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Bytedance/TikTok are ignoring US law, as we saw in the news last week.

The CCP at a minimum abets the shipment of fentanyl to the US. It aggressively collects personal information on every US citizen and resident. It relentlessly steals private and co…

Huh? The EU’s GDP and population are significantly greater than the US.

I really wanted to like FreeCAD, but I’d say out of the five or so times I’ve attempted to use it, it crashed and lost my design four times. I picked up Fusion360 instead, then OnS…

“companies like Amazon and Tesla that have a net positive effect on society” Citation needed.

My severance don’t jiggle-jiggle, it folds. Converted it to fiat, you really oughtta see it.

The same Larry Summers who famously ruled for Zuckerberg against the Winklevoss twins.

Same here. I was never sure if it was a man or woman, I don't think they ever specified (I could be wrong). But they were always fairly upfront about their problems with alcohol. F…

I never read "Lean In," but one of my favorite blog posts of all time[1] did a truly epic takedown of it, exposing it as a thinly-veiled manifesto for white-collar women to become …

Excuse me, but there's an enormous difference between working with erroneous source material, and making factual errors when the correct data are already and widely available. And,…

Facts are the foundation that such writing is built upon. If a piece of historical analysis contains a number of basic factual errors, that foundation is shaky at best. How can you…

Please be kinder to yourself. You need to be your own strongest advocate, and that's not incompatible with being humble. You have plenty to contribute to this world, and the vast m…

This is true, and I'd add that the more fluid and dynamic those meetings are, the better. To me, it seems like video meetings are anything but. Lots of people either interrupting e…

Another technique is to print in ABS and then give it an acetone vapor bath - you preserve details much better, but setting all that up is a pain and a little dangerous.

This is 100% true. Firefighters were preposterously lionized after 9/11, and in that insane fanfare we gave them everything they could think to ask for. The ones in my city make mo…

Senior homes and assisted living centers are a national disgrace. They are entirely about profit maximization (what business isn’t?), and as such hire people at the exact minimum a…

> I have no idea how christmas is going to work. As a cultural Christian, I’d love to see Christmas work as a holiday where people spend time with their families and contemplate th…

I worked on the Freestyle Libre, I’m thrilled to hear it’s at least a workable solution for you. When I was working at Abbott, I often volunteered for testing finger-stick devices,…

The problem is that companies with less-experienced upper management think that they can save money by handing out awesome new titles instead of more money. In the short term, they…

I would say they’re following Zymergen’s business model… except that model turned out to be “defrauding the investors.”

Very similar thing here, I live in the Bay Area and have a flat, bright white roof. On an 85 degree summer day, it’s a wave of cool comfort to walk through the front door, and I pa…

That’s not really accurate. Celera ran in parallel to the HGP, and (at least for a while) generated superior results at 1/10th the cost.

Thanks for this. Like so many people, I’ve long believed the myth that they removed it - though I can hardly be blamed, since A-list tech media have reported it as true.

At least they were honest about withholding equity. Lots of startups do effectively the same thing by granting RSUs that become worthless via an assortment of underhanded mechanism…

$100K ARR is not really that out of the ordinary for something like this, I’m inclined to believe them without verification. One thing that bugs me, though, is that his solutions a…