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Online social events just don't do it for me. The time delay is a small factor, but reducing social interactions to what I can take in to only two senses while everyone sits in a c…

Yeah, he might have to move away from the west coast and live like a king on whatever scraps he saved.

One more data point that no one with self-respect could work at a FAANG company?

Facebook doesn't have anything more that the dream of a promise that some day they'll have AI smart enough to curate content as well as humans can. They don't even have a hope of d…

Good for you! You can always go back if you get the itch. Most tech changes too quickly to catch up with only at the cosmetic level anyway. For evidence, see any of the cycles of c…

Do you think instances of anxiety are inherently irrational or unhealthy? I know of the effect of sustained stress on people, but I was trying to bring to light potential positive …

Agreed. Anxiety can also be expressed as a realization that what's being worked on is useless, adds negative value, or just personally unfulfilling or unimportant. Cops firing tear…

While I agree with this framing of the problem, it feels like another expression of dysfunction in development increasing as direct interaction with clients and users decreases.

Reverting won't erase your users' poor experience with your product.

Human behavior is no more complicated than that of anything else living. We just have more complicated ways to justify our actions.

I just wish someone would teach comp sci kids that checking for error conditions is more important than making something look pretty and/or complex.

If you're going to argue that truth is relative, fine. Let each person decide their own truth and broadcast it. Let each person decide what to believe and decide what is good and w…

If you have so little skin in the game that you can maintain that attitude, you should probably stay out of the discussion.

Platforms must be responsible for what they publish. If NBC ran child pornography, it'd be held responsible. Facebook runs it and says, oops in ten years we'll have AI to not show …

A world where all podcasts have lo-fi production values and only weirdos with too much time and a LOT of interest in the topic at hand make them would be wonderful. The audio versi…

Is there a goal in creating artificial general intelligence other than creating a form of enslaved life we can tell ourselves isn't really life, so it's okay?

If only everything could be homogenous everywhere, so the very few people who have the opportunity to work wherever they like could avoid momentary inconveniences!

Don't people at least like to pretend they have free will and are not automatons responding mechanically to biological prompts? Are the prompts somehow acceptable if they appear on…

I'm not arguing to pay YouTube to hire thousands of moderators. I'm arguing that YouTube should not be allowed to post content without taking responsibility for it. If YouTube can'…

Gawker, a publisher, was shut down because it reported on Hulk Hogan's sexual activity. I think we can assume that larger publishers would be shut down for more outrageous content.…

The Communications Decency Act pretends platforms are somehow different from publishers. ISPs and such, sure, I see a benefit in not holding the way to get to the internet at large…

Eventually it becomes interesting again, though. The guy who does nothing but white canvases gets a degree of notoriety after a while. And the three thousand, two hundredth guy who…

Everything that you've ever encountered has made some tiny impression on you. Advertising is a "weaponized" process that aims to force a set of impressions on people where the agen…

Location: Pittsburgh, PA Remote: Yes (not preferred; I miss having in-person co-workers) Willing to relocate: Nope Technologies: JS, php, Java, whatever C-ish or scripty language, …

I would love to see this idea translated into event planning/calendaring. Probabilistic party planning. I want to see what might be happening tonight in addition to what is definit…