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Medical journalists are incentivized to make you concerned. I highly suggest all medical journalism be run through a good AI to be put into context. https://chatgpt.com/share/68709…

I was going to post this exact same comment. I was obsessed with Etherpad when it came out and to this day, reminisce about it whenever I fire up a Google Doc. Can’t wait to try th…

Non-removable storage isn't the problem. You have identified one actual problem: privacy. But even this isn't a real problem if you turn on system-level drive encryption: https://s…

What does restore mean this context? I’ve downloaded files from their online portal without providing a key. Perhaps restoring in this context means having them mail you a hard dri…

It’s a false narrative that this was about politics and non-work things in the workplace. It was a workplace issue that blew up and employees were annoyed with how the founders han…

I was actually shocked that it could be this low and thought it must be wrong. Other sources have suggested it would cost over $1B: https://u.today/guides/blockchain/bitcoin-51-att…

I've always assumed it was one of two things: 1. The social benefit. There's research showing that if you have a rich social life and friend network, you live longer. The assumptio…

Apple is up 100% in the last year for no good reason.

Current valuations, Tesla and Apple among the most prominent, are so far disconnected from reality that it echoes the dot com bubble. But this time, the cause is not dot com mania …

1. VR/AR finally become a thing as the tech becomes small enough, powerful enough, and wireless enough to be a good UX. Facebook's investment in Oculus pays off as Oculus becomes t…

>I think the general theme I see is that folks expect companies to solve problems that their governments must be solving. And when they don't get it uniform, everyone's mad. People…

You make a good point about how to actually enforce this. Apparently, Washington state did ban political ads on Facebook. As a testing ground for such a policy, the results haven't…

I was hoping a Facebook engineer would show up in this thread. If you don't mind, I have a couple of questions. > Something the public doesn't get but engineers do is it's impracti…

> This is, unfortunately, a rational response to the current climate. Yes! It is rational to have a fear response to the prospect of being held accountable. Because we have not had…

Male manager here. This is not at all hard to believe.

They never will be. I think people misunderstand cryptocurrencies because of the mania that surrounds them. Bitcoin, for example, is a protocol, and should be judged as such. The m…

Depends on the industry. For very large transactions, like if you are paying a home improvement contractor for something, they will often make you eat the fees if you want to pay w…

You can exchange 30k bitcoin with less slippage than you think OTC.

And when the internet was first a thing, shortly after, most traffic was porn, until fairly recently porn was surpassed by social media. And since then, there have been world chang…

> You cannot look at bitcoin by any measure and say that it's a practical success for any of its goals. I can memorize 20 words and cross whatever border I want with $100 million i…

I don't think it's a bad thing that the birthrate in the US has gone down. In general, it means women have more opportunities, and that's a good thing. More access to birth control…

This book is truly terrifying. I've been a "work through it" kind of person all my life, and have sacrificed sleep from a very young age for both personal and professional prioriti…

Can you clarify what you mean? I might have misunderstood you. I was a little flabberghasted that you seemed to say that there's no causality between sugar and insulin resistance. …

I'm not a search engineer, but here's my understanding. Gmail search isn't bad, it just is using a less complete set of signals to intuit what you're searching for. It's more of a …

Thank you for the thoughtful reply. You're completely right about life being fundamentally better for the invisible/oppressed. I take your point -- it was always broken for them.