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I think you mean to say “compliment”

It’s heavily dependent on the quality of the search offered. For example — Reddit’s search functionality is terrible. I’ve found that Google is much better for searching Reddit.

On the other side you have people in retirement drawing from their 401ks. The population imbalance probably works in the market’s favor now, but that might not always be the case.

My robot vacuum sits docked away from me, on a separate floor, during the day. It runs at night time and I never see it. It's connected to its own IOT network. How would it know how many people live in my home and when I'm not there?

People who rob upper-middle class homes are not going to do so because they have a house layout in advance. They're just going to rob the house. And anybody who goes to the lengths of buying Amazon data on the black market is not going to be interested in stealing people's laptops and jewelry.

Market making is a very important role.

Some of this doesn't seem correct? For example, I was surprised to see that Ken Jeong was Canadian (shown up and to the right of Michael J Fox, in what looks like Northern Saskatchewan). But I looked it up and he was born in Detroit.

He waived due diligence. If I offer to buy a house and waive contingencies, I can’t subsequently use an inspection report to back out of the sale claiming the house was misrepresented to me.

Uber does use its own data centers.

The most recent “transparency report”[0] for their reserves seems to suggest the near majority of it (35B) is backed by US treasury bills.

They are also counting debt by other corporations in their “cash and bank deposits” classification (24B).

Is the goal here to establish whether this is factual, or is it to determine what comprises these in greater detail?

[0] https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/4hiNJsZ98LlZqCJHKz...

His dad was half owner of an emerald mine.

From wikipedia:

"The family was very wealthy in Elon's youth; Errol Musk once said, 'We had so much money at times we couldn't even close our safe.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Childhood_and_family

This information is on the bottom of every paper check. While it is probably not advisable to broadcast and post up everywhere, it is not supposed to be a secret.

In my experience, the payment system is pretty reasonable. And I get the funds faster directly from eBay than going eBay -> PayPal -> bank.

PayPal would ultimately require your checking account information too, assuming that you want the funds to end up there. I'm not sure why eBay having that information poses any more of a problem than PayPal having it does.

And this payment delay is likely due to having to wait for credit card payments to process and settle. I don't think eBay is doing anything nefarious, here.

Lastly -- if you are concerned about banking info being disclosed, or eBay maybe messing something up and taking money, you could set up a separate checking account that you only use to hook up to online places like Coinbase, PayPal, Venmo, eBay, etc. that you use as a proxy to transfer into your "real" checking account.

Believe it or not, IBM's first product was actually a cheese slicer.

My understanding is that the outrage is over spending time and money codifying new laws to collect taxes for small transactions instead of spending time and money codifying new laws to collect taxes from large tax-avoidant businesses and wealthy individuals who both are in a position to pay much more and who compared to average people pay basically nothing.

If I sell my old couch at a loss for $600, and get paid with Venmo, the default behavior now is to have a form sent to the IRS. The burden is on me to prove it is a loss and have the documentation to back it up, or risk having $600 of taxable income in the eyes of the IRS. At this small threshold, it sounds like a burden to me.

A contract’s a contract and if they agree to something, it’s enforceable.

For example — it’s not uncommon when adopting a dog to sign a contract agreeing you will walk it N times a week, or never leave it unattended in public, etc.

Perhaps both teen culture and social media contain toxic aspects? It is not mutually exclusive.

You are missing that Instagram (and nearly every other online platform) targets users based on the type of content it thinks they want to see. Instagram thinks you are more interested in tinkering and that Ms. Vlasova is more interested in other things.

Mark’s use of the word “can” is what makes it technically not perjury.

The other side of this is that many laws do not neatly accommodate advances in technology. There are currently laws in place that predate cars, predate the internet, predate electricity. At some point, in some contexts, they will be a hinderance rather than a benefit.

The astrologer says "you are unable to father children". It is ambiguous whether the astrologer is implying that the man cannot conceive children or whether he has no ability to be a father. When the man reveals that he has seven kids, the astrologer's reply of "look after them well" could be interpreted as sarcasm. I think initially you're supposed to think that the man cannot have kids, but the joke is that he's implying he's a terrible father.

My $0.02.

I get your point, but I’m not so sure it’s a losing argument.

Brilliant minds could alternatively be doing equally brilliant things for any other company or organization than Facebook or Google, but instead, they do.

Shall we also marvel at the brilliant work and engineering that went into the development of the atomic bomb?

Perhaps nuclear advances still would have been made if the Manhattan Project had devoted its resources to similar research, but not with the goal of building a weapon.

Perhaps not. But I refuse to celebrate Facebook for what it is, and hope that we don’t need to count on it for engineering advancements.

Obey Clothing was founded by Shepard Fairey, most notably known for his Obama Hope poster in 2008.

Shepard often cites They Live as inspiration for his art, with his Andre the Giant Has A Posse campaign starting in 1989.

As an aside - one of my favorite works of his is Greetings From Iraq[0], from 2005. It satirizes a classic Yellowstone National Park postcard from the 1930s[1], in a criticism of the Iraq War.

[0]https://www.icaboston.org/sites/default/files/styles/origina...

[1]https://www.discovernw.org/mm5/graphics/00000001/DYNW_PLU106...

Presidents can have press conferences whenever they want. Historically speaking, that's how it's been done.

I would actually say the employer is the one taking advantage of people, not the customer. They’re exploiting social pressure to get away with not paying staff a livable wage.

I think it’s more that the Apple Watch doesn’t support Spotify than the other way around. Apple prioritizes its own music service for the watch.

Have you ever fuzzed at scale before and solved the problems that that entails? Fuzzing on a single dev box is trivial compared to running on, say, 20k cores.

Providing this type of scalability as a service, and part of your existing CICD pipeline is pretty useful.

Who says Microsoft wants to attract the best talent?

Apple has usually billed itself as a high quality hardware manufacturer, and more recently they've expanded into services. The lion's share of their revenue is from these two things.

Privacy has always been a core tenet of Apple's value proposition. They ask for more money, and in return you get assurance that the system you're using values your privacy more than other ecosystems.

I don't necessarily think there needs to be anything more to it than that. Apple knows it can win privacy conscious people and monetize them in ways Google can't, and that's what it does.