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My understanding is this is actually what’s exacerbating the “two-class” system at big tech cos like Google where something like half of all workers are contractors. Like it was ba…

Just because your impact on the world is not as huge or consequential as Facebook doesn’t give you free range to exploit user data as you please and protect you from legitimate cri…

You can google for it...both the lawsuits around misuse of user data and their notorious use of dark patterns

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth that Reid Hoffman, Jeff Weiner, DJ Patil et al get to live their day to day without the reputation hit or scrutiny of FB because LinkedIn is not a…

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we live in a world of abundance, and somewhat more depressingly realizing that the earth is being ravaged by climate change and grateful to be al…

I’m a fan of the Chinese-style captchas where you just move a puzzle piece with a slider. I have no idea how defeatable it is vs reCaptcha but it’s far far less painful.

Interesting. I’ve gotten two offers from two European tech cos, one in London and one in Amsterdam though did not end up accepting either. In both situations I felt they were prett…

Increasingly very common? Without religion and people going unmarried/without kids, your career has become the thing that you pay more attention to. I don’t agree with it at all, m…

Utterly depressing to see how much damage we can cause in 30-40 years, basically only since older “millennials” were born.

Knowing flexbox, positions, pseudoselectors, media queries, and how specificity works will get you very far with CSS.

I mean food delivery is becoming massively more popular each year w DoorDash, UberEats, Grubhub, Postmates, etc. collectively worth tens of billions. The trend is up and to the rig…

Why just China? Wouldn’t the same be true in the US too?

I’ve had a lot of success using flexbox personally, and at least on my own projects I develop features on a page in 1D vs 2D...

This is partially why I like shopping at Costco. Usually there is only one or at most a few of one thing, and usually it’s of good quality.

I’m surprised a year of runway could mean a house...?

We live in a world where Michael Pollen, a widely known author, wrote a best selling novel on his experience taking illegal drugs while in the US.

Are you really citing a paper from 1995? I mean I’m a user of illegal drugs and would rather be safe than sorry. If you look at the mechanics of MDMA, it’s basically forcing your b…

There’s a ton of research online... https://dancesafe.org/drug-information/is-mdma-neurotoxic/

I’m a fan of MDMA but be warned you need to know what you’re doing and be well-prepared before and after due to the neurotoxic side effects which may permanently lower your ability…

Hard to be surprised. I am nowhere near the top of any corporate ladder, but having worked in several large well-known unicorns in SF I am more confident than ever that it takes a …

This is interesting though I remember seeing a ted talk on covering the corpse in fungi to detoxify the corpse while composting because human bodies are generally highly toxic...

Maybe this is a bit cynical but is this not like if the CEO of Pepsi spoke out against sugar? He and his VC partner are both YC-insiders. I don’t necessarily follow his tweets as m…