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I am logged in, but for the past few weeks, replies won't load and I get an error message on my iPhone. The whole website is much slower too. I'm sure someone will tell me to use t…

I'm so tired of hearing business people talk about how Elon laid off 80% of engineers at Twitter and "it still works!" It doesn't work well. X is a buggy mess, and a way worse user…

Saying that problems are completely outside of someone's control or completely their own fault is a false dichotomy. Reality is usually somewhere in the middle, especially in studi…

Responsible actors will try to balance security with transparency. It is not surprising that a newspaper would have a different view on where the right balance lies than the govern…

There’s definitely a difference between leaking secret information to the public, and keeping it yourself to use for your own purposes. Without getting into which one is worse, sur…

My state (Oregon) has no sales tax, but does have a 20% tax on recreational cannabis, so in our case the cannabis tax revenue would be a net gain for the state.

Certainly, I completely agree that it's not always a positive. Western capitalist culture is better suited to providing freedom to non-conformists, and it's true that life can be a…

I used to go foraging for mushrooms with a close friend. That friend developed depression due to his perceived failures to keep up in the rat race of career advancement, and commit…

These examples highlight the deficiencies of the Soviet economy, and it's evident that such failures caused considerable suffering among the population. Nevertheless, given more ti…

This would not only provide a break from work but also offer opportunities for personal growth and exploration. This could reduce the career growth penalty for mothers. Companies m…

That was 7+ years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_Paper Dropbox also never hired at a rate beyond their rate of revenue growth.

A few examples: * My company has a very large codebase, and I am not familiar with 99% of it. I can use an AI assistant like Sourcegraph Cody to explain parts of the codebase to me…

At the risk of sounding callous and uncaring, I will be blunt - I am wary of mental health advice that comes from a person who killed himself at age 26. I admire Aaron for his tech…

I am currently working with the University of Wisconsin Medical School in the area of translational research. Specifically, the program I am working for deals with Type 2 translati…