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Sounds like they were following some advice from “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by separating the business groups.

Is not just the meat industry. Dairy cows eat silage too. Everything I know about silage I learned from watching 10th Generation Dairyman on YouTube. As somebody who loves learning…

This looks like a scam. They’re asking for $5k - 20k individual donations for a statue that (according to the supposed sculptor’s website) will only cost $6,000. https://www.monume…

“Our basic philosophy when it comes to security is that we can trust our developers and that we can trust the private network within the cluster.” This is not my area of expertise.…

Let’s use Signal as an example. How confident can I really be that the app I’m getting from the App Store was built using the code that I see in GitHub? It would be fantastic if Ap…

I wonder if he realizes that his behavior (substantiated by compelling evidence) was “grotesque”.

I wonder what would happen if they published a list of all their users who are not currently under surveillance, or gave them a nice little icon. I feel like somebody tried this be…

Directly below the paragraph about Alcoholics Anonymous was an advertisement for Absolut Vodka. Hmmmm.

Article by Jeffrey Steingarten. He’s a wonderful food writer with two books that I highly recommend to anybody who has ever been called a foodie.

Great point. It’s never occurred to me until now, but Amdahl’s Law has great application here. I never want to be the “weak link” in the chain, but overworking myself to deliver my…

I don’t know if these are good examples. Money and electricity both have inherent liabilities that don’t seem to translate to stock. At the end of the day, cash has to be transport…

Here are two lectures about Blood Meridian from a Yale literature course. https://youtu.be/FgyZ4ia25gg https://youtu.be/7ZFmf4T5L3o

One approach to solving this problem would be a mass distribution of fake courtesy cards. I wonder if the NYPD has an effective way of verifying that a person has a real card that …

In case anybody is looking for the link for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36002808

(2021)

Same here. Filtering by price is a frustrating experience when the service and cleaning fees aren’t factored into the prices I’m looking at. It’s more work than it needs to be to c…

This isn’t true in California, and I don’t think it’s generally true in other states either. A fired employee is still eligible for unemployment as long as they were not fired beca…

In high school, I had a friend that printed out a copy and put all the pages into a binder. Another friend and I had borrowed the binder, and flipped through it one day to pass the…

I just can’t watch Rossmann’s videos anymore. He’s a smart guy with important things to say, but it’s hard to take him seriously. His videos are 90% hyperbole, cynicism, and snide …