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Where are the young companies trying to replace them? There are all the AI companies, but Google and Meta both have competitive chatbots, and OpenAI is signing weird deals that don…

I don't understand how no one's brought a racketeering suit against them. > You wouldn't want someone looking for your website to find your competitor instead. For a small fee, I c…

Anyone can dress like rentacop or Walmart security. Pull out the pepper spray, say "back away," and leave.

I understand how the US and EU have different electrical outlets, voltages and frequencies. The systems developed independently, standardized on compatible versions locally, and st…

People like to say "big tech sells their data." This is actually rare. Almost every other company you deal with willing gives it to big tech, and they just hoard it and run ads wit…

> Why do you assume it's a drag for them and not a competitive advantage? Because despite them being very open about it, no one else does it, and every distinguished engineer who p…

Some quotes stood out to me > ...in fact I own three houses > ...I left behind everything and everyone i know and love on the west coast to come to New York specifically for this o…

Is the order salad, baked potato, steak, dessert?

I know Jane Street love OCaml, but you have to wonder how much it's cost them in velocity and maintenance. This is a quant firm blogging about a programming language they're the mo…

Whether or not it's efficient isn't as much of a concern as if it's being gamed. Reports of growing university administrations, increase in the cost of an education, and biases in …

She shouldn't have signed the nondisparagement agreement when she had juicy material for a book. These are usually a severance thing and not a term of employment. Some employers ar…

Between his fashion accessories and Joe Rogan appearance, I'm convinced he hasn't. Five years ago, Cheryl Sandberg would call him on it. Today, he's surrounded by yes men.

> allow her book to publish You mean "Careless People?" It looks like it's on Amazon.

I want to get enough time at $MEGACORP to have FU money. After that, my fear is a lot of smaller companies are working on thing even more boring, but with less scale. Gluing a doma…

If Google realizes they made an oopsie, I hope he respectfully tells them "no, thanks." I could never go back to an employer that did this to me, then said it was just a mistake.

> diversity field If this was even in the spreadsheet, whether or not it were used, the current administration would love to hear about it.

True! But it's crazy that the risk, successful startup didn't even beat established tech for returns.

I was a hired early to a startup (my hiring manager was the CEO) that's now public and worth $10B+ that you've heard of. It took them over 10 years to go public, and I would have d…

> They have threatened her with $50,000 in punitive damages every time she mentions Facebook in public … even if the statements she is making are true,” he said. Unless Congress as…

In other news, the head of AI research just left https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/01/metas-head-of-ai-research-an...

I wonder how much the current work environment contributed to this. There's immense pressure to deliver, so it's not surprising to see this.

3. This probably counts as copyright infringement, unless it's chatbot output.

Orange Monday?

It looks like this is his gimmick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3#/media/F... Haters gonna hate, but there's not much more to his work than using extreme pause…

On the other side of this, I doubt the police would have done anything if they reported it stolen. There are questions online about "what if a former employee doesn't return their …