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Kate retweeted
🇺🇸 US Visa rejection rate in 2025:
🇲🇨 Monaco - 0%
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - 2.17%
🇯🇵 Japan - 5.68%
🇨🇭 Switzerland - 5.82%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 5.98%
🇦🇷 Argentina - 7.47%
🇲🇾 Malaysia - 7.92%
🇫🇷 France - 9.67%
🇮🇱 Israel - 11.32%
🇵🇱 Poland - 11.63%
🇿🇦 South Africa - 11.66%
🇩🇪 Germany - 12.22%
🇮🇹 Italy - 12.65%
🇨🇱 Chile - 16.38%
🇫🇮 Finland - 18.09%
🇨🇳 China - 20.21%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 20.44%
🇵🇪 Peru - 20.90%
🇲🇽 Mexico - 21.36%
🇸🇪 Sweden - 21.77%
🇮🇳 India - 22.04%
🇻🇳 Vietnam - 22.08%
🇹🇷 Turkey - 22.25%
🇪🇸 Spain - 23.67%
🇰🇷 South Korea - 24.73%
🇹🇭 Thailand - 25.67%
🇮🇩 Indonesia - 26.69%
🇲🇦 Morocco - 26.91%
🇵🇭 Philippines - 30.76%
🇰🇵 North Korea - 33.33%
🇺🇦 Ukraine - 33.92%
🇹🇿 Tanzania - 39.41%
🇷🇺 Russia - 40.38%
🇪🇬 Egypt - 47.61%
🇻🇪 Venezuela - 48.22%
🇩🇿 Algeria - 51.23%
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan - 51.75%
🇵🇰 Pakistan - 52.32%
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan - 52.46%
🇨🇦 Canada - 53.10%
🇳🇬 Nigeria - 57.00%
🇮🇷 Iran - 62.44%
🇦🇫 Afghanistan - 63.25%
🇲🇲 Myanmar - 64.19%
🇬🇭 Ghana - 64.34%
🇾🇪 Yemen - 67.98%
🇰🇪 Kenya - 68.23%
🇳🇵 Nepal - 69.47%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh - 61.45%
🇫🇲 Micronesia - 100%
Note: business (visa category B-1), for tourism (visa category B-2), or for a combination of both purposes (B-1/B-2).
Soo SpaceX now owns Twitter? If someone told me this back in 2006…although Twitter’s (Odeo, Instagram) first office was literally by the South Park, SF :)
nope, for example Booking.com acquired by Priceline.com and then the parent company renamed to Booking (there are more examples but still impressive 🫶💪)
nope, for example Booking.com got acquired by Priceline.com and then the parent company renamed to Booking
Kate retweeted
Divorce rate:
🇮🇳India: 1%
🇻🇳Vietnam: 7%
🇹🇯Tajikistan: 10%
🇮🇷Iran: 14%
🇲🇽Mexico: 17%
🇪🇬Egypt: 17%
🇿🇦South Africa: 17%
🇧🇷Brazil: 21%
🇹🇷Turkey: 25%
🇨🇴Colombia: 30%
🇵🇱Poland: 33%
🇯🇵Japan: 35%
🇩🇪Germany: 38%
🇬🇧United Kingdom: 41%
🇳🇿New Zealand: 41%
🇦🇺Australia: 43%
🇨🇳China: 44%
🇺🇸United States: 45%
🇰🇷South Korea: 46%
🇩🇰Denmark: 46%
🇮🇹Italy: 46%
🇨🇦Canada: 47%
🇳🇱Netherlands: 48%
🇸🇪Sweden: 50%
🇨🇵France: 51%
🇧🇪Belgium: 53%
🇫🇮Finland: 55%
🇨🇺Cuba: 55%
🇺🇦Ukraine: 70%
🇷🇺Russia: 73%
🇱🇺Luxembourg: 79%
🇪🇦Spain: 85%
🇵🇹Portugal: 94%
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
These numbers represent the divorce-to-marriage ratio calculated for a given year as: #divorces/#marriages
A high number does not automatically imply high divorce rate, it can also indicate low number of new marriages. Theoretically the number can be higher than 100%
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_d…
Kate retweeted
one example of why it's so hard to compete w/AWS: we ran into a roadblock implementing new AWS service. already have call scheduled for thurs. to speed things up, engineer emailed on a saturday offering to jump on a call 'any time Monday/Tuesday.'
he's been at Amazon since 1999.
Kate retweeted
Google pays Apple $20B a year to be their default search engine. That's 75% of Apple's entire research and development budget.
@narayanarjun pointed out to me that Google's basically funding all of Apple's r&d haha. Should put that on back of every device
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This is Tehran University, students joined the protest against the murdering of #MahsaAmini by hijab police and chanting:
Woman, life, Freedom
Iranians are outraged. Yesterday the security forces opened fire at protesters in Saghez city but now Tehran joined the protest.
Kate retweeted
Brave women in Saghez, Iran, risked punishment by authorities by removing their headscarves in protest against the murder of the 22-Year-old woman #MahsaAmini by hijab police, and chanted “death to the dictator.”
Lionesses, each and every one!
Kate retweeted
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
Kate retweeted
If you're wondering what was the biggest story that got overlooked today, this may be it. A paper offering strong statistical evidence that the Chinese have in fact been harvesting organs from living people.
Kate retweeted
Spike in use of Signal (messaging app) in Ukraine in the last 24 hours. Smaller but significant increase in the use of Telegram as well.
Kate retweeted
Challenge accepted! Here is a transition between surface area of US counties and their associated population. This arguably provides a much more accurate reading of the situation. @observablehq notebook: observablehq.com/@karimdouie… #HowChartsLie #DataViz #d3js
I was a loyal user of Sprig and Spoonrocket when we were at @foundersden I remember the quality of their food was very high
Nobody talks about failure in Silicon Valley, yet 90% of startups fail.
Why?
3 yrs ago, @neerajberry and I shut down @Sprig, which raised $60M from @GreylockVC + @socialcapital & grew to $20m revenue.
Then, it all fell apart.
For an honest story about failure,
**Read on**