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It’s worth saying Boise Aries is a top 5 city in the Americas by population, and has a long history of being very immigrant friendly. I wonder if there was some tax evasion happeni…

I’m not typically one to “vote with my wallet”, and I think it’s very impractical to do so with all of big tech. I do however tend to buy products and services that align with my v…

This is a critical growth period for smaller platforms.

I imagine if you wanted to 100% stop buying or using products from FANNG (+Microsoft & Twitter) it would be impossible without doing anything short of living completely off the gri…

Who owns the tests? Developers.

It’s interesting in the lack of transparency Facebook provides over which groups or individuals are banned for which reasons.

Also “management” and “devops” needs to trust every dev to push out a high quality update. Twice daily deploys don’t happen if QA goes through a 48 hour test process for every rele…

Physics engines and graphics engines take a lot of resources. Games that invest enough resources to develop their own highly detailed physics/graphics engines are almost by definit…

Squeezing a short is different then a pump and dump.

I know plenty of people benefiting from the stock market with average and less than average IQs. This is a matter of classism not intelligence. If you have enough money to invest y…

One small design suggestion. You should include a battery so that if the electricity were to go out you could still see the time or be alerted at the time of the alarm.

Dr. Fauci’s salary is good but not fantastic for any person with an MD. Considering his level of expertise it’s safe to say he could make much more in the private sector. The fact …

It’s very risky to build a service that relays directly on the API layer of other commercial services. If any of there chat apps change their APIs to stop Beeper traffic then they …

I purpose the phrase “deceased loved ones” is an editorial spin on the technology that missing Microsoft’s goal. If the goal is to revive a dead mother as a chatbot we can say that…

Exactly. Reimplementing GitHub is not building a rival to GitHub. Like Wikipedia the value isn’t in the platform but the content hosted by the platform. Until there is a critical m…

I don’t think this article was written for a technical audience so it’s not surprising that it’s light on technical details.

That greatly increases the level of sophistication. The article doesn’t say that the emails received were “@harvard.edu” only that they appeared to be valid Harvard ids. That means…

How do we establish trust in a virtual world? There are a lot of cues in an meatspace social interaction that can trigger a “gut reaction” one way or another on trust. In digital i…

I had a similar thought: I would be more and more suspicious the longer I didn’t get an email from an @harvard.edu email.

> no copy may be retained This is the key element. A copy may exist, but it must also be deleted. Totally a technical problem that has already be solved.

Taking an action that will directly result in a decrease in stock value.

Nuking your RSUs will also make an enemy of every other person in your company with RSUs. You might not be fired, but you’ll likely lose most of your social capital at the company.…

> if you’re positive you can probably start isolating now. If you experience symptoms you should start isolating, regardless of the results of a rapid test.

It could also be funded by tax dollars solving the targeted advertising problem, and all data on it could be given 4th amendment protections solving the big brother problem.

Imagine a spam filter for social media. I actively want this.