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> So either this is exactly what they want or they're hopelessly incompetent.

I think the definition of success they're operating under is vastly different from yours.

TikTok wouldn't be allowed to exist.

Seriously. I also saw lots of posts about how quiet it would be with Facebook down, but I don't think I've ever been exposed to so many stories and so much chatter about Facebook in a single day.

If you don't enjoy it, then you shouldn't. Otherwise enjoy.

Consumerism, in which purchasing is "related to the display of status and not to functionality or usefulness" was used to describe the American economy at least as far back as 1955.

Would be curious to see how the great recession played into those numbers.

What regulation would help here?

Isn't the obvious answer to stop scraping (or, at least try)? The author states that the value here is collecting data (not money from ads or something) and Facebook's APIs don't allow for the kind of analysis they'd need to build profiles. Article specifically talks about using Python to scrape profiles (presumably using a logged in account).

> the people who like to emotionally nuance things in synchronous communication should do more async because that works better for building.

Citation needed. Pretty much everything of any complexity that has been built to date, in human history (including software), was built with synchronous communication (not to say things aren't written, but things are ALWAYS discussed).

Are you saying Apple execs have zero say in the strategy they choose to pursue regarding the spat with Epic?

Apple is currently, literally, providing user data to a regime engaged in forced labor and ethnic cleansing (China, Uyghers). Point isn't that human trafficking is OK, but that parent isn't incorrect about Apple playing the moral authority being laughable.

> Until we start examining the root cause of what is causing people to behave this way on these platforms...

People were just outraged at facebook last week for researching just that (how insta affects teens). I don't have much optimism in our ability to go beyond the surface.

Honestly this seems like an argument to quit everything _except_ facebook. For me, fb is the only social media built to enhance relationships with your real friends.

I'm sorry, CarPlay is awful. I'm forced to use it and the UX is TERRIBLE. I'm actually somewhat surprised that they've left it in the state it's in.

I wonder if they'll start taking a don't ask don't tell (e.g. simply stop doing research) approach due to these leaks. No other social media company is actually studying this so why take all the heat?

Meh, we already live in a world with one set of rules for the peasants and another for the nobility. Seems like just another area where Facebook reflects the real world.

> Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?

Because the desktop is not portable so your applications still need to move with you. Phones are with you wherever you are so interaction always happens on the same physical hardware.

> Is there a reason to not immediately "defend yourself" against any person who is looking at you with a pair of these?

Yes. You would be guilty of assault and potentially end up in prison. You would not be in the "right" in this scenario.

I can't speak to Portal, but my Quest 2 is a _fantastic_ hardware product.

As recently as 1970 women in the US weren't allowed to open checking accounts or get loans from a bank by themselves, but tell me more about how no one _ever_ stopped women from doing what they want.

> Blacks have a huge disadvantage of poor upbringing by their own family and community

The actual issue is they have to interview with people holding the same ignorant assumptions you do.

When was the last non-black hire at your company?

I wish they'd talk about it in these terms. It's easier to think about the cost/benefit of investing in mitigations when faced with "you have an n% chance of incurring m billions in damage this year" vs "x billion dollar damage storms should only occur once every y years".

We do it all the time with e.g. cloud SLAs.

But that's my point. Being a leading scholar and leading a large group of people toward some end are entirely different things.

So what is the large group he leads? Or are you saying anyone that has listened to what he had to say, e.g. people who've read his columns or taken his classes or colleagues, are part of his "group"?

Your second statement does not follow from the first.

You can't be seriously using Christians, of all people, as an example of people who don't try to force their views on others.

If your argument is that many don't, well I'd argue the "woke" people you're thinking of are just like the evangelical Christians who are not practicing what they preach.

Equity absolutely does not means equal outcomes. According to Merriam Webster it means "fairness or justice in the way people are treated".

Seems more like you have conflated its meaning in reaction to a movement you don't like.

Ibram X. Kendi is one person. You can find individuals who espouse any view you want. The question is are there any large groups actually pushing for this. Though the parent didn't, I would s/large/mainstream/ because the internet makes it easy to find large groups of people talking about any old topic.

> Why can Ops not do the same? Why can Dockerfiles / Orchestrators / CI / playbooks not also implement sanity checks on deployments?

All of those things were written by developers.

I agree with you on the issue with new hires getting paid more. It's market forces at work, but... yeah that shit sucks.

Regarding your first point I think you're a bit optimistic as to how well people take such a conversations. For example, doing well _at level_ (in my experience) means meeting expectations. There's no way someone meeting expectations should get 90th percentile comp for their level. So are you mature enough to accept that you're not good enough to warrant p90 comp?