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3 billion monthly active users. They hit 2 billion this summer [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/27/15880494/facebook-2-billi...

> OK, so how is the success of that funnel measured vis-a-vis other promotional channels?

What difference does it make? If it’s profitable, it’s profitable.

> And are you able to demonstrate definitively that a visitor from FB concluded a sale? If so, how?

Through the variety of existing measurement solutions, or a custom solution.

Twitter: https://business.twitter.com/en/help/campaign-measurement-an...

Facebook: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-pixel/pixel-wi...

Google: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1722054?hl=en

I don’t understand why you seem to think that companies are throwing tens of billions of dollars a year at Facebook (and Google, and Twitter) with not only no returns but also no ability to measure that lack of returns. It’s just such a ridiculous viewpoint to hold.

Anything society has the resources to do now, we’ll have the resources to do after the advent of driverless cars. Driverless cars will strictly increase productivity—they let us produce more output with the same input of labor and capital.

So no, it is not better to give people resources for performing a completely meaningless task. If the task were completely meaningless then we could provide them the same resources without requiring the labor. Neo-Luddites arguing against driverless cars are fighting the wrong thing. Their fight should be distribution of wealth created, not against innovation that increases productivity and makes our lives collectively easier.

No. The JS would still be need to referenced by the page, this just affects preloading of assets.

From the article, talking about Decatur but generally describing "many rural towns":

> Like many rural towns, Decatur once fed itself and shared its bounty with the rest of America. At the turn of the 20th century, it had a tomato cannery and exported peaches, apples, strawberries, and beans by the boxcar from a downtown train depot. A population of 245 in 1915 supported two grocery stores and four general stores. But in the 1930s, blight outbreaks and insect invasions largely wiped out local orchards. The depot is now a museum where antique bushel baskets and poplar harvest crates hang from the ceiling.

“addressing the boss's boss” isn’t referring to writing for high-level decision makers at other organizations, it means writing for people within Microsoft.

Collaborative filtering methods vs non-collaborative-filtering recommendation methods.

> Fair enough. Let's crowdfund a lobbyist.

That's essentially what nonprofits like the EFF are.

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[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshang/

Yes, but that's only on the capital gains. You still pay income tax on the value of the equity when it's granted.

Instagram has never been a paid app.

If you define "core competence" sufficiently vaguely then sure, everything can be related to that core competence.

"a logistics business, both information and physical"? Really? Calling their massive retail business, original content, and physical devices an "accessory" to their warehousing is an extremely myopic view of Amazon.

In what way is the billions of dollars Amazon is spending on original content "just an extention to feeding the retailing monster"?

It's easy to point to one failed product as proof that "straying too far doesn't work", if you can do the mental gymnastics required to classify all their successful products as somehow more connected to their original goal.

> I wonder how many of those companies even bothered to check the license, given how fast they have to move?

Airbnb, Netflix, and Dropbox? I guarantee you all of those companies have lawyers that reviewed the license.

That's the non-standard Apple Pay JavaScript API [1].

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applepayjs

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864183

It's the New Yorker's humor section.

And should Coinbase then be obligated to distribute those useless tokens?

Yes, that is the correct way to parse it. That implies that Uber has at least 3k managers, possibly more.

OP was commenting that >3k managers seems like a high proportion of their ~12k total employees.

The intention clearly seems to be for the watch to be worn on the same arm that you hold the gun with.

There's a startup called AMP Robotics[1] based out in Boulder doing exactly this.

[1] https://www.amprobotics.com/value-proposition

A good model really isn't good enough in medicine. Real data from clinical trials is needed, and nobody has an incentive to fund that.

You can decide that whenever you want, just change your follow settings for the page to 'See First' from 'Following'.

S/he gave an example already--Google Earth. Apple Maps also has generated 3D maps.

Dropbox is discontinuing photo galleries.

> The Photos page is changing on July 17, 2017, but your pictures will stay safe in your Dropbox account. After July 17, you’ll no longer be able to create or share albums on the web, or browse photos in the current timeline view.

> It's a big enough area that pulling it all by hand would be very expensive.

Trying clothes on is different from actually wearing clothes/removing the label.

No

> or a subtle call to address the issue by prevention, perhaps by shortchanging US workers in other ways

This is ridiculous. It's an equity research report, the intent is clearly to report on the equities market. Who would this even be a subtle call to? There is no cabal of capitalist overlords who are out to shortchange workers.

This is like saying a research report about a threat to e.g. Coke's EMEA sales because of political instability might be a "subtle call" for Western governments to recolonize the African continent.

You definitely don't understand this correctly because it's not about what GS is paying their employees, but rather wage growth in America as a whole.