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India's TFR just reached 1.9 which is below replacement rate.. The state I live in with 60m people has 1.5-1.6 TFR and still going down rapidly towards Japan and South Korea level of population decline. This will be seen in the coming decades.
But you can't just go and delete the billions of people already born and are living. You can't change demographics in a day or even a decade.
Hangouts (now Meet?) was also a product out of Google+ but considering GChat (the xmpp version) existed before, it was kind of a step backwards.
I think Google Local Guide also has some parts of Google+, not sure.
I have a phone with dual physical SIM card slots. I can go to any country in the world, buy a SIM, put it in, and am up and running. eSIM provisioning at airports is barely available in few coubtries.
I broke the display of my phone? Easy, remove the SIM and put it in a spare phone and I can still make and receive calls.
I would attribute red tape to only fintech companies. Ideally edtech should have had redtape considering how much rampant these VC funded companies ran riot.
Also, SV has these red tapes too. Bloom Tech -> California BoE anyone? Red tapes are not always a bad thing for the consumers, maybe for those following grow fast and break model.
I believe the issues he is describing is more OAuth2 rather than JWT.
It will be a fair criticism if this same factory is having same quality output 2-3 years down the line.
Also, maybe that localised build system running on an old server for each team seem to be not a bad idea to reduce the blast radius when eventually a hack happens. These providers are supposed to be the gatekeepers and experts who one leaves the tedious and critical work to. If they are just being a leaky cauldron, maybe not bad to cook in my old pot at home.
Elon backtracking from the absolute free speech is fair to be mocked and laughed at as 'I said so'.
Elon is now understanding the risk and fallacy of absolute free speech when some rando stalked his family. But glossed over when others shouted at the same.
I'd appreciate if you would consider regional pricing at some point. As it's priced today, it's more expensive than all the streaming services I use (including Netflix, Disney+). I can certainly understand why regional pricing is not for everyone and its drawbacks but just wanted to ask.