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.
eh... There is a place for your argument, and of course I would agree with you in many cases. But that doesn't mean we should give up on checking our vendor backgrounds entirely. Although OP has not provided a source for these donations, I think we should consider this point. It does not have to be a binary, but it seems like people don't even want to have the spectrum any more. Make a judgement based on your personal morality but it seems like you are advocating not having a personal morality at all.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Sometimes they are. But there are definitely companies that analyse the shit out of every piece of data they can get their hands on. I think part of the problem is that getting things "right" is just really really hard.
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.
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!
Thanks for the perspective. Given the relative success financially of being a founder, combined with what seems like a period of sacrificing life outside of work, do you regret the being a founder? i.e. looking back would you do the same thing again?
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 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?
> f 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?
Yes they are but that's not what's going on here. The barrage of downvotes in this case was the result of a platform feud between Youtube and TikTok content creators who told their userbases to go and vote the app down, and some sort of issue between India and China.
These people likely have not used the app at all, aren't actually evaluating the app itself, and the grievances they have are likely irrelevant to the vast majority of users who look at the rating.
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.
