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Yes fascism has broad appeal without a cohesive ideology. It seems like in your telling that's a positive?

Spotify is dumping tons of resources into live streaming video podcasts, I guess they heard "people pay for videos" and didn't realize the video had to be good

There are communists who believe in accelerationism as much as there are white supremacists who believe in it. Basically "destabilize the current status quo to provoke an outright …

When I went through something similar it would have taken way longer than a month to recover. I didn't know how long when I took the break. Also I was too burnt out to interview we…

If the current job is causing a lot of stress/burnout, carrying that into a new role is setting yourself up for failure. Having a few months gap isn't a problem IME and it helps wi…

Do you have significant equity vesting? That would be the only reason I would hang on/coast in the current role. It sounds like this is stressing you out big time and you're very b…

I bought my almost-new Subaru Forester for $17000. There is no amount of maintenance and fuel savings that would make up the ~$18k difference to buy a _used_ Tesla. I could have go…

Externally he has a personal writer whose whole job it is to make him seem smart. He's the darling of the Canadian tech industry, which badly needed a win since the implosion of No…

They didn't "cut headcount" by firing people, they just didn't hire new people into those roles. Instead they let people move internally to work on projects where teams wanted more…

I think dunking on the rpi is harsh - if it allows you to prototype and get your small-volume product out the door quickly, there's lots of other areas you could optimize the BOM f…

These things ebb and flow - I see more kids on scooters and BMX bikes locally than I do skateboards now. Rollerskates and quad skates have come back in a big way, especially for ag…

Also ex-Shopify. Tobi has done this a couple times, and IMO it comes from a place of narcissism. It's applied very arbitrarily across the entire org at random times. It very much f…

Where I live the zoning laws require better noise isolation for new builds on major roads, because this is such an easy way for investors to save money and screw tenants.

Umm, during the run-up to the 2020 election Trump was the president. He appointed Christopher Wray as head of the FBI. So whatever is in this tweets was done by a Trump appointee

I think using social media to gather intel is entirely reasonable. Given the number of people who have committed mass shootings and other acts of domestic terrorism after being rad…

They also depend on toilets that are cleaned by janitors, should we call them "sanitation engineers"?

It's worth pointing out Elon is being disingenuous. He was pro-Democrat (not Left) when they were kowtowing to the tech industry and handing out green technology subsidies. Now tha…

It's amazing to me how seemingly mainstream this conspiracy theory has become in the US. People used to joke about "think of the children" being used to justify all sorts of ludicr…

My current employer was sold to me as a "high documentation" place. What it means in practice is that if you're trying to do something there are 5 outdated documents describing the…

I know some of the team that worked on GDPR and CCPA compliance for Shopify and let's just say it is not surprising they're cutting corners.

I think there's two ways people view programming: it's either a means to an end, or it's a fun pizzle trap. Personally I only care about getting the job done in the cheapest and mo…

Twitter entered into a voluntary agreement to avoid prosecution.

Yeah forcing Ticketmaster and Live Nation to unmerge, divest venues and reselling platforms, and preventing exclusive contracts with venues would be huge. Even in a very conservati…

Y'all have dedicated HR? Usually startups I work at have some underpaid "office manager" who is both HR and a mom to the entire office.

Where do you get an accurate valuation for spacex equity? Isn't it private and heavily dependent on government contracts? Hasn't musk said he doesn't care about it being profitable…