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The web has walked a tightrope for the past two decades. Like a car that's accelerated to 300 miles per hour, there's an alternate reality where the road keeps going straight and d…

Yes, I believe that's what happened here. Very poor decision by the mods; the Google/Apple ones make sense to merge, but the AWS one is a very different issue, and could have a far…

It'll probably still be very difficult to find physically, as it only had one limited release and that sold out almost instantly. Fortunately, if you're not interested in the digit…

Game consoles are the exact reason why I included the line about "at some values of scope and scale". I do feel they're an interesting analogue; they sell hundreds of millions of u…

I think the critical component to this conversation that its important to stay focused on is not Apple's removal of Parler, but their continued insistence on maintaining exclusive …

Well, if you're a corporation with dozens/hundreds of designers, who did a great job of building an extensible design system, and now any engineer can just take that design system …

Discord gives every user an identity that is persistent beyond the server; you have a Discord account, not a server account. Slack does the opposite. Enterprises would hate Discord…

At 12:00pm EDT on a workday: Minecraft official server: 190k online users. | Fortnite official server: 180k online users. | Valorant official server: 170k online users. | Jet's Dre…

Discord is definitely in the same realm of scale as Slack, and probably bigger (they publish different metrics, so its hard to say for sure). The really impressive thing about Disc…

Its especially strange when you think about how unoriginal Slack's product domain is, and how comparable, and in some cases small, their userbase is. * iMessage, which likely handl…

And it is thus important to recognize that our cultural perception of book banning, book burning, etc as a bad thing isn't something intrinsic to humans, and its not something we g…

While some people would blame it on Nintendo producing products people want, I think its a little more cultural than that: Nintendo, as a company, deeply fails to understand Wester…

I really haven't seen any card that has better net reward generation than Discover, if you want a "one card for maximum rewards". You can definitely earn more if you juggle cards, …

I feel that browsers should implement a permissions grant pop-up for when a site attempts to set a cookie with SameSite=none, and the cookie api can be extended to enable explanati…

I can't speak for why Herman Li, or any other musician, would be banned for DMCA. But, its my understanding that Twitch pays for a live performance license from the major music pub…

Yes, unfortunately; the Chromecast audio is among my favorite products Google has ever made. I was happy to see Amazon produce something similar in the Echo Link, and I've thought …

Yeah its weird that Texas is "different" in this regard? The process is the same even in other states; I've never seen a Tesla store with a stock of cars just there on-site ready t…

"In my opinion"

Frankly, I've owned several in-ear products from various companies (Shure, Sony, Bose, UE), and none of them hit the sound quality of the Airpods Pro. None of them. Maybe once you …

Have you seen Parks & Rec, and remember that scene in a Home Depot where an associate walks up to Ron, asks him if he needs help with a project, and Ron responds "I know more than …

I had a similar, local fiber ISP in a high density midwest apartment. Truly fantastic support. The network engineer came out to set me up, and we got to talking about our backgroun…

They're already binning the M1 between the two models of the Macbook Air; one has a 7 core GPU, the other has an 8 core. They haven't outright said this is due to binning, but it s…

I agree; If an aluminum case were designed to integrate with built-in heatsink, thermals should be improved enough with no downside to noise level. Their decision to opt for plasti…

I'm especially introspective about this line in the post: > You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise rec…

> What sales, they hardly had any stock available. No one goes to Disney World anymore; its too crowded. And, no one buys AMD CPUs anymore, they're always sold out!