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What is the end goal here? Cut out as many people as you possibly can without the website burning down? Spend 0 on RnD? Is his goal to make Twitter profitable and, if that were possible, then start gradually spending on RnD?

I also find it kind of weird that almost all development is ceasing, yet he is trying to find more ways to charge people. The optics of it is a bit weird to me.

Is this supposed to be a meme?

I'm not American, but when we were in up to the 9th grade, every break between classes we would play football (soccer) outside. Almost the whole class (our schools aren't like american HS where you go to a class with different people every period, we are like a "unit" and we do all our classes always together) would play football (soccer) every period. Most of the boys from other classes didn't do this. We always went sweaty into class, and I guess we breathed a lot at the beginning of every class.

This feels like it would be most helpful to a teen who's just starting out. Otherwise, I just see this as a reminder to "be within my own boundaries" with regards to spending, work, etc.

I think that's not the point. They are making a product seemingly targeted at audiophiles and they don't provide enough storage (for the amount of music an audiophile might have), while showing off some obscure features like the gold plated components

The common explanation is that it will fuck up the countries with a high debt to GDP ratio, like Greece

Safe about their current job? Probably not. Safe in the sense that they can definitely get a job at the same level (albeit at a smaller company in some cases) - pretty much

I personally believe that loading spinners have permeated to so many apps and websites, and with the rise of using phones more and more (hence slower internet from a tower, rather than from a router) and we end up with a world-wide psychological trick. When I saw the spinners I felt kind of angry because I thought they would never load. I think that if we move on from spinners to skeletons, the same thing will happen - every time someone sees a skeleton, if that is often enough, they might not even bother with the website and might perceive it to be slower.

Eh, that's an over-generalization. I don't think a whole generation can spot ads. I thought so about my gen (millenials) and lots of people my age don't really understand sponsored content, for instance

The title suggests that this is a blog post with a section of lessons learned or what the developer thinks could be done better/differently depending on their background, not an ad

I don't think that it is that complex. People are becoming increasingly hedonistic (my own opinion in life, comparing older generations and newer generations in how they reward themselves, saving habits etc). So that leads to people not really interested in the "smarts side of trends".

I think this is the "American" way of looking at it and does not really represent what people think in the western world.

In a lot of parts of the world, trying to fight it can put you in some bad people's crosshairs. At the very least, nothing gets done because "at least X was improved"

Although I don't agree with all of the things in here, I do personally feel like we are coming to a standstill. In recent years it seems that reboots have become more and more popular. We are even seeing old stuff being revived and people are eating it up. Ever watch the rehash episode of southpark?

I think that we have moved extremely fast in the last decades and either can't come up with really ground-breaking new ideas or just people were kind of burnt out and just wanted something familiar. Personally I think that there is a strong correlation between reboots/old stuff and the increased insecurity/instability in the western world.

I also feel like religiousness is increasing (or staying the same as I thought that with my generation, it was going to plummet). And of course, as with anything in this world, there are always people too far in any end that kind of ruin it for everyone else.

I don't know what to think about a revolution being over. At the end of the day I feel like this is just companies/celebrities taking the easiest route to the buck. When we discover that, currently, familiar stuff gets the job done for the majority of consumers - we sell them familiar stuff. There is currently no need for new things. I'm sure that the kids of the '15s-'25s will be tired of our crap and start a heavy-metal-like culture again to rebel against everything that is currently popular.

It's like in China where you have limited ownership of the company. But still, any % of whatever the big country is willing to give you, you take it because it raises the valuation of your company, so and so.

AFAIK, in bigger (more populous) countries, it seems that the pay is going to be according to the average for the area, scaled. This is giving countries in Eastern Europe a bit of an advantage. In my case (in Bulgaria) while there is a big difference between living in Sofia and a smaller town, a lot of companies are opting to pay the same regardless of which town you are now working from. And I've already seen, pre-covid, people from western europe coming to work and live in here and now that could become even more accessible.

I think a counter argument could be that kids that young still don't know that much about the world and it's going to be a very hard thing to motivate yourself to become better at such a young age when you are already ahead of so many of your (offline) peers. Of course, this is offset by the internet, a bit, but it still seems a valid point to me.

How do you teach someone hard work and work ethic? I don't think many kids are willingly going to run themselves into the ground trying to become the best. Looking at my past, I kind of regret not being pushed further by my parents. I'm not some top achiever or anything like that, but I was good enough in the things I did (amongst the peers in my smallish town) that I could get away with the "I'm already better than X/Y, get off my back!"

But that doesn't disqualify the option of the kid not really enjoying it as much as you would expect from a GM. How many other sports players have we seen where it is evident how much talent they got, but don't really work because they care about other things more. Latest example could be NBA's Ben Simmons who everyone touts as a very talented and gifted guy, but he just doesn't seem to work on his skillset in the summer like other players do. And it really hit him these playoffs.

