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What's the point in writing something while "not caring" if the reader understands or not? Seems like a false confidence or false bravado to me; it reads like an attempt to project…

Well, that's pretty much how China behaves with respect to foreign companies operating in China. They all need to be joint partnerships with owners in China.

Just curious, how does your company host its email? Documents? Files?

In historical context, the “militia” was everyone, every able bodied person who could participate in common defense. It wasn’t a specific organization like we’d think of today Beyo…

More … peak voltage or something like that?

Yes, but a person can still choose which job to work in order to optimize their happiness, trading off compensation with the work's enjoyment. A person can also invest in themselve…

Why should there be a corporate tax rate at all though? Why not just tax income and leave it at that? All of the money that corporations earn (and would be taxed on this way) will …

Yes, it can. It provides a feeling of excitement or enthusiasm for whatever you're doing, and can be channeled into working hard for long periods of time. Especially if your job al…

> Working with base-10 numbers is so much easier than trying to think in base-60, base-12, and base-24. In some ways, sure. If you're doing precise mathematical things. Otherwise, …

Agreed. More clarity would help. Maybe he wanted to start drawing a salary in order to resume working on Processing again, and the board said no. (That isn’t my first guess about w…

The part about turning off donations via Ethereum due to concerns about “environmental impact” was pretty good too. (I mean, if a donor doesn’t have Ethereum, then they are probabl…

How do two-wheeled segway devices handle this? If you continue to lean forward and try to exceed their maximum speed, they will somehow tilt you backward and slow down anyway. (Pre…

I've listened to the voice call [1] linked in [2] and I interpret it the same way that Reddit staff apparently did -- as a veiled threat. Here's why: Christian is saying during the…

If they had taken credit cards, and made fraudulent transactions, maybe they could have made a few purchases in retail stores, but as soon as you detected that fraud you’d call the…

Can’t he borrow against his Tesla stock, and other assets including his ownership of SpaceX, and personal property, for cash to buy Twitter? Depending on his banking relationships,…

What’s wrong with Word? Modern businesses are turning increasingly to document formats like Google Docs and Quip in my experience: online editing solutions where documents are stor…

I myself was “canceled” privately from an employer where I had worked for over a decade. Fortunately the issue stayed in-house and my name did not go public. I wrote an on-topic em…

I don't necessarily subscribe to this point of view (I don't know what I believe; I need to think more), but allow me to play devil's advocate consider: most of the people who die …

News is totally fucked. Look at how most media reported on James Damore being fired from Google, and what they quoted him as having saying, vs what he actually said (1). According …

A war that was started on incorrect pretenses is not the same thing as terrorism. Among other things, the US did not deliberately target the Iraqi civilian population, and made the…

Full disk encryption isn't suspicious. It's standard on many corporate devices, and corporate travelers cross the border with them constantly. However, the encryption would not pro…

If black people are graduating with CS degrees at a lower rate than other groups related to the population at large, and having a CS degree is a criterion of getting the job, then …

> E.g. an hour before a hurricane strikes, the price of water bottles and gas won't motivate new producers to enter a market, Yes, it will. It will motivate suppliers to find exist…

I believe that merchants are not responsible for fraud for certain kinds of transactions, like credit card transactions that use chip-and-PIN. On the other hand, there might be hig…