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Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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"Sitting by Mark’s side for these 14 years has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. [...] In the critical moments of my life, in the highest highs and in the depths of true lows, I have never had to turn to Mark, because he was already there." If this is an accurate reflection of her experience, I don't expect it's a side of Mark Zuckerberg most of us imagine exists.

I'm no Zuckerberg fan, but I imagine being in his inner circle is probably a very good experience. I fundamentally and vehemently disagree with his goals and the effect Facebook has on the world, but (outside of the early years) I haven't heard anything toxic about him as an executive.

That's a surprisingly balanced position. When you say he's not toxic, do you mean that he doesn't yell or act sexist? Or that he's actually an honest, upfront businessperson? Because things like systematically lying about privacy policies, or gaslighting the world about net neutrality / "Free Basics' were neither early in his career nor deserving of any respect.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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"Sitting by Mark’s side for these 14 years has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. [...] In the critical moments of my life, in the highest highs and in the depths of true lows, I have never had to turn to Mark, because he was already there." If this is an accurate reflection of her experience, I don't expect it's a side of Mark Zuckerberg most of us imagine exists.

When you saw only one set of tracking cookies, it was then that Mark Zuckerberg was carrying you.

This needs to be printed on posters, made into cross stitch, and all of the other various ways people have this hanging in their homes. well played

Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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"Sitting by Mark’s side for these 14 years has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. [...] In the critical moments of my life, in the highest highs and in the depths of true lows, I have never had to turn to Mark, because he was already there." If this is an accurate reflection of her experience, I don't expect it's a side of Mark Zuckerberg most of us imagine exists.

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Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Well the epic stock slide over past few months would tell you investors are highly cautious about the company’s future.

On a 3 month chart FB is down 10% from start to now. That's hardly "epic". And the NASDAQ composite is down 13% in the same time frame.

That's a pretty selective lookback. The big slide was 4 months ago. If you look at trailing 6 months, FB is down 40%, vs down 10% for S&P500 or 23% for NASDAQ.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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Ads are the past.

The entire internet subsists on ads. Even Amazon retail, a store that sells physical goods makes its profit selling ads. If anything they're only going to become more important as to internet becomes more accessible to low resource individuals around the world.

> The entire internet subsists on ads.

I don't understand how people can make this statement and not immediately realize their is something deeply, deeply wrong about this situation.

Ads derive their value from the product being sold, the fact that ads themselves have become the economic underpinning of the entire internet, rather than actual things being sold, should tell you there is a problem.

Re: Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO

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I feel compelled to say that your second sentence is probably the funniest thing I've ever read on HN. It resonates very strongly with my belief that VR/Metaverse will continue to under deliver. What people want is an escape from reality. "Just like" Ready Player One or anything from a wide choice of science fiction novels. The problem is that these systems require a fundamental disconnect from reality. Not only do w…

> but the obstruction of physical world signals is basically non-existent. If it were, then we wouldn't have people in chronic pain. The key one, the vestibular system, is overridable non-invasively: Galvanic vestibular stimulation https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_vestibular_stimulati... Vision and sound covered too, though vision can get better with more res and variable focus. Sound can get better with 3d sc…

Proprioception cannot be fooled. No matter what you do to your vestibular system it's not going to realistically feel like you're in a fighter jet or a race car. It can't even make walking on an omnidirectional treadmill feel like real walking. Galvanic vestibular stimulation is not really a good idea, independent of the fact that it literally sends high voltage electricity through your skull.

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I mean, yea, earplugs and a blindfold work too, but how do I feel like I'm walking through a pasture with wet dirt between my toes if you cannot simulate the sensory system? That's what people imagine. A home-bound person wants to feel what it is like to skydive, not watch a POV video.

What if the future generations never gets to experience those feelings? They would not know what they are missing.

Now that's a bleak thought
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