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So it's better to be bad than to try to be good and fail?

The clusterfuck of the media universe is actually _because_ of monopoly. But it's not monopoly on UX, it is monopoly on the content.

If you want to watch the Lion King, Disney has your balls in a vice grip.

I would be perfectly fine with a hundred different UXes, if they could all serve me Lion King and I had an option to pay for it. Then it would be an actual decentralization. A syndicated system where I can access a movie or song on any platform (of my choice), and the copyright holder gets paid appropriately would be an approach most people in the tech savvy community would be happy with.

For all the noise journalists and the justice department make about big tech, there is basically ZERO action taken about the monopolization of IP that media houses indulge in.

What users wanted: One streaming service from where you can stream or rent any movie or show available in the world.

What users got: 1000 streaming services each with their app and UX that is shitty in a slightly different way from the other, and with a catalog that keeps changing unpredictably.

Then why is there one result for Google and the opposite one for Apple?

And go where?

> Amazon pays well, but will work you like a dog.

Ironically dogs live pretty royal lives in America.

What's funny is America has some of the longest paths to a Green Card (for Indians and Chinese at least), but is very very happy to tax them as a resident the moment they spend a year in the country.

Indians effectively pay taxes as residents without any permanent residency benefits for decades

More like another reason to stop doing business in the EU.

I mean they can at worst be only 4 years behind

You are free to disagree with them. For what it's worth I think they are genuine. But either way they have been very clearly and explicitly communicated, and are anything but "ulterior".

Hardly anyone even thinks about peanut allergies in a nation of 1.4 billion people (India) and kids don't drop dead like flies here.

But sure, let's just call the hygiene hypothesis tenuous.

Could this be combined with masks for greater efficacy?

"Ulterior motives" is misleading terminology, trying to give a negative color to ambitions that Elon has always made very very explicit—making humans a space-faring civilization and colonizing Mars.

You may disagree with how useful these ambitions are, but calling them ulterior is basically outright deception.

The key is to move out of the bay area as soon as you have a 2M net worth.

It's great that it is terminal, but both comp and the respect you get in the company is strongly affected by level, so it's hard to just sit at L5 while you watch your peers rise the ranks

Please tell me how you think Boq is killing the company.

That was my thought too. I am sure his allergy was serious, but this story is entering homeopathic levels of dilution and delusion.

I think the more accurate representation is that it's coming from people who _want_ to live in SF but currently don't (due to lack of housing or unaffordable housing). Should I be allowed to push for policy changes in a city I am not a resident of?

I mean we are talking of an overrated "energy drink" that no one actually needs to consume but yet manages to sell billions of dollars worth of every year.

I don't think their target market is that susceptible to reason.

No, we need to adapt an existing term into the new context that it is being deployed in.

Feels like a very specific anecdote. There is no reason Spirit planes won't smell or United planed always will.

> So yes, while the list price for Gleevec has gone up, the actual price paid is very different.

You say it like it's a good thing. It's part of the problem.

The fact that there is no clear no-nonsense to get a drug at a reasonable price without jumping through a bunch of hoops which aren't even clearly documented is not a good thing.

We are talking of life-saving drugs here, not hacking frequent flier miles or credit card rewards.

> The hype follows what OpenAI's latest release does though

Yes, because what OpenAI releases today helps us improve the prediction of what it may release in a decade or so.

The slope has changed between 10 years and ago.

You are free to disagree, but don't pretend like you don't understand what the AI crowd is saying.

While Google is a monorepo, that doesn't mean that every part of the codebase is equally critical.

People don't yolo submit CLs to core library components for example.

OTOH submitting somewhat hacky code to a new project while you iterate on it doesn't harm the rest of the code base that much since very little will depend on it.

Empirical evidence can suggest anything you want it to if you choose to ignore empirical evidence that's inconvenient to you.

The Canadian trucker protesters were not "terrorists" by any stretch of imagination, but sure let's assume otherwise because it helps us sleep better at night, right?

You will find out how easily you can wire money to someone in the EU if you decide to hold political opinions that are not in line with the ruling elite.

The truckers in Canada for sure found out how "free" the digits of their bank accounts were.

Russian oligarchs for sure found it out in 2022.

He is referring to the codebase itself, not individual projects or CLs.

Huh? Facebook has a lot of that infra because ex-Googlers built it there. It takes an insane amount of delusion to notice something common between a father and a son and say that the dad inherited it.

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