I'm in Stockholm as well, no one outside 'expat communities' has attempted to communicate with me using WhatsApp.
Who knows though, maybe I'm not in tune with the general public any more. I know that basically all of my extended family run on iMessage, and some friends use Facebook Messenger as their lowest common denominator.
I may have been speaking too broadly when mentioning Nordics - I've only heard some rumors from Norway from an acquaintance that lives there, but for Sweden it's definitely the case. I have not found WhatsApp-use to be common here.
That's a very bad call from them. I'm disappointed.
The Nordics are an exception to this - SMS and iMessage are prevalent here.
Big brain programming
That's true. Atlantic access via the Baltic Sea is on heavy lockdown from all sides.
Not to mention that Kaliningrad also is kind of cut off by land in a dire situation as well, making this even more of a struggle.
iirc the Novorossisk port is kind of bad, right?
Regardless, Baltic Sea access isn't super great when you're entirely choked out by Denmark for access to the Atlantic. Same goes for Black Sea and access to the open seas - Turkey and arguably also Spain/UK block several times on the way.
The Pacific ones freeze over and are kind of blocked by Japan, essentially.
It's going to be interesting to see how much Russia's geopolitical position improves from rising global temperatures - if their pacific ports become ice-free, then that changes the game quite a bit.
The 29B would go away if he fucked off, and probably then some.
It's not actually real money, it's estimated net worth based on stock ownership in Meta, of which Mark Zuckerberg is a large enough shareholder to have his actions directly impact its perceived value.
If he quits today, the stock likely tanks. Making an exit and keeping the money in his position is a complicated and delicate affair.
Is this a new copypasta?
Dividends are taxed, yes.
I wouldn't necessarily read too much into this.
I think most people's aversions to the concept of IPOs stems from the fact that it lies at the end of the not-too-uncommon lifecycle of VC-backed companies:
Post-IPO the company has to abide by the regular rules of being a company, meaning that they never really re-capture what it was like when they had a large stack of free money to make all deals sweeter than the competition.
All this to say is that the damage is done once you raise VC capital. Raspberry Pi has raised one fairly small round, so there's potentially some damage done there, but it's way less than your average tech startup did throughout the years, so this doesn't necessarily have to mean that everything will go to hell now.
Sweden. As I mentioned, I may have been extrapolating a bit too liberally based on what I know from Sweden and Norway - I should probably have been a bit more specific.