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My productivity has skyrocketed after our company moved remote, I think in large part because my home monitor is good and my office monitor was garbage. Staring at blurry text all …

This is sad but also extremely true. At my company, Zoom was suddenly rolled out en masse to everyone, despite the fact that we are a technology company and should know better.

True. Cost of living has spiked a lot in tech hubs, too, but devs are usually on the upper tier of the income curve.

Definitely agree with the latter part here about execs, but I feel like anxiety around compensation doesn't tie back to material needs as much as to the extent to which people meas…

It's not like Amazon is bad at AI. The problem they're solving for is legitimately hard, which is why it's so frustrating that it's been put in production in a way that can really …

if you're removing off-topic comments and spam, you're already moderating. see also: doxxing, child pornography, etc.

no one denies that voter fraud is possible. the more important question is whether voter fraud is a serious threat to the voting process, and there's no evidence of this. collectin…

sorry, i totally missed those. thank you!

truly wild that the fight over whether social media platforms should be held liable for speech happens the one time they actually do make a feeble attempt at moderation.

Considering the market share of iPhone in this demographic, it's inexcusable not to correct for this — even if you disagree with Apple's decision on this.

I've definitely spent a lot of time in standups that are effectively pure micromanage-y accountability plays — what are you working on today. Those were a huge waste of time. In th…

yeah, it doesn't necessarily seem like a lot for those affected. that said, an upper band of $50k for damages feels like it could be enough to motivate content moderation orgs to t…

one interesting, counterintuitive argument i've seen on how to prevent this is in lawrence lessig's book, "republic, lost" about the us congress. his take is that public servants a…

this is very similar to scandinavian cultures. in comparison, american work culture feels extremely centered around social interactions.

"Although hackers need physical access to a Windows or Linux computer to exploit the flaws, they could theoretically gain access to all data in about five minutes even if the lapto…

although i'm a home owner as of fairly recently, this feels like a bit of a necessary correction. people owning multiple homes drives up prices for everyone else.