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I have no problem with folks doing this but it feels like hollow, performative grandstanding that allows tech folk to feel like they’re helping without doing anything that will mak…

A lot of people are rightly concerned here that Facebook will run this arm in a cutthroat way so as to stifle innovation and competition. Though they might, I have no reason to bel…

One aspect of systemic debt that tracks well with technical debt (and most forms of "debt") is that paying down that debt requires you to confront the risk-averse and fearful tende…

I have to be internally consistent and agree that it's at Zoom's discretion as a private-sector company whether to host specific content or provide services to specific people and …

I rather like the comparison of social media platforms to amusement parks.

I’ve worked at a global-scale platform for user-generated content doing anti-abuse and anti-spam tooling. In my experience those researchers do exist in-house and there was an impe…

VC money being geographically concentrated in SV seems like the kind of ingrained inefficiency that VCs themselves clamor on about disrupting excessively. Dealflow is a solvable pr…

The implication from this litter of thinkpieces on HN is that proximity to a tech hub (SV/NY) is your only competitive advantage as a knowledge worker—your butt is close to their c…

Thank you. The naive, incorrect view is that private entities restrict your constitutional rights by refusing to host UGC or by editorializing/annotating it. An evolved, but still …

Disagree that what you wrote constitutes "career suicide". - Being targeted for layoffs says more about the company you work for and less about your own career. - Passed over for p…

> Our app designs have become soft, sweet, inoffensive. Bank interfaces use pastels, rounded corners and soft drop shadows to make mundane or unpleasant tasks more "fun.” Animojis …

It would be fun to compare the timeline of stock transactions by legislators with the timeline of public statements by those legislators and their colleagues pertaining to the comp…

I think a smart approach will be to deploy these “emergency brakes” as TFA mentions, but preferably far before it seems necessary, because of the cryptic transmission and long incu…

That sounds relatively fantastic. I interviewed with a few larger companies many years ago that had a similar thing. Each "pod" (or scrum team, or what have you) had an office with…

One interesting aspect of Twitter is that the restriction on tweet length requires serialization of complex ideas. Faced with this, authors are forced to either simplify their idea…

Is he really though? I feel like the tweets of his that grow the longest legs merely sound deep. I don’t get the hype.

I mean, they’re the differing opinions of two people who are each successful for reasons that are complex and different.

Somewhat related, most academia is not focused on source code quality or its suitability for posterity. If you absolutely need to mime or plunder academia to succeed in your startu…

Population density is a factor to be sure, but the government response was a bigger factor in failing to contain it in my opinion. The CCP’s culture of fear and retribution pushed …

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I've seen chloroquine come up a ton and am hopeful for the efficacy of its use in treatment of COVID-19. It's surreal to be observing the global impact of a novel pandemic, and any…

“If the service is free, you’re the product”

Yep there’s still no “open” tracking on PDFs, at least afaik from a pixel/beacon standpoint. Entire businesses like docusign are built with that value prop in mind.

A good way to enable delivery tracking for PDFs over messenger, I guess!