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Bargaining always feels like an hostage situation from the side with less power. Lucky enough, workers united can tip the scales in their favor, while alone they are nothing.

> In other words, not losing is heavily prioritised over winning in top chess, currently.

It's more that once you are in a losing position, winning is extremely difficult, and a draw is often the best thing you can achieve.

From there on, the losing side cares about not losing (because winning is almost impossible), but the winning side stills tries to win. Great chess players are the ones who can turn a losing position into a draw, or prevent draws from a winning position.

Checkers have been solved 16 years ago and still see competition. A game being solved is not exactly the same as "apply this memorizable algorithm and you'll win", especially if the solution implies scanning 10^n positions for each move.

Why would it render human games moot? Why would a software participate in a championship?

The draw percentage in checkers/draught and in chess are roughly similar, (anywhere between 50% and 60% at high-level play), despite checkers being solved and chess not.

PTM has won a Grammy, they don't need planners to get a sense of their style. If anything, GSheet might be their styles.

I'd like to know which country/region has a low average of >$400K/y for a SWE so that you'd be "lucky" to find one for less. I know we're well paid, but definitely not that well.

I still do not understand what the US might get out of this in 2023.

The point is also to keep people around. Software engineers are notoriously feeble, as they get offers extremely regularly.

> I meant something different by "anything goes." I am ~40 and was born in Eastern Europe -- but even in the US, back then there was still a strong value that a good life a combination of having a family and raising the next generation, ability to work to support your family and contribution to society through your work. Whereas even in "my time" these values would have resonated with the tone in a public school, I am pretty sure that's not going to be the case today.

I'm not aware of that class in the curriculum. Is it supposed to be taught during math, history, geology or sports?

I don't want dynsmism, I want reprodicity.

I'd like to understand how asian and pacific islanders are mixed up in one "group'". Is the person grouping ethnicities together judging by squinty eyes, or what? All these "ethnicities" stats are worthless, give us place of birth or nothing, it's 2023.

DKK is pegged with the euro at 7.46, it's just a currency in name.

I'd prefer if Amazon et al paid their taxes and society as a whole could decide how to spend it to better itself, through the democracy that we are supposed to live in.

What are devcontainers bringing more than what "docker-compose up" already does, if your app is already compose-ready for local?

Says who? This sounds more like preaching than anything else.

Because other people seem to be pushing the idea that race is the signal, as they are pushing for a redistribution along racial lines rather than economic lines.

How many slaves in the family tree should someone have to qualify? Do white slaves count? How far back should we go? Would citizens whose families have immigrated to this country after the deed be also on the hook for reparations? Should reparations only be given to struggling people, or should they be given out regardless of the situation of the descendant of a slave?

It's a lot easier to quantify and equalize the situation here and now rather than to try to make up for a future that could have been, and for which no living being is responsible. The past is complex and blurry, and families aren't a straight line. And generally, people aren't bound by their ancestor's misdeeds.

Poor people should get more help from society in the US, that's a fact: race might be a strong predictor for poverty, but the best signal for poverty remains income and wealth, right here and right now.

Why bother looking at anything else? Are poor whites or asians somehow more blameable for their poverty than poor blacks? Should a successful black person get reparations from a white hobo, simply based on their lineage (that none of them have control on)?

Instagram has 500M DAU / 2B MAU. A huge chunk of Meta's MAU come from Whatsapp, and Threads isn't promoted there.

> 100M signups in five days is impressive at first glance. However, if you do some quick math, you will see that 100M signups (defined by install the app + click a button that says signup with your Instagram account) out of 3.8 billion monthly active Meta users is 3% of their users, i.e. 3 out of 100 Meta users did a low effort action (one-click signup) in the midst of a huge product news cycle.

Threads isn't available in Europe (~500M population), Meta MAU != Instagram MAU, and 5 days isn't 30 days.

We started seeing reports about it in GSC early July, when over a single day all our scores turned to crap with no explanation.

We are in the yellow, but the biggest culprits for blocking time are...Google Tag Manager, GAds (and Ganalytics where we still have it). So yeah, thanks Google, can't wait to lose on SEO due to your own products. And also, thanks for releasing this without the proper analysis tooling. (https://web.dev/debug-performance-in-the-field/#inp : this is not tooling, this is undue burden on developers. Making people bundle an extra ["light" library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/web-vitals) with their clients, forcing them to build their own analytics servers to understand what web-vitals complains about...or is often wrong about)

How did they rank the ranking prompt?

Doubt it, we've started a fresh property as well which should theoretically guarantee isolation. Time will tell.

Correct, we stopped giving them any sort of feedback (conversion or otherwise, due to removing Analytics as well) on the ads we were running.

Since June 2022, we have stopped sending conversion signals back to our Google Ads account, and have completely disconnected Analytics and any Google-related tracking code from our site. We also started a new Ads property and retired the old, "enriched" one, starting 100% fresh (we were worried about breaking things, so we isolated the move and were ready to rollback quick).

We have a yearly Gads budget around ~$5-$6M, of which is 95% SEA. We are selling an unchanged service in a very stable, slowly declining market with heavy ads competition for the top keywords. Roughly 60-65% of our customers are paid and come from Google.

Since then, our ROI on that spending has not changed whatsoever. Paid traffic remains stable. Our CAC and conversion rates are virtually the same (even slightly better). Our new customer's LTV has increased compared to the previous cohorts as well, so it seems we're actually getting better quality leads (though I wouldn't attribute it necessarily to Google).

So if reporting more data to Google was supposed to help us target our users more cost-efficiently, it did a piss poor job at it. In hindsight, we have wasted so much time trying to help Google make "smarter" decisions by providing it with more and more data (hello server-side tracking), while the most efficient thing to do would likely have been to do nothing at all. We have been working with GAds selling the the same service for more than 8 years now, so we have a large basis of comparison to be able to make that case.

Maybe we're lucky, maybe this will turn out badly, but since then I have stopped blindly believing whatever the ads platforms are pretending to do behind the scenes with all this data. If they do anything with it, it doesn't seem to be for the advertiser.

Our next step will be to gradually cut our SEA spending and follow the impact.

And don't get me starting on Facebook's borderline fraudulent ad performance reporting that doesn't match our reality...

Check out "les étoiles d'ivry" from Jean Renaudie then, you might like it. Habitat 67, but triangles. And a lot more green.

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I don't really understand the point you are trying to make.

Do you truly think there is no one on earth who could do a better job than Pinchai for, let's say, $80M a year? $40M a year? $30M a year? $10M a year? Why is there downward pressure on wages for everyone except for this particular position?

Because laws are there to fix asymmetries in negotiation power between parties. As you can imagine, artists and art collectors/galleries are not really on the same level.

Because it seems you have some experience in the field: is there a way to develop and support a multi-platform app in 2023 without suffering? The idea of having to hire 2(x n)FTE to handle developing mobile apps which will, at the end of the day, look and feel the same to the user, is killing me. What's the least worst option out there?

Has anyone here have experience with this? We're currently looking at a forward-looking stack for our multi-platform app, and to be fair the general feedback we read is that they all suck in certain ways. What's the least bad out there?