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So what product should they have been using instead? Meet, which is a Google bundle? Or the China owned Zoom, or god forbid Webex?

So if they had bundled a shitty software that would have been more OK than then bundling a software that people want to use more?

What API exists for third-party developers to create experiences similar to first party Apple apps?

Dan's website is a great example of the pendulum swinging in the other direction to malicious non-conformism. Yes, UXers have made modern web design hell, but presenting a raw unstyled html isn't respecting your user much either.

I don't think Gwern's site is optimized for mobile viewing at all. It works great on a desktop and I think that's where such long form is best consumed.

Vanilla bean != Vanillin, since the smell of natural vanilla bean has a many more components to it other than Vanillin which lend it that characteristic odor (sweet, animalic, slightly woody and herbaceous).

Vanillin by itself is of course a principle component. However, coumarin and vanillin don't smell too similar. Coumarin has more of a herbaceous, 'hay' smell, quite different from vanillin itself.

COVID acted like a coordinated forcing function. So it's unfair to claim that things would have been just as easy to move to WFH before COVID. Even the FAANGs of the world had to do a LOT of work to make smooth WFH happen, from working on optimizing capacity for teleconferencing software to actually making their corp networks work smoothly remotely at scale.

Completely agreed. A good solution allows low-friction transactions to happen very easily, while keeping the option open for more deliberation.

But from your previous comments, although you are singing praises for the custom solution, you actually find it annoying when people use it?

They will never _become_ your customers if you don't give them a chance to pay you.

Websites that put a cart online with a checkout process manage to get "customers" just fine. If you think you want to give everyone a custom quote then don't complain when people ask for one.

In my understanding the authenticator app is not the only way to have 2FA. It looks like here Booking was using the email for verification? This seems similar to a forgot password flow.

What is the negligent harm here?

Are you even for real right now? You expect a company of 100 people to have multiple lawyers on payroll pouring over labor statutes? There exists companies outside the frenzied world of VC-funded startups.

In what way was the leadership profiting off of Trump?

If your password is leaked, and you then authorize the verification email by clicking on the verify text, how else do you expect Booking.com to prevent access? The point of 2-factor is lost if you are careless with your second factor.

[People seem to be downvoting me but no one seems to be replying with what the reasonable behavior should be. Maybe my understanding of 2FA through email verification is lacking?]

I feel most of the effort in the last 2 decades to "bring technology to classrooms" has either been ineffective or even negative.

No, Chromebooks and iPads are not needed for most things, and while we all like to pretend that we are using them for "studying", most of the time spent on them is wasted time that stifles creativity. Whenever you bring it up, someone points out the example of Timmy from Grade 4 who made a beautiful digital sketch on his iPad or something, conveniently ignoring the other 99 students who basically wasted hours on the computers with no intellectual stimulation.

We probably need fewer electronics in the classroom, and even for stuff like taking notes, kids should be practising the motor skills of writing with their hands.

Product filtering: Low number of SKUs of high confidence. I can basically blindly pick up anything at a Costco and be assured of a certain basic quality. It's the opposite of a place like Amazon.

Customer filtering: The subscription model creates a high trust customer base with way lower chances of shoplifting, fraudulent returns and the like.

Cringe conversation. Why can't AIs just do stuff that you ask them to do without pretending to be human?

Any housing that can be built is good housing for places that have a severe supply-side constraint of housing.

The only way to bring house prices down is to build build build.

I'd actually be quite trustful of a Costco apartment.

Dunno the details of this specific issue, but hyperbole is pretty standard for Snowden. I don't blame him too much. The guy has been through hell. But let's just say his Twitter proclamations aren't exactly neutrally worded.

In the zero interest era it could be. Much harder now.

> 9 inches or more

Ah, we are talking of internet inches I guess? The vast vast vast majority of men don't have 9" inches or more.

I get you. A lot of short stories feel a bit... empty? to me. Like there's an effort to be profound but they don't get there.

Great points. I think the biggest crime that happened was the completely institutional takeover of the narrative by mainstream media and big corps (Google, FB, Twitter) etc.

The simplest strategy is to buy index funds and hold. I never look at the price of any stock every day. I don't plan to sell any index funds either until I retire.

Your point is well taken but usually the bigger burden to buying a house is being able to afford the monthly payments, especially at high interest rates like right now. Esp in Bay Area where most startups are.

Usually if you don't have the money for a down payment, you probably don't have the cash inflow for making monthly payments either. Especially at a startup where you are not drawing much in salary.

Could you talk a bit about those reasons, I am genuinely curious. There's too much noise and very little meaningful discussion on the topic.

It's a red flag in traditional companies. Musk has never been a traditional CEO or run his companies like a traditional company.

If you want to run an IBM or Cisco, don't hire Musk, sure.

> do you believe reusable rockets would never see the light of day?

Correct.

You don't need a hypothetical, it's not like SpaceX is the first rocket making entity in the world. Why were all the other darlings incapable? SpaceX didn't invent a new branch of rocketry after all. And they hired from the pool of engineers who could have and did work at all the other rocket companies.

How did this same pool of scientists and engineers end up with a viable reusable rocket with 300+ successful landings only when they came together at SpaceX?

There are many reasonable points of criticism one can make for Musk. 99% of Musk-hate I see on HN isn't among them though. It's more reminiscent of the kind of nonsense articles Tesla short sellers used to publish back in 2016-17.

He didn't offer them false expectations. On the contrary, he withdrew money when he saw that they had offered him false promises (of being non-profit)