Which part of Figma can you build with 20 engineers? I think we're still not close to a small team building real-time collaboration software at scale that actually works at the quality level that customers expect.

Probably all of it with a team of skilled engineers and a frontier model.

using an email for chat like people use whatsapp is not practical

it's a matter of UI.

https://delta.chat/

It even has E2EE, as long as people use the same client (or a compatible one).

I think we can expect a bifurcation: managerial jobs that will require a lot of breadth and engineering jobs that will require a lot of depth. The manager engineers will have AIs doing all sorts of things for them across the stack. The deep engineers will develop an expertise that the AI can't get to (at least not yet).

Have you heard of the South China Sea?

What about it? It's called South China Sea for a reason. BTW, many countries are disputing over parts of it, not just China.

By contrast, US has been occupying parts of Syria and Cuba. It overtly seeks to take control of Greenland. It has 800 military bases around the globe; in most cases, de facto occupying a country.

Is it a rhetorical question? In my opinion this dispute is closely tied with Taiwan claim. When China gets Taiwan - it gets most of the critical area containing shipping lines and oil/gas fields.

That's not a plausible explanation. sama knows how good Schulman is, of course he'd be glad to let him not manage anyone and continue his work.

Was Pensando a bad acquisition? Isn't it a bit early to tell?

Still aren’t. Alphabet only publishes YouTube revenue.

... and therefore, saying they're "profitable" is meaningless.

Allocating costs for things from Google that they use (e.g. the Ads system) is difficult. The problem with any subsidiary.

We performed this benchmarking and thought it would be interesting to share. Happy to answer any questions you may have.

Ad tracking has nothing to do with privacy. The app is already tracking your every move to serve relevant content. Serving relevant ads is the same thing and is no more of an infringement on your privacy.

> Ad tracking has nothing to do with privacy.

It has; it directly violates my privacy by tracking me against my will. This implies collecting data about me without my consent.

> The app is already tracking your every move to serve relevant content.

Which is also illegal under the GDPR: An app may not track anything it doesn't immediately require to provide a value to the user, it may not track anything it didn't get explicit consent to track, and must disclose why it is tracking what, how, why, as well as where and how long it keeps that data.

> Serving relevant ads is the same thing and is no more of an infringement on your privacy.

Serving relevant ads is fine, if you can do it within the boundaries I described in the previous paragraph. If you cannot, you cannot do this legally in the EU. There is no wiggle room here; apparently some people refuse to understand that some American business practices are simply not feasible in the EU - period.

I'm saying that the app looks at what you like in order to serve you content in the feed. Do you dispute this?

Similarly to GDPR - ATT is bad for Meta but much worse for Meta's competitors.