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Bobby Jindal is an Indian American born to immigrant parents from Punjab, India. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal

I can attest to this with N=1 datapoint here. My best friend postponed having kids till they could afford a SFH, but kept pushing it further as the supply dwindled and rates shot u…

Not sure why you're making it sound like a conspiracy theory. User behavior profiling is common strategy for all personalized IR products, including recommender systems, targeted a…

I absolutely love Instagram app and my friend circle actively uses it. I'm not a big fan of Facebook, but I come back to Facebook groups and marketplace fairly frequently. What's y…

I find it fascinating how much Meta's business and HN sentiment towards anything Meta are mutually exclusive.

You could say the same thing about every big company. Apple has headwinds from sales in China and US-China trade wars, Tesla is trailing BYD and seeing declining EV demand, and so …

This HN bandwagon again. Meta has had an astounding yoy growth. Did you even see their Q4 report.

One US & Canada user is worth 3x a European user and 15x ROW (rest of the world) user to Facebook. Source: ARPU from Meta's Q4'23 earnings announcement.

HN users have long been calling Facebook a dead platform because none of their contacts are there. Yet FB has 130M dau in north America. Threads will be fine too.

Apple's App Tracking Transparency policy has had a measurable impact on businesses that rely on ads for their sales. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4698374

IMO it does provide a better user experience. It gets to the end goal quickly by giving you a list of places directly in the Maps app. You can see how far each place is and if you …

Not a lot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

Good point. Although I'd also say that the barrier to entry for content producers is somewhat higher for App Store. You'd likely need some level of computer science education and t…

Apple doesn't really have experience with building a platform for user generated content. Sure, they have the technological might, but content moderation, recommendation fairness, …

Do your kids not use TikTok as well?

There are also a bunch of recent immigrants on threads like these who have the 'close the door after me' mindset. They also support hard restrictions on immigration, as soon as the…

I do literature reviews for Information Retrieval domain (Recommender Systems, Search and Ranking, etc.). https://blog.reachsumit.com/