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If ordinary laws could redefine words in the constitution, then every constitutional right and protection you care about is undercut.

Washington's constitution says: "The word 'property' as used herein shall mean and include everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership". That is extremely broa…

Washington State’s constitution limits a tax like this to no more 1% and requires it to be uniform; this law meets neither requirement. I am uncomfortable that supporters of the in…

I think this is right, in part because I've been told exactly this from people who work for Google and their job is to sell me cloud stuff- i.e., they say they have so much interna…

> There are obvious conflicts of interest here. There are almost always obvious conflicts of interest. In a normal startup, VCs have a legal responsibility to act in the interest o…

I once worked somewhere where I found some evidence that the offsets we were considering buying were probably junk. The CEO agreed, bought them anyway, and proudly proclaimed to al…

Making advanced LLMs and releasing them for free like this is wonderful for the world. It saves a huge number of folks (companies, universities & individuals) vast amount of money …

We're adult enough to have discussions like this in public. They are healthy to have. People make mistakes. Kudos to the original authors for releasing the source code so people co…

That is a good point. Are there modifications to the voting strike idea that would make it effective? For instance, what do you think about an "inverted-voting" strike instead? Eve…

I think a "down-vote everything" strike could be highly successful. As long as enough users participate, it could cripple subs whose moderators didn't choose to participate. And it…

DOCSIS 3.1 has been out for 10 years, and I'd be happy if Xfinity just offered me those speeds. Compared to max speeds of the standard, Xfinity offers up to 12% the download speed …

Loser pays causes higher legal fees, because on average, one only has to pay half of one's own fees, and also because losing becomes more costly making it worth it to spend more to…

Hart says "Amazon served me with a lawsuit,"[0] but it was Amazon who was sued by California citing Hart as a witness to support the lawsuit. Hart is having to go through discovery…

Yup. AWS never raises prices, assuming one ignores that one time they added the per-transaction fee to S3 shortly after launch, but I think everyone thought was a rather understand…

Cloud providers raising prices is unsettling. Teams invest many person-years into building software on top of cloud services assuming certain prices. There is a lot of lock in ther…

People aren't interchangeable. The company might want to layoff 10%, but they don't want to layoff just any 10%. They will want to layoff people in positions and teams that they wa…

Having a 7% unregretted attribution target is pretty different than a 7% layoff. Many (most?) of the folks who make up that 7% leave on their own, because both the employee and the…

Companies do layoffs in a dehumanizing way largely to avoid lawsuits. If individual managers communicate it, some might say something wrong and invite a lawsuit. Even if they don't…

How does that follow? Unionized companies also do layoffs.

I'd be interested to see "C compiled with Clang" added as another language to the benchmark games. In part, digging into Clang vs gcc benchmarks is always interesting, and in part,…

Don't write constructors that can fail unless it is failure that would be appropriate to crash for. That works out a lot better than it might naively sound. It is hard for people t…

I think the dilemma for C++ exceptions is that if the programmer actually thinks something should never happen, it is almost always better to just crash. But if the programmer thin…