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I'm curious to hear if anyone else does any due diligence before using open source packages in production? Not anything major - just checking for recent commits / activity, issue l…

I think philosophically this has merit (see Riba[0]). Economically, I feel like it makes perfect sense to get paid for providing a service (i.e. loaning money). [0] https://en.wiki…

The key word here seems to be "up to". It'll be interesting to see how many employees (common shareholders) are actually willing to sell their shares to the investors. If they're h…

It's crazy how these things tend to snowball. In some ways isn't this how cults get started? Someone picks some arbitrary and weird thing that "initiates" an individual into an exc…

According to Intel's latest quarterly report[1], 2,200 employees is ~2% of their entire employee base. Kinda reminds me how massive these companies are. [1] https://www.intc.com/in…

Bit of a meta question: how applicable are findings in rats / mice to humans. Does it differ based on the types of relationships the study is trying to find? I've always wondered t…