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Wasn't part of the issue with Stallman that his behavior, not just his ideas, were problematic. Like telling a college freshman that he'd kill himself if she didn't go out with him…

I interviewed there a couple of years ago. I was really excited going into the interview because I'm a big fan of Atul Gawande and I thought there was huge potential for a transfor…

Based on this tweet, I believe she was the interviewer: https://twitter.com/moiragweigel/status/1341423429958979593

I initially saw the link on her twitter feed: https://twitter.com/moiragweigel/status/1341414901143777280

I've worked with engineers at Amazon up to the senior principal level. Even if you grant that people in cybersecurity see a broader swath of the company, there's just no way that h…

To me it feels like someone was kind of bullshitting with their friends and maybe making themselves seem more knowledgeable and important than they really are. It's totally irrespo…

This person is very clearly mixing things that he knows directly, things that he's read about in books (e.g. Amazon's strategy in the early days), and rumors that he's heard (e.g. …

Ferdinand Demara impersonated a surgeon on a Canadian naval ship during the Korean War. He performed a number of successful surgeries and was only caught because of a newspaper art…

Were there any concerns about GPT-3's latency? It looks like it takes a long time for online use cases.

A friend discovered that he had a pocketknife with him just before he was about to go through security. So he went out to the airport smoker's area, dug a little hole in the ground…

Nothing I saw indicated that the Echo Show was in any way influenced by Nucleus. I suspect, but don't know directly, that this investment was more about trying to jumpstart an ecos…

I worked on the Echo Show team. The product had been in development for over a year when we invested in Nucleus. I remember thinking it was very strange that Amazon was investing i…

Fitbit users are probably more representative than Apple or Garmin users. Apple Watches are a lot more expensive, and Garmin markets more towards athletes.

There are a lot of regional differences within the US. In Massachusetts, it's a lot better than this: * MA has 40 hours of mandatory paid sick leave a year * Assuming that your emp…