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There’s one about a lady addicted to coffee

The card is just the gateway. All of these startups eventually expand into more profitable products later on. As a customer, it’s just a matter of trying something modern - which s…

Moderators have always been working for "free" (or for their own reasons, there are monetized subs). The fact that Reddit is public or private doesn't change a thing. Why would wor…

This has always been the drama of urbanism. Only a minority is pushing for it, while the rest furiously resist thanks to years of car-centric propaganda (and vested interests).

And are regretting that they didn’t, and are considering something analogous

If I had a dollar every time this Williams Group study is brought up... I'd have no trouble making my descendants permanently rich! Funnily enough, that consultancy offers the serv…

Sounds very cool and inspiring, but we’re talking about rich people. Rich people historically have been able to just stay rich whatever happens. Sometimes a little less rich, somet…

Rich parents don’t want epoch changing discoveries, they want good wealth management.

I see the opposite happening. Strong currency and remote work further aggravates brain drain. 2 years of COVID has already impacted terribly the tech startup ecosystem in Brazil. W…

Those definitely don't look like the anime I watch

Because they want to.

I’m enjoying it like I enjoyed Black Mirror. Science fiction is very hard to worldbuild right, so often the science minded audience has to turn a blind eye to a few things and thin…

It's usually a matter of framing to me. Criticizing and finger-pointing is always easier than a nuanced and tradeoff-minded view. It is also easier to engage people with negative f…

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It doesn't become useless though, the menubar is still there. It just makes the menubar black so the notch is less noticeable.

He won mobile. He didn’t have to build phones to dominate mobile advertising. Facebook was a great beneficiary of mobile adoption and that’s why we’ve been seeing Apple attack thei…

Yes, that’s how Ben himself says it in his podcasts

TL;DR venture capital is becoming regular capital because tech companies keep growing fast well after the IPO; “the next big thing” is not coming on the short term, just more techy…

Same news, from a better known and local source (in PT_BR): https://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2021/10/25/youtube-l...

The first habit you need is journaling. The NoOp journal (which requires no further habits) would be gratitude journal or dream journal if you’re able to consistently remember them…

Yet many rich democracies have been using electronic voting without issue. There’s an entire field of science and engineering for securing digital democracy, don’t take a single Yo…

It doesn’t seem common to write single file libraries in Python; and it doesn’t seem to be too unreasonable to add an entrypoint script for version checks.

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You just explained the meaning of the “meaningless” quote. Thanks, I guess.

Not necessarily. Anticompetitive behavior is hard to define, but I like this quote from Ben Thompson: > What makes this distinction particularly challenging is that the question as…