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For the people rushing in to call this the beginning another great financial crisis: remember that back then the tower of cards that collapsed wasn’t the mortgage backed securities…

> Right now Netflix is only hiring engineers in Poland This is patently false. Source: I’m an engineering manager at Netflix who’s hiring in the US and whose peers are all doing th…

Interestingly, ChatGPT correctly points out this exact issue: https://chatgpt.com/share/6793a2d1-5f84-8006-8e78-16be4d4908...

Original article archived here: https://archive.is/9Yytc

Libertarianism is a two-part ideology that holds that first, despite all the clear signs around us, the world is simple. In a simple world, what is the point of regulation, policy,…

https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16693988535309

An indefinite blackout is not a protest, it's extortion. It's saying "if I can't enjoy this subreddit the way I want to, no one can."

And if they allow popular subreddits to remain private indefinitely then a lot more users will leave than just the ones who oppose the API changes. Better to force communities back…

> Doing this would have nullified mods’ strongest justification for protesting Reddit has announced they're providing carveouts for apps that provide critical moderation tools, tha…

And that's their right. Many subs announced they would protest for 48 hours to prove a point, at which point they returned. But a moderator who continues to keep their sub private …

If the community decides to leave, it won't be because of API pricing, it'll be because the content and spaces they used to enjoy were taken offline because of a minority of modera…

Honestly, good. Protest is fine and good, but what exactly are we protesting for here? The rights of a minority of users to freeride on a platform that gave them ten years of free …

Looks like most of the layoffs are in marketing and sales, and that they're still hiring on engineering and product. Honestly, I'm surprised they had marketing and sales people to …

I’m about as far from a crypto defender as you can get, but I think this page misses the point. If El Salvador is planning to use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, which by all acco…

I find that something magical happens when you write things out by hand. Thinking slows down, you subconsciously explore the problem, and your expression becomes much more delibera…

Out of curiosity, can you name the company?

Same information, minus the hit piece angle: https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/24/22549157/google-unrelia... https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-reliable-sources-... https:/…

> America’s billionaires avail themselves of tax-avoidance strategies beyond the reach of ordinary people. Their wealth derives from the skyrocketing value of their assets, like st…

I recently read a very detailed and very compelling argument for why COVID-19 did not originate in a laboratory from a specialist in high risk biocontainment viruses. Compare the h…

This is the relevant response. What the commenter is trying to imply is that the authors of this study are so staggeringly stupid that they overlooked the possibility of false posi…

I hate to say it, but I’m not optimistic about Google’s case here. From a purely technical point of view, APIs being free to reuse is an awesome thing that makes for a more vibrant…

> Lenders have bundled more than $18 billion worth of these loans into bonds this year that they then sold to investors... Compare this to the ~$17 trillion of mortgage backed secu…

I’ve always believed that if you want to see a person’s true colors, look at how they treat people poorer or otherwise socially weaker than them. In other words, if your date is ch…

I used to work at a company that gave our two machines: a beefy desktop with lots of RAM, many cores, two GPUs, a fast disk, etc., and a mid-range Apple laptop. For consistency rea…

This isn’t bad news. This is exactly the sort of cost cutting and fat trimming a company in Uber’s position should be performing. From a tactical standpoint, Uber’s IPO acts as a p…