Instagram Is Facebook Now

Post by azemetre » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:31 AM UTC

flycaliguy wrote: post #209

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I met one of the most brilliant people in my life. Smart, passionate about art, culture, politics. Brilliant student, top of her class from elementary through college. Fluent (as in certified) C2 in English and German. Terrific career as a public servant in foreign politics already in her late 20s. She would never, ever, miss a single episode of a “reality” about dating in tv, a show famous in Italy as “trash tv”. It…

There are a few seasons of US Big Brother which are genuinely great, intelligent and deep TV. You have to look past the production a bit and get in their heads. At the end of the day, it’s people trapped inside a TV show. It’s a psychological experiment. It’s a real competition for real money involving deception and alliances. Same with Survivor. These shows are often bad but there are some gem seasons out there.

Post by locusofself » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:36 AM UTC

Post by justahuman74 » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:46 AM UTC

evandwight wrote: post #222

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> We live in a time when large companies will divest themselves of profitable but not growing businesses because it gets in the way of the core mission, which for large public companies is only one thing. Growth. > Private companies can sometimes get away with it, as long as the people backing them don't start to see them as investment vehicles like any other public company. I'm probably just naive or missing somethi…

Some owners of private companies don't see the goal of the company as profit maximization - eg SpaceX. With a public company there's always going to be a shareholder to sue you for not maximizing profit. https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/s...

Post by wilkommen » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 4:53 AM UTC

saghm wrote: post #217

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> We, as in the IT industry, need to come up with a culture or methodology of 'declaring a product complete' whereby all product managers are gracefully allowed to move on and a product is put into a state of stasis We live in a time when large companies will divest themselves of profitable but not growing businesses because it gets in the way of the core mission, which for large public companies is only one thing. G…

> We live in a time when large companies will divest themselves of profitable but not growing businesses because it gets in the way of the core mission, which for large public companies is only one thing. Growth. > Private companies can sometimes get away with it, as long as the people backing them don't start to see them as investment vehicles like any other public company. I'm probably just naive or missing somethi…

Post by nichos » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 5:05 AM UTC

locusofself wrote: post #223

I've posted thousands of photos to my instagram over the last decade and generally loved being a user of it (although it did give me FOMO and jealousy). A month or so ago instagram deleted my account permanently because their system falsely flagged it as "suspicious activity". My account was never compromised or spammy. It was simply because I used the web interface from a few locations as well as the mobile app. Rea…