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Sure, online polls have obvious flaws (non-response bias, how many people actually saw the poll, who was motivated to actually respond to the poll, did voters actually understand t…

> Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney, r/startrek to Viacom/Paramount, etc. This isn't an …

The users of a subreddits drive all the value, not the handful of moderators. If a competitor magically got the support of all the moderators, that wouldn't get them very far.

Spez is CEO because the board and investors deem him to be the best person for the job. Of course, he founded Reddit, so he has a strong case on merit for why he is the #1 person o…

There are use cases where Figma and Adobe already directly compete: - Product wireframes/mockups - Memes/social media posts - Simple vector creation/editing And that list is only e…

It's merely an informative blog post on a topic many people are interested in. I see nothing wrong with Cloudflare just explaining what happened, even though they had nothing to do…

I think it's plausible that they'd offer E2EE for all of iCloud. They already do it for iMessage, and it makes it easier to turn down subpoenas if they can credibly claim that they…

Done, load it up!

This should be an NFT, I'd love to own an NFT of the RNA sequence of the Moderna vaccine.

I tried Wozi, I heard about it through Pioneer. I really enjoyed it. Once I applied the powder, everything in my fridge tasted like candy - fruits, yogurt, etc. Now whenever I'm hu…

Looks like "vimtutor" is primarily text explaining the hotkeys. For me, the bottleneck to picking up vim has not been merely knowing the hotkeys, but more internalizing the command…

Different people learn in different ways, but personally I’ve had more success with the opposite approach, ie “top-down”. As in, rather than learning in depth all the low level par…

A pandemic is indefinitely shutting down most of the country. This is hardly evidence that the economy is "fragile". That would be like calling your iPhone fragile if it breaks aft…

If the article is accurate, this is clearly not "end-to-end" in the way that most people believe it. If Zoom was considered "end-to-end" encrypted, then any site that uses HTTPS sh…

It's possible to be predatory without holding people at gunpoint.

It's a money sink right now, but has an obvious path to becoming a juggernaut.

Many factors can influence an outcome. But it's reasonable to focus on the illegal (or just shady) ones. For instance, if a team loses a sporting event by 1 point, and their Gatora…

> If I bought Tumblr in a $3 million fire sale, I don't think I'd keep 200 employees on the payroll Keeping most of the 200 employees on payroll may have been a condition of the $3…

I think this article by Jeremy from fast.ai lays out a compelling case: https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/

What happens if a user's card can't be scanned? For instance, bad lighting conditions, or an unusual card format?

One way this better than Spotify & Apple Music - it contains user-created remixes and mashups that aren't available on the streaming platforms. But for users who are interested in …

I bet Apple will crack down on these location tracking SDKs, but it likely wouldn't eliminate this type of tracking. The main reason these apps are getting caught is because they a…