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But many countries have anti-trust regulations that take effect once competition is reduced to a certain level. If a company like Uber can be divided into multiple Ubers that have …

> why wouldn’t one of seven employees at the company want to know about how the business is doing? If the early-stage employees have significant equity in the company, then they'll…

You'd never get to the end state you describe if people are uncomfortable recommending the software because of the name. Word-of-mouth fails when the literal word is something you …

I don't think that's true; there are many self-taught artists.

There's an ambiguity with "mid-Atlantic". Sometimes it means "trans-Atlantic", an accent which Buckley, Burns, and many pre-1950 movie stars spoke with (while on-screen anyway). It…

Less density doesn't imply less housing, especially when empty land is cheap, as it typically is in the USA. You just use more space. I hate cars, and I hate how expensive housing …

> ...but the recovery system is exactly what they need to build first. I can't find the reference, but consistent with that, I remember reading someplace that the number of items i…

Why is anyone forced to use Facebook? I, for one, get along great without it.

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't expect this to be a a "hill to die on" at all. If this professor is unconnected to the sanctioned Tornado Cash service, then Github shouldn't have to …

> This is rampant. How is this a story? Because it's being publicly revealed. If the lax security you describe at other companies were also revealed, maybe more would be done to fi…

Who or what is GGP?

From the link: > Pete concentrated on building a system [in COBOL] that works for him and his clients. If that system isn't replaced before Pete retires, it turns into a significan…

What's wrong with fad and hype driven development? It may be better to replace software regularly than to find yourself or your organization dependent on something ossified in plac…

> Like, would you ever expect a 25 year old guy to command a spaceship? Charles Darwin was in his early 20s, and the captain of the Beagle was only a few years older, when they bla…