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I think this is more aimed at the US gov't than anything. They want to be clear that it's not very good at hacking, so that the gov't won't ban it. I'm sure they're well-aware that…

This might vary state-by-state, CA MediCal for instance did limit the subsidies based on income last year. I don't think it was an all-or-nothing cutoff, but I do think there were …

I love Claude Code, but this feels a bit like the perennial "our team spent a year on project X and then some intern built the same thing in a hackathon" claims. The hard part isn'…

If the author wrote the same sentence, but with "Plenty of theories -- no agreement", would you have an issue? I think the point works just as well. "Theory" and "hypothesis" are p…

I love docs written like this, and writing culture generally. But I've also seen something like this backfire a bit. I think this approach is particularly good for docs where the a…

I feel like random selection devolves pretty quickly back into the problems it's trying to solve? The examples in the article, with some commentary: > Place critical appointment/hi…

I second this. I've done lots of game jams and I think the "messy code" threshold for me is like, 1-2 hours away from the deadline at most, on files nobody else will touch. It depe…

> the list is very informative and meant to force the "invisible hand of the market" (its a pun, relax) to pay for better studies if they truly believe it is not harmful but studie…

I think the argument is interesting, but the specific example of prop 65 doesn't really work on a few levels. The argument in the post is that Prop 65's warnings are legitimate in …

Is there actually an epidemic of firing programmers for AI? Based on the companies/people I know, I wouldn't have thought so. I've heard of many companies encouraging their enginee…

The "era of good enough" here really resonates with me, I've been in product and people mgmt and there's a lot of tension between "optimal amount of quality for the business" vs "o…

I think this confuses the responsibilities a CEO may have (write memos, etc) with the responsibilities they must have (ultimate authority/responsibility for company decisions/direc…

Totally. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying "Gee, this store is making way more money but its employees are being paid the same, that sucks". I think indexing the min…

It depends on why productivity is increasing. Generally speaking, the employer is pushing productivity increases (implementing better processes like assembly lines, buying equipmen…

I think there's a bad assumption in here, which is that pay should keep pace with productivity gains in the first place. I'd argue the whole point of productivity gains is that the…

(Benchling PM here) As far as sweeping generalizations go, I think that's a pretty reasonable one :). I'd imagine that almost all of our users (including most lab admins who assign…

I think the author's complaint has merit, but I don't think tying this complaint to wanting Zelda to be "saved" makes sense. The issue is genre. To take an extreme example, I might…

Where is the evidence that present hiring methodologies don't predict successful business outcomes? I recall seeing evidence re: resumes, but not on the overall process itself [1].…

Rational self interest might be a myth when applied to the extent that some economic models apply it, but at a basic level holds up. I know /tons/ of people that have taken one job…

I think there are two different problems here: building a good solution, and building a solution for a problem that people have to begin with. If you /don't know/ if there will be …

I actually asked Stallman about this once at a talk. It is precisely because we own our desktop. The analog he used was a food truck. It's fine to eat something from a food truck t…