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>1) My friend has one Having your product out in the world with a brand name on it is a form of advertising, and it works really well because people don't recognize it as such. Som…

Sure it does. Advertising is the flow of information about what products and services are available, how much they cost, and where to purchase them. Some are crass, some are subtle…

How will people know where or how to buy what they want without advertising?

If you believe the human experience before modern technology and economics was good enough, why aren't you living it? What in the world are you doing on a computer? Yes, many peopl…

> people won't stop wanting things that make their life better, and in general will continue to buy such things. This is nonsensical. You can only buy something if you know that it…

Most of us are employed producing goods and services for which people are not born with an innate desire. Approximately the only people who can bash advertising without hypocrisy a…

Original content by Netflix and Amazon is produced by the same companies, people, and tools as the rest of Hollywood's output, just for a different distribution system.

Forget exhaust, this is the real air quality problem.

We have this, it's called SMTP and IMAP. If you feel (as I do) that they haven't sufficiently adapted to the current era, why do you think any other open protocol would be able to …

The prevailing winds in the regulatory climate do not seem to point towards a skyscraper construction boom anytime soon. Over in technology, we're rapidly marching towards cheap ho…

How would you compare it to code review at a medium to large tech company? At work there's certainly a lot of back and forth but it never feels hostile, and I usually learn somethi…

This started well before "social media" was a thing. Newspapers weren't done in by Twitter, but by their own online editions, and by Google unseating them as the best place to adve…

All it takes is a coup of a nuclear-armed nation, and the barrier to entry on that project keeps dropping as states with a recent history of fanatic-deposes-weaker-fanatic coups jo…

The scary part is that a DAO could actually do this.

And people wonder why developers flock from "real" businesses to Silicon Valley.

>If we figure out how to increase supply to keep up with what looks like unquenchable and long-term demand The answer, as it always has been, is sprawl. We can't sprawl with cars a…

Where are you seeing these? Basic 2-bedroom condos in the general vicinity of an East Bay BART stop seem to run $700-900k; SF proper with any hope of a short walk or bike ride to d…

I agree, but I think most critics of Apple would claim that only specs are real, and what we're talking about here is an illusion created by branding.

Looks far nicer, and drastically less eye strain looking at text all day.

They're "overpriced" because you can buy more GHz, cores, GB ram, and GB storage for drastically less money. What you can't find is screen resolution, quality of the keyboard, trac…

Every minute of prerequisite to get someone new to the project to the point of "I edit code and see its influence on the program's behavior" is toxic waste. Minutes spent getting o…

Running? I wear loose-fitting athletic shorts; a phone swinging around in my pocket is really annoying. I'd have to get an armband.

The futuristic supermarket I imagined as a kid was a warehouse-scale vending machine. Robotic carts roll down the aisles on tracks, and the shelves push the requested items out ont…

Then those (like rent, as I mentioned) are the much more compelling arguments. If I'm unable to work for months, I'll have to draw down my emergency fund (probably move somewhere c…

Healthcare is absolutely taken care of for American six-figure tech workers. My premium is $2.50/mo and all my care is free or for a nominal fee, like $20. US healthcare is systemi…