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by bfeynman 3y ago
It's private and sure the owner is rich, but it's still a burn and nowhere near recuperating the cost. A bunch of advertisers left or paused spending as noted. A little lesson on business, Musk bought it for 44 billion, at time i
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by bfeynman 3y ago
This is hilarious. For one, I don't even have a twitter so I have no "bubble", as I stated this is the default top recommendations for anonymous users, which is super important for converting people onto the platform. The dec
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by bfeynman 3y ago
How has it become better? AFAIK the number of genuine interactions on site has significantly decreased with platform exodus. The model of being recommended things that people for a checkmark to hope to show you is also definitely orthogon
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Maybe your feed is curated more, but it's definitely true that visiting a tweet url as an anonymous user, almost no matter what the tweet is about or who tweeted it, when you scroll down it starts just showing suggested tweets/top
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Very idealistic to think that money would be reallocated to give police better training and resources, unless you mean military grade equipment for responding to domestic disputes. One can dream though...
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by bfeynman 3y ago
It's because politician's focus is to keep themselves employed and re elected, with entirely short term focus. They have special interests from the wealthy who try to influence policy, and usually wealthy people are in a system o
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by bfeynman 3y ago
there was whole saga even posted on HN about him threatening a former intern who bootstrapped a similar project. Typical god complex.
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by bfeynman 3y ago
This is another company I have always felt is going to implode one day. They don't do anything that interesting let alone proprietary. The CEO is an ass and everyone knows it, he acts as if in an in-browser repl is going to change th
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by bfeynman 3y ago
AWS is trustable and secure though. That's why it's easier for enterprises to use, because they have all the compliance and SLAs enumerated and enforced.
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Anthropic is one of the providers on the marketplace they have.
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by bfeynman 3y ago
"breaking even" on what? how much it costs to run? How about fact they are worth < 25% of what he paid for it 6 months ago.
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Isn't it interesting that a few months ago a few people in twitter spaces were shouting to the world that twitter ITSELF had backchannels to govt and payments and thus was also state affiliated media? What about that?
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by bfeynman 3y ago
Wait wasn't the whole debacle that Twitter had special access to govt and received money for them regarding postings? Isn't twitter then also state affiliated media?
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by bfeynman 4y ago
That stat that 80% of people look for cars with car play first has got to be one of the most contrived statistics ever.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
actually pretty dangerous game to play, hitting the accelerator as they already are crashing.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
enough with these posts, there is closure to this situation -Twitter usage is declining and going downhill anyway, so there's less interesting data to even scrape anyway. There has to be worthwhile data for it to be worth the while an
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by bfeynman 4y ago
kind of amazing that something that is haphazardly slapped together was able to pull a business plan together to get funding.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Or rather, you see Zapier 1/100 inverse opportunity as custom built integrations are basically going to be free since LLMs can autogenerate them. You have no need for middle men.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
This type of rhetoric is so backwards it's infuriating. Cities need to adapt to the higher quality of life people are getting. You have to adapt, it's natural. Imagine this 150 years ago when towns in WV we're saying &quot
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by bfeynman 4y ago
There is an article on here every other week about twitter being down for hours at a time. Plus you can't even tell anymore given how many features are cut.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Twitter is probably worth much less than 10B at this point. 20B would be only in the pervious low interest rate environment before all tech companies heavily retreated on valuation. Even so 10B is a lot for a company with less <2000 em
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Wow the actual speech part is terrible, the number of mispronunciations is surprising.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
That is entirely on you if you give away your phone to those kids. I would think they would just run away with it
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by bfeynman 4y ago
IIRC this falls into classic fallacy where teams set low goals so as to always exceed them. The better way is to have people estimate and bet money on delivery.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
or fact that private investors are looking at making their own return.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
I mean - these companies have a ton of workers, are hiring a lot, and have attrition. A recruiter/sourcer is not a job indirectly hired to "do nothing". They make headcount goals for growth with forward looking expectations
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by bfeynman 4y ago
The conclusion you should actually takeaway from this is that it was total mismanagement, and almost to be expected based on the fact that they hired > 20k people during the pandemic. Step 1: Hire >20k people using cheap money Step 2:
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by bfeynman 4y ago
this is common federal level thing.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
I'm saying that I doubt it's robust enough to meaningful work. I saw the research article published a few months ago, which is very interesting but prone to T1/T2 errors.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
doubt

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