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You’re right but Elon’s idea of free speech is little more than “speech I like”, and is the opposite of what free speech is. That being said, employees of a company don’t have free…

How is that bad faith? Isn’t that, for example, exactly what Gitlab does? It would be bad faith if they removed access to the open source code somehow.

I was wondering the same thing. Also, I’m looking to start reusing VIM (company policies meant that VIM wasn’t available for me to use for a while, but thankfully we are rid of tho…

“We believe in free speech and no government interference”. “How dare you leave an anonymous opinion on Glassdoor. Here are our lawyers and the government forcing you to be doxxed …

“We value diversity of thought”. “But not pronouns. Those are sacred.”

Also, the PR puff piece basically amounts to: We have 500 roles open for the rest of the year and we will continue to keep those 500 roles open. And also, we have a great transitio…

Well, even Coinbase was hiring until they were rescinding job offers. A PR puff piece doesn’t tell anyone anything.

And gold doesn’t need ever increasing energy to be spent so it doesn’t vanish into thin air.

Also, drugs didn’t have a legal competitor. Now that marijuana, for example, is largely being legalized through the U.S., illegal sales of marijuana have completely vaporized. Very…

It’s special in that it has a special purpose. Just like bread has a special purpose. And the purpose of a currency is to facilitate financial transactions. Which crypto is horribl…

Man, the spinning is tremendous. All this stuff is literally what all the crypto people were and still are saying.

No one’s against the existence of a web app. But most people seem to prefer the desktop versions of chat apps. They really should have both.

Well, so stem cell research is avoiding US laws because of Puritanism. Why is crypto avoiding US laws? Edit: Also, a quick Google of top stem cell research companies show that they…

The closest public info I can find is revenues of about $125mm in the past year. With about 4000 employees, that’s an average of about $30k per employee. That sounds pretty low to …

How is crypto any better at doing this than say, Western Union? Ultimately, as someone who finds blockchain technology really cool, what I struggle with is, in which scenarios is b…

This entire article does not even attempt to counter the claim being made in the letter it’s so up in arms about. > blockchain technology, specifically so-called “public blockchain…

How much of that GDP is actually accessible to western companies? If you’re a tech company, you’re not selling for China too long before they cut you out. India will require you to…

Of course, that’s not how it works in real life. If mooching is so pleasurable why isn’t everyone doing it? Because being poor in the US is really hard. Getting government benefits…

Almost all of these companies have a single business model. Regulation arbitrage. They break laws and regulations and then count on either having those changed in hindsight or havi…

I’m pretty sure anyone buying a scooter would also be paying sales tax, plus taxes on fuel and electricity. The only difference is a property tax of 2.5% assessed every year. That …

I don’t understand your point. You appear to be claiming that Netherlands can achieve car free living because it’s tiny and flat, and yet you point to a U.S. city that has made car…

Gitlab’s entire history is bait and switch and wrapping existing features into more expensive tiers. It’s a complete disservice to recommend Gitlab to someone if an alternative is …

E2E privacy has a lot of uses. Crypto has none. It’s just an enabler and hotbed of a variety of scams. Any use it may have can only possibly reveal itself after the crypto asset bu…

7. You’re screwed if you are a mac user who does not use an iPhone.

There was a time when Apple supporters were huge fans of web apps. When Gmail and the like meant that it was possible to have a decent experience on a Mac as well, because software…