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>the strategy is transparent, he's trying to commoditize his closed rivals TBF, I think the same can be said for something like Apple's "commitment" to privacy, in that their own a…

"If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day, you're the asshole."

The irony hopping into a popular post to promote your own tangentially related blog post where you rail against "advertising" is papable.

What's your point?

Potato potato

Well yeah, have you seen how badly some of you people drive?

"Ultimately, people will vote with their wallet" Seems like a bad way to legislate this, since everyone else on the roads pays the price for cut rate self driving

It's called consentual sex

A right to privacy also includes the freedom to forgo privacy in return for other benefits.

No one in history has ever had an opinion independent of "influence"

SQL generation has gotten very good, and most of the problems listed are no longer as big of a problem. addressing schema rot was always a tedious chore, but now is easily ameliora…

But why would a business want to have it's internal communications be on a platform like signal? none of the privacy features feel relevant to work related communications, if anyth…

Forgive my ignorance, but what is the advantage of decentralization and cryptographically signed events in the context of a work chat/ coordination tool? Could a company not accomp…

Would they have published this study if the correlation was inverted, or would that have been rejected as spurrious bc it goes against our priors?

FWIW they are generally not allowed at majors / world championships / Olympics, just at invite meets where the goal is to promote a fast time

Partially. They're called rabbits[1] (or pacers) whose official role is to run a specific pace, who help encourage a fast race overall rather than a slow buildup with a fast kick. …

hm but "fine" as in probably won't die? my question was more whether the hardware would need extra redundancy or shielding in order to not have unacceptably high error rates

Isn't the problem also that because of radiation, processors in space either need to have larger feature sizes OR additional shielding / redundancy? Seems like a pretty high price …

Has anyone received any proactive communication about this? I didn't see the email until about 9 hours after it was sent out, yet I still needed to seek out information as to a) wh…

Because journalists and their employers view tech as a competitor for ad dollars and threat to their professions.

I think the real question is, if the big tech companies are so all knowing and all powerful, with so much control over media and messaging, then why is their PR so bad?

Mortgage rates have gone up 8% just since February. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US

Yeah there were no shootings before the internet

For one, compliance is compliance. For another, "You only need them if you're using them for something like tracking." yeah, sites want to track user behavior and the eu said if yo…

You know he was talking about taxes...