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by shmatt 5y ago
>FYI the lady was the Product Manager and ran the entire Civic Engagement group. She's not just a project manager working on a team of devs. See, i'd just like to hear more of this * How many direct reports did she have? * What
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by shmatt 5y ago
No. I want to see c-level, senior vp's, and around them start answering questions. Now that its in congress, subpoenas are pretty easy
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by shmatt 5y ago
my point was, people who work for 2 years at FAANG, in 1 company, far from understand the complete scope. I did not mean she was 2 years into her career It can take 6 months to just fully understand what a 7 person team does After 2 years a
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by shmatt 5y ago
There is something that doesn't sit right with me about the whistleblower. Yes, she is a data scientist which gives her many many extra points. But, she was a PM for 2 years in FAANG. Her actual scope of the what was going on in FB as
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by shmatt 5y ago
...or you were both using GMaps/Waze to navigate to your destination
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by shmatt 5y ago
And yet the truck driver openings, now that the low cost workers are gone, have yet to see a significant pay rise to bring in locals that have never considered the job until now And if, lets say, the corporations will now have to pay double
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by shmatt 5y ago
this is the real reason. not anything internal/culture related A good iOS 0-day is worth hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts with shady governments. Apple can't compete with that multiple times a year
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by shmatt 5y ago
You'd have to depend on Google Translate quality but this is a good article https://www.themarker.com/technation/.premium-1.7972249
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by shmatt 5y ago
This is an increasing problem in Israel as well. Soldiers who spent years in the exploit-finding units of 8200 (Israeli NSA) can work for NSO and stay in Israel. But they can also leave the country and work for foreign entities. Sometimes w
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by shmatt 5y ago
and more so, its extremely hard to track peoples blood test. Adobe Acrobat can easily change anyones name on a piece of paper with a blood test result, there wouldn't be a way to confirm this person has antibodies In Israel a high anti
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by shmatt 5y ago
The article seems very fuzzy around the difference between signing up vs. requesting financial aid sentences like > finding that 20% of recent traffic on its main portal for online applications was “malicious and bot-related,” > the f
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by shmatt 5y ago
there is a point to be made here. in Israel for example, a verified blood test with high antibody levels gets you a "vaccine passport", without the need of a vaccine it only lasts a limited time though, and these measured antibodi
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by shmatt 5y ago
the blacklisted hashes are openly given to thousands of companies by a foundation called the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, in both PhotoDNA and MD5 versions of the hashes. Yes, I can't give you an open link, but
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by shmatt 5y ago
Manhattan leases also famously start at 10 year terms as the shortest. With all the secrets going around your average FAANG office, no way would any company sublease a partial floor. Maybe an entire floor, but that creates more issues with
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by shmatt 5y ago
well I'm not handling cost basis, Financial Choice is. and they're not sharing any of that AFAIK. which makes this confusing. Especially with the comparison here and on their home page, to a checking account. Sounds like if the ma
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by shmatt 5y ago
if i put in $50k, gained 10%, then payed rent with $2k. Is that $2k taxed as the profit? as someone not very knowledgable in the investment world, this seems pretty complicated, and also weird that i'd be taxed for every "faux che
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by shmatt 5y ago
I wouldn't mind the micromanaging if I was payed double
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by shmatt 5y ago
This right here. People move cross country or even internationally for a chance to be in the 1 hospital who is running a trial for some non-proven drug for their disease Being able to get the drug wherever you are in the U.S is a good step,
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by shmatt 5y ago
> visited by a black SUV and a group of burly looking suited security guards Not very different than getting visited by a burly looking neighbor. Except some people can look weaker, or be afraid to approach their neighbor because their s
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by shmatt 5y ago
With all respect (and I completely expected the downvotes to my original post) - "link in bio" is not what people consider selling on Instagram You make selling on Instagram easy by charging $6/month. I don't think you s
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by shmatt 5y ago
Maybe I (and any potential customer) am misreading the website. I'm seeing $6/month for IG shopping integration What is your definition of "selling for free on Instagram" - does it mean not being able to sell tagged prod
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by shmatt 5y ago
* Your title is sell via Instagram, but your "free" product does not include selling via Instagram * Yes, Stripe take a fee and that sucks, but you don't have to. Shopify had $0 monthly costs at launch. Obviously now they c
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by shmatt 5y ago
In Israel, covid exposure notification was can't-ever-opt-out. What happened next was people stopped going out with their phones, because any exposure would result in a Police enforced 14 day quarantine
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by shmatt 6y ago
Does this mean your hardware is bricked if I stop paying the monthly fee? Looking at the bike market again, most bikes have a “free ride” state for non payers that shows you live stats. And internal browsers that let you see a different com
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by shmatt 6y ago
It’s the other way around. While figuring out how to profit on the hardware, selling software is a net profit with 0 downside. And lots of people on this thread seem to point to a single manufacturer that is in every rowers house, apparentl
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by shmatt 6y ago
Apple is currently the only company in the fitness world that can afford to force hardware and software coupling. You are not Apple. Peloton, which you compare yourself to, allows me to use my Life Fitness bike with their platform, and they
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20210028: Alphabet Inc.; Intuit Inc(ftc.gov)
7 points by shmatt 6y ago|2 comments
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by shmatt 6y ago
any company that builds software for government tracking like NSO Group will happily pay, and have very deep pockets
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by shmatt 6y ago
Couldn't he force all internet providers to ban connectivity to the IPs? Then only VPN users could use Tik Tok, basically making it useless
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by shmatt 6y ago
Unemployed Americans have (temporarily) discovered the world of fare living-wage unemployment that expires tomorrow. If you don't live in NY or CA, those extra $600 a week can go very far, and have probably helped stimulate the economy

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