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Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook
The two co-founders of Facebook Inc.'s popular Instagram app are stepping down, a move marking continued tumult at the social-networking giant.
The co-founders—Kevin Systrom, Instagram's chief executive, and Mike Krieger, chief technology officer—clashed with Facebook executives over the extent of Instagram's autonomy in recent months, according to people familiar with the matter. Earlier this year, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg shifted a senior Facebook executive, Adam Mosseri, over to Instagram in anticipation that the founders might leave, one of the people said.
Among other things, Facebook officials, including Mr. Zuckerberg, clashed with the co-founders over growth tactics and how to more rapidly expand the photo-sharing app's user base, another person said. Senior Facebook officials had known the two men were frustrated working within a large company and had begun making preparations for them to leave, another person familiar with the matter said.
Also at NYT, The Atlantic, and Gizmodo.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @02:40AM (1 child)
English only has the "precious" form, which we call "feminine", because among humans, women are considered the height of preciousness. If there are "masculine" forms, it's only because they aren't "feminine" forms.
Do you think, for example, that so many laws were written strictly for men? Of course not; it's just that the non-"feminine" forms are what actually apply to everyone, and "he" is singular and therefore much more precise than "they" (and "one" is both cumbersome and imprecise, and "it" applies to non-people, which is important, because most language is meant to convey what "he" and "she" did with "it" in front of "them"—human language evolved to relay information about humans interacting in the world). Indeed, one could also tie this back to the pedestal on which women are naturally placed: Crime is something expected of men due to their sinful nature, not women and their angelic nature.
As usual, the giant sociopolitical movements are based on the exact wrong interpretation of history. It's not the case that women have been oppressed to benefit men, but rather that men have been oppressed to benefit women. Language reflects this fact. [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @03:28AM
Ah, I think I get it!
Anarcho-capitalism is feasible after all, once men have been made extinct. Silly me! We might have trouble convincing some of the women on this board, but I am certain that your eloquence will convince them to come around to this profound truth.