Probably Blue Checkmarks, i.e. those whose identities and opinions have been verified.
A fun exercise would be to train one instance on Blue Checkmarks and another on a dump from Gab. Once trained these two instances can start their own private battle of words. Let it run for a few days and see how it devolves, then use the results to write an article on the futility of ideological battles on social media. Publish this article widely so that the populace may read it and come to their senses.
On average it depends on your family size and if you live in a big city. If you're a double income household with no kids, you still might not have enough room to carve out office space so one partner has to take work elsewhere or work side by side and vacate to take calls. Even for singles I doubt they have a decent working space unless they're into gaming.
There were some news stories about people at organizations that have committed to wfh for the foreseable future relocate to suburbs but a lot of companies reverted to office work once Japan lifted the state of emergency. Some companies are hesitant to downsize their office space and eat their losses in the middle of their contract. Other companies are struggling with managing their workforce.
There was a news story about a company that required workers to install a mouse tracker on their PC. If the mouse doesn't move for 5 min, they'd were docked a certain amount of pay so this guy would have his kid fiddle with the mouse if he wanted to go for walk or make a quick store run.
>It generated $15 billion last year not including 20 million Premium subscribers.
To clarify, that $15 billion is revenue and not net income/profit. Since Alphabet Inc didn't reveal the internal costs for Youtube, it means we still don't know if Youtube is losing money, or breaking even, or making a profit. So the gp's question of "how do we know it's making money?" is still unanswered.
Another example to help differentiate revenue vs profit: Tesla "generated" $24 billion in revenue last year but it didn't "make money" because they still lost $862 million.[1] No profits.
It doesn't help that the journalist of your The Verge article further confuses readers by incorrectly using the phrase "bottom line" instead of the "top line".[2] Revenue is actually the "top line". Net income/profit is the "bottom line":
>, that the company has revealed how much money YouTube-hosted ads contribute to the search giant’s _bottom line_. On an annual basis, Google says YouTube generated $15 billion last year and contributed roughly 10 percent to all Google revenue.
One thing that surprised me about this pandemic is how vulnerable people are to misinformation and conspiracy theories on social media. For many people their idea of authority or "credentials" directly correlate with the strength of the source's social media profile (much like the impact factor of peer-reviewed articles only it feeds on itself). I don't know if they are simply looking for a theory to fit their current preconceptions or information that affirms their sense of self but it's really phenomenal. I honestly had no idea how many people I know could take these crazy conspiracies so seriously.
It's worse than you think. A lot of the people you know are taking lunatic theories seriously and not letting on because they have learned to self sensor their opinions.
What are you on about? While I don't really disagree with what you wrote, this article and interview has nothing to do conspiracy theories and their propagation through social media.
Guilty as charged but I thought it was a reasonable jump to speculate on how there might be a cumulative effect of being in the "shallows" where critical thinking skills are atrophied and people are susceptible to misinformation. I did read the article but I was under the impression that HN doesn't restrict comments to the specifics of the article.
"You always seem to play the vulture @Kvogt
— we all know the @cruise
Origin’s origin is @zoox
. While flattered, you do make a valid point in seeking the best: Zoox engineers are better than yours, and soon better funded :)"
Wow that's pretty funny, but what's the context for that tweet? Did Cruise try to poach talent from Zoox ? The tweet definitely gives me an early 2000's Dotcom over the top rivalry/ceo vibe!
I had this and solved it by clearing the cache and cookies for Quora (and maybe facebook) several times. If it works in private browser mode it's definitely corrupt data.
Very valid counterpoint. It could by HN's latent bias against marketing types (in the dismissive sense) as the GP is the top comment (as of now). There's a difference between clickbait and trying to convey the gist of an article with limited chars (and thereby triggering the reader's bias).
The article makes it clear from the outset that:
1. She was in a very junior position and was cold calling clients before EoL-ing an embedded DB product
2. She delivered the insight to key executives in a way that prompted a product positioning pivot that turned out very lucrative (even if the $1B is disputed the circumstantial information seems to support it - parent company's valuation/revenue and the fact that the product still exists within a larger company).
3. Her track record speaks for itself (so it's not an anomaly) but this experience is also her origin story.
I saw her interview and she was just so awesome and confident. She grew up in China, graduated with a degree in Chemistry, learned to speak fluent English, and then somehow ended up being the sole maintainer (using the term loosely because she was actively improving it the whole time) of a mission critical piece of code for an entire ecosystem at Microsoft. Color me impressed. Definitely a top notch engineer regardless of gender full stop.
“If only stupidity wasn’t the key to Donald Trump’s plans.”
Seed word: Trump
“The best way to educate yourself about Donald Trump's incompetence is to spend twenty minutes reading the Wikipedia article on Donald Trump.”
Seed word: blm
“As a country, we are not ok. We’re not tolerant, we’re not kind, we’re not inclusive, we’re not respectful.”
I wonder which lists of twitter users they used for training.