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Here’s a case example, BNP Paribas dealings with sanctioned countries. https://www.wsj.com/articles/bnp-agrees-to-pay-over-8-8-bill...

What I really love is the gesture interface. The swipe on the sleeve feels natural. Comparatively tapping on AirPods looks more awkward. It is especially useful while riding my motorbike.

I found the jacket in the SF Levi’s store as I was shopping for a jacket. I had no idea that Google made them. I wonder why Google doesn’t do more to promote the device.

> "The Notifying Party submitted that integration between WhatsApp and Facebook would pose significant technical difficulties. Notably, integration of WhatsApp's and Facebook's networks would require matching WhatsApp users' profiles with their profiles on Facebook (or vice versa). This would be complicated without the users' involvement since Facebook and WhatsApp use different unique user identifiers: Facebook ID and mobile phone number, respectively. Consequently, Facebook would be unable to automatically and reliably associate a Facebook ID with a valid phone number used by a user on WhatsApp. Matching of WhatsApp profiles with Facebook profiles would most likely have to be done manually by users, which in the Notifying Party's view is likely to result in a significant backlash from both users of Facebook and WhatsApp who do not want to match their accounts. Finally, the Notifying Party stated that, beyond the difficulties in matching user IDs, significant engineering hurdles would have to be overcome to enable cross-platform communications, reflecting the fundamentally different architecture of Facebook and WhatsApp (including the former being cloud-based, the latter not)."

It seems the EU commission interpreted the statement as 'not possible'. Facebook played them.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m72...

One remedy is as simple as a phone call. Calling old time friends and relatives can make wonder. Most will rejoice at hearing a familiar voice.

Another remedy is acceptance of being alone. Being alone without feeling lonely is an acquired skill.

You might as well read the opposite: “Feedback is the most important thing you can give to a team member. Count up to 5 before giving any feedback.”

Unless backed by research, most books is intellectual posturing for career builders.

First time I see a tool made for it. I will give it a try!

Castles are very much a leisure expenditure.

It is pretty accepted no government has the higher morale ground. You can dig enough in any past or present to find evil or good.

This is the same reason why Europe should be also wary from both CCP and US administration.

Samwer brothers never cared for innovation. They picked whatever worked in the US and made a copy. They could either sell to the the US market leader, as they did with their first company when they sold to eBay, or IPO. All that mattered was to grab the market and get investors to value on the growth.

And to be first, they hired new grads or junior McKinseys they could impress with high pay while giving monkey equity, while pressuring at will.

What country is this?

Being a product company is so much better in Silicon Valley. Revenues scale. Engineers work on general problems. Skills are reusable.

At the time (2014) they were building Gotham and Metropolis. There was a small team of product evangelists in the team, whose role was to find commonalities between projects.

I could feel they were conflicted. It looked like the platforms were not valued by the customers. Customers valued answers to their operational problems. And problems across companies and industries get solved very differently. Crossing data between license plates wasn't the same as extracting data from credit card statements. Platforms may provide foundations to speed up implementation and save money, but nothing customers could value directly.

I could tell they wanted to be a product company. Palantir is structured like a regular Silicon Valley company. They have a CEO, a COO, and product roles. They give stock options and now are forced to go public. And they never never present themselves as consultants. One of my friends there took offense at describing the company as 'Tech McKinsey'.

Compare it with firms such as McKinsey and BCG. They are private partnerships. They pay junior consultants higher than any other company at equivalent positions, they give no shares until partners. The partners at these firms possess the network. They do the selling, and that's all they are focused on. Answering customers' problems. It might scale less, but it provides a 100% tailored solution to the customer.

The only question is that what customers value. Do they value Palantir platforms with high recurring fees? Or did they like the first data joins, but eventually thought it was too expensive, or they should build it themselves? Which would mean Palantir has to constantly generate new contracts, much like McKinsey and BCG. Only Palantir knows.

No wonder they keep making empty promises.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_17_...

He also admits the tax would be difficult to implement. He should know. France wealth tax has existed for more than 30 years. It was not a success, in part because the wealthy found ways to avoid it. It was as simple as moving residence to Belgium. The tax has now been turned into a property tax.

- If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected #coronavirus infection.

- Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing”

WHO, Mar 1, https://twitter.com/who/status/1234095938555260929?s=21

“the wide use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not supported by current evidence and carries uncertainties and critical risks.”

WHO, Apr 6, https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/331693

The author provides cases of events where infection by droplets cannot entirely explain the spread.

Countries using foreign products will be more and more wary of espionnage.

Attempts at local data residency are encouraging. Yet they are still a far cry from what is needed.

There is an option for mods to slow or accelerate the decay function of the post.

This is a practice that all content platforms use and few know about. Burying content down, or removing from feed (for Facebook/YouTube) is a soft censoring that avoids user and regulatory backlash.

I would like the platforms to be more transparent about the practice. They could display a ‘derank’ or ‘delisted’ label to all users.

This is a practice that all content platforms use and few know about. Burying content down, or removing from feed (for Facebook/YouTube) is a soft censoring that avoids user and regulatory backlash.

I would like the platforms to be more transparent about the practice. They could display a ‘derank’ or ‘delisted’ label to all users.

HN mods have likely flagged it as flamewar, or non relevant, or both, effectively contributing to the soft censorship on the topic.

Content platforms have many challenges ahead of them.

When police officers from Europe come to visit, the first thing that surprise them is how tense the police is. They are constantly in fear of getting shot.

Reducing civilian gun ownership would help a lot to reduce violence, cops and non cops alike.