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601.
by sumeno 3y ago
He could give away 99.99% of his wealth, still never have to work another day in his life, and be much less of a target if he wanted to. Boo hoo the poor guy who has more money than almost anyone has ever had in the history of the earth has
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by sumeno 3y ago
> Layoffs at Google didn't happen because they had to happen. They happened because the leadership was concerned that in the good years, the company accumulated way too much dead weight - pointless projects, underperforming employee
603.
by sumeno 3y ago
The Google of tv shows
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by sumeno 3y ago
an article on a website is actually nothing like lynching
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by sumeno 3y ago
Getting acquired is the end goal of a huge portion of startups and the vcs funding them. If that option goes away there will probably be a lot fewer startups, which may or may not be a good thing.
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by sumeno 3y ago
If you don't want to face the possibility of your product being shut down don't sell it to Google of all companies. Really, don't sell it to any megacorp, but they had to know Google's rep before they agreed to the deal.
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by sumeno 3y ago
Presumably they got well compensated for their time and effort. That's about the best you can expect at a large company. You're working on the company's products and priorities and getting paid to do so. What they choose to d
608.
by sumeno 3y ago
Hope the bots don't discover stolen credit cards
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by sumeno 3y ago
> If I understand correctly This always seems to be followed by something that demonstrates that the poster did not understand correctly
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by sumeno 3y ago
A tweet with a fake headline now looks exactly the same as a real headline. Previously the headline was pulled directly from the link so it was much harder to make a realistic fake
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by sumeno 3y ago
Yeah, we really need to go out of our way to make sure Nancy Pelosi has a say in our political process. What if one of the most powerful politicians alive doesn't get to make this particular decision? She'll be so disenfranchised!
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by sumeno 3y ago
> Yep. Who was hurt by all that? The Rohingya for one
613.
by sumeno 3y ago
This is one of the grossest things I've ever read on HN and that's an accomplishment
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by sumeno 3y ago
This has never been the standard for businesses. "Innocent until proven guilty" is only applicable in criminal court. OJ didn't keep his endorsements after he murdered Nicole and Goldman, he lost them well ahead of the trial,
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by sumeno 3y ago
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by sumeno 3y ago
Because you always have to be squeezing more money from somewhere to keep your stock going up and ads are an easy place to get it
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by sumeno 3y ago
> So why not keep it that way? Because capitalism incentivizes unsustainable growth at all costs.
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by sumeno 3y ago
On iPhones iMessages are blue, but text messages (from non-ios devices) are green and lack some of the features of iMessages, so being green is looked down upon
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by sumeno 3y ago
> I understand this as a hypothesis but it hasn't been borne out by any of the Autopilot usage data. Which independent Autopilot usage data are you referencing?
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by sumeno 3y ago
It's incredibly common to only publish a headline and summary to RSS and then have people click through to your site for the full article, so it seems like you're blaming RSS for what is a user error
621.
by sumeno 3y ago
That some people win the lottery is not a good argument for playing the lottery
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by sumeno 3y ago
Not going bankrupt
623.
by sumeno 3y ago
I don't, I looked everywhere I could in the app and don't see a single ad
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by sumeno 3y ago
Are the very least they have terrible judgment considering they still work at Twitter (excluding people dealing with visa issues)
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by sumeno 3y ago
Wrong, they see half the ads of regular users, and only on certain spots of the site "Half ads: See approximately 50% fewer ads in the For You and Following timelines. As you scroll, you will see approximately twice as many organic or
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by sumeno 3y ago
Wrong, they had net profits 15 out of 18 quarters from 2018-2022 https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...
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by sumeno 3y ago
Why is it suddenly so costly only after Elon took over considering Twitter was borderline profitable before he took over?
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by sumeno 3y ago
In general yes, but Twitter was borderline profitable before Musk took over and saddled them with insurmountable debt payments and decisions alienating advertisers and users. Twitters current issues are entirely the creation of Elon Musk.
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by sumeno 3y ago
Sounds like the company needs a new CTO if all your engineers are talentless hacks
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by sumeno 3y ago
Given how easy it is to have bot farms promote tweets I don't think this is a valid metric to use

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