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Just stopping by to say that this type of post is absolutely obnoxious and embarrassing for you.

I don't think you are entirely wrong, but it's also not as simple that every tech company can do everything well. Apple has not been able to make Siri work well and has completely …

I am avoiding flying Boeing ... as if my life depended on it

You cannot have it both ways. Universities get billions in public funding and then turn around using that money to fund political activists masquerading as academics. Disciplines l…

It's quite apparent from everything that has come to light that she got tenured for the same reason she got to be Harvard president. Merit was not one of the reasons.

Unfortunately, nothing will change until the system that produced this changes too. No doubt she will retain her tenured position.

There is a certain type of ex-software founder who likes the pose of philosopher king. They like to describe themselves as 'first principles thinker' but have never engaged in seri…

Apple loves to bully competitors and suppliers with both patents and app store. I doubt being on the other end of this will make them change their behaviour.

A cynic might say the Biden administration precisely achieved its goal. Appoint someone progressive with the right optics who has zero experience getting things done or governing i…

Could be a good bet, very asymmetric. The question to me is if the execs are leaving because they know Cruise doesn't have it technically and the jig is up, or if it's really more …

For one, Cruise has essentially disintegrated over the past few months? All key execs left https://fortune.com/2023/12/13/general-motors-cruise-executi... , massive layoffs, founde…

It is absolutely True that most larger tech companies could run much leaner. Almost all projects that are done by many cross functional teams with lots of coordination overhead cou…

Are you thinking of Robert Jordan / The Wheel of Time? Robert Harris is alive and writing

"We recognize that biological sex can be defined using multiple characteristics, including chromosomes, genitalia and hormones, each of which exists on a spectrum." Is this the new…

We are not the audience. The VCs they are trying to raise the next megaround from are

n=1 (as a mid-profile AI researcher), but for me it's working in terms of Meta gaining my respect by open sourcing (despite the licensing disasters). They clearly seem to be more c…

But...that was exactly the purpose? To be able to more freely select amongst racial and gender lines as desired

Let's just be honest about CloudFlare. They write these hand-wringing posts occasionally to try to justify their 'policies', but their policy is quite literally 'block someone if e…

>I understand the importance of diversity, inclusivity and equal-opportunities etc. 'Hail to the king / our glorious leader / the church / - with that out of the way, ...'

How is your team organized? Is it US only or are there international/remote roles?

I am far from left leaning (in the sense of American progressive left, I am an immigrant and not in the US), and I find this actually to be wrong. I think hn is far more balanced p…

And these alt-right flags, are they in the room with us right now?

Stealing seems an almost libellous term for using a software with a revenue model the author did not bother checking out.