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Maybe "most companies" was the wrong choice of wording. How about "most large companies that actually influence the world?" >Most people in business, like most people generally, ar…

You say that, but it’s how most companies operate unfortunately.

I just started using this service: https://controld.com/ $20 a year and acts as an ad-blocker too. NextDNS is another one. It's nice you don't need to install anything (other than …

Facebook bought it up because they saw the opportunity for that sweet behavioral surplus and just couldn't pass it up.

I think the problem is not with threads themselves but with Slack's implementation. Threads provide a much-needed way of creating a discussion around a specific topic that doesn't …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989112/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23372809/ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...

If we care about collateral damage done to animals due to plant farming, then we should still stop eating animals due to the efficiency loss in calories when converting plants to a…

>Those who choose not to get vaccinated are making a risk calculation; they are making a choice. Yes, but that choice does not only impact them. Being disallowed the luxury of goin…

I wish more companies thought like this in general. I often think about the nature of the work I'm doing as a developer and wonder if it's making society better off as a whole. The…

Having guests with opposing views doesn't make it less of an echo chamber when the host is totally biased towards one of the opposing viewpoints.

I wonder what effects the lack of variety might have on someone's gut bacteria.

If you haven't heard of John Carmack I highly recommend this book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom

Completely agree. I think it would be okay to pick up a book on React or whatever, but only after I've had some real-world experience with it so I can actually appreciate the conce…

One of my friends started a company that basically does that. It's called Qualaris ( http://qualaris.com/ ).

A less related question: how do you decide between adding something as a property vs. creating a new subresource?