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I maintain that we don’t need this article to be true to debate with the response about assuming good intent, precisely because ”assume good intent” is a statement on its own and i…

> why are you engaging in this creative writing exercise? Because I'm responding to the very top comment about assuming good intent and the people already agreeing with it. I'm not…

I don’t understand your point here—if I’m traveling to a foreign country and I’m asking about what’s offensive because I don’t want to offend the locals and be an annoying, insensi…

You don’t have to make any judgment about the parties involved in the story. If you want to critically think about both sides of the argument, you’re going to have to ask anyway wh…

> Google is an international company with lots of immigrants not familiar with modern American norms Still, doesn’t the responsibility of understanding the sensitivities of an unfa…

What “good faith” motivation could possibly arise from pointing out the color of one’s skin in America though?

Check out your iPhone’s Settings > Privacy and scroll to the very bottom. You’ll see “Analytics & Improvements” and “Apple Advertising”, which both contain toggles and details abou…

You can still parameterizethe API calls if you want to attribute user activity to a specific flow, and that way you wouldn’t be “feeding the beast” that is GA.

Yes but it’s not necessarily Google analytics.

If you’re just using analytics to look at how effective UI designs are in making business conversions, couldn’t you still measure that by checking the backend and looking for a spi…

Are we really supposed to be thinking of all currently available land as being flexibly provisioned for landfills.

“Do what you love” is not so much a privileged thing to say. It’s just an ideal to aspire towards, a north star of sorts, even if you’re currently in a position where you’re only d…

> Espousing a desire for any change will always be offensive to someone, and so wanting any improvement necessarily includes being deliberately offensive. This is not true. Whateve…

> We're going to see more fragmentation Whenever people say this, I wonder whether they are considering the possibility that once the internet goes in the direction of fragmentatio…

> A more apt comparison would be a group in a corner having a conversation at a rock concert. Suddenly this argument appears less apt. This is a tired old argument and it isn't con…

I mean, I didn’t sleep through 2016 onwards but people threatening violence still get banned, people with bigoted views still get called out or damage their real-world offline rela…

It's really not a correct model even at the scale of the phenomena for which it is correct, that's why it can't explain what's beyond its scale, nor can anyone draw a line to clear…

Doesn't the fact that Twitter posts (mostly) stay incentivize conscientiousness, precisely because it doesn't take away the reality that words have consequences? It's still not an …

Newtonian physics is only coincidentally correct. It’s not “wrong” in the sense that the math isn’t sound or that experiments aren’t reproducible within earth, but it’s not the cor…

I wonder if removing the Touch Bar has something to do with prepping up the line for gaming. I personally don't dislike the Touch Bar except when I'm playing video games, and Apple…