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by n144q 2y ago
My understanding is that R&D in the US is a very small part of the business for these China-based companies, both in terms of headcounts and org chart. TikTok hires many people in the US, but that's nowhere near the number in the B
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by n144q 2y ago
In the US, DL works as an ID for almost anything other than voting in an election. You can fly to almost any US territory with that plastic card. And it is state-provided ID -- nobody questions that. And we are talking about 300M people h
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by n144q 2y ago
In order to pre-pay, you need to have an account first. Many people didn't even get to the point where they can log in.
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by n144q 2y ago
Swift uses garbage collection (I know, arc, but that's still garbage collection), so it more or less is in the same category as Go. And I don't see people choosing Swift over Go any time soon. C++ and Rust are a different thing.
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by n144q 2y ago
> have a competitive advantage in the market In theory, yes, but there are two problems: (1) You need to either hire or train someone to write in Rust, and neither is trivial amount of effort. And at the end of the day, you need to push
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by n144q 2y ago
Exactly. VSCode and Chrome already have Rust code, although only a very small part. But if giant, complex projects like these can find places where Rust fits, most other projects can as well.
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by n144q 2y ago
Had exactly the same experience. I even provided my real drivers license -- something I normally would never do. Didn't convince them I am a real human being that matches what's on the ID. I never understood why people think so hi