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Monaco, Syria, North Korea, Lithuania don't need 10 person teams. It's this napkin math that causes tech companies to inflate. I'm sure Spotify execs did the same math and told HR "Hire 10 people per country, thx".

In the Age of AI, even before 2023 and ChatGPT, localization is a very automatable+contractor heavy job that is very easy to complete. All of africa might need 3-4 teams of 20 people total, and that's including sales/marketing. Maybe double for South America.

The reason tech companies have expanded so much is it looks better when an 8000 employee company controls the worlds music than when an 800 person company does. Same with Google, Facebook, AirBnB, Netflix, etc. The tech monopolies want to make they monopolies seem less ridiculous to regulators.

In other news, water is wet

The final frontier

And yet Camus was expelled from the french communist party because he didn't agree with the white-washing of french colonialism of Algeria by the Popular Front.

"the lower classes speak a mutant hybrid of Arabic-French-English"

Very interesting, since English is a sort of mutant hybrid of Norse-Germanic-French. I wonder how long before a unique "Algerian" language emerges. I wonder how that compares to how long it took english to develop, i'd wager algerian will develop a lot quicker thanks to globalism/internet/etc.

Don't engage with trolls.

Hacker News was never anything more than a subreddit for elitist silicon valley VCs and FAANG programmers with 35 hours of free time per week.

This is by design. All the tech giants realized search-by-speech is mostly unprofitable compared to search-by-type because you can't really sell ads auraly compared to visually. Every search done by speech is lost ad revenue. Expect to see less and less search by voice over the coming years

Please change the search results so that when I search "X + reddit" all of the search results are reddit, not just the first two.

You have to keep going. You must endure and let your brain process, and learn to relax and exist in a non-stimulated state. Facebook and Tik-tok have fried our brains so much that sitting in silence for 30 minutes is painful because we are used to constant dopamine.

Try going on walks, doing guided meditations, leaving your phone in another room and reading a book for 30 minutes. You'll find your brain slowly relax, think more creatively and in a more coherent fashion. It's painful at first, but it's the most important thing you can do.

Funny, because Get Lucky is the pop-iest, worst song on RAM. Possibly the worst take you can have on the album

that's the thing. something that would take 4+ hours and $100 or more can now be done for free in under an hour.

This is exactly what happens when you replace engineers with bean counters.

You deserve that and much worse for still using Facebook in 2023.

they get paid by Labels to promote certain songs and artists, similar to how labels pay radio to play only certain songs. Everything, from Amazon, to Spotify, to the Google Play Store wants you to click on promoted bullshit, not search for what you actually want. Welcome to the internet in 2023.

You realize even Stalin's USSR allowed controlled opposition and occaisional articles critical of the government in order to give the illusion of freedom and dissent, right? Propaganda has evolved into a much more sophisticated beast since then.

and Virgin Galactic's first 50 launches were failures and VG's first 20 years of existence were a colossal failure. Maybe if a company can't make things work after two decades, it should be dissolved? Or should we let them exist in a malaise of failure for another decade?

Horse Company CEO in 1903 declares "THERE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH GASOLINE TO GASIFY THE GLOBE"

CEO's don't care about employees, but they do care about their CEO buddies who own engine parts manufacturers, and supply chain companies that they are heavily invested in.

we could name it skynet or something

no, those will be layed off first

And what will he do about the hundreds of "RealStephenKing" "OfficialStephenKing" "StephenKingTwitter" accounts that will spring up and start scamming people and linking them to fake websites? How much will that cost Stephen King?

The model X is also probably one of the most profitable and iconic cars in the modern era.

^this commenter is an example of a pro-russian troll and /or bot

if only european leaders invested in LNG terminals and capacity to import non-russian oil and natural gas. Lithuania and Poland did, the rest of europe did not.

If only Europe was on good terms with Canada and America and had LNG terminals to import natural gas from it's allies and other middle eastern countries who are happy to sell natural gas to europe instead of solely relying on russian imports...

It just highlights the parlous state of the current economic structure even more then

"If it fails to gather adoption and it dies (like many startups do) we get blamed for killing products."

That doesn't explain the mess of 8 different messaging apps each year. If Hangouts was still the de facto android messaging platform and google put some effort and marketing dollars, it would have billions of users, instead you have a mess and millions switching to iOS because android messaging is a joke. Same with payments. I get an email every 6 months for "the new google pay is now android pay and gPay is google pay". it's a joke. same with adnroid music play all access google play music plus.

because there is only so much you can grow the main cash cow. would you rather have a company that makes 1 billion a year on 90% profit margin, or a company that makes 2 billion a year on 60% profit margin but is diversified?

that doesn't answer his question on why it should be that way. Courts have said many things over the years, doesn't make it any less of an appeal to authority logical fallacy.