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Wasn't Bernie saying the government should confiscate half of OpenAI and Anthropic. This seems like sama is just trying to get ahead of it.

Yea, I've seen this a few times now on here where people are acting like ICE is going to arrest them for being here legally for a conference.

Visa/MasterCard take like 0.3% the rest of the interchange fee goes to the issuing and acquiring banks.

Ruby is strongly typed

I feel like there used to be a time when wired magazine was worth reading, but I can't even remember when that was at this point.

GitHub hasn't been moved onto azure yet, they just announced it's their goal to move over in 2026

Is the cost of a dining room socialized if a restaurant does take out? It's a business cost that was from it's inception sold as a way to increase potential customer base and reduc…

What payment provider is allowing payments without accessing the customers current funds? With a CC, you can charge $1000 with only $100 in your bank account. That is not something…

Visa's fee in the US is also only 0.3%. Most of the interchange fee goes to the issuing bank and is used for cardholder rewards/benefits.

Except the networks are not forcing their morals onto anyone, they are not payment processors.

Visa/MasterCard are essentially a network of banks, they only get a small percentage of the interchange rate. Most of it goes to the issuing bank which they use for rewards. This l…

Besides a complete stranglehold on labor markets in a number of industries where the government is required to use union labor for infrastructure projects and they limit the number…

Russia defeated the Nazis, so everything they do and have done from that point is good right?

The thing holding back unions in the U.S is the unions themselves and the laws around them. Once a union forms, they have entirely too much power.

That's not the case at all. His blog is his personal blog, not 37Signals, and he has never said employees were not allowed to share political opinions outside of work.

Isn't rubygems distributed as part of Ruby

He was brought back for the last RailsConf since DHH started RailsWorld after he was removed as a speaker for previous conferences.

The us government is heavily involved in healthcare, so that's a terrible example.

The IRS was literally caught targeting conservatives less than a decade ago.

Part of Satya reorg in 2018 moved windows into a weird leadership structure where it was part of bing iirc. I think they recently finally fixed that org mistake and hopefully they …

This makes no sense. He never said employees couldn't discuss politics outside of work through personal channels.

She has some PRs merged in, but nothing that shows me she should have elevated rights in the repo. https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%...

People are hit by trains all the time.

Microsoft has the most used operating system in the world with a default browser that defaults search to Bing. How is that working out? Being a default doesn't matter when the othe…

The judge ruled against Google for ideological reasons and then realized what the consequences of his decision were after the fact. Google's monopoly is in the ads space where they…