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Seriously, that was the only person with a level head. When has it ever been okay to discuss work details with an ex-coworker months after they left?

The odd thing is one of the guys has the first name Chang, and the other guy has the last name Chang.

Maybe someone could help me understand what this message means. > I think I’m going to have to hit the workday button before I’m complete. I just got a weird message that is making…

Why in the world would a high-level Apple employee not sign out of his personal iCloud on his work computer, and then also use his personal iCloud for data from his new company?

I don't follow any sport, but I actually don't understand why UEFA and FIFA are non-profits when all the American leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL) are for-profit corporations. It seems to w…

The 'like' counts in places like YouTube and Instagram comments have made clear to me the idea of tyranny of the majority.

A lot of these animation regressions in Apple's UI originated from iOS 7 and the move away from skeuomorphism. The move away from skeuomorphism made it acceptable for UI elements t…

A topic I'm interested in that is upstream of what you're saying is the propagation of meaning. If somebody has no idea what the Mona Lisa or the Statue of Liberty are, then we can…

The market may not have ever priced in a rebalancing of the S&P 500, but the S&P 500 also has never allowed entry of companies that may never become profitable.

If you are somewhat of a public figure and working in a leadership role at a company, I think it's more sensible to put out a widely-seen public announcement about where you are go…

I'm not sure it's human nature as much as it is a system that compresses everything into finance.

MAID as in Medical Aid in Dying? Why would you do that?

How porous is the CIA's interview process that they couldn't validate the guy's military discharge status?

Additionally, you say there is no need for mass surveillance, but we already have mass surveillance. Every big tech company knows a lot more about the average user than any governm…

If you zoom out more, we are incredibly fortunate that nuclear weapons turned out to be very difficult to build. There is no guarantee that future discoveries won't uncover things …

I think it is a new framing that merits discussion. Example case is the school shooter in Canada that OpenAI knew about but chose not to warn authorities of (presumably because Ope…

You mentioned communism, and I'll add to that since I've lived under communism. It's a great idea in theory that doesn't work in practice because of human limitations. It doesn't w…

I'm intrigued by Michael Nielsen's thoughts on cryptography applied to synthetic biology risk. I'll quote his notes on using cryptography to maintain a balance of privacy and safet…

Did you have a better path forward? I point to Michael Nielsen's commentary on Vulnerable World Hypothesis [1] again: >do you think inexpensive, easy-to-follow recipes for building…

One idea I haven't seen much discussion on is "provably beneficial surveillance" [1], which builds off of Nick Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis. It seems like the best path fo…

I don't think the quality of US workers has to decline. The quality of workers in lower CoL places like India simply has to increase, and it has. Both of the companies I've worked …

It's amazing hearing everyone say FSD on HW3 is inferior because it was shockingly good to me.

Not a Tesla fan or owner here, but I tested a friend's HW3 Model Y on FSD (Supervised) and it was completely competent. Not sure why EU owners seem to not have it.

As an introvert, I've often how wondered how introversion developed and why it became a helpful adaptation.