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Thanks for sharing!

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> If you look at the features pages of providers, most tools appear the same. But in practice, there are meaningful differences. Each email-sending tool has a different “product DN…

And some people will still probably die at 5mph!

Relevant XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/1227/

People making YouTube videos to teach strangers how to do things is one of my favorite things about the human species :')

I would love this

The best way to meet people is not "I'm looking to meet people" – because then those events and spaces get filled with social outcasts and creepy folks. The best way to meet people…

> and the only human interaction are the cashiers at the grocery store Why is that? Even Elon Musk spends times with his kids. What's keeping you from spending time with people you…

That's a really cool story. I'd love to read about your experiences in greater detail. Any chance you might have a blog?

> Why don't people just explain it with actual computers instead of pizza? People use mental models and heuristics and metaphors to make sense of all sorts of things. Very smart pe…

I sell t-shirts on the side. As a person who makes/sells t-shirts and uses apps (and only occasionally pays for them), here's how I think about it: It's not about the skills requir…

SW binge?

She was the bullet in the gun that Uber held to its own head; they could've avoided it by not being a shitty place for women to work

History is always a little murkier than stated – it probably started out as something and then found its 'product/market fit' serving Amazon. Steve Yegge's famous essay covers it q…

"There will be web dialtone everywhere." – Steve Jobs, 1996 – https://www.wired.com/1996/02/jobs-2/

Where's the hostility?

There was a period of time where I used both MySpace and Facebook, and preferred MySpace – but the user experience kept getting shittier, it kept getting laggier, spammier... MySpa…

Damn, that's fantastic. I'm using that from now on.

The options you have in jail typically have shitty utility values, so no.

I meant boredom in a general sense, where you have control over your variables (ie you're bored by yourself, with yourself, at home). If you're bored at work, that's a little more …

I think a lot about the inverse Hanlon's razor, which is "if you want to do something malicious, make sure you can get away with attributing it to stupidity".

I'm of the opinion that it's useful to make a distinction between boredom and idleness. Idleness can be good (Bertrand Russell wrote an essay about this, which OP might be riffing …

> Nothing will change (significantly) until twitters bottom line (user engagement as a proxy for ad money) changes. This has been a problem for media since the dawn of man, I wonde…

Children are messy and un-Apple-like. Can you imagine an Apple-themed childcare center? I'm trying to imagine one now, with snooty little kids in black turtlenecks.