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I started subscribing in like October and haven't been searching much since the new year cause I've been really busy. I think I have also noticed this quality degradation, and also…

As a pretty new subscriber, can you tell me a bit more about this? Using bing under the hood is part of what eventually made me leave DDG. And I'm not particularly excited about us…

Isn't there something really perfect about people working on a language model either not trying or outright failing to use that language model to tell them if their project name al…

I don't understand why people don't instantly recognize this as an evolution in the cat and mouse game of "is this search result actually an ad". You can't inspect the production m…

A lot of words to say: "cutting short term spend to bolster the stock price for investors who are worried about the USD peg"

Prisoner's dilemma is solved and not a dilemma with repeat rounds (aka trust and relationships). Like the real world. This fits well with the fact that cooperation works, and is wh…

It's complicated. Yes, Apple is creating an advertising monopoly for themselves (obviously only for folks within their ecosystem). No I don't like that personally. Are they replica…

You have posted many times in the thread saying the same thing, but slightly moderated because you got flagged. You said elsewhere "things change" regarding labor force quality. Th…

Apple Music is their biggest competitor and they are very close in terms of userbase size. Apple Music is also (along with Tidal) one of the top places people go when they leave Sp…

No, they didn't buy GitHub to shut Atom down. But they did create VSCode to cut off GitHub's growing expansion of their business through Atom. They could have just extended Atom wi…

Producing more value than you are compensated for ... hmmm what does that sound like? You could say it sounds like the human condition. Which employees in the pyramid do you think …

Maybe people have read it but don't think renaming "ideas" and "empathy" to "emotional contagion" is particularly groundbreaking or constructive.

This description is not reassuring in any way.

There are a lot of both old and recent reasons to believe both of these examples have extremely terrible judgment.

For me, in this case, the specific arguments are exactly what matters. If your company claims a solid economic rationale they should provide one. I'm not sure how it's possible you…

Thank you. I understand. I know PR is difficult and I really value the candor. I am very concerned personally about what Gitlab represents for my industry, but if you are all willi…

It's mostly due to them not paying developers enough and also having a cavalier attitude about engineering concerns. Their free product is a loss leader designed to sell you their …

Spend some time in the Midwest or deep South.

What do you think is the likely outcome here?

Can you name any of these non-public local adjusters? Cause all the remote workers I know make the same salary as their local counterparts.

So you've never heard this before or won't comment here?

Because in human history it's unlikely that people who perpetrate it will ever realize and/or admit it. And so it goes.

What is a mistake, in your mind?

Who is Larry?

Yeah, I completely agree, but the OP is speculation too, because it's from Scott Myers's reading of a blog post. If you go read his linked blog post (from Laura Baldwin, President …