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This stuff is important and can only happen at this level through legislation. If you don't do it this way to apply for everyone, then any good actor products will be crushed by pr…

Back in the day, Heroku, Stripe, and GitHub were iconic engineering organizations. They had this culture rooted in Unix ethos with a sprinkle of modern minimalism and style that wa…

Exactly, societies need to be stronger than states too and really need to act early. States can become one person or party and it's game over for a long time. Actually, the America…

EU is holding, but the fact that every authoritarian (US, China, Russia) is trying to break it apart should tell you something. It's like the only one remaining, and they don't lik…

Not my point. The original comment said the tech industry can decide to break up the federal government because they don't want to be forced to clean up their act. Societies should…

How about we break up the tech industry instead? This muskian "I am above laws so I'll break up the USA/EU" is asinine and societies should come down on it like a ton of bricks.

Love the use of space weather

Neon is a great product because they are run by Postgres enthusiasts. They have decent customer-friendly pricing, real serverless HTTP endpoints, and they're always on the latest v…

Same thing with Gandi, which is a shame. Domain renewal price silently went up 3x or so last year after getting acquired.

San Francisco is fantastic, but you can't use it outside of Apple platforms. Anything in this style better than Inter, even commercial? Graphik, Circular, Neue Haas Grotesk, Proxim…

Prompting an AI for 5 seconds to write a bunch of paragraphs that your human counterpart has to then read and think through is incredibly disrespectful of their time. AI assistants…

They did let the bank fail. The bankers lost any wealth that was tied to ownership of the bank. Of course, a bunch of them sold shares as they saw the end near, but that's somethin…

Even osteoarthritis is now understood to be mostly caused by inflammation rather than wear and tear. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUOlmI-naFs - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov…

Katherine Eban is exactly the right person to be reporting on this. Her work on fraud in the generic drug industry has been eye-opening.

This just happened to me today with Epik, another old-timey registrar. Added a .com to their shopping cart yesterday, then went to pay for it this morning — no need, it's been regi…