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It's not very healthy to be so politically infatutated, that too with one ideology. You will change, either with age or circumstances and then find yourself having missed certain oppurtunities because you don't find someone politically aligned with you.

All these cries about democracy, and I haven't seen any single core structural change. Even the most hated country on HackerNews, Hungary, whose leader got the emergency power gave it back. Then we have Andrew Cuomo, who still has way more power than most head of states.

Recently I read a post about education that was quite resonating. Universities have historically been "hard to enter, but easy to exit", meaning it's really difficult to get in but about the only thing that matter is getting in and no one really cares what your grades are if you are from Stanford/Harvard et.al.

On the flip side, med school or west point are less about getting in but more about exit value. It's not really that important as to whether you got in but whether you graduated from West Point. West Point / Navy Seals can essentially double the class size without losing any credibility. I think higher education is going in similar direction.

Mark Zuckerberg has no best buddies, and if you think the likes of Reid Hoffman aren't best friends with Mark, then you are willfully ignoring the reality.

Dirty? This is not at all dirty. Ben (Shapiro), to much of my dislike, has really good content that some people like and others want to promote it. The whole sharing stuff is totally legal, and within the rules.

Also, if FB is allowing such "dirty" techniques, now known to most people, then why aren't they working for others? Michael Bloomberg spent like gazallion dollars for his election, he can sure take down Shapiro if it's indeed bigotry. Even, NYT has plenty of cash to promote it's content. You need content that people like, which Ben Shapiro has, and NYT can't get it's act together.

Facebook isn't hedging any bets, it's just not giving into the mob like behavior by the advertisers. Facebook knows that the advertisement dollars were anyways not going to be coming to FB due to the recession, and if they take a political stand at this moment, then they are inviting regulatory risks from the other side.

Facebook is staying neutral, and not giving into any pressure, mostly because Zuckerberg's job is safe and FB has plenty of cash!

Yes to "Am I being foolish?", I mean if you have to ask...

oh wow, ok, didn't know that there was one fatality.

The one thing I have noticed about the PIA air crash is the effort some people have put into trying to explain the crash. Some of them have simulated the whole trip! It's quite depressing, especially since the errors are quite bizzare and the plane crashed into a residential area but thankfully no casualties in the areas.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUOn6FrDPwg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM9ZrliDkNA

I am sure there are such investors, but our companies are already crossing a trillion dollar market cap, you need to have a few billion dollars to move market significantly. As the amount increases, so does the due dilligence.

umm, people who move millions of dollars are quite sophisticated. I am sure the retail investors like me don't dissect the report, but we hardly move the market. Institutional investors aren't as sloppy as me.

I don't regret, and I did leave the big tech after a few years to build another company with some of my colleagues that I met. Since I started the company quite early in my career (about 12 months out of college), I think building the company gave me focus in my early 20s which would have otherwise spent with video games / internet / counter productive things. The added advantage was that I committed fairly costly mistakes but the cost was discounted since they occurred pretty early on in life. I do have slight regrets around how I treated some of my co-workers, including people who were more powerful than me, and I think being a founder early on without the right level of maturity was rather depressing, so yes, I would start a company after a year of employment and some built up savings but do it with more maturity and self awareness.

I have been a founder, and a employee at a big tech. Although the company did not brought fame / recognition, as a founder, it was really good financial outcome (about 8x of what I would have earned as a employee.)

As an employee at big tech, I think being a founder made me a really good employee. I was able to communicate much better for my level, and had developed pretty good business sense which comes quite handy when prioritizing.

In general though, it's not a easy switch from a long term career prespective. Corporate world is notorious bad at lateral hiring, and much worse at promoting high performing employees. If you really want to scale the corporate ladder then it's best to play the singular game and start as early as possible.

I don't think either of them is better or worse, I find it more like a treasure hunt. When I was a founder, my dating life was near non-existent, my productivity was short lived and heavy on administrative work. As an employee in a big company, you can meet potential mates at work/outside, although you are not doing a lot of work, it's generally quite focussed and productive in your speciality. Both of them are good, what you make out of them is upto you!

That's not true, there are plenty of disturbing videos of men promoting rapes and assaulting them using chemicals. If those videos were restricted to TikTok, that would have been a different case but TikTok actively promotes sharing these videos on other networks and the viewers have authentic concerns.

I agree that PlayStore is doing it right by removing the reviews that are related to the service but not pertaining to the Android App itself, but then what counts as "using the app"? Seeing the videos created on TikTok counts as "using the app" or just the experience of the app itself? I would describe those reviews as "non-descriptive" than irrelevant, but yes they are very noisy. It's about the same as rating 4chan on trustpilot.

Also, if any country that has banned TikTok, like UAE or Indonesia, because of a different jurisdiction, then it's a valid criticism? If I go to a restaurant, and they only accept Chinese currency, then I would rate it as 1-star since I have only USD and the restaurant is not my preference.

I posted in other comment, if I tell you that X restaurant sucks because they have rats everywhere, and you go to that restaurant and actually see the rats and rate it as 1 star on Yelp, are those not authentic users? Who counts as authentic user on TikTok, do the people who have viewed videos created on TikTok but shared on Twitter?

This is a really good case for network effects. If you go through the reviews, a lot of people are complaining that they are not getting any "views" for their content. As more and more people are bombing the reviews, uninstalling, it's discouraging people from creating more content because it's not being viewed enough.

Does anyone know if disabling views or delaying gratification of content will reduce the damaging effect on the TikTok network?

Also, vis-a-vis Yelp, why should review bombs be removed when I can go to a restaurant and review it as 1-rated if I am not treated well by them even if I don't complete any transaction?

- I don't like to work at a public company, it's very stressful to work in an environment where every day you are waking up and reading stock market news.

- I had already worked at Microsoft for 2 years in 2009-2011, there isn't much value addition to your resume after you have worked at one such big tech company.

- I was hired by the Android TV team, which is not a product I use and not my area of interest. It was mildly disappointing that they only gave one option in the team matching process.

- I am not a very suburban person, and commuting from SF to MV every day seems appealing at the outset but gets very cumbersome after a few weeks. Google doesn't tell you whether the team will be located in SF / MV when you interview, you are allowed to choose when you go through team matching.

In summary, I had made enough money already and my resume had Microsoft brand (though it was not a FANG in 2009). Touchwood, I have been able to get through all the recruiter filters whenever I have applied and I think that's the only advantage of working at FANG.