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Re: Snapchat’s product is booming

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Post by zmgsabst »

pm90 wrote: post #180
zmgsabst wrote: post #178

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Except that this case is resonating precisely because those kinds of false accusations against men are used in divorce and family courts routinely. What happened to Johnny Depp happens to men in courtrooms across America every day. This isn’t a case of “celebrity culture” — but rather, a case of the average American experience intruding on celebrity culture.

It’s absolutely not representative of anything people face in divorce courts. This comment makes me believe you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Have you actually been in a divorce proceeding? Your case will get thrown out for lying.

I witnessed my mother use these exact tactics in divorce and family court and I’ve seen the same used against friends — so yes.

I would encourage you to do more research: that kind of lying is common, as the attorneys that work family law and commentate on the Virginia case have noted — in the two panel shows I linked elsewhere. [1]

> This comment makes me believe you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Have you actually been in a divorce proceeding?

I have the same opinion of your comment that denies the reality of divorce/family courts:

You come across as not actually knowing how these things work.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31134174

Re: Snapchat’s product is booming

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Post by threeseed »

zmgsabst wrote: post #175
scandox wrote: post #173

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1. He's a celebrity 2. He's extremely rich and clearly spoiled with household expenses exceeding 1m per month. 3. He has a career long history of infantile/destructive behavior - lots of which predates this case. I recall these reports from when I was a teen in the 1990s. 4. Culturally not a single thing he has worked on gives me the slightest interest in him. If someone wanted to engage my sympathies they certainly…

Okay — but to American men this situation comes across as: “Not even the fantastically wealthy Johnny Depp, who we grew up loving as Captain Jack, with all his wealth can defend himself against the false accusations of a clearly lying woman.” Do you really not understand how that would be radicalizing for people who saw Pirates of the Caribbean as kids and who faced similar sexism in their personal lives? To me, your…

> with all his wealth can defend himself against the false accusations of a clearly lying woman

UK court found Heard's accusations to be credible. And Depp is more than capable of filing an appeal and taking it to higher courts if he believes there have been substantive issues with the court proceedings.

But until that happens it should be assumed that he did indeed abuse her.

Re: Snapchat’s product is booming

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Post by threeseed »

zmgsabst wrote: post #170
threeseed wrote: post #157

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Depp was found by a UK court to have assaulted Heard, on a dozen occasions and put her in “fear for her life” three times [1]. So for me it seems clear that they are both abusive and not worthy of anyone's time. But my point was that the Depp/Heard issue has very much crossed the line into being completely irrational and morphed into a generalised anti-women sentiment. And it's very much radicalising the younger men…

I think you should investigate deeper. I think the reason you’re not understanding is because you don’t understand the facts that are driving their behavior — behavior which makes sense when you view this trial as “not even Johnny Depp can get justice when a woman lies about him”. I find it genuinely interesting that you assume a group is irrational rather than consider you’ve been misinformed. There are many flaws i…

I am not interested in the opinions of random people who aren't privy to the evidence.

A judge has found Heard's allegations to be credible.

And the onus is on Depp to file an appeal and seek higher courts if he disagrees with this.

Re: Snapchat’s product is booming

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Post by caleb-allen »

bombcar wrote: post #111
caleb-allen wrote: post #22

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I would guess that you could uncover this information in Snapchat's 10K filings. In fact, I found the answer to your question on the 4th page of their annual filing to shareholders[1]: > While these metrics are determined based on what we believe to be reasonable estimates of our user base for the applicable period of measurement, there are inherent challenges in measuring how our products are used across large popul…

All 10Ks include enough weasel words that if you take them at face value they say nothing.

That's fine, but the above commenter's question was related to the definition of an "active user", and Snapchat provides an answer to that question, even if it uses weasel words.

Re: Snapchat’s product is booming

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Post by culopatin »

edgyquant wrote: post #164
52358 wrote: post #66

I wonder how many people here are aware of Snapchat's thriving underground OnlyFans-like ecosystem. I also wonder how much of that is driving Snap's user metrics. As far back as 2014, I remember there being a huge ecosystem of "premium" snaps (sometimes known as "prem(ium) girls"), whereby you would pay the account owner a one time or recurring fee for access to a "premium" snapchat account where the owner posts nude…

Is this why Tinder is now flooded with girls who only have their snap in their bio (or try and get you to snap asap?)

Anything that tries to get you immediately out of a platform is very likely spam.

Re: Snapchat’s product is booming

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Post by Infinitesimus »

bryan_w wrote: post #150
12907835202 wrote: post #102

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Having this on Instagram would be awesome. Instead of a feed of stories in an order being able to see thumbnails of stories over a map and clicking around the map would be far more engaging for me. It would also help me alot as a digital nomad/traveller as it would very quickly let me know which friends are in which cities/countries, as opposed to just the same street as others have suggested. Similarly if you want t…

In Instagram's search interface, you can search for a place and see stories with that place tagged

I think it's more about the UX. I don't actively use either platform but the experience of asking "I wonder where my friends are", going to a map and going "huh, I guess I know someone currently in XYZ place" is pretty different from having to search for a place.
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