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I hope I never have to work with you. I would be mortified if someone did this to me.

This is extremely unsafe and seems like grounds for a lawsuit, if it were reasonably possible to do this. For reference only 7.5 minutes per day at 120db will cause permanent hearing loss. Disgusting that they made you do this.

https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/19...

Could you please share this simple explanation for those of us who aren’t as smart as you?

I’m no “but won’t someone think of the children” and try to evaluate each case individually, and frequently disagree that something should be done for children’s’ sake. However YouTube, TikTok, etc have severely violated privacy and I think should be pounded with the hammer of the law through fines.

Total aside, I and others have had bad experiences with QuadLock. Ended up moving to the Peak Design mobile case and moto or universal mount and it’s been shockingly amazing.

My question too. The person who “refused to turn on the alarms” got raked over the coals by would-be Monday Morning Quarterbackers. Then it turned out that officials actions were the right ones, even in retrospect, and people accusing them were just out for a viral quote.

It was disgusting. I’m reserving any judgment on this story, no matter how incendiary the headline, until more facts come out.

What your saying sounds like profound next level wisdom and on a very surface level does make sense, but think of this: an org can create a measure that captures the relevant preferences properly, and everyone is quite happy with the results because the team continues or slightly modifies what they’re doing and lifts up the product to lift up the measurement and life is good.

And then over time they start realizing they don’t have to lift up the whole product, but just a small piece to increase the measurement. So they do that and the measurement goes up, but the product doesn’t get better because they’ve found the path of least resistance to raising the measure. This is really the underlying crux of Goodharts Law. So it was a good measure probably until it became a target.

So what is a manager to do? “Capture all [the] preferences properly” as you put it? Probably not because that quickly devolves from measurements to long form status reports, not even measurements, because it’s impossible to capture all dimensions of this with measurements, so one has to reduce the dimensionality a little.

This is a philosophical problem not a technical one. Though your point does seem superficially correct, in practice with real teams the second and third order effects from the measure becoming a target dominate.

We spent a lot of time finding historical data from across the world and building our family tree back a few hundred years. But records didn’t keep as well back then. Now everyone is posting everything everywhere all at once. Do you think there’s a greater chance someone 20 generations from now will be able to look at TikTok and Threads archives and understand and get to know their forebears from 1,000 years ago? I think there’s a good chance of that.

What’s your source on all of this?

Like the thirteenth chime of a clock: not only is it wrong in and of itself, but calls into question everything that came before.

This is so bad. The worst of us all, but fun to read about the brinksmanship. The worst line for me was:

“From the founders' perspective, they had a clear stop-loss in place if things didn't work out” with the “stop-loss” being that “[t]he React site would be functional and performant in 6 weeks, and ship in 10. If it didn't, I would step down and recruit a replacement.” It’s just such a horrible thing to put on people, and is in no way a real stop loss.

So things failed, and now we lost our chief engineer, and who knows if they will “recruit a replacement” when they are either gone or on their way out, and recruiting leadership can take so long it’s such a crapshoot. THAT is a “clear stop-loss” to this person? Big oof.

It’s just such bad framing and bad ultimatums and bad people all around that I feel like I’m watching trash tv — and I love it.

That’s a pretty big leap in logic. Can you walk me through how you got from “I rent out my basement occasionally” to what you said?

A single counterexample is thankfully enough to disprove a false statement.

We Airbnb our furnished basement sometimes. I am not a profiteer evading tourism taxes, but a resident of the city and active on my city council.

So your assertion is not true for all Airbnb rentals.

In theory nothing assuming it involves only consenting adults. In practice it’s very exploitative of vulnerable people to such a degree that it becomes ethically fraught.

lol yeah duh. If you allow people to upload files to cloud storage anonymously there will always be constant, egregious abuse of the most vile kinds.

Someone couldn’t pay me a hundred thousand dollars to operate and manage a site like this.

“China is very misaligned with the US in a huge number of areas”

Can you talk more about this?

Unfortunately presented as a long form article and not a presentation.

Not really anything super wrong with it, other than perhaps it would be harder to air grievances with them because there’s usually nowhere to go, and QC issues.

“Ghost Kitchens” have a more nefarious connotation than “delivery only” though because often it will be a single kitchen yet be advertised as many distinct restaurants. I saw one in one major city that was something like fifteen “different restaurants” operating from the same small space, which is sketchy.

But I think the person to whom you’re responding was relying more on the word “thousands” here. So given the connotation I think opening thousands of these things is pretty sketchy for some random YouTube personality with presumably no experience with restaurants to be opening simultaneously.

This isn’t about validation. They check to see if it is a real email address.

Totally agree. A good buddy of mine worked really hard for this. Because of all this he was able to get some major funding for his startup and has been majorly successful. And it helps his uncle too because he can reap the rewards of such a big seed round.

These points seem like non sequiturs. There would really need to be a deep dive into why cocaine is cheaper (if it is? I have no earthly idea if it is or how one would be able to check). Assuming it is cheaper, it is because KYC laws are failing, or better production efficiency, or less competition among cartels?

The second point is hard to even reason about because I don’t think the purpose of banking laws is to put banks out of business. So I’d be curious what this has to do with anything if you don’t mind stating.

“Can’t be bothered to do the legwork asked if you to get accelerated and funded by YC” is honestly a wonderful filtering function.

“SJW” has become somewhat of a term that’s used pejoratively by a certain group of people. But if it aligns with wanting women to be able to exist and enjoy chess without being harassed, it’s probably a good thing.

By using it in the pejorative sense here you’re on the wrong side of history, which is your prerogative.

Innocent until proven guilty is primarily a legal principle in the United States and doesn’t really apply to the court of public opinion. And in fact for many of the good reasons presented by the person to whom you’re responding, really shouldn’t apply to the court of public opinion or the principle of freedom of association.

Excellent strategy for arriving at one’s destination faster than planned.

Oh wow thanks for posting this. I read this and was thinking “I feel like deja vu from an article I was reading in a physical copy of RD from like 20 years ago” but the bottom seemed to indicate it was originally posted in 2020.

They can’t, and they aren’t. In any case as you’ve just read in the article the model is very large, why even say this given what you just read?

The downside risk you’re protecting against isn’t “billionaire buys company and steals your account” but is instead the much more general, “I lose access to my account,” which you will agree is a much more likely thing to happen, particularly given that it has happened on Twitter, so it’s not exactly speculative.