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This discounts a lot of failures and products without real success:

- Facebook Apps

- Facebook Home

- Facebook Workplace

- Facebook Portal

- Facebook Essentials

What he's done well: found promising competition and subsumed them.

I think AR is going to be a huge part of the future. I don't think Facebook is going to lead that effort, not because I don't want them to (though I don't), but because they don't have a track record of building anything worthwhile outside of their core offering (ie, the Facebook product).

I'd be curious to hear why you think Western society is obsessed with helping the needy.

As someone who grew up in Toledo, I get unnaturally excited whenever someone else is from there. Most people I encounter from Ohio (which in big coastal cities is also not that common) are from one of the big C's: Cleveland, Columbus, or Cincinnati.

Feels like we’ve left the station and our climbing to the first hill: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

I imagine we’ll get a lot of V1s, especially once Apple releases their AR gear, but we’re about 15 years out from the plateau which will likely resemble the smartphone market. My guess.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that seemed exactly backwards. Even with a cursory understanding of history, the extreme right wing regimes are considered fascist, aka extremely top down.

Considering the best faith argument here, I’m guessing he’s seeing the “right wing” being pro business as opposed to a pro government “left”, and in that view, business is considered “bottom up”. As you alluded to, though, this ignores a lot of actual historical and political context and seems more driven by punditry shorthand.

Our team just migrated (3 mil+ LOC) from Flow to TS in large part due to performance issues with Flow, especially in local development. Our fans have been running a lot quieter since the migration, happy to share more.

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Worth noting this split is like 3 / 97.

This comment assumes a.) we're talking exclusively about parents and b.) about forces within a person's control. There are a lot of late-teens / early-20 year olds out there who have familial obligations to their parents, siblings, etc.

"stupid people" = stupidity endemic to the people

"people acting stupidly" = people in temporary states of stupidity

Remove "stupid", and this is otherwise accurate.

> by imposing a cost on himself

What would you say to people who have been arrested, beaten, or in some cases, even lost their lives in protests like these and those before it?

> Employees participating in the protest requested time off and then added an out-of-office response to their emails notifying senders they are protesting, The New York Times reports. Facebook has since acknowledged the walkout and said it will not require employees to use their paid time off.

Is this really a protest when it amounts to a no-penalty day off from the very employer you're protesting?

Assuming everything goes to plan, how will these be staffed and manufactured at scale?

This is a fundamental question we are being and will be forced to answer more directly:

Are we willing to trust our collective empathy or do we need the social contract to fill in the gaps for collective protection from this harm?

I believe many will benefit from empathy, but it will be disproportionate and many communities who will need it the most will not receive it.

I really feel like it's worth having this discussion: the black bar for Freeman Dyson, but not for Katherine Johnson who died earlier this week.

At the time I thought it was likely because she wasn't _directly_ involved in computing and tried to write it off, but Freeman seems to be as related to the page as her. I bring it up because it really does speak to how a community decides who they want to include or not. Unless I've missed some specific guidelines, it sends unwelcoming signals to me.

Point blank: is it all worth it? Googlers and Xooglers alike, is going through all of this worth return? If it depends, what does it depend on?

30% of the world is using a Facebook product nearly everyday. What other things do that many people share in their daily routines outside of life's necessities?

Overall, I agree that the promise of tech in education never manifested, or at least hasn't yet, and the last decade was full of half-baked or poorly conceived ideas. But I'm worried there's some baby in that bathwater...

I started my career in K-12 education, first in the classroom, then as an administrator, and thanks to a coding bootcamp, am happily pursuing another career as a software developer. I have plenty of friends who've done the same. Will it be a long-lasting model? I don't know, some are clearly already out of business (the one I did, Hack Reactor, is still going though). But it may be the first wave of upending having to spend six figures on accreditation / skill acquisition.

And while a lot of the flipped / personalized tools never panned out specifically, a lot of the concepts were helpful in bringing in new structures to instruction. The ideas helped us move away from simply "I do, we do, you do" lessons to units where students could get some material up front and then do more exploratory or self guided lessons, and teachers could work with individual students who needed attention.

Education needs innovation. Instructionally, the major changes won't come from software but from restructuring how school operates at different grade levels. Given the different needs of 7th graders from 3rd graders, it's interesting that their days are still structured so similarly, not to mention that we're still not really developing skills that are useful for the kinds of jobs that exist today.

That said, there is a place where there's a desperate need for high quality software in education: operations. Follow a school office manager for a day and you'll see exactly what I mean. The number of systems that are still either paper-based or involve manual processes that can quickly be automated are incredible. As with any public enterprise, there are lots of reasons that these systems haven't been updated, but streamlining operations for schools will actually make much bigger impacts for student outcomes than almost all the edtech software out there.

In a sense, we do this already in the form of billions in all kinds of grants.

An alternative hypothesis is that it takes that long or longer before you can really see that level of "success".

Those 4 may be remote only, but there are many others on there that have remote positions.

What would make this for more useful is to have a list of even mildly _validated_ ideas, even by showing that there are existing competitors or a market for it. Or pointing to a gap where it exists.

Validation is the first step to product market fit.

Great write-up with more recent variations and data on which pass the original and new tests: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/next-bechdel/

Am Kashmiri. Was born there. Have family there. My parents were born and raised there. This is scary even for a region marked by persistent curfews, border clashes between two nuclear powers, and an ongoing series of conflicts between insurgents and the Indian Army. We have extended family from whom we haven’t heard any news since this went into effect. It’s all just anxious waiting.

What could possibly be the endgame from this unless you’re trying to actively foment rebellion? How can this have any widespread support?

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I had some chickpea pasta from Whole Foods that at least to me, tasted as good if not better than real pasta.

I thought I saw 'caterpillar drive' on their roadmap...