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Because humans were designed by evolution, a process driven by random mutations and natural selection that can become stuck at local maxima rather than producing the best possible …

Isn’t most of the data sent between your phone and the cell tower encrypted anyways? This would only catch voice calls and SMS right?

I would never work under em who wasn’t at one point at least a decent developer.

We really just need to figure out the paying for healthcare thing, and then get money out of politics, then America is undeniably the best place in the world to live. A few more tr…

The trains can still charge, but what if the government pays the tab automatically?

me: 11 years experience with big tech on resume. Located in major tech city. I get 1-2 new recruiters in my mailbox each week for different random startups. I haven’t acted on any …

This tracks for me because I am a developer with a 4 year degree in a field completely unrelated to CS and I have never felt any of the stigma or othering from my coworkers on the …

I think they meant what will trade jobs look like when there are half as many highly paid knowledge workers able to fork out for their services?

Despite however Sam Seder or Hasan are seething about abundance, Ezra is right about needing to build more of everything. Yes there are also large problems around money and power t…

My guess is that they mean “$25k including potential federal and state rebates” which actually means 33k for the base model that will have a 6 month order lag time.

Yeah but who wants to spend 45 minutes sitting around in a gas station parking lot? It be much nicer to install them in roadside rest stops, city/state parks, or near dense cluster…

FYI using the words “chief” and “tribe” to emphasize “primitiveness” is pretty cringe.

200 miles? My cheap EV will be a second car to supplement a gas one. I really only need it to get like 70-100 miles.

Yeah NYC doesn’t need to offer subsidies because it already has what Amazon wants, lots of highly educated young people who want to work in tech. Most places don’t already have tha…

I find my towels get stiff and dense when I let them air dry (as opposed to soft and fluffy when I machine dry.) Am I doing something wrong or is this something people just get use…

This experience has definitely given me more compassion to people who have made mistakes. I just hope my future interviewers ask themself: “if my morally questionable actions were …

Obviously it’s a huge company with thousands of teams, but I’ve been an engineer on 3 different product teams and certain things have been the same everywhere. I would say purely f…

I’m a FB employee and I’m giving my notice tomorrow. I interviewed with them in 2019 just so I could get a competing offer and had no intention of working there, but at the end of …