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What is the government outlet here?

I would think the leading indicator would be Big Tech layoffs and hiring freezes that started months ago.

If I were to change my course of action, I'd use that since it happened way earlier.

I was following until the mention of Twitter and Reddit. They should face every single challenge that Tumblr does regarding porn. What do they do differently? I feel that Tumblr should be able to overcome these issues.

This is still in line with their thinking from a prioritization perspective.

For an app with more downloads, they can dedicate more labor/resources to it.

I agree that this may be the point. Software changes, and being able to compile with latest libraries is somewhat of a minimum requirement.

To Apple's defense, are they supposed to wait until the app breaks, starts receiving many complaints from customers, before it triggers the review process for them (which they would be forced to look at as somewhat high priority) before they then take action to remove the offending app? That hurts the customer experience from their perspective.

Better for them to institute a policy preemptively addressing these issues (arbitrary as the timeframe may be).

And four hours is a good chunk of time, but what percent of time is it compared to the amount of time for the app to be designed and implemented in the first place?

True, but to many, the destigmatization and the recognition of practical uses is still important.

I think the reality is they can probably fine up to upper middle class..

Perhaps the idea of audits would discourage people from committing fraud in the first place.. so it may make sense

That's one take, but if you hang around on Blind (which is an anonymous forum heavily populated by FAANG), you will find many who gloat about how little they work.

Don't you still have to use an actual phone number when you sign up for Twilio?

The phrasing is a bit more specific.. "At that time, we had no evidence.."

It could also mean "oh I spent five minutes looking into it and didn't see any evidence"

Founded a startup

I think that there is a cost to companies operating this way, but the cost is largely unseen or harder to account for. Arguably doing everything opposite of those points can be "good business sense" too. For example, going with the mindset of investing in your employees.. two of the points below:

> Companies using the barest of excuses, or none at all, to lay off employees The intention is to streamline everything and cut costs and improve efficiency for the business. However, doing the opposite here helps preserve tribal knowledge (possibly leading to better business outcomes). It helps improve retention because it creates an environment where employee isn't constantly optimizing for the best compensation and looking to jump ship at the first better opportunity.

> Companies lying, deliberately and freely, to employees about upcoming layoffs, in order to "stave off panic". Because it makes good business sense.

Doing the opposite leads to employees being more focused at work. Instead of prepping for the next interview, they can focus their energies on company initiatives.

This seems like an unnecessarily harsh take.

For example, some fintech companies aren't groundbreaking from a tech perspective, but they make big strides on efficiencies from legacy systems. As long as you deliver value and are capturing some of that value, a business can be made.

The moving goalpost argument goes both ways. I'm vaccinated but here's what I hear.

- just get vaccinated - we need booster shots - we need booster shots every 8 months - we need booster shots every 5 months

And you know there will be something next, it never moves in the other direction.

I feel that this is becoming a standard narrative. SV company comes up with an idea, decides harvesting lots of user data is how they will monetize. VCs pump in a lot of money and expect their returns, so company is now forced to collect even more data aggressively (the sign-in wall that many others have pointed out is an example of this). VC pressure causes company to "innovate" fast, most likely trading off security for new features in the meantime. As this progresses and they become more valuable, they are then targeted by hackers, which causes some type of compromise of users' data.

Quora is an intimate medium — tied to real names, real and often deep interests. It's especially bad that this happened.

There needs to be a better way to realign incentives in this ecosystem, otherwise this story will repeat.

Imagine if "page views" of your friends profiles were leaked...

It sounds like immigrants are willing to do it because they have no other option. The issue here isn't US citizens deserving special treatment; the issue is closing the loophole which only benefits the companies.

I believe he was fired and subjected to outrage before he went on the "media crusade". Probably in order to clear his name.

He mentioned in one of his interviews that very few left wing outlets would even invite him to interviews.

Of the ones that did, it was heavily edited to present a certain bad narrative of him.