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by s3r3nity 6y ago
I'll grant that I agree this is probably true for low-skilled labor where supply is high and interchangeable. I don't think this is the case for low-supply, high-skill labor (ex: doctors, engineers, etc.) as well as certain low-su
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
The article loosely hints at this context, but provides no evidence either way. Looking at Instacart revenue / margin numbers, they hit profitability _for the first time ever_ in April 2020 alongside the COVID pandemic. Further, margin
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
I'm not sure why the onus is on the business here, rather than the individual: when deciding to be a "contractor" vs. "employee," I should & do take those risks and decisions into account, and weigh the trade-of
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
What kind of charge is "offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks and electronic devices?"
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Sure - it was actually HTC. Surprisingly it doesn't stop with hardware: Compete with iPhone with your own mobile OS? Nah - just acquire Android. Lastly, a multi-trillion dollar company doesn't need your aggressive defense across e
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Study controls for this, though: > After controlling for confounders—including year of study, age, race, BMI, comorbidity status, alcohol and smoking use, and level of physical activity—total testosterone was lower among men in the later
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
LOL maybe they'll see this and hire you, simp Also, the juxtaposition was meant to highlight the various competitors in the space, not necessarily to say that those don't also acquire companies to gain share.
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Bought out part of Motorola to do this
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
More evidence that Google can't create any good, innovative products anymore - they just acquire them. Can't make good watch hardware OR software? Just buy part of Fossil and Fitbit to handle that. Can't make good smart home
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> Dropbox also announced that chief operating officer Olivia Nottebohm will leave the company February 5. Interesting change of leadership that was buried in the article - she was only there for < 1 year after leaving Google Cloud. An
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Successes to an ends for censorship doesn't make it any more ethical. China is a pretty strong economy right now - that doesn't make the CCP's aggressive forms of censorship any more just or ethical.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> Groups becoming more extreme when they exodus is fine and part of the calculus. The reason to take it off of Reddit is to prevent more followers from joining up with them. Is this really any better than religious idealogues burning boo
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
This. Google wants their cake + to eat it to by hiring the best in class Ph.D's with the allure of doing "academic research" but paid a big-tech salary. Turns out it's mostly PR and buying yourself credibility at this po
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
This comment deserves an award for the most uncomfortable truth of 2020.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Ad hominem attacks don't have any impact on validity of the underlying argument. Facts are still facts.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Just do a quick search for "DMPs" or "data management platforms." Multi-billion dollar industry that's focused on collecting data from many different sources, consolidating, and aligning towards real individuals wit
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
I’m sure this is one of those things that’s on the launch roadmap once you can get developers to actually adopt the badge. Then once there’s a critical mass there’ll be a combination of manual filters and/or automated ranking (ex: if m
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Apple Fitness+ Launches Today(usatoday.com)
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Also came here to mention Fastmail, and was surprised it wasn't in the list in the OP.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Maybe, but I wonder if the difference in hardware vs. software makes the FB situation a tad more complicated. Leadership made the push a few years back when Chris Cox left to merge the code bases as much as possible. Do you trust the govern
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Given that the age of politicians has been increasing over the past few decades, and the median wealth of a Congressperson / Senator has also been increasing, I'm less and less optimistic as I get older that this would ever happen
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
The population of Norway is literally 1% that of the US. MAYBE 2% if we're generous. When you're a small, homogeneous population, you can make systems like that work. Things break down, however, for larger, more heterogeneous popu
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
I have my doubts, simply because the markets would be significantly disrupted if the government can retroactively “unapprove” a merger over a decade (or longer) after the fact - AFTER the government previously approved it. You’re better off
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
It would if they build a completely free product to price out competitors. Then there's an easy case to be made that they're leveraging market power / dominance in one market to undercut rivals in another (e.g. running this n
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Well sure, when you can use Uighur slave labor for your infrastructure and kill their entire family if they speak up, you can have some nice things...I guess... /s
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
You could check out Discord - they’ve been pivoting pretty well into an all round Slack competitor with some slick features IMO.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Don’t forget about the new Google Pay, which has its own messaging feature for some reason
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Given some of their moves with Google Workspace tying together Gmail / Meet / Chat, I doubt they could get away with this without significant antitrust issues. They still haven’t fully closed on their Fitbit acquisition, so I’d ex
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> China taxes land appreciation between 30-60%. If you want support for your causes in the US, you probably don’t want to compare it to a communist regime that scares the crap out of people. Unless this was sarcastic...?
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
- 28% increase in EPS - 12% increase YOY for both DAU and MAU Yet again, monster quarter and reports of FB's death have been proven to be premature. Would be curious to understand more how much ROI they're seeing on hardware inves

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