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iPhones are 10x better than $500 Androids, so a steal at 2x the price.

I think Apple TV+ may even be a part of this. On its own, its a below average streaming service. But as a proprietary production studio that can bootstrap a VR content library by f…

There are similar tools to this but this is nothing like Lambda or CF Workers. Lambda doesn't do anything remotely close to generating frontend UX for a script.

this is a feature, not a bug

Hey guys, big fans of Substack (writer/reader since 2019.) My favorite part of Substack was how it built on top of email, an (actual) distributed protocol. I'm able to access my Su…

Living in Missouri and not knowing where Minnesota is absurd. Did you move there recently?

You can't be pleased?

It's real, it's because of humans, it's not a civilization threat, and it probably isn't in the top 5 most important problems facing us this century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

I think the idea was the anxiety was that tweets aren't ephemeral enough.

Monarchies have to respond to the threat of populist uprisings, but they're still monarchies.

Worth considering the argument against ranked-choice voting: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ranked-choice-voting-is-second-...

I wonder if this is the way Apple and Google will eventually retreat from their 30%* cut, by using their app store chokepoint to nudge developers to their platform. Seems like a wo…

“If there were 315,507 excess deaths due to Covid-19, why is the difference in all-cause deaths between the end of 2020 and the end of 2019 only 61,654? That’s 61,654 more all-caus…

S3 (and most AWS services) are extremely price elastic; i.e., the lower you make them cost, the more people use it (a la electricity.) That's why they've done stuff like drop from …

Keeps you in the ecosystem, on Apple's services. And a top-end MBP will cost >$3k, which I don't think people buying laptops every 2-3 years spend.

The series of Arabic states opening diplomatic relations with Israel was definitely American-led.

The Substack crowd is already on Twitter, and is where they got their audience from.

Yeah who knows what Biden could get up to.

How is increasing consumer choice and offering a cheaper product detrimental to society? It's beneficial to everybody besides Elastic's shareholders.

As somebody who's somewhere between mediocre to good at whiteboard interviews (passed the loop at 1 FAANG, rejected by the rest), I think they're pretty solid. Most programming cha…

Here's a good debate on whether Walmart is net positive or negative for America's working class: https://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?id=125

Here's a good debate on whether Walmart is net positive or negative for America's working class: https://www.independent.org/events/transcript.asp?id=125

It's his profile picture, dude is almost a spitting image.

A virtual experience happens entirely in the Airbnb app right?