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Right, because an internet designed by profit motive is going great

1. Microsoft was heavily involved in orchestrating the 95% of employees to side with Sam -- through promising them money/jobs and through PR/narrative 2. The profit incentives appl…

> was it just Helen Toner’s personal vendetta against Sam I'm not defending the board's actions, but if anything, it sounds like it may have been the reverse? [1] > In the email, M…

I feel like the "safety" crowd lost the PR battle, in part, because of framing it as "safety" and over-emphasizing on existential risk. Like you say, not that many people truly tak…

I think the surprising thing is seeing such cohesion around a “goal to ship” when that is very explicitly NOT the stated priorities of the company in its charter or messaging or st…

Probably some combination of: 1. Pressure from Microsoft and their e-team 2. Not actually caring about those stakes 3. A culture of putting growth/money above all

That’s a fair point. I guess there are contexts where pseudonymity can be useful and enable types of interactions that otherwise might not be possible. Especially in online context…

Oh for sure! I’m not saying using real names automatically creates real relationships and trust, just that it helps. I just generally want to see the internet moving toward deeper,…

It’s interesting to see all these ideas built around the idea that “more anonymity is better.” I think the opposite is usually (not always) true, and that many of the issues we see…

This comparison feels like it's less about Node vs Rails and more just about "batteries-included framework" vs not. (Although, perhaps there isn't really a Django/Rails equivalent …

The sophons are here

Even completely leaving aside the language/software diversity, the point is that the vast majority of web "frontends" are really just one thing (rendering the UI and responding to …

Check out Amplify! I've heard good things and my limited experience is good so far. (Although running locally isn't the best, unfortunately... but that's always going to be an issu…

1. I'm not sure about this premise: "leader of the production-ready frontend-as-a-service space." They def seem like a good fit for some frontends -- but they're certainly not a go…

> That does not mean there isn't a general underlying "cognitive ability" factor. Careful. "g" is a statistical regularity, not proof of a generalized "underlying cognitive ability…

Maybe this is outside the scope, but one thing I’m really curious about —- what about the radiation!? I’m guessing the payload could be sufficiently shielded and/or would just outr…

Ah yes. We did end up using extraReducers, but didn’t love that the thunks and their corresponding reducers had to live in separate parts of the file. (For me at least, mentally si…

Can someone elaborate on the privacy concerns (e.g. with Amazon "becoming a pseudo-ISP")? It seems like most (if not all) of the network use would be Amazon devices anyway, which i…

High-level, we wanted to minimize the need to "jump around" to multiple files or multiple places in a file to make a single change to an action (and also just minimizing the amount…

There are for sure lots of bad ways to use React, and lots of bad React developers. I actually had a very poor experience with React my first project using it. But that's true for …

Nope (if only!)

I'd encourage you to give React a try for this use-case! I've done this exact thing -- slowly introducing React in certain places in a large web app -- and it's worked great. You'r…

I agree with a lot of these points, but differ slightly in two regards: 1. In my experience React DOES lure people into the "pit of success" in at least one important aspect -- mod…