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Does the task description influence the blocking behavior? That wasn’t clear to me— it might be that you manually configure the allow/block list and the task description is just fo…

I don’t remember Amazon claiming “near-full automation” by AI. They said that you can checkout automatically and that AI/computer vision is somehow involved.

Maybe but that is also not within Apple's control.

They absolutely understood the terms of the loan. I think they do it anyway because: (1) everyone else is doing it and they don’t have a good alternative (2) career optimism. If yo…

I suppose we’ll have to agree to disagree. I know lots of liberal arts majors who still have a lot of student loan debt in their late 20s and 30s. They knew what they were doing wh…

Basically all college-bound 18-year olds understand what debt is — you’re infantilizing them to a ridiculous degree if you think otherwise. A lot of them choose to proceed with col…

It wasn't "good" when Google hired a ton of people during Covid, and it isn't "evil" when they have subsequently let some people go. The people who are being laid off are generally…

Google makes a very small percentage of their revenue from government contracts.

Cycling is good. I've also found boswellia and curcumin supplements to be surprisingly effective for the arthritis symptoms.

It is definitely a thing that happens: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/former-twitter-employe... Hard to say how often / what fraction of occurrences are never caught, or cau…

Also relevant are the difference between overall comp for software engineering jobs in the USA vs Europe.

> Looking through the documentation, the API looks brittle. Thanks for the feedback! Can you elaborate on the parts of the API you felt were brittle?

I’m pretty sure that people like John Carmack, Donald Knuth, or Fabrice Bellard are not spending money on PR firms.

You also need to factor in the time value of money: if the winemaker sells you a 2022 release in 2022, they get paid immediately. Also factor in temperature and humidity controlled…

> Alameda is helmed by quants from Jane Street etc., The CEO worked at Jane Street for less than 18 months and appears to have had a fairly junior role there. I'm sure they are sma…

Also not equivalent in terms of tax treatment.

The assets of the company are exactly the same, except that $1*num-shares that was previously on the company's balance sheet is no longer there. The company is less valuable and so…

> Is the right to life no longer a human right? That's not what "the right to life" means. There are lots of policy decisions which have tradeoffs that result in more or less life …

I’d love to hear more about your experience working in a professional kitchen.

I think the wireless pairing/device switching experience with AirPods is a big reason (not the only reason) why they are so popular.

Curious if you have any evidence for that claim. Looking at https://www.card.iastate.edu/ag_policy_review/article/?a=107 (Figure 1) suggests that rural vs urban unemployment rates …

I don't think Bezos' ownership of the Washington Post has gone badly so far.

> If your TAM and desired market capture implies revenue of less than like $500 million the company is never going to IPO, just for example. The vast majority of tech companies tha…

> Furthermore, if you renounce your citizenship, it is you who are choosing not to get this benefit. It is a defined benefit for citizens Individuals who renounce their US citizens…