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The trope is that an unpopular decision is made within the organization and then consultants are brought in to execute that unpopular decision and absorb the fallout as if it were …

The trope you’ll often hear in circles like ours is that big 4 consultants exist to provide cover for unpopular decisions. That’s sometimes true. However… Big corporations and gove…

There are various tools to mass unsubscribe. Gmail also recently added the option to surface your subscriptions and unsubscribe. Gmail added the various email categories too. You c…

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The problem with using clinical phrases to describe normal behavior is demonstrated in this post. "Social anxiety" has a specific clinical meaning that is not covered by this post.…

The point I am making in this thread is that there are no mandatory costs, that receiving an angry letter from the lawyers of a deep-pocketed litigant is financially inconsequentia…

https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/prot... The "Defendant’s Response to Letter of Claim" section is very clear that it is actually that simple. The burden is a…

I think the disconnect between you and GitHub support is that you're positioning this as a problem of proving your identity whereas for GitHub support it is a policy. The GitHub po…

> I can't, however, provide any 2FA codes or backup codes because they are printed on paper that has, I assume, been destroyed. The situation you are in is very unfortunate and I a…

Sure, send me the evidence and I’ll publish it.

You're proving my point. You are catastrophising. A response to a "spurious defamation letter" does not cost "high four figures". Substantive does not refer to the cost of the resp…

> ...and still cost high four figures to defend You do not need to "defend" against a "spurious defamation letter". The (very profitable) business of sending legal letters is based…

You are (wilfully?) misrepresenting these cases. The defence in each of these cases chose to employ very expensive legal teams, the cost in these cases is a reflection of choices m…

> UK libel law routinely covers up all sorts of things which the public would benefit from having revealed, simply by the threat of an expensive lawsuit. It makes investigative jou…

You’ve been repeatedly asked to provide your website but you have not. There is almost certainly a problem with your website, whether it’s a banned domain or robots.txt misconfigur…

Blur the people who didn’t give consent. The problem is cultural, not technical. Even YouTube has the native ability to blur out faces at the click of a button.

well, that was horrifying. I’m getting a “Do Not Transplant Pig Organs” tattoo urgently.

Except this is a hot button issue. Everyone has an opinion on brands ruining their iconic logos. Nobody cares about cracker barrel specifically, they care about what the change rep…

https://paulgraham.com/before.html "Given this dichotomy, which of the two paths should you take? Be a real student and not start a startup, or start a real startup and not be a st…

it’s like saying you earn six figures, everyone knows that means $110,000.

At my secondary school it wasn't possible to do more than 6 GCSEs vs. many of the most academically gifted independent school attendees who obtained at least double that number of …

It is a very fair read of Paul's take. I attended one of the worst secondary schools in the country. Less than 10% of my year earned the qualifications necessary to go on to univer…

pg thinks this is because of letting in poor people: https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/1969334665375813679

Canada and Australia are famously invested in how the left wing of the U.K’s Labour Party feel, and how British Muslim voters feel.

For many non-technical people, their relationships with software engineers were producing horrific results. Vibe coding is an indictment of what we’ve been delivering. That a vibe-…