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721.
by actuator 6y ago
I am not just talking about the cancellation, I am also talking about product strategy. Like the example of Gtalk. Gtalk was interoperable, worked well and yet missed the beat of messaging apps. Look at the messaging space now. Messenger, W
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by actuator 6y ago
It is not that simple. Ad industry has a lot of money and I personally find nothing wrong with ads as such. We can argue about targeting but that's a different topic. StackOverflow does ads and they seem to really go well with the page
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by actuator 6y ago
I wouldn't be sure of this. Google at one time was a darling of the tech world. Sure, the data collection issue has been there from the start because of the business model. But their products, engineering, openness was looked upon. Add
724.
by actuator 6y ago
and their value is the most defensible as well. Devs might see the pitfalls of Apple's walled garden restrictions but for general public their image still holds supreme. In developing world their products are seen as sort of status sym
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by actuator 6y ago
I think you should just use old.reddit.com There are annoying quirks like some links in comments and wiki/sidebar can take you to new reddit site and it is harder to solve this on FF mobile. But I strongly prefer that over whatever abo
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by actuator 6y ago
I personally think even with the language it's a fine post. At least, even If I don't agree with the language, I would critique the content. He does a fine job in rebutting that PG post which made no sense and painted a very bleak
727.
by actuator 6y ago
Yep, those amounts will be hard for the employee to pay.
728.
by actuator 6y ago
I think for some service which for some reason had just FB signup I made a burner FB account and locked in all the privacy settings, I was thrown out of the account in under an hour. It kept asking for phone number which I didn't want
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by actuator 6y ago
Got it. Thanks for the explaination.
730.
by actuator 6y ago
I think my phrasing was wrong, it was more of a question. Edited it. Thanks.
731.
by actuator 6y ago
Why the need for an exercise price(you can always keep it at a nominal amount like 1 cent) and short windows of redemption once you leave then? From most terms of options I have seen or heard of they have been quite restrictive compared to
732.
by actuator 6y ago
From what I have heard I know FB, Google to be pretty vocal internally and with tough questions on policies, products and decisions. Amazon and Microsoft fall into the category where most employees don't bother with this behaviour. Is
733.
by actuator 6y ago
Can't you postpone the tax to be paid to when actual tradable equity will be delivered?
734.
by actuator 6y ago
You might like 8/10 things about a country, there is nothing wrong in asking changes on the remaining 2 things. Moving to Germany might not give the remaining 8 things easily.
735.
by actuator 6y ago
I doubt that's the reason. Like some FAANGs do with stocks, can't you always deduct a part of RSUs as tax liability and add the remaining into the employee's account?
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by actuator 6y ago
But is that Xi's popularity or CCP's? I can understand why CCP would be popular as they did make life better for most, Xi seems to be doing everything to undo the gains in global arena though.
737.
by actuator 6y ago
> At the beginning he did not get the real news, but he said in a meeting on 7 January that the situation was under his personal command. If he knew on 7 January, why did it take until 20 January to announce the outbreak? Officials at al
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China's Xi Jinping facing widespread opposition in his own party, insider claims(theguardian.com)
6 points by actuator 6y ago|5 comments
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by actuator 6y ago
All the Reliability section of that page says is, there isn't a randomised study you can trust.
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by actuator 6y ago
Aren't there psychoactive meds which weaken control and should work better unless the person has developed resistance against that compound.
741.
by actuator 6y ago
We can debate about the validity of Apple's concerns on iOS, but since Epic violated terms of iOS, for now Apple is within its right to take action there. If they had stopped with just suspending their iOS publishing powers, it could h
742.
by actuator 6y ago
While Epic can be accused of starting this intentionally to prove a point, this just goes into the territory of chilling effect now. I have always been wary of their power over iPhone/iOS ecosystem, but if they are going to use a mista
743.
by actuator 6y ago
I think this comparison is in bad faith. I would put it like this, it should definitely be illegal to be anti-competitive on general computing devices once you hit a significant revenue(the revenue bit only to allow small players to compete
744.
by actuator 6y ago
> You trust us with your data and our job is to keep it safe. Under this law, Google has to tell news media businesses “how they can gain access” to data about your use of our products. This corpspeak wording seems very broad. I wonder w
745.
by actuator 6y ago
Yep, I have my main search engine on personal laptop switched to DuckDuckGo. Guess what, more often I just end up typing '!g' for finding something relevant. For US, DDG still is fine I guess for basic results like local websites.
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by actuator 6y ago
It seems futile to discuss this with you. All you have done is, counter arguments with counter questions while never addressing the issue. I chose to reply once hoping that it would be constructive, but it isn't. If all both of us are
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by actuator 6y ago
> Surely you know better than the urban planners and the engineers who are widening roads indiscriminately. When I used the word indiscriminate, there was a specific purpose to it. It doesn't have to be that the engineers or planner
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, I think the appeal for tech in US has been either on money/cutting edge stuff. I think the cutting edge stuff is getting less pronounced now because of either global offices/remote or ease of access of resources anywhere.
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by actuator 6y ago
As far as I understand most of the Indian STEM(specially CS) students treat higher studies in US as a pathway to a job in US. I was asking as to how many eventually go into academia professionally. For Chinese, I think there are a lot of ot
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by actuator 6y ago
Wow, that's a loaded comment that makes a lot of assumptions about me. I am not against connectivity or improving the life of people there, a lot of these areas are already connected by metalled road. What was happening when I was trav

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