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Why is a typical human driver at typical performance the baseline? The bad outcomes from driving come from the poor end of the performance, if the average autonomous vehicle avoids…

As per Cruise statement: >>> The initial impact was severe and launched the pedestrian directly in front of the AV. The AV then braked aggressively to minimize the impact.

The target market is enterprise. If I showed up for my first day of work and they handed me a 2019 MacBook Air I'd be pretty unhappy. I really don't get this attitude of indignatio…

Twitter was a second tier advertising destination before there was any inkling of a Musk deal, and advertisers started leaving before the deal closed when he was trying to get out …

The advertiser exodus (already well underway) is a far bigger threat to Twitter than a user exodus. The subscription model is dead on arrival. There's plenty of options if you want…

How does Binance fit into this chart? I understand them to be the biggest remaining exchange

You couldn't previously buy a checkmark, now you can. This opens new methods of attacking the network. This move perhaps limits spam as practiced today , but the attacks that will …

It's a great point. There have been several replies ITT along the lines of, "if Twitter goes away, what platform will Stephen King post his content?" As you point out, the answer i…

The critical thing for the platform is that if I want to find the Twitter account for {celebrity foo} I can do so with a high degree of confidence that it will be real. I think the…

There's no meaningful difference between what you are describing and advertising.

There's a reason there are entire companies that focus on the problem of ID verification, it's difficult problem.

To some degree it already is, for people who have the checkmark you haven't heard of outside of Twitter. It's a well worn meme to mock people throwing a fit over not getting a chec…

> Minecraft/Roblox/Fortnite These MMO's are the real absolute ceiling of whatever Meta is trying to do, but that's insufficiently gigantic to justify a pivot of Meta. So they are p…

> Their audience just got older and rather than abandon them they acquired companies more suited to younger generations e.g. Instagram, Oculus instead. This strategy has run it's c…

What is their runway with current assets on hand?

Is there any evidence any of these bets have traction? I have only heard of their NFT platform performing unbelievably badly: https://decrypt.co/99561/coinbase-nft-marketplace-150-…

A drop in retail assets north of 10% in a quarter does not sound like stability to me, especially for a company spending like they are in hyper growth mode. It sounds more like an …

Instagram and WhatsApp were competitors in the making that FB bought out. They can't do that trick anymore.

FB user base shrinking, including Instagram. The pandemic rebuttal isn't convincing in the face of continued huge growth of TikTok

I'm having a hard time tracking down what kind of growth that revenue represents.

The Russian navy was not in the neighborhood on a casual trip!

As a newly, painfully single person, I'd say it was less my partner's judgement that prevented me from doing those unhealthy things, and more the more engaging and fulfilling slate…