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by adjkant 9y ago
I have about 1000 Facebook friends, most within that age group. About 15 people still post there at all. I know more people using Facebook for college meme groups than for social interaction.
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Bail Bloc – A Cryptocurrecy Scheme Against Bail(bailbloc.thenewinquiry.com)
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by adjkant 9y ago
Maybe for your friend group, but absolutely not mine (20-25). That market is huge for advertisers. Thar said I can't imagine their losses ever being recouped in ads.
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by adjkant 9y ago
The stock market and crypto are both gambles, one riskier than the other.
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by adjkant 9y ago
It seems like the problem is that any data that works statistically will not be fair to individuals who are intuitively exceptions to the general trend. It sounds like algorithms relying on statistics are pretty much guaranteed to fail the
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by adjkant 9y ago
This is about how long people stay at the same job, not the framework stability. In my experience people hop from job to job often enough that you'd be regularly training people on a language unless they already knew it when hired. So
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by adjkant 9y ago
I'd argue frameworks are their own language built on top of another, but this is all semantics. As far as learning curves, I'm taking the GP's word on Ember's difficulty to learn, but generally as mentioned below, I don&
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by adjkant 9y ago
I'd point out that often rare and often unused skills get higher pay due to simple supply and demand. I've heard similar salary ranges for Assembly programmers for example. Angular and React are widely used, and there are many peo
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by adjkant 9y ago
Um where do you think this is happening exactly that people know that beachball = carjacking? Based on the language used, I suspect you aren't in such an area and are coming up with an unrealistic scenario here.
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by adjkant 9y ago
This was super helpful in laying it out and surprisingly worth the time.
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by adjkant 9y ago
My school does co-op's and has a 1 credit co-op prep course. We do have practice interviewing there. We also do resume workshops, general best practices for the industry you're in, etc. You can do both the content and the prep, as
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by adjkant 9y ago
Another interesting idea is that patterns can hold if the market is mostly being affected by bots. Especially at the micro level. Even basic ML/AI strategies can be easily profitable with the current volatility. It drastically reduces
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by adjkant 9y ago
Emojis and gifs can speak louder, when they convey meaning or entertainment. In this case, they did neither. This is also more whatever generation is after millennial. The youngest millennials are like 20 now.
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by adjkant 9y ago
If you want to post at a more public and linkable level, there are many other services and nothing stopping you. That feature would do nothing for the current users of Snapchat and would really be against the purpose and spirit of the forma
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by adjkant 9y ago
I still don't understand why people see them as mutually exclusive apps. While stories is in competition, the rest of both apps, the primary use of both, are completely different in practice. Instagram has taken over the role of Facebo
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by adjkant 9y ago
Snapchat is primarily used in the US, Canada, etc. In the US, there are 23.8M children aged 12-17. If we average it out and assume that every year when a kid turns 13 they start using Snapchat, that's only 4M users a year. Given their
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by adjkant 9y ago
What it's always been - a messaging app with pictures / videos / fun tools like filters, lenses, bitmojis (honestly my favorite and most useful part of Snapchat) that has stories for when I want to share with everyone. I feel
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by adjkant 9y ago
There's nothing on a Snapchat profile really to share, as it should be. Stories are for friends, not public consumption. What content is actually needed to be seen outside of Snapchat?
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by adjkant 9y ago
I think a key difference is that Snapchat is not a feed app. There's no endless scrolling to waste 30 minutes on to give you that dopamine hit. The time spent is mostly being spent as a messaging app I suspect if you look at the levels
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by adjkant 9y ago
I think for a bug this big it is pretty understandable. So far, it seems clear the actions of all involved were in a good spirit of responsible disclosure.
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by adjkant 9y ago
> "According to people familiar with Facebook’s plans, Portal will be equipped with a wide-angle lens that is capable of recognizing individual faces and associating them with their Facebook accounts." In addition to Facebook b
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by adjkant 9y ago
> "I'm big on snapchat as a messaging platform, not as a social platform." As a user, I think this is why most people fail to understand it or use it. Even if one has friends on Snapchat, if you go in trying to use it as s
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by adjkant 9y ago
Perhaps not all tech, but my point is that it's very unused by many. People in tech are far more common users.
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by adjkant 9y ago
You're in a really self-selecting crowd then. Less than half the people I know use it, mostly because my social group is outside of the tech world.
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by adjkant 9y ago
Actually, the world is all run by 3 dogs making decisions in Japan. Trust me, Uber is just their pawn. Nothing else matters, every other ethical fault is meaningless. You're going to have to actually provide some examples and/or e
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by adjkant 9y ago
> it's just that people wanted to see Uber fail, and that's why he's become the sacred cow. The sexual harassment did not come out because people wanted to see Uber fail. People want Uber to fail because it came out, and t
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by adjkant 9y ago
This isn't intrinsically true. If they raise the prices, does the market go away? If they are able to outlast and go to self-driving cars, how profitable is that business when factoring in competition, possible regulation, or it even b
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by adjkant 9y ago
He was forced out for doing a bad job, not because of a power struggle simply for power. If I'm a cashier at my grocer and pay every customer a dollar too much in change, I'm going to be fired no matter how much I "watch my b
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by adjkant 9y ago
The question is if this paradigm shift was more valuable than all of the negative things he did. If he didn't come up with it, how do we know someone wouldn't have done it a year later? We shouldn't rewrite history, but I do
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by adjkant 9y ago
+1 to this, most people have no idea of the laundry list of terrible things Uber did.

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