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What apps are in the gray area? To me it’s pretty clear and not much room for “making an argument.”

This isn’t an Apple “senior executive” exactly. Probably not one of the top 100 guys.

The whole “diversity industry” (and it is a huge industry) is based on a lie... that “diversity” improves a company’s performance. The research on this is so shaky with so much empirical evidence to the contrary, and everyone knows it, which is why companies are trying to do nothing more than “lip service.”

"this reminds me almost exactly of what I was asked to do while working for a short guy and his wife."

"What do you have against short men?"

This was always a fun duck idea made mainly to serve Central Valley towns whose population could not justify such an expensive boondoggle. Glad to see Newsom speak some truth and put an end to this lunacy.

Because detail is how we bring stories to life. Otherwise all of our statements would be “I did a thing with a person.”

My working definition of religion is a system that produces easy answers to tough questions. These tough questions can eat away at a person so religion has an important “damping” function in a society, especially with the 90% of the population who need an answer to these questions to stay mentally healrhy

Great, Google gets 5 more years from its technical women while the kids are raised by government mouth breathers. No thanks

My values don’t contain anything about Taiwan. I’ll call whatever you want because I don’t think I have nearly enough contextual knowledge to know who is “right” and “wrong” in that conflict.

It’s not that Amazon is primarily culpable, it is that a person in the US has more leverage, however minimal, over Amazon than over the Saudi king.

My friend "applied," knowing full well it was a scam. He said that he regretted nothing, as it allowed him to fantasize about the journey more concretely. So perhaps it served the same function as pornography.

The median is certainly lower than $79, and may even be $0.

200 companies at $5m is only a billion dollars. Softbank is deploying close to 100 times that, so they write checks 100 times the size.

The term “social justice warrior” doesn’t refer in modern parlance to people who leave bad reviews for SaaS products. It’s a term referring to a particular conflict in American culture/politics and just detracts from any point you’re trying to make.

I used Dropbox’s 2GB for eight years before becoming a paying user.

Most henchmen don’t think their bosses are bad people, because they aspire to be their bosses, and people don’t think they’re bad themselves, even when they are.

Why shouldn’t they double up?

Reminds me of how some state governments say that “100% of our lottery profits go to the state university.” While not mentioning that they cut the university’s funding from the general budget by the same amount.

If you don’t want to participate in the central economic function of a company you would not have been a good hire regardless of technical skill. You don’t want employees who are willing to work at a company they think is a blight on humanity.

Yeah, but like any medical field, people come to you in extreme pain and leave without it. If you can’t find meaning in that you probably can’t find meaning in anything.

Yes, I didn’t mean to an oscilloscope, I meant to a Homo sapiens.

That’s why one of the Amazons is made illegal — so that individuals don’t have to make this choice. That’s what regulation is for.

Apple earbuds are incredibly high sound quality. They are just really uncomfortable in my ears. And Spotify 320kbps is as good as CD.

I see this more of a perf thing than a privacy thing. Since most apps connect to a remote backend, any app developer can create backend tooling that perfectly recreates a user session from server logs, with local actions logged locally and uploaded on the next request. But they’re usually too lazy to, and waste my bandwidth by uploading logs directly from my phone to a third party.

Moving to Louisville for Google Fiber would be a pretty reckless decision for a business which wasn’t wholly dependent on it (like a reseller or Google Fiber)

The minute I figured out you can adjust the Instacart fee to zero I did, and leave a fiver for the delivery person.

I had a company with roughly 10 engineers give or take over its lifetime. The two younger women never left. The men, younger and older, left at various times, one after 4 months, and one with 4 hours’ notice.

How they manage in Canada is that they have many fewer successful knowledge-based businesses per capita, at every level of success.

You see this with everyone who has no exposure to a type of person. “How many people actually stand in LINE to buy sneakers?” “How many people are ACTUALLY going to vote for that clown?” Etc

Repairing one lane of a two way street is still useful. :)