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I think the thin guy bald look a la steve jobs is pretty nice too

You'd need some kind of authentication as well.

How do you get the physical envelopes of cash without detection?

Where did you see that? I can imagine how all the publicity could work in his favor.

Do the apple sales people get commission? I seldom enjoy working with people looking to influence me to do something so that they can grow their comission.

I've been loving apple card. I love that the rewards come in cash rather than airline points, so it's really easy to use the rewards.

I wonder if Mark is worried that #2 will give momentum for other countries to ban Facebook

That's an interesting idea. It'd be cool if ChatGPT gave a portion of the income to whatever 3rd party app we authenticated with as well So the workflow would be this: * pay 20$ a …

I used to work at LinkedIn (owned by microsoft) and about 2 years ago they announced engineering was switching from zoom/slack to teams. There was significant uproar and LinkedIn l…

why is the net metric more sensible in this case?

Speed and uptime are also features. If customers like speed/uptime (they do) we need to make sure management prioritizes them and understands how certain features will work against…

I was referring to Joe Rogan laughing at the story. I'm not going to judge someone based solely on their reaction to a story being told to them 12 years ago.

We should take into account the amount of time he spends being recorded, the frequency of the incidents, and the trends of the incidents over time. I think most everyone has said s…

Ive seen them accompany people to retrieve stolen bicycles. In my experience, they're not interested in doing detective work to locate stolen items, but if you know where the stole…

smartphones come packaged with a screen reader. The screen reader announces what is present on the screen

I think sometimes we are quick to discount the affect that home life has on children's school performance. Part of the reason school's are better in wealthy areas is because childr…

wait for the acquisition to happen and then use the same methods you'd use to get an interview at any other company.

To what extent do black computer science grads have worse job placement than white/asian ones? At my employer for every position we're required to interview at least one underrepre…

I read it as the "barbarian russian military", not as "ethnic russians are barbarians". I think calling the ivading military barbarian is ok

These posts consistently make it to the front page of HN. I'm not denying that casteism exists, but since the subject draws so much attention, reporters must feel incentivized to w…

I think it's common of all groups to lump individuals of other groups. Someone might say " all think that ". it's worth noting that those with more power have greater potential to …

I would feel conflicted as well. On the one hand, I would be happy to see someone work hard to build something they're interested in. On the other hand, I would feel nervous about …

I guess the question should be why would you spend 300k at USC to make 50k, when you could spend 50k somewhere else to make the same 50k.

There's a shortage of software engineers and we need more students to enroll in STEM. When deciding between an expensive STEM degree or a free liberal arts degree, students are inc…

I really like this idea, only edge case I wonder about is if such a policy would incentivize colleges to avoid letting in students from low income backgrounds.