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I was on Feed from 2017 until 2020. Every year some minor sub-team would show off their plans for an unconnected content unit. It never shipped until Zuck began to understand that the ship had already sailed with Gen-Z on to TT (which he or
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I worked on the same teams as you in nearly overlapping time periods and I add support to what you say. FB is (or was, before I quit) driven by getting contributing users to contribute more. We knew a million "tricks" to get peopl
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I think they're more seen as "buffer states" that you can quickly sacrifice on the altar of the Board of Directors to show that you're serious about cost-cutting. While not hurting your core staff at all.
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I guess the proper response to that is to slap them in the face?
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I think this makes sense. Assuming MAGMA is the new FAANG, my experience inside the majority of them agrees. Everyone knows that there is 1 or 2 golden goose teams supporting the entire rest of the company (iPhone, Facebook Ads, Google Sear
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Unfortunately, just like Congress, the people with the power to allocate, allocate to benefit themselves.
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It's much much more like our new AI image generators than a physical simulation of light and volume with mathematical precision. Imagination is a "good enough" fluctuation of seemingly random stimulation of neurons that we&#x
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Non linguistic elements of verbal communication are so universal nobody even really notices when fictional alien species in media communicate to human protagonists. It's noncontroversial to the audience that hostile/non-hostile, i
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Open for business.
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In UI, there's a lot of overlap. A lot of Apple people went to Tesla to build their touchscreen. Those people are qualified to work on the Twitter app itself.
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Update your nvidia graphics driver.
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That sounds more like a browser issue.
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And if it doesn't, it's a request they should be happy to take on for academic work like this. They should recognize they have a big opportunity for great PR gains by officially supporting this kind of project, which could feed ba
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I want the future version of Google Earth or whatever to be the whole globe at a pixel resolution with this kind of technology.
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In a few hundred years geopolitical balances could be wildly different than today: Egypt could somehow come to dominate as a new global empire with Cairo as it's capital, opening it to the vulnerability of a nuclear attack, removing th
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I'm presently nearly done reading (fiction) The Long Ships about this region 1022 years ago. I'm enjoying seeing how cultural attitudes that took root in the transition from a bunch of guys doing whatever they wanted, and everyone
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Did they finally close the AMC in that zombie hellscape?
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It's not that simple. It's how each psychologically responds to stress and gloom. Some get energized and others get shut down.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjsSr3z5nVk
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This is true, but they fell VERY quickly when the Japanese showed up. Maybe they'll do it again.