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811.
by actuator 6y ago
I think Vine was follower based still. I haven't used Tiktok but based on the article it seems like Vine+YouTube feed.
812.
by actuator 6y ago
A lot of those are employed by US based companies and US still can outpay companies in RoW. The only thing limiting is access to H1B visas, so I doubt talent pool is the cause here.
813.
by actuator 6y ago
I am not sure how you are extending to the 5 year support thing. I have had iPhones and even seen friend's iPhones become slower specially after 3 years. Even if OS updates are coming at best, I will keep the life for 4 years. So iPhon
814.
by actuator 6y ago
I love my Pixel 2 and as it is still going strong I don't have any reason to upgrade it other than the battery not lasting 24 hours now though with decent usage. Since Pixel 2 was the best phone across any OS I have used, I will probab
815.
by actuator 6y ago
You are not comparing apples to apples. Pixel 2 was a flagship $700 phone while Pixel 3a is a midrange phone half of that price.
816.
by actuator 6y ago
I think it is incredibly hard to not tilt one way. After all, organisations are run by humans and we all have our own leanings. It is very much possible when we hire people those leanings bias us towards a certain ideology and we may hire l
817.
by actuator 6y ago
I think one of the reasoning Telegram is giving is good though. If protesters in HK are using Telegram to communicate and Apple removes it from the App Store then they have no recourse of installing it. I guess giving a way like in Android
818.
by actuator 6y ago
They are not just competing for ads but even eyeballs or user loyalty. The traditional consumption for news was through you reading a single newspaper/magazine. In a way you were tied to it, digitally this would work if you come and co
819.
by actuator 6y ago
It seems there is disagreement on this but to me it seems like a perfectly valid disclaimer to give, given the vested interest.
820.
by actuator 6y ago
It should be with dividends reinvested, in absolute index value I think FTSE 100 is still 10% down from 2008 peak. The difference in return might be because the fund hasn't tracked the index well. I gave the example of UK as UK was pre
821.
by actuator 6y ago
This has been true for the US markets till now but I am always scared to think of a scenario where they go the way of UK markets have done in the last decade. Look at one[1] of the FTSE 100's Index fund returns. They stand at 3.58% ann
822.
by actuator 6y ago
My personal macbook isn't that powerful.I am not sure about bootcamp on the work machine. If I may ask, which eGPU are you using and are you satisfied with it?
823.
by actuator 6y ago
Thanks, will look into this. I imagine these controls should come handy in some other games as well. The first thing I will need to do is build a PC after a long time.
824.
by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, that is price of a single game. Sounds reasonable.
825.
by actuator 6y ago
Honestly, you have some valid points and this bullying by forcing it to be sold is bad. I think the fear is the manipulation that social media platforms can easily do of discourse and emotions. This is not as simple as just selling word pro
826.
by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, I think that was their mistake. Though I personally commend Google for standing up for their ideals at that time as to how they thought about information and access to it. But it is not like PRC makes it easy to do business there. The
827.
by actuator 6y ago
Wow, this looks so awesome. I suddenly have the urge to build a PC after so many years. For folks who are aware about this, do you need to get specialized controls to enjoy the experience?
828.
by actuator 6y ago
Ah, they certainly don't have my loyalty, or any company for that matter. I try to diversify the devices/services I use so that one company doesn't have power over my daily life and I can switch over easily if I want.
829.
by actuator 6y ago
I am not sure of what can be done though in hardware at least. Software, certainly there can be regulation to keep the playing field open so companies like Spotify can survive on their own merit. Hardware, maybe by enforcing APIs to be acce
830.
by actuator 6y ago
I think that's a luxury Apple can afford though and an outcome of their approach to devices. Take the example of Maps, for anyone to create a good maps experience they need a lot of money, A $1000 phone with about $200-300 actual compo
831.
by actuator 6y ago
Have a look at some of these[1]. Some of them are vacuous, but I would definitely not call a lot of them positive values mainstream America would associate with. At the end of the day they are a corporation whose job is to make profit not p
832.
by actuator 6y ago
Among all the big tech, I think Apple is probably the most resilient. The sort of brand loyalty and image they have, any company would love to have it. It makes even the less polished products from their stable escape the sort of ire and fi
833.
by actuator 6y ago
This looks like such a mismatch. Also, does it make sense to pay the rumoured $50 billion for a company with no moat? Even US revenue expectations for this year were $0.5 billion.
834.
by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, that's interesting. I would have assumed the tail to shorten as well though. I am guessing digital businesses are a significant part of the tail.
835.
by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, some of the questioning was just stupid. Like the cookie question to Zuck. She reduced FB usage of cookie to remember the logged in user to FB using cookies against their promise.
836.
by actuator 6y ago
If that was the reason. Every CEO would be friendly with him.
837.
by actuator 6y ago
Wow, the numbers that AAPL, AMZN, FB have reported. While everyone struggled I guess mid/big tech companies were unaffected. I am surprised ad industry is not affected heavily. Isn't ads the first thing a company will cut if thing
838.
by actuator 6y ago
Pichai was a PM actually.
839.
by actuator 6y ago
Way before than that. It sounds easy in theory but it was amazing how their platform auto moderated content. People used to go around finding new ways like clipping the video frame and adding unrelated content. Slowing down video, audio etc
840.
by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, this was what I was referring to. There is no way to control this and I am guessing this is why Jeff Bezos wasn't committing on this not being violated as well.

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