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Well, if you want any further insight into the CEO, check out Toptal's investment page: https://www.toptal.com/investors.

He minces no words and comes off quite aggressively. Very much a "my way or the highway" tone to that page.

They seem sort of like StackOverflow or Basecamp from a bootstrap perspective, without the warm fuzzy feeling you get from interacting with either of those companies.

So the plastic lining inside the can (1) uses as much plastic as a plastic bottle and (2) is as damaging to the environment?

Since the answer to both of those questions is no, it's more than a PR move.

If someone is murdered now (evening of August 13th) and their body is discovered tomorrow at 7am, does that mean they were murdered at 7am?

If I call my friend at 7:30am and tell him, does that mean the person was murdered at 7:30am?

>The only reason people go underground to sell exploits is for the money.

Not reputation? Not the thrill of it? Not hatred of Apple? Not plain maliciousness?

I'm not saying it's best practice. I'm just describing some things I've seen.

I'm sure that's some of it, but it's also a result of lists being pulled ahead of time. Imagine you have 100,000 subs and 10,000 of them are going to get promotion A and then another 15,000 (with some overlap) promotion B. Often, the lists are pulled before the content is ready. Sometimes getting the final approval on marketing emails takes a bit, and so the person who unsubbed when they got email A are already on the list for email B.

This is a great description. There's also the corollary which is "PR is printing what other people want, journalism is printing what some people don't want". Those people will of course see you as biased.

It's certainly flawed, but providing all of the assets creates a different class of problems. Both approaches have pros and cons, plus the original comment I replied to passed it off as a solution to the problem at hand, which it's not.

Many sites use dozens of domains. Some (probably most) are ads, tracking, and the like. But much of it is stuff needed to run the site. I don't think there is a reasonable set of defaults other than things not on an ad blocker blacklist. And asking the user to approve each domain on a page is too much -- how would they decide, and how would they know which one prevented the site from working properly?

There's a huge difference between biased or inaccurate coverage and flat out made up stories. The NYT publishes very few of the latter. Fake news sites publish 100% of the latter. That's a pretty significant difference.

> Extensions should be able to have their permissions limited by domain (e.g. to customize YouTube or Reddit) at a minimum.

This seems like a good idea until you realize that the behavior you might want to modify is coming from a different domain loaded by the page and you have no control over how they set that up.

Umm, yes. Or more properly, English plus hand gestures. We're not talking about defending a doctoral thesis here. We're talking about getting around, shopping, and eating. Every subway station has signage in English. You can point to things on a menu. Proof: millions of tourists go to Tokyo every year and very few speak Japanese.

Umm, kemiller2002 perfectly described the justice system of the good ole US of A. Once a prosecutor wants to get you, they stack all kinds of charges together to take your 1 year crime and make it a total of 10 years in prison, so you'll take a deal that gets you back to the original. At the Federal level, the conviction rate is 93%. Even if you are innocent, you can still be convicted.

> Edit: don't break the laws when you [sic] being prosecuted;

What? The whole point is you can't help but break a law.

I realize you are being somewhat facetious, but calling your (presumably unlawful) market manipulation tool EnhancedOrderManager isn't really the answer. Not building the unlawful tool is.

> far more demanding than most other jobs

And you've just made my point for me. "Most" other jobs. It's not the most difficult, most physical, most dangerous. Where are the people saying people in job "X" can't possibly study after a day at work? Somehow, that reasoning is confined to warehouse workers.

There are a lot of awful jobs. Roofer in Phoenix in the summer, for example.

No, I don't think people are being too lenient -- it's a bit more subtle than that. There are many physically demanding jobs, some as much or more so than warehouse worker. I was questioning why we never see people say people in those job families couldn't possibly study after a day at work.

What you want to do is also irrelevant, as you might have an enjoyment of carpentry. Me, I hate it, and would rather be a warehouse worker.

1. Is it really too much to believe that someone with a physically demanding job might be in good enough condition to do something else after work? I'm pretty sure folks in all sorts of physical jobs have physical hobbies as well. You never hear this sort of excuse about carpenters.

2. It's hard to work full time and go to school after. It's by definition going above and beyond.

If you paid the $30, you might be considered to be on the Pro plan. I (like others in this thread) received an email stating that Pro service will continue uninterrupted, and no action is required on my part.

No, travel insurance is not. They don't even ask health questions. The cost is based on the cost of your trip, and can be as little as $50-$100 for a decent plan on a $5k trip, and about $500 for a year.

Strictly speaking, their operations are not tax funded. Their operating budget comes from selling postage. There's a whole complicated discussion about their pension, which apparently gets some Federal funding, but day-to-day they are not tax funded.

The USPS is most certainly a government organization. It's mentioned in the Constitution. (that's the first clue). Where people get confused is that it's called a "independent agency" which simply means it doesn't fall under a Cabinet-level post. It is, however, controlled by Presidential appointees (that't the other clue it's part of the government).

Agreed. What's funny is that people now think Microsoft is this warm and fuzzy thing. They used to be far worse than they are today. For example, Microsoft Excel is nothing less than Microsoft's successful attempt to destroy Lotus 1-2-3. If the owner of the platform thinks you're getting too big for your britches, you can bet they'll try to take your revenue.

> If your agile ceremonies end up being all about giving management control -- if your story points are used to tell management how much work is getting done, if management is using the daily standup to make sure people are on-task instead of being about commitments.

Story points being used for the team and to tell management how much work is being done are not mutually exclusive. I'm also not sure of your distinction between "on-task" and "commitments". If I've made a commitment, there are some tasks that need to be performed to meet that commitment, no?

That would not be true (at least in Las Vegas). For one, the vast majority of customers of Strip casinos are tourists. For another, a casino's quarterly results can be significantly influenced by a small handful of players -- if a player is particularly lucky at baccarat, for example, the swing can be millions of dollars.

Source: industry knowledge & https://www.billionairegambler.com/2011/07/worlds-biggest-ca... (look at the Adnan Khashoggi entry).

Until IT departments get infinite resources (that is, never) there will always be a need for these JFDI solutions. Some group will always go starved for attention and have to cobble together their own solutions. IT backlogs are always longer than the resources to do the work.

That would be weird, but "he's not a great investor" is taken out of context from "he's not a great investor in the way people think". The way it would be said is "he's not a great investor in the way people think [stock picking], he's a great investor because he found this other strategy that works well."

What about he's "not a great investor in the way people think" leads you to believe "he's not a great investor"?

While the specific examples provided don't provide immediate value, one should not overlook the value of the "Badge of Seriousness". Perhaps the receptionist job at such a firm should be looked at as less of a receptionist job and more of a sales job. If they lose out on business because they are not perceived as a serious firm, then the receptionist job provides quite a lot of value to the company, just not in the "answering phones" sort of way.

This is, of course, a brilliant comment. Well stated.

The only thing I can add is perhaps a corollary to this, which is "nothing causes a business to fail more than solving a non-existent problem" which is what Juicero did.

Sure, but why are they gangsters? Because it's illegal.

If it were legal, they wouldn't be called gangsters, they'd be called Heroin Distributors, LLC.

Who's really the root cause of the problem here? I'd argue the gangsters are a symptom and the laws are the root cause.

> When you are charged with a crime, even if you can prove your innocence, generally your day to day life suffers great harm that can be considered a punishment for daring to do what ever got you charged with the crime in the first place.

Or for daring to do nothing at all, in the case of mistaken identity or a straight frame job. I mention this out only to say your points here are correct, but the situation is actually much worse than you portray.