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yup it's all about that empathy, and having a constructive, vs. destructive approach to candid criticism and conversation. SO somehow swung far in the destructive direction. Candid…

I have it just for the small form factor. Luckily bought it 2 months before it got killed. Good news is though based on a recent screen crack replacement, Apple still supports fixi…

You can do your own Big Short by buying deep OTM puts. Easy enough to research/google from there, but it can be CDS for the layman.

on-boarding new devs from the bootcamps, transitioning them to AWS + Lambda is as if starting from square one in terms of what they were expecting to work on. Very much a challenge…

yeah I wonder

>the harm isn't consumer oriented, since it's somewhat diffuse, it's about concentration of market power in the industry. That's true, but that's not how anti-trust law works in th…

I don't disagree with you so not sure your point, see my original point. I'm stating that the Tesla comparison doesn't apply to what Apple's specific situation is, and therefore wh…

I obviously have the view that the walled garden benefits consumers, so my bias shows. And, I think there's a lot of wiggle room on the cost to host in the App store. However, US m…

Well, Intel and AMD have had the run of the marketplace (and ARM indirectly) since the beginning, but there's reasons for that both security and other so not exactly a good compari…

To be fair, that's inaccurately reframing the argument. Apple with an Apple store for Apple Apps is the equivalent to what you're saying. Tesla doesn't sell Teslas _and_ BMWs.

that gets into interesting Human-Comp Interaction discussions, but a good place to start is that the HCI dynamic of mobile/tablet platforms is totally different (deliberately) from…

Right, so imagine separating Apple/Google totally from its current oversight position, and having a totally open app store. Like the world _just_ got past learning not to click 'do…

Reading her stuff, it seems like proposals to separate Apple from the App store indicate a total lack of awareness about InfoSec, and at best a poorly researched policy proposal fr…

That's a great point. I agree that this will sort of resolve itself, until MIT puts out some new Cat 8 ethernet or some major hardware jumps, the returns start plateauing quickly. …

Yes, not shady, but it totally unravels the argument concerning HFTs helping price discovery. I know the "hey retirement and index funds are doing it, think of the pensioners!" arg…

Ehhhhh. yes. But that glosses over dark pools, some of the shadier exchange infrastructure arbs that go on, etc. To be candid, I'm fully on the same page as you: what's going on he…

The issues with any algo trading strategy, is if it becomes known, then the trade gets crowded out and priced away. The logic really holds that if you know a shortcut to work that …

Yeah it's always worth remembering how heavily fundamental engineering work processes come into play. Knight Capital went down for a manual deployment error, of all things

https://meanderful.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-accidental-hft-f... My all time favorite article related to this topic, I always try to promote it Guys like the author started this who…

Well yes, those instances would be companies that aren't on the train quite yet of understanding what a toxic worker actually is. Which is the whole point of these sorts of studies…

That takes some faith that being an unselfish team player will in fact get you somewhere. From a mgmt perspective, assuming a good manager, it does. If your team/org doesn't approa…

False, there is a very distinct line b/t descriptions of "toxic worker" and "achiever," assuming "achiever" is something to be emulated, is positive, and is good for the company. T…

"toxic worker" is a pretty textbook definition now: -horrible team player -Unfortunately hugely effective at getting results -plays for the spotlight, claims credit in the spotligh…

Couldn't disagree more w/ the 9/10 part. That's the sort of thinking self-identified "rebellious workers" who are worried about others (mgmt) perceiving themselves as. "toxic worke…

The mil caught onto this in a serious way somewhat recently, the commissioning sources really lean into preventing this. Great to see this catching on in the business world