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The slave owners were paid lifetimes ago. The repayments are to the inheritors of the debt that was taken on to pay said slave owners.

Native as in Swift/Objective C (iOS) or Kotlin/Java (Android). Probably 99% of the UI (and lower layers, outside of specialty cases!) is based in that. C++ is used for typical high performance cases; e.g. Video rendering (though there's more than that).

There's a lot of internal tools. I don't know what they're written in. I would not be surprised if it's Lynx, but I'm a mobile developer on the TikTok app, and haven't ever looked into it.

I haven't come across any WASM in my time here, but I'm not in a position to declare that it doesn't exist.

I went to watch the podcast – he's heavily overplaying how much cross platform web dev is used on the native platforms. He doesn't seem to be in the biggest channels for both iOS and Android developers (the largest 'IOS'/'Android' release/global channels).

I work at ByteDance (though not for long). Most of the "sexy" part of the app is native, or C++ crossplatform for things that would normally be in C++. I'm not sure I'm allowed to share what Lynx is used on, but it's a small subset of the app.

But this is about where the company is incorporated (Delaware), not about where it's headquartered. The article mentions that Meta headquarters is staying in California (at least, for now).

not everyone works on ai or ai adjacent products, or even tech on this site

The article is terrible agreed. It actually happens to have a picture of the gold type (with the footer "Lycia coin - social media"). The pictures below that are electrum, however.

Rulers being on coinage was a later invention. The earliest coins used symbols for the issuing authority, for example the famous Athens owl tetradrachm. A lot of the remainder of your comment about soldiers and being invented for war is rather speculative and needs sources.

Kroisos made the first gold and silver coins, who was from Lydia. There's a common misbelief that Lydia made the first coins which is simply false, even ignoring the east asian coinage there's earlier electrum pieces (with no design or simple geometric design as one would perhaps expect in a transition from simple bullion)

The majority of streamers aren't slinging slurs, though a lot of the more toxic people also happen to be the more popular streamers. Not sure twitch cares about being family friendly though, sure doesn't seem like it based on their normal moderation decisions

Nothing about that quote indicates that waymo loses money on marginal rides, rather that it loses money in aggregate which is not particularly surprising considering low overall volume , r&d overhead of both head count and things like cars and facilities to store said cars

That's because in Chinese it's the higher digit having priority in emissions - if you don't specify zero the it means 180