jjfoooo5

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Advice for New Grads(tombedor.github.io)
2 points by jjfoooo5 3y ago|0 comments
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by jjfoooo5 3y ago
Why is a typical human driver at typical performance the baseline? The bad outcomes from driving come from the poor end of the performance, if the average autonomous vehicle avoids those long tail bad outcomes, some inconveniences like slow
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by jjfoooo5 3y ago
As per Cruise statement: >>> The initial impact was severe and launched the pedestrian directly in front of the AV. The AV then braked aggressively to minimize the impact.
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
The target market is enterprise. If I showed up for my first day of work and they handed me a 2019 MacBook Air I'd be pretty unhappy. I really don't get this attitude of indignation when a powerful machine's resources are ful
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
Twitter was a second tier advertising destination before there was any inkling of a Musk deal, and advertisers started leaving before the deal closed when he was trying to get out of it. The biggest advertising firms in the world are advisi
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
The advertiser exodus (already well underway) is a far bigger threat to Twitter than a user exodus. The subscription model is dead on arrival. There's plenty of options if you want a forum without "corporate ESG posing" - 4ch
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
How does Binance fit into this chart? I understand them to be the biggest remaining exchange
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
You couldn't previously buy a checkmark, now you can. This opens new methods of attacking the network. This move perhaps limits spam as practiced today , but the attacks that will happen once the network changes will be different in w
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
It's a great point. There have been several replies ITT along the lines of, "if Twitter goes away, what platform will Stephen King post his content?" As you point out, the answer is "all of the relevant ones, with very l
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
The critical thing for the platform is that if I want to find the Twitter account for {celebrity foo} I can do so with a high degree of confidence that it will be real. I think the loss of trust from consumers is the bigger risk, successful
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
There's no meaningful difference between what you are describing and advertising.
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
There's a reason there are entire companies that focus on the problem of ID verification, it's difficult problem.
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
To some degree it already is, for people who have the checkmark you haven't heard of outside of Twitter. It's a well worn meme to mock people throwing a fit over not getting a checkmark.
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
> Minecraft/Roblox/Fortnite These MMO's are the real absolute ceiling of whatever Meta is trying to do, but that's insufficiently gigantic to justify a pivot of Meta. So they are pitching it as something that will ext
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
> Their audience just got older and rather than abandon them they acquired companies more suited to younger generations e.g. Instagram, Oculus instead. This strategy has run it's course. Regulators are keen to weaken FB and will obs
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
What is their runway with current assets on hand?
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
Is there any evidence any of these bets have traction? I have only heard of their NFT platform performing unbelievably badly: https://decrypt.co/99561/coinbase-nft-marketplace-150-users-...
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
A drop in retail assets north of 10% in a quarter does not sound like stability to me, especially for a company spending like they are in hyper growth mode. It sounds more like an existential risk to the business.
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
Instagram and WhatsApp were competitors in the making that FB bought out. They can't do that trick anymore.
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
FB user base shrinking, including Instagram. The pandemic rebuttal isn't convincing in the face of continued huge growth of TikTok
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
I'm having a hard time tracking down what kind of growth that revenue represents.
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by jjfoooo5 4y ago
The Russian navy was not in the neighborhood on a casual trip!
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by jjfoooo5 5y ago
As a newly, painfully single person, I'd say it was less my partner's judgement that prevented me from doing those unhealthy things, and more the more engaging and fulfilling slate of things to do that come with having a partner.