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That's a separate problem which affects small to large players alike (e.g. ScarJo).

Small companies interests are aligned with Meta as they are now on an equal footing with large incumbent players. They can now compete with a similarly sized team at a big tech company instead of that team + dozens of AI scientists


Vegas is the best destination for business conferences, but yes I agree with your point.

The line connecting NorCal to SoCal is so much more productive that any other line being prioritized is crazy to me.


Trucking - lots of agriculture and other transport shipped through 99


So it's an important commercial route but with no passenger demand? What a geographic oddity! I bet you'd be hard-pressed to find any other examples of that, anywhere.


Not really. Cargo uses very different routes than people commonly. How many people travel from Shenzhen to the port of Oakland? Now how many cargo containers?


Wow you got me there. I'm cancelling my Oakland-Shenzen train project right now.


Every engineer of a company of this size says the same exact thing.

IMO more about growth of the engineering teams that lead to any specific culture deteriorating.


Just for another perspective, I've worked at a few companies including LinkedIn as a backend developer and I think LinkedIn is probably around 70-80th percentile in code quality.

There was significant emphasis on code quality at least on the team I was on, and an ever improving culture.

I did work on one voyager task though and I remember it being a nightmare


Cook's best trait is being reactive very well. What he lacks in the Jobs "magic", he has in the ability to react to industry incredibly well and do better than most.

I have little doubt Apple is going to be a major player in AI, especially in the non-Nvidia hardware space after playing around with MLX


I disagree. They had a leading edge with Siri but failed to invest in AI over a car. This move is just correcting a vital mistake in time past. They’re playing catch up.


OP said reactive, not anticipative. You are both in agreement.


How would one know how much they invested in AI, if they've not discussed such?


Cook just optimized Jobs vision. He hasnt done anything special


Huh, optimizing is special. Most of the time people in highest positions just unravel and crap out.


Everything environment, health, wearables related is Tim Apple.


> Public funding ought to equal public results. Both to the claims, the paper, the raw data and the peer reviews.

One of my biggest gripes with academia. More and more are universities and those who run it act like private corporations than non-profit research institutions


Harvard is an investment fund with a side-business of training future investors (via alumni donations).


Facebook's ARPU in Europe over the trailing 12 months was $69.72 or $5.81 per month.

Considering only the most dedicated users are going to pay for this, Meta is most likely losing money with Ad-Free version

Source: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_earnings/2023/q3/p...


Nit: they don't actually lose money by offering a subscription, they just make less money than if they didn't offer one.


Same thing.


It would be same thing if their business was losing money, which it isn’t.


The legal concept of "lost wages" is the money you would have earned if you had not missed work. This is no different. There is an opportunity cost to everything.


I've worked in AWS before and also in a company that uses GCP.

Funnily enough, I would recommend AWS over GCP in every single category except for the two that you mentioned.

Although Snowflake is my choice for DW and it is cloud agnostic


MSFT generally has a hands off approach to acquisitions if the company delivers on financial metrics set by MSFT.

Conversation probably started by Satya asking the LinkedIn CEO to just reduce X$ expenses and the LinkedIn leadership made these specific changes.


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