Voted for Facebook. The “Meta” rebranding reeks of desperation. They have only maintained growth by purchasing competitors and their main platform is dying. As others have said, each generation wants to differentiate itself from the previous one, so social media networks wax and wane as time goes on. Facebook bought IG and WhatsApp, but regulators are waking up and are likely to prevent their next attempt to purchase a big competitor. VR is going to remain a smaller market than social media, no potential to get bigger than the video games console market because it is primarily used for video games and will stay that way.
It’s ridiculous that a company as profitable as Apple runs their support and retail operations with such an inhumane expectation of efficiency that employees have to often handle three simultaneous chats and bathroom breaks over five minutes merit chastisement from managers. I’m sure that support is a relatively small cost for Apple, so the hyper focus on efficiency seems especially cruel and unusual.
Wow, third-most-popular luxury brand - truly a ranking befitting the world's most valuable auto manufacturer.
This insane speculative bubble has to end at some point, right? I feel like the world is falling apart having watched it go on for so long and metastasize into an ever-expanding horde of MLM-like cryptocurrencies without even a pretense of justification for existing beyond "buy low, sell high!" - maybe I just don't have enough life experience to put all of this into context.
Something tells me they can get away with paying a bit less and still attract experienced candidates who would like to work at a small company with a mission they believe in while working in their preferred language/framework.
Love how this claims that NFTs are “meeting needs” - “Understand ways to identify unmet needs that Web3 can create 10x solutions for”. Typical crypto-bro nonsense with no specifics - what need do NFTs meet aside from money laundering and gambling?
As mentioned in the article, Kansas City has had free public transit for a bit now. The HN crowd may find it amusing that the transit authority partially made up the budget difference by cutting non-essential management.
I second this. It has very detailed descriptions of a given philosopher’s theories and breakdowns of the distinct periods in their life. It is a great resource with well-written and concise explanations (often easier to read and understand than the actual works themselves).
... according to a report by McKinsey & Co, commissioned by an Indian group of business leaders. I'm sure whatever recent college graduate did the report at McKinsey is only about as accurate at assessing the future of India's tech sector as any random person on the street would be.
Master-planned communities often don’t work out even with a strong government building them (ex. Chinese ghost cities). This proposal from a private investment group to create one is faintly ridiculous.
The media doesn’t need to feed my outrage - I have multiple relatives and friends who have died from OxyContin.
The Sacklers should have the entirety of their wealth confiscated, at the very least - it’s all blood money.
This agreement is infuriating.
I would argue that partial self driving is an irresponsible product not because it's impossible to drive safely with it, but because so many people will use it as an excuse to pay little to no attention to the road. If you personally are a responsible driver and even a better driver with it, that's great - but most people probably aren't going to use it the same way, especially those without much of an understanding of the technology - and especially given the way that Tesla markets it.
PayPal shares were purchased by the CEO at fractions of a penny - an obviously fraudulent valuation - effectively turning Thiel’s $2k fund into a multimillion dollar fund overnight in actual fact and circumventing the intent of the law.
Really? The core idea I got from the movie is that our desires are driven by advertising - that maybe the constituent parts of our personality are largely just impulses instigated by external forces to consume various things, to work, spend money, and propagate to keep the economy in a state of constant growth for the benefit of the wealthy who don't need to work - landowners, large stock-holders, etc.
The campy, stupid action movie aesthetic is sugar coating for what I found to be an interesting theme.
And a similarly insane number of applicants. Anecdata, but I recently hired for an entry level position at my company and received far more applications than when hiring for the same role a year and a half prior. Lots of applicants who graduated a year ago and have yet to find work.
How many jobs and how much tax revenue from places effectively put out of business by Amazon has been lost, though? It’s not as if Amazon has created these jobs and its market out of thin air.
Public benefit, not hatred, is the primary motivation behind higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy. These taxes were at their highest in America around WWII and following - the money was used to fund the war.
These taxes are at historic lows in America thanks to waves of major tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy since the 80s. Social services have been defunded in parallel.
Taxes are raised for corporations and the wealthy because people who push for those raises want to live in a fairer society where everybody's right to a decent life is more important than a handful of people and corporations' right to hoard far more private property and power than they have any use for.
Extreme inequality destabilizes societies and progressive taxes are a lever for the government to use to try and prevent that. Europe was at its historically highest level of inequality just before the outbreak of WWI. Everyone who enjoys living in a relatively stable society should have an interest in preventing extreme inequality.
I think it more to do with the historical lifestyle and culture - Swedes, Finns and Norwegians have been integrated into the continental mainstream
of settled agriculture and Christianity for centuries while Saami held out as a more nomadic, hunter-gatherer culture for most of modernity.
It’s encouraging that initiatives like this seem to be popping up more often - co-operatives of workers looking to cut out corporate middlemen. It will be an uphill climb, but I hope this is the future. The technical moats of a lot of recently minted tech companies don’t seem to be so great that they can’t be overcome with time and open source work. The inertia and efficiency that comes with scale will be harder to compete with.