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I don’t believe this is an actual goal of brand advertising.

Instead it the goal is to bump up the concept of the brand into your short-term memory, and perhaps as a bonus to associate that with positive emotion or at the very least to normalize the brand.

Later when you are making a purchasing decision, the brand is more present in your mind and makes it a more likely outcome.

Of course this is more complicated and nefarious when the brand’s products are addictive or have addictive-like qualities, which arguably includes McDonald’s.

Sure, most all major changes get gradually rolled out.

But you don’t create a broken or confusing experience for the people who haven’t been added to the rollout group yet.

> I think I would push back on the idea that credit and debit cards represent a deadweight loss to the economy

It’s the anticompetitive actions causing the deadweight loss, not the digital nature of transactions.

Meta has a long history of treating their user’s data recklessly. Cambridge Analytica being a prominent example.

They’ve also had a long history of using shady/deceptive practices to gather data, such as Onavo.

Is their internal security up to par with other cloud providers? Maybe. Security from them? Definitely not to be trusted.

(Former employee)

I can guarantee that he has almost zero interest in “karma points”. I worked for FB years ago and that is not how he sees the world or sets direction did the company.

Almost certainly this is part of some grandiose bet which could have a chance to pay off massively in the future (AGI or similar), or a way to prevent an expensive dependency.

I’m sure there are people for whom the main problem is keeping track of N streaming services.

But I’d wager the combined cost of those N services is a much, much bigger factor for most.

Appreciate the clarification.

While it was part of the same overall disaster, Boukreev‘s rescue efforts may not have been specifically towards Green Boots.

From what I understand the final location of Green Boots was along the same route that Boukreev took when attempting to rescue climbers? But now I’m less certain — it seems like the furthest Boukreev in reached in attempted rescue was Fischer’s body which was well below Green Boots.

If the renderer completely fails because of a minor issue when parsing the css, that is broken.

Apple has over-promised and under-delivered so many times in this space, going back to the launch of the original Siri.

So while they could win, it’s pretty hard to get hyped about it before we see real-world tests.

We are already at that point.

People using LLMs to send emails for other LLMs to summarize and then the other party responds with their LLMs.

Human communication replaced by wasteful slop of no value.

Everyone says supply and demand and then explains labour supply. Which is an important piece.

But the labour demand half is important too. Bigtech makes so much money (or is so well financed) that competing on top talent is more feasible when compared to the boom/bust nature of the games industry.

It’s not simply difficult, it’s an existential threat to their current business model.

Unless I’m missing something obvious, enforcing regulatory compliance from the army of hustlers that is their vendor market would be expensive or impossible.

By law the US govt is able to compel access to any data controlled by an American company, regardless of where those companies operate. There doesn’t need to be specific evidence of this case, it’s true of all cases.

Some American companies have tried to establish convoluted workarounds in Europe to get around this, but as far as I’m aware it hasn’t been tested in court yet.

It wasn't even a complaint, just a personal anecdote to help share some context as to why the site may have failed to retain consumer interest post-2016.

But yes I'll join you with the liver damage and drink 17 shots.