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by polishTar 7y ago
Since Iger took over as CEO in 2005, Disney has outpaced the growth of the S&P 500 by 6x (not adjusting for dividends). In aggregate, this higher growth rate is responsible for >$150B of market cap. It certainly wasn't just Iger
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by polishTar 7y ago
Moderation is probably done by contractors or vendors, not employees.
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by polishTar 8y ago
There are tons of restrictions on public companies that don't apply to companies that are still private. Too many to list, but these include disclosure requirements (10-K, 10Q, 8-K...), restrictions on who can be on the board, regular
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by polishTar 8y ago
This is one way to look at it. Another, is that the capital contributions of these investors allowed Lyft to afford to pay very good salaries to a large number of employees to work on a societally important project despite the company conti
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by polishTar 8y ago
Did they actually claim they were going to add Linux support? Do you have a source?
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by polishTar 8y ago
For what it's worth, Amazon is the same size as Google now (technically a little bit larger by market cap).
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by polishTar 8y ago
> Yet, if TSLA's price signals anything, it'd be that he's in no danger. Or Tesla is in no danger. Musk still might be.
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by polishTar 8y ago
It clearly hasn’t become too much of a problem yet, but I feel pretty concerned that, given my understanding, it appears there’s only one layer of defense against this type of attack. The response requires 1) the ATC to figure out what happ
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by polishTar 8y ago
What’s stopping someone from impersonating ATC? If I understand correctly, a foggy day + “cleared for takeoff” is all that’s needed for a malicious actor to kill hundreds of people
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by polishTar 8y ago
>>no reason their stock won’t hit $100 billion in total valuation over the next couple of years. >That's got to be a joke. Love it!
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by polishTar 8y ago
The attrition rate is google-public, but not public-public.
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by polishTar 8y ago
This is absolutely not true. You might be confusing median tenure with turnover rate, but those are drastically different things; especially so in a company that’s growing.
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by polishTar 8y ago
That's the DMCA for you unfortunately! Most platforms like YT have a 3-strikes-your-out policy as a result of the DMCA's "repeat infringers" requirement. If you send a DMCA counter notification in response to a takedown,
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by polishTar 8y ago
You have to appeal the dispute. The appeal goes to youtube who will force the claimant to either escalate the claim to a DMCA takedown or release it entirely. YT has official docs on how to do this under the "How to appeal rejected dis
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by polishTar 8y ago
Not exactly true. The YT claim system is optional. Either party can bypass it and force it through the DMCA/other legal process if they want (the claimee can do this by filing a dispute+appeal). Of course doing this opens the claimee t
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by polishTar 8y ago
Eh it’s better, but don’t kid yourself, it’s still pretty terrible. Still too aggressive, still too personal. The reprimand part of this email really shouldn’t have been made public. The tone used was not necessary to convey the ideas he wa
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by polishTar 8y ago
And not only that. Even his undergrad thesis back from 1990 was on neural nets. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1fs4sczbCaACzA9XwxR3DiuXVt...
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by polishTar 8y ago
I know nothing about chess, but part of your argument in both this post and the one before seems to be "I'm right because my ranking is higher than average". That's a bad way to convince people in general (it relies on a
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by polishTar 8y ago
One man's notch is another's "edge to edge display". The cutout allows a higher display to body ratio, which some people value.
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by polishTar 8y ago
Dymaxion maps are still deformed, just not as much as most other projections.
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by polishTar 8y ago
Creating a new language for low memory apps is... probably not the right approach. Google does have an initiative to improve the experience on very limited resource devices though, it's called Android Go. https://developer.a
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by polishTar 8y ago
I don't agree with the premise, but if it really is the case the valuation is too high, the "bad" investors who don't know what they're doing will lose money and thus have less influence on the markets in the future
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by polishTar 8y ago
YouTube has that too. YT has a paid premium service, purchasable creator sponsorships, superchat, a tickets/merchandise shelf, and an influencer marketing platform (through YT-owned Famebit). These form alternative revenue streams for
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by polishTar 8y ago
Explicitly catering to illegal content (or legally disputed content) is one of the worst things any established company could do. Catering to legal but "demonetized" content won't land you in jail at least, but probably still
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by polishTar 8y ago
What you're suggesting is how it already works. Partnered creators all have access to a creator support email (with a 1 business day SLO). Top partnered creators (aka the "creators who get paid anything meaningful") will also
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by polishTar 9y ago
https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/global_style_... Ha!
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by polishTar 9y ago
Google doesn't need (and shouldn't try) to do everything. Google is much less of a "penny pincher" nowadays compared to when they were small and far too scrappy. Google R&D has increased by 233% in the last 5 years a
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by polishTar 9y ago
It's also worth mentioning that he's still on the board, just no longer as chair.
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by polishTar 9y ago
Yep. The attrition rate is not even remotely close to 50%. My recollection was that this turnover rumor started with a stat that at one point in Google's recent growth, the median tenure of the employees was only 2 years. This stat the
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by polishTar 9y ago
This exists already. "Demonetized videos" are more accurately described as partially monetized videos. There is a tier of completely demonetized videos, but these are pretty rare to the extent that a lot of creators didn't re

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