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I would say this is true, but should be understood in the context of sharecropping, Jim crow, and slavery as a long and continuous outworking of poorly-checked capitalism. I’m not …

I'm sure there's some of that. There was a moment where I made genuine friends through Twitter...people I worked with, knew their families, and really got to know over time. Now, X…

There are some of us who are old enough to remember Twitter’s true time of “unprecedented growth.” I miss old Twitter.

You and I both know it's not always that simple.

What do you call a building that can only be seen once in a hundred years? 99% Invisible.

Ask your doctor if Opus 5 is right for you. Side effects include occasional hallucination, security breaches and unwanted React apps. Some developers have reported receiving entire…

Parent had a good question and this is restating what’s already been said. _how_ do you advocate? If I could avoid delegating to experts, I wouldn’t be in the situation in the firs…

This is cool! Thanks for sharing. What understanding about hardware did you start with, and what tools did you use to learn what you didn’t already know?

Do I want to own one of these? No. I want my mechanic to be bored when I show up and need service…I guess that makes me a market laggard. But I do love the pressure this (and Slate…

I really liked this article. FWIW, I didn’t know he is the CTO of Facebook until just now. But I can relate to the challenge of making decisions with a lot of competing interests, …

Yes but every good police officer had watched Arrested Development and so knows that there’s always money in the banana stand.

I asked a question for my son about how mosquitos carry malaria and Fable was like “ok now hold it right there”

I would never have had SpeedTest on my board of unicorns…that’s an unbelievable sale price. To all the agents who negotiated that deal, my hat is off to you.

If you’re going to go through the effort to write 5,000 words—-spend a bit more thought on what to do. I am aware that the sky is falling and I am aware that there are foxes who wo…

Maybe we should update our lexicon to "NFT mania" –– far more people lost money in that phenomenon.

Ha! You can check my comment history, my Costco T-shirt love is genuine. :) The second time, I was in the store and could tell these were legitimately great.

About a year ago, I researched the most comfortable T-shirt. There were quite a few people who mentioned this specific brand I’d never heard of so I bought about 10 shirts and was …

If you’ll allow yourself to go one step further in the pedantry, there is no such thing as genuine money either.

The department needs to stay focused on the actually-important work they have to do.

Do you have something to say about it?

I work with these tools every day, and I’d say my productivity increase is on the order of astronomical. This isn’t true of everyone, but depending on pre-existing skill sets and c…

Two different friends… First spent most of 2025 looking. Second started last week

I had a friend with plenty of experience in HR get laid off. He looked for a job for 13 months. One of the top 3 smartest people I’ve ever known looked for seven months and had to …

Giving an LLM write access is insane but I gave LLM’s read-only access to our database and it’s been a huge productivity win. Executives who wouldn’t take the time to build a repor…

At some point, the market for markets will demand better regulation than this. But I find it a little absurd that anyone is still putting their money into these markets with story …