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"Hiring" them was just a PR tactic to keep Microsoft stock from tanking while they got this figured out.

https://www.businessinsider.com/openais-employees-given-expl...

Hey, I run the Growth team at Pinterest. I just wanted to comment on the article to be very clear and say we have never scraped Google search results either currently or at any tim…

Also biased because they are sampling people who are out and about. People who are out and about likely come into contact with more people than people who are staying at home and r…

"Up and to the right" is a relatively common business saying to indicate things are going well and that the chart for a metric (ex: revenue, users, etc) is going "up and to the rig…

The reason some people label Brave as anti-gay is due to Brave's CEO and Founder Brendan Eich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich > On March 24, 2014, Eich was promoted to C…

A direct listing is definitely not the most likely option. Only two major tech companies have done direct listings and there are also a lot more reasons you would want to do an IPO…

> If they do go public for $20B+ they that would be for more than Twitter and Facebook went public for Lyft is IPOing at a higher valuation than Twitter, but Facebook went public a…

Stock market manipulation doesn't mean you have to manipulate the entire $20 trillion dollar US stock market, it just means you tried to manipulate the price of a specific stock. S…

GDPR could be a factor since it required shutting down accounts of people aged 13-16 that did not have parental consent. Getting parental consent required having parents sign a for…

The problem is just 1 or 2 or even 10 people washing ashore on an island wouldn't be enough genetic diversity to sustain a population.

Correct, this is what everyone always hears about Burning Man. However, the idea that bartering happens at Burning Man is the most common misconnection. It is also how you can pick…

Yes it is possible. Typically this usage of push is done more to pre-fetch content to improve load times, but it certainly can be used in the way you described.

I'm not trying to hide it. Like you said it is right in my HN profile. I don't work on Pinterest's ads business and I'm not very familiar with that side of the company. I'm speakin…

This new SDK doesn't help advertisers or users. Being able to assess the quality of users coming from different ad networks is crucial for any advertiser to assess the quality of t…

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