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by threadweaver34 4y ago
They named the company Google, not Tencent for a reason.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
There's also a shift away from products to services, but I'm not sure how different those ads yield for Google. I assume ecommerce does better because it's easier to track conversions.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
Meta started getting beat up about a quarter before Alphabet. They were 6 months ahead on a hiring freeze, and 3 months ahead on layoffs. They've been thinking about this a lot longer, and markets respond to if you beat the number the
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
The one point they have is that internet porn can be a problem for some people, but there's a difference between having to use your imagination and abstaining entirely.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
It's that Japan is so advanced, but different. Most other countries are either less developed or similar to the west.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
That's just because America castrated their war machine.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
At long as there are wild, native apples growing somewhere, would that be enough genetic diversity to recreate similar varieties to anything that's lost?
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
I agree with your point on realism vs impressionism, but I still buy the explanation what we prefer 24 fps movies because we're conditioned to, not because of a preference for impressionism. I also like my wine expensive and with nice
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
Tomatoes are the extreme of what's better from a home garden.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
And then there's Latinx. Latinx isn't even pronounceable in Spanish or Portuguese.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
True. It's absolutely a pipeline problem, and "tech" isn't even the solution as much as improving educations overall. I also thing home environment has something to do with it, and there's only so much public school
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
6 months of FAANG severance is better than 2 years of government social safety net, even with a good government.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
The FAANG I'm at bends over backwards to find diamonds in the rough, but for the most part, they weren't at even a second-tier tech firm for a reason. It reminds me of how Cal graduation rates went up when they couldn't use r
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
When you've got a hiring freeze and your stock is beat up, you don't need to recruit more talent (BIPOC or otherwise), and you don't need to tell the world how progressive you are. You need to prioritize projects and execute
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
> that cuts aren’t always rational The FAANG I'm at made offers to return to some of the people it laid off. Whoopsie! Our bad.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
If hosting is cheap, I'd be tempted to put it out for free just to up the ante with the other company.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
Diversity programs are best viewed as a relatively cheap marketing expense. They exist to make the company look better to certain people. When there are more pressing concerns, you pare them back because you have better things to worry abou
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
Mid 30s, $1.5m net worth, no major obligations. I don't want to live in self inflected poverty in Tulsa, and I enjoy my work enough that I'd rather find something else to work on that I find interesting. Good luck keeping up a res
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
My point was that we've reached the mid-term status quo. If you're still wearing a mask, you're going to be wearing it for a while.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
https://www.richmondfed.org/research/national_economy/macro_... > Using the relationship in Figure 1, we calculate this as an increase of the PCE price level from 295.7 to a midpoint of estimates of 300.2, plus
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
> people should stick to N95/KN-95/KF-94/FFP2/FFP3 masks for the time being Now that we have a vaccine and a bivalent booster, realize that you're suggesting masking for at least another 5 years. You said this, b
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
And Biden's still trying to give away more in student loan forgiveness and has still paused payments.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
I wish companies would report their CEO's internal performance reviews this year. I suspect it'll be framed as making the best out of a bad situation rather than severely misjudged macroeconomic conditions.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
> Articles urging people not to panic sell also start appearing. Considering what people do and the track record of buy-and-hold, this is a responsible move.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
Have you been working from home for the last 3 years? Less social interaction could contribute to this.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
> 3. cut out all sugar outside of whole unprocessed fruit. (juice doesn't count) Juice might as well be soda when it comes to sugar.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
> In the humanties there is lots of well-written text of no useful depth This is already par for the course https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatg... > ...a professor in the U
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
It's that that right answer is fuzzier.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
It's BS good enough for the humanities, but not the sciences.
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by threadweaver34 4y ago
Whatsapp doesn't do ranking.

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