24 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 6 Mar 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
I've been slowly working my way through the Lex Fridman podcast with Zuck. The discussion around FB's incentives with ads was interesting. Zuck was actually trying to make the argument that financial incentives don't factor that much into FB's decision making. Being intellectually dishonest like this is why people "hate" Zuck. It's not really more complicated than that. I'm not sure he's actually a bad person, but he at least thinks he has to behave like one.
I think a lot of the hate with Zuck boils down to him having such a punchable face. I don't remember him saying too much that I wouldn't expect a fake upper management person to spew, but he doesn't without the normal comforting polish of fake upper management people and with such a robotic look. By most accounts it seems Jobs was an actual jerk but people gave him much more respect.
End game seems a little bleak for FB/Meta... FB is dying, TikTok is crushing IG, the metaverse is too early and others (Apple/Microsoft) seem better positioned if it does take off.
I feel like their best bet would be to spend a billion dollars lobbying to ban TikTok on the premise of a national security threat.
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Meta did just partner with Verizon as they roll our ultra wide band 5G. I think meta’s biggest issue is barrier to entry and no one wants to wear a big ass rift on they face all day.
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Not yet they don’t. I imagine the headset will minimize with time.
I’m personally pretty bullish on vr/ar
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I imagine we'll get there eventually.. this just feels a bit like Webvan... a little too early to place big bets into the space. I'd feel more confident if I knew Carmack was still driving the bus, but it seems once Apple releases their hardware offering everyone jumps ship immediately.
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End game seems a little bleak for FB/Meta... FB is dying, TikTok is crushing IG, the metaverse is too early and others (Apple/Microsoft) seem better positioned if it does take off.
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I agree on Zuck. It's not surprising that he's dishonest but he has no charisma.
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Before I didn’t think zucks was so bad then I read The Bitcoin Billionaires book and now I’m just like fuck zucks haha
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Is there a TLDR for zuck from the book?
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