4y ago
Wow, this is really great! I love the design and especially the sophistication of that demo page. Really powerful and professional looking stuff.
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Really makes me appreciate what Twitter has done as a user of both platforms. Twitter kept the chronological feed option, hasn't done the same video content-boosting stuff that FB did, and as a result they haven't grown nearly as
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by Willish42 4y ago
That diff in [2] is pretty egregious, and given the timing seems to be exactly what sparked the controversy. I think regardless of one's opinion on the outcome here, it's very odd that the author doesn't mention that Bruce F
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by Willish42 4y ago
> The opposing point of view would be that Ads on FB/Google are so profitable that working on anything else pales in comparision (in terms of profit generation). And so they dont innovate, but iterate and optimize. This argument is
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by Willish42 4y ago
Unfortunately this kind of law is like, at least 2 revolutions away from now w.r.t. US politics. No way this would ever pass even in the house under the current political system (see: Patriot Act, Citizens United, etc.) It's a nice ide
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by Willish42 4y ago
Wow, this is the most hopeful thing I've read about renewable energy in ... years, maybe ever? Even ignoring whether the fuel-from-air thing will pan out, the idea posed here that solar will get so cheap that excess energy can be use
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by Willish42 4y ago
I think the car deaths vs. gun deaths asymmetry with representation in media can more reasonably be explained by how "terrifying" that news is to viewers, more likely to get web traffic and broadcast viewers, etc. Healthcare expen
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I didn't realize aggregated info on this type of thing was so readily available. TY for including references!
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aha! Thank you for figuring this out and taking the time to reply
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by Willish42 4y ago
Am I missing something here? Ars Technica article from OP is dated 7/8/2022 but the referenced source is from February 2020 > The US Justice Department is gearing up for a possible antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad bus
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by Willish42 4y ago
I foolishly made it a third of the way through thinking this was some advanced markov-chain generated blurb based on HN blogs or comments or something, before realizing it was a human-written story *about* markov chains! Nice story, ty for
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by Willish42 4y ago
This is an asinine assumption. I doubt even 10% of recruiting employees at Twitter have a HYSA, let alone make in excess of $200k/year. As stated below [1], those affected seem to be recruitment (which lines up with the LinkedIn post&#
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by Willish42 4y ago
> A software company with more modest aims, that has a stable customer base and doesn’t change much over time (does such a thing exist?) will be more like the humble tribe that follows the yearly migration of the antelope and focuses on
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by Willish42 5y ago
While folks are right to point out this should be expected since Snowden, I think it's worth acknowledging that the cozy relationship between government and tech companies dates a bit further back. Enabling this kind of trakcing was th
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by Willish42 5y ago
While Bezos certainly has a different mindset as an engineer/industrialist, space is obviously a pretty big deal to him. Reading more about his background ( https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019&#x2
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by Willish42 5y ago
Yeah that was pretty jarring. Even Bezos's responses were weirdly hollow. It's sad to see that Bezos's own talking-points-filled spiel after going to space (others have compared his statements before and after to show he kind
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by Willish42 5y ago
This took me a minute to figure out, mostly because I didn't immediately intuit that "sorting algorithm" == Facebook and "Burma" == Myanmar. I believe they're referencing Facebook's role in the Myanmar cou
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by Willish42 5y ago
> This, I think, is a place where we need some regulation to codify some different forms of privacy and give the government a big stick to bop companies over the head when they violate those definitions. I 100% agree with you, but doubt