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Happened to me too, incredibly dark pattern

The main reason I find myself using Opus is because it's a better communicator. (Yes, I know it's better in some areas like frontend vs. others but this is not significant enough f…

Somewhat spicy take - if the people in Area 120 were among the top 10% of Googlers you worked with, they probably weren't the right builders to start a new vertical. Most of what m…

Tailwind CSS is fast fashion. Gives you a fresh look in a cost/time-effective way, entirely not sustainable w.r.t. the environment, but sells like hot cakes in any case. The realit…

I have an S and the cost is $2k a year after tax, about on par with the insurance costs of my old Camry. Probably worth shopping around a bit more if you’re still in the process.

Interestingly enough, Substack is heading down the same direction - when you get linked to an article, it now forces a full screen popup on you asking if you want to subscribe or j…

> Assuming a neutral tone unless specified otherwise, it's always the best bet. I actually believe most writing is non-neutral in nature. Every word choice and sentence structure c…

That's fair, but your writing style mostly optimizes for you, your comfort, and your speed. And I say that as someone who started memorizing SAT words at the age of 8 - most people…

I think you hit the nail on the head - at a certain point caring about every single rule isn’t effective or is actually net less effective. On HN I’ll use correct punctuation, gram…

That's fascinating - even as a kid my sense of smell has been near-nonexistent. Whenever I've read descriptions of powerful smells in books, I've always written them off as overly …

Fridays generally are slow for very normal human reasons. Especially afternoons like this one. We have an interesting setup where we do every other Friday off - the logic being tha…

Not seeing how I did any discrediting, just thought it was interesting as I was reading through it. I intentionally wrote this in a neutral way - e.g. I could have just as easily m…

Campaigns against disinformation are bound to fail because everyone has a different interpretation of the truth and assumes that everything else is “disinformation” (with quotes th…

Relevant context - this was written by a member of the team who released the Twitter files, alongside Matt Tabibi.

How did this work? Did they put $10,000/mo on their website?

Facebook has been a really great shield for Apple in recent years by dominating the media through [advertising outrage]. Now that Facebook has decided to shoot itself in foot by go…

I halfheartedly agree. Getting into a top 5 school would have definitely been a surprise, but I also doubt the top 20 or even top 50 schools have equal levels of talent. > People h…

Yeah, in hindsight fair to say a little bit of all of the above. I agree with a lot of what you mentioned. At the same time - if I'd gotten 300-400 points less on the SAT, I likely…

Test scores have already been irrelevant for certain segments for over a decade, speaking as someone of East Asian ethnicity. Personal anecdote: 3.7 GPA in average high school with…

The 24 they mention in the article are full time it looks like - does that change your mindset either way?

That makes sense, thanks for explaining it. Got on the phone with support and they've been receptive and are escalating it.

For anyone still running into this - using a VPN seems to fix things but not sure why. Some kind of throttling / connectivity issues on ATT's side?

Looking at the current state of GDPR compliance I’m not sure this would actually be a good experience for most people.