Another example could be Britney Spears. She was on top of the world in the 2000s but it all seems like it was mostly her father's command. Not that I think she dislikes making music, I think she dislikes the things she has done as a pop star as a whole, but she was forced to by a parent (to the point where she has no control over her body)

I think you are abstracting the matter by taking out the humanity. It's one thing to learn to do something by hand after purchasing the book. It's a totally different thing to read every single book in the world (humanly impossible) and then absorb some knowledge and train yourself to write exceptional books because you (the AI in this scenario) have learned that some words and sentence structures have lead to books having higher ratings than others. It's not humanly possible.

Of course we generate the world around us and its rules but I get angry every time we compare people to machines and say that it's the same thing. No it's not. We are constrained by time and space. I can't add more brain or more eyes to my body so I read more books can I? Microsoft can have a small city of servers somewhere and that could replace lots of people's jobs.

Complex is used in the sense that you have to consider multiple things (such as constraints, logic, etc) in order to come up with a working solution. You cannot really escape from a complex problem because you have to satisfy all of its needs.

On the other hand, 'complicated' here is probably meant in the sense that you have a solution for your problem, but that might not be the simplest solution to the problem. In other words, you have satisfied all of the problem's needs but the solution itself is going to be hard to understand for anyone other than the person implementing it. You generally want to avoid such situations.

You could argue that the companies were brought to the success they have due to the fact that they were fast to market to all available platforms. And to think of it, I don't reckon a small company writing a client for only windows/mac would make it big enough to get the money to port it to the other systems.

But this shouldn't matter. We still have a subconscious and we sometimes do things that we don't really think through, or do them on auto-pilot. So you could be doing things which you don't think through and they are still indicative of who you are as a person. But now, you don't know this part of you and you end up in a situation where some algorithm running on some servers somewhere is a better predictor for what you want (among other things) than your own thoughts.

Truth is people seem to not care about their subconscious. And they fail to understand the power of data when combined with 1 million other people. I still hear the response 'Well I have nothing to hide' way too much from people living in 2021.

I think that a lot of the big politics players realize that if the big companies get broken up, some of the businesses might not be as profitable.

In other words, it seems like some businesses have been able to find a diamond//golden goose so much so that they are able to support different businesses. These other businesses will not have had the same success if they didn't have a cashcow behind their back.

I think it is reasonable for something that is 1/5 general knowledge. Like, it's in the description __general__ knowledge, not specialized or deep-dive in any way.

I used to like playing with electric constructors when I was a kid and something like this is perfect for me to get back into the hobby.

I think it could be cool if YT started their own Patreon. Anyone who is a 'member' of the channel, for some basic tier fee even, should not even get the plug as part of the video, or at least have that part skipped by default.

This would be a step closer to like someone else here mentioned YT being the intermediary between the companies and the creators and taking a cut from that as well.

As I mentioned in another comment, I view this as the largest deal breaker for a lot of people. You pay to remove the YT ads, but you still get a 2m plug out of a 10m video which is already stretched so that it gets in the upper echelon of adsense monetization. Even if you don't see YT-placed ads, the content you are watching has evolved due to the effects of that.

I think that the issue people are having is that (a large portion of) the content on YT also does sponsorships. Also, 'like and subscribe and bell'. So you might pay for YT, but I don't think that the quality of the service improves that much (say like Spotify).

Until YT improve their algorithm and stop with the arbitrary 10m time marks for monetization, I think YT is going to have a problem with people seeing a premium variant as a good option opposed to just adblocking.

I get that the counterpoint to my point is that YT isn't paying that much and that people are free to do whatever in their videos, but that doesn't make it less annoying. Spotify doesn't pay great, but I don't have to hear a band saying 'buy our tshirts!' after listening to a song/album.

I think that the many community scandals, coupled with the, what I view as, changes in monetization strategies has put YT in this position.

> - Having mixed bike/car roads where the speed limit is 30 kph.

Yeah, 30kph seems to low (hell, even I feel the 50kph limit in cities here is too low) to be a road limit for a mixed bike/car road. I think isolation is a better strategy and will lead to less accidents due to nervous drivers having their own lane instead of limiting themselves to 30kph behind some biker.

Well, free does mean that you don't get to pay to use. Where the money comes from is a different question, albeit the most important one.

Perhaps it would make sense to tackle overly dependence on cars by slapping a tax which is directly used to fund public transport. So the more cars you have registered, the more money goes into public transport so that it can compete better, without getting left behind.

In Eastern Europe most of the old people get out at 6 going to the park benches and talking all day (in warmer months; if living in towns/cities)

The other spend almost all day gardening/field work and, like you said, watch TV.

However, I am concerned for the working-age people, as noone really seems to have a hobby. Most people just scroll Facebook and watching TV. In most circles, you might even be looked at funny for spending money on a hobby that isn't fishing or hunting (like playing around with electronics, without making money off of it)