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Trying to point out where it was going was impossible.

“What if your opinions become deemed unacceptable?” “What do you mean? My opinions are acceptable.” “But what if one day they aren’t?” “They are though. Why do you keep saying they aren’t?”

The premise doesn't follow conclusions here. There is a big difference between a certification that says that "I know JavaScript" versus "I am in the top 10% of JavaScript developers (by whatever metric).

Coursera/Udemy/etc certs are obviously useless because they don't actually signal anything.

A "Top 10% at interviewing" cert is a bizarre idea but the two don't compare imo.

> Freedom of speech isn't freedom of consequences.

How I hate the proliferation of this idiotic phrase.

Freedom of speech is a concept, an ideal. Not whatever the US constitution says. The idea is that powerful forces won’t punish you for speaking your mind.

If saying “I don’t like blue party” gets you fired, debanked and slandered in the media; it’s not really freedom of speech.

You also have “freedom to murder”, but you need to suffer the consequences.

A freedom like that is no freedom at all.

These types of posts annoy me. I constantly see people talking about SO being "toxic", or closing perfectly good questions. And yet these people never link to specific examples.

Why is that?

This is your brain on reddit.

There are few positions more level-headed than “war bad, but bombing civilians also bad”.

Can you consider that neither Putin nor Zelensky are good people?

Funny, I could barely imagine them working at all.

If employees can jump for a significant pay raise en-mass, the companies weren’t showing loyalty to begin with.

MAGA Republicans were always anti-war.

My interest in not publicly available models is very limited.

What an excellent strategy to deal with any emergent crisis — do nothing! After enough time passes, it is no longer an emergency.

What dark patterns do “Microsoft Identity Platform SDKs” have? Or do you expect him to go pick a fight with a random PM from the Windows team?

It sounds like a pretty simple integration to write yourself. You can even keep using mailchimp, just with some glue code.

This seems to be an opinion piece titled as if it were reporting on facts.

I don’t understand why a registrar would want to eat these costs at all. Just use a third party for currency conversions at the customers expense. If you’re big enough to do it yourself, you should do it as well as financial companies. Being a consenting victim of currency arbitrage is weird.

This seems obvious, not just in retrospect but at the time. We knew kids we never really affected. We knew the only two groups who were truly at risk were the elderly and those with serious conditions. We knew kids would suffer disproportionately under the policies.

Why have we done this?

The Ottawa protests were as peaceful as large protests get. They put a hat on a statue and the media called it “defacing statues”.

> Last Friday, the top Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, called TikTok “China’s digital fentanyl.”

Brendan Carr wants us to “buy American”. Where were all these people when Facebook and company were running experiments on depressed children?

I would have expected lego to focus on small wheels

Instances blocking other instances is a complete deal-breaker for me. If I were to want an “open source community” experience, I would’ve hoped that instance operators would be powerless to stop me from following whoever I want. And yet, by the sounds of it, “following” people happens on the server instead of the client.

I imagine north America has become so politicized that they want to minimize payoffs lest they give “anti-vaxxers” ammunition.

Seems like the answer to the eternal “why does tech company X need Y employees??” is “they don’t”.

People fear what they don’t know, and the media pushing it as a partisan issue doesn’t help.

My brain no longer parses “safely” the same after all the “safe and effective” headlines over the past 2 years.

The "somebody else is willing to buy that share" is not exactly satisfying because it turns into a Greater Fool theory sort of thing.

The liquidation angle also doesn't really work because large companies generally don't liquidate themselves, and either way, it would be for way less than the value of their material assets.

The way I make sense of it for regular stocks is because big (e.g. Adobe) can come and buy someone smaller (e.g. Figma) which will distribute cash to me. This works because there is an end to the game of hot potato where the holder wins.

This however, doesn't work for Meta. If you want to acquire Meta, the *only* shares that matter are Zuck's supervoting shares. If you buy all of them except Zuck's, you don't really have anything. If you only buy Zuck's, you have everything.

So why should I be paying to buy anything except Zuck's shares? Nobody ultimately wants them, except to sell them to someone else.

I’m so confused why non-voting shares exist. If there isn’t a dividend, why are they valued at anything at all? What exactly are you holding with your non-voting share?

Never have I felt “incentivized” to produce trash. Most of my trash is because the government doesn’t curb overpackaging of products.

I always thought about this sort of space. If you get a letter of offer from a big tech co, why isn’t there a way to signal that you’re “at least Google good” without working for them.

The documented mass murder of iraqis is unfathomable. You will never even see a million people in your life. All of them had their families, careers, hopes for the future.

As an Amazon interviewer, this generally shouldn’t happen. Every interviewer is assigned different LPs so they shouldn’t ask you the same thing twice.

I am honestly excited for the future that popular remote work is bringing. Instead of all business being concerned in major cities, where building owners get to skim earnings from workers and businesses, we will get equalization between the cities big and small.

This benefits literally everyone except the parasitical industries (i.e. rent seekers)