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I'm aware of Douyin. However, TikTok and Douyin are different apps with different users. The product named TikTok did not establish itself in China first.

Tiktok does not have access to the FB-free Chinese market.

Perhaps your definition is too granular. At the end of the day these products compete for your attention (or time). It's a zero sum game. So yes, Tiktok does compete with facebook because hours in a day is a fixed quantity and you have to choose where to spend them.

Get some jabra 75Ts. Problems solved.

Annoyance 8: I get anxious when I get on a video call and see the other person is wearing airpods because they're always cutting in and out.

I tend to think crypto currencies, much more than conventional financial assets, is sensitive to the public narrative/hype due to it being a pure speculation play. A lot of people bought in over the past two years due to the hype and I suspect if the media narrative turns a lot of folks will pull out.

Note that voter ID laws are being passed at the _state_ level. Doing what you say above is fine, but getting states to recognize those IDs is not. This is not some trivial problem in America (like it may be in other countries).

> We ask because younger people don't go off about ageism.

Really? That's like saying "Well white people don't go off about racism the way you do." Good lord we have some incompetent people making hiring decisions.

> one of the interviewers asked me my age, directly followed by "why hire you over a younger graduate?"

I hope you told them it's because you have enough experience to know what they said is illegal.

It's a problem of the incentives we've setup. We reward engineers for building things. Promotions, pay raises, etc. for engineers are typically based on impact and technical complexity, not how good their documentation was. I've been at a few places that handwave at such things in their level expectations or skills matrix or whatever, but having been in promo discussions at a variety of medium and large companies it always comes down to what was shipped.

Problem is, at mature companies there aren't enough greenfield problems to match the large number of engineers who are looking to climb the ladder. So stuff is rewritten, then rewritten again since nobody understands the rewrite, and so on. Managers kind of look the other way because retention and the ecosystem becomes messier and messier over time as promoted folks leave and new folks come in that need to be promoted.

This is the world of professional software development at pretty much every company not a startup.

What are you implying with this comment?

I'm fairly certain you don't want your heart controlled by an app on your phone.

> ahem: you told us to migrate to your platform

_Someone_ at $LARGE_CORPORATION told you to migrate, but clearly this team didn't. They have no idea who you are, what you're working on, what your timelines are, what the priority of this work is relative to other things happening at the company, or whether there's other things you can be doing in the meantime. Yet they actually did some diligence, got it approved (after 2 days even), and got it on their roadmap. As others have mentioned, you need to invest in figuring out how to get things done at $LARGE_CORPORATION. Acquisitions are a dime a dozen and certainly do not pre-empt things like security or compliance. This could be a great opportunity to dig in and develop a better understanding.

At large companies communication and alignment is generally more difficult to solve than any of the actual technical challenges. You may not like it and choose to leave, but at least try to develop an understanding so you can take that lesson with you.

If only we hadn't demanded it.

> violate their rights

Citation needed.

> an information spreading system that promotes stuff that's inflammatory over stuff that's informative

The problem is who's to say which is which.

> whose profits are, at minimum, powered by that problem

I don't think it's established that that's the minimum. Facebook usually argues that it's a small minority of their content and I don't see any evidence against that (it just gets a lot of scrutiny). It seems like if you magically removed all the "bad actors" they'd make just as much money.

> you cannot pretend something is working when it isn't

You absolutely can. The problem is in the ambiguity around the work "working". Take for example the case of a person/team shipping a poor quality implementation which is initially celebrated and rewarded (because no one realizes it's a poor quality implementation) only to fall over in production and cause large problems/disruption for the team/product/business.

This is not an uncommon scenario in software development and I would argue is a case of people pretending (or thinking) something is working when it isn't.

Name another company that wants to buy it.

Because that's not what VCs want.

Those parts of the world aren't generally spending multiple thousands of American dollars on a laptop.

You've created a straw man. Author said use of bitcoins for "payments" while you've broadened that to all "transactions" on the blockchain. These are not the same thing.

Not sure what you _thought_ I was saying, but I was only saying parent's statement about NFTs is wrong. This was not a statement about the impact of cryptocurrencies on society.

You seem defensive. Find a comment that requires the above defense.

> storage, fakes, and transaction costs. NFTs solve all three

NFTs solve none of these problems. The underlying asset is not stored on the blockchain and can be deleted at any time. Fakes are unaddressed since you can only validate you are the owner of a specific url and there's no guarantee that what you own is the original version (bytes are easy to copy). Any validation of authenticity must happen OFF of the blockchain in which case why are we doing this again? Transaction costs are a function of the market (even on the blockchain) and are not at all connected to NFTs.

If your standard is rails then literally everything in every language before rails was "behind the curve". Currently PHP has frameworks that have caught rails, but Ruby's perf is still garbage.

Ah makes sense.

> The cultural implications are that you will likely miss out on job opportunities and thus wage increases.

Strongly agree with the above.

OK, please explain how fixing housing, healthcare, education will remove the need for parental leave. It's your argument, motivate it.

> is an attempt my mothers to minimize wage decreases

There's a lot of evidence around wage discrepancies, but I have never heard anyone claim that it's the _mothers_ who are forcing themselves back to work. That seems like a huge stretch and doesn't align with anything I've seen before.

I definitely had F1 on my mind yesterday and the mention certainly wasn't missed :)

I don't know, I think if you're interested in VR/AR, wearables, computer vision, building products for the "creator" generation, or even crypto (Novi) then FB/Meta probably has the best work pitch of all the FAANGs.