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A quick search show plenty of solid hotel choices under $350 during the week, in fact plenty of good choices around the $250 mark you mentioned.
Re:Ray-Ban Meta next generation of smart glasses on Thursday September 28, 2023 @10:14AM (#37689892)
You can touch up an old car because they were not made to crumple when hit, which makes them pretty unsafe.
More so commenting on that many Californians will notice the impact of wildfires, regardless if they are in an area prone to wildfires.
In the US, the majority of people (even the majority of Republicans) support policies for fighting climate change. https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/06/23/two-thirds-of...
This ignores the impact of wildfire smoke on people, which affects a much larger population.
Mocking protestors feels a bit like punching down. They're just regular people trying to do anything possible to wake people up. Not their fault those with power seem to be doing very little to change things meaningfully.
Don't forget Elizabeth Holmes and Do Kwon!
Re:Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy on Monday July 10, 2023 @05:59PM (#36673548)
Twitter and Reddit for some reason get a pass from Apple's App Store Guidelines on this. It seems unlikely any other app will be able to have as explicit NSFW content as those two.
Re:Amid Twitter Chaos, Japanese Illustrators Flock to Weibo on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:55AM (#36601289)
All of my ads now are weird drop-shipping products from companies with slightly different logos.
Re:Founders’ Email to Clubhouse Employees on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:45PM (#35733556)
There's already a handful of well known companies providing that. It wouldn't surprise me if Clubhouse was built off of one of these APIs already.
Jack is 46 years old... not really young at this point.
Re:Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:06PM (#35187668)
When you dig into those studies, they aren't that great either fwiw.
Where are you driving where you need an AWD vehicle?
I can't imagine the benefit of sleeping in the office, especially as a PM. What is a PM doing around the clock to help ship any feature beyond helping morale?
>Is tech that bloated?

Yes

>What are people doing all day where it’s realistic to lay of 10,000 people?

They're probably in meetings, while a fraction of their time is actually spent doing work.

Actually this predated the IPO even. A reply reminded me that it actually started getting bad around 2018.
As a One Medical customer, the experience post IPO has been awful. Hard to get appointments and less and less MDs available with incredibly high turnover. I wouldn't say their interests are aligned with mine at all, but agree the customer data being in Amazon's hands isn't great.
Re:OpenAI Buys Ai.com for $11M on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:08PM (#34838148)
> How does one go about selling their domain for millions of dollars?

You have a domain someone wants to buy for millions of dollars

Re:The Secret Sauce of Tik-Tok’s Recommendations on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:29PM (#34837586)
They're testing features to let you "reset" your algorithm to improve content diversity. But even without that kids spend over 80 minutes a day on TikTok.
Re:The Secret Sauce of Tik-Tok’s Recommendations on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:26PM (#34837555)
They don't gravitate towards it. The algorithm inches them towards that. It starts with exercise videos and healthy eating, which is fine, but eventually goes towards eating-disorder content. Similar for boys.
Re:The Secret Sauce of Tik-Tok’s Recommendations on Friday February 17, 2023 @12:25PM (#34837527)
Generally true, but not entirely accurate...

"TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral" https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/01/20/tik...

They also don't just optimize for consumption, but also for new users. Don't have concrete proof, but it seems they help new users get more views to give them that taste of "15 minutes of fame" as early as possible.

Definitely one of the worst redesigns for a news site I can think of. I only look at the top article and then close the site now.
Twitter has a large off platform impact though. It's where information starts and/or spreads and eventually hits Facebook, less mainstream news sources, and in real life conversations.
Re:Over 16,000 people still use a Pebble smartwatch on Thursday November 03, 2022 @12:23PM (#33453408)
You can definitely replace the hard drive with parts online!
Re:Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @04:23PM (#33348891)
Honestly surprised any of this made it past the legal department at Tesla. Any company I've worked at has always been super careful and conservative with the language you use to describe anything.
Re:New iPad Pro with M2 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:33PM (#33250048)
If they're competing against Chromebooks, they're maybe better actually.
Re:The spam on Twitter on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @04:04PM (#32842618)
There's a downside to making it easy to report content. You just end up with a bunch of useless reports.
Re:Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:47PM (#32827786)
What a very bizarre definition of a job
Re:Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels on Friday September 02, 2022 @10:51AM (#32691520)
They do its the New Product Experimentation team. They've made a dozen+ apps and none of them have been successful. It's just not in their DNA to come up with interesting products at this point.
Re:Snap lays off 20% of employees on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @02:43PM (#32666549)
Snapchat has 86m DAU in Europe vs 99m in North America. Definitely big in many demos in Europe.

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