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Its not ok to over-moderate against jokes, especially when you can't even point to the guideline that was broken here (though, I'm sure you could take any comment from anyone and f…

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This meme does not miss [1]. > There is a global resource shortage. > Authoritarian state on the other side of the planet controls it. > US is finished. > American farmer in the mi…

Apple and Google's app store policies have destroyed billions in potential market capitalization of both large and small companies alike, and have measurably negatively impacted th…

I'm not as sure about that; products like Wordpress have an amplification effect with their users. The average person who uses Wordpress doesn't just have one Wordpress site; they …

Ultimately: It can take some time for community notes to correct misinfo posts; by the time community notes gets to it, the firehose has ten more misinfo posts community notes need…

Execution matters. Microsoft was best-positioned to reap the widespread, mobile-enabled transformation of personal computing. They didn't, and today with the discontinuation of the…

I think it is concerning that every single Apple Intelligence feature they've shipped thus far has been not just mediocre; but bad. Being last to the party is a very normal Apple t…

"Look, humans will adapt to the ever-increasing and accelerating nightmares we invent. They always have before. Technology isn't inherently evil, its how it is used that can be evi…

I've honestly only experienced the opposite; their captcha is reasonably easy to bypass, and I've successfully automated access to a few sites "protected" by the Cloudflare captcha…

As global birthrates decline, as they are, nations which can consistently and willingly integrate immigrants have a huge cultural superpower. America does this better than any nati…

Sure, but that may simply be the NAICS code for all of Amazon, not the specific division that is doing the hiring.

The reality that I observe with H1Bs among a couple of my friends who are here on one is: They are paid less, they dislike their jobs, and they feel a tremendous inability to find …

I help run a medium-sized web forum. We started noticing this earlier this year, as many sites have. We blocked them for a bit, but more recently I deployed a change which routes b…

At the end of the day, Spotify's north-star metric is average dollars of cost per minute of audio consumed; and to get that metric as low as possible. That's why they push podcasts…

Spotify would probably argue that Apple has control of the OS, so they can surface all of their apps, pre-install them, whereas Spotify has more pressure to leverage their existing…

"Making fewer mistakes" implies that there's a framework within which the agent operates where its performance can be quickly judged as correct or incorrect. But, computers have al…

I feel that one challenge this comparison space has is: Self-driving cars haven't made the leap yet to replace humans. In other words, saying AGI will arrive like self-driving cars…

I feel the important piece to remember with VO2Max estimation is: Its an estimation. Its significant figures [1]; reporting the value to one or more decimal places communicates a l…

IMO the biggest reason why the Apple Watch is oftentimes interpreted as an "unserious" exercise smartwatch is actually quite simple: The display & lack of physical buttons makes it…

That only works if the share target is using the same password manager. If you asked most people "what password manager do you use" they would give you a blank stare; but sadly, th…

Yes, if you're both using the same password manager. But, while you live in Silicon Valley bubbleland, most people don't. The world's most popular password manager is Excel; and sa…

What if the passkey was generated on Windows and you're trying to sign in to iOS?

That's why I very specifically said: Passkeys solve problems that corporations have, by moving the problems on to consumers. Our industry was done writing reliable, quality softwar…