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How would they fake it? Their own identity claims would need to be cryptographically signed.

Semi-related — why don’t we create a service in which people make employment “claims” and other people (their managers/customers) sign these claims with their own keys, so these claims can be cryptographically verified by a third party in a distributed fashion?

This way, Linkedins basic premise of being a centralized “CV as a service” would become obsolete, leaving just the social network, which I personally would gladly abandon.

I’d hang out with you.

Wouldn’t the rich afford a much better trained, larger, and computationally more intensive model?

It’s like autocomplete on steroids.

When code autocomplete first came out everyone thought software engineering would become 10x more productive.

Then it turned out writing code was only a small part of the complex endeavor of designing, building, and shipping a software system.

Doesn’t “try” imply possibility of failure to complete?

Do you have a concrete example of a laptop from 15 years ago that in your view and experience had better design than the current generation MacBook Pro?

Have you seen any viable alternative idea that genuinely improves it?

Great comment.

Kind of illustrates how detached they are from actual substance and how shallow their understanding of what bad UX really means.

Another way to say it would be: XMPP is hostile to power efficiency.

Would osmin basil[1] fit the bill?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sa=X&sca_esv=923...

What editor was generally used to draw these?

My understanding is that every employees compensation (from the janitor to the CEO) is basically a function of “how different would the outcome for the shareholders be if this person was replaced with someone else”.

Obviously Apple wouldn’t be Apple without Jobs, Tesla without Musk, and Amazon without Bezos.

Moving on from founders, we saw the cardinal difference between Balmer and Nadella for Microsoft.

So there’s some merit to their role. One could argue that from a shareholders perspective it’s the only role that matters. Every other role is an opaque “implementation detail”.

More like “five richest people in the US according to their tax returns”. Nobody has counted the money of the Saudi Prince, the president of Russia, and a few dozen other characters like these.

Intuitively it feels like their wealth would eclipse Elon Musk.

Ok but you’ve lost your mission, your tools to accomplish that mission, and effectively your company.

My impression was that this wasn’t how the US worked?

I would say in my case it’s less about OCD and more about, inexplicably, dignity.

As someone who drove both, I vehemently disagree. Stripped of logos, one is delightful, the other just nominally gets the job done.

The Mercedes has superior suspension that feels plush and smooth. Wonderful materials in the cabin that feel pleasant to the touch. The buttons press with a deep, satisfying click. The seats hug you like a soft cloud.

All of that isn’t nothing. It is difficult to achieve, and it is valuable.

All of that make the Mercedes better than a Corolla, albeit at a higher cost.

A lot of them were built like a tank. Their issue was lack of features, not lack of reliability.

Every company is exactly one CEO away from doing anything none would ever expect.

How do you regulate advertising without severely restricting freedom of speech?

Communism seems like the only reasonable way — at least then you’re only restricting your own speech as the entity who produces these things.

Because when you're the sole owner and provider of goods, advertisement loses all meaning.

I grew up in the Soviet Union. There was one type of milk on the shelf, it was called "Milk", and I don't remember the label saying anything else.

Compare with "HORIZON ORGANIC DHA Omega-3 Supports the Brain Health organic Whole Milk" dressed in bright red and contrasting yellow, with typography that begs "please look at me, I'm the better option".

Am I right that the only truly systemic solution to the problem of ads is government regulation, with communism as its final degree?

So much this.

I don’t think we fully fathom how much everything on the Internet has degraded. And we and our children have degraded with it. Like frogs boiling alive in a pot, we never noticed it because of how gradually they increased the temperature.

The problem is that it’s extremely difficult for any activity like math, music, or drawing to compete with Minecraft and YouTube shorts.

The problem with building Uber and Lyft isn’t the process of writing the software — that’s been done many times over.

The hard part of course is investing the money in marketing and support to match the user recognition and experience that Uber and Lyft, subsidized by VC wallets, can provide to their customers.

I am fascinated by this.

How do you shop for groceries every two weeks?

Doesn’t bread go stale, milk go sour, chicken/beef/pork/eggs go spoiled, and fruits and veggies go moldy in two weeks? Where I live nobody enjoys yesterdays bread and we don’t cook meat or chicken if it’s been in the fridge for more than about five days.

Please explain how you’re able to do this, I would love not to have to shop for groceries every one or two days.

I did mention objects, not numbers. Maybe “symbols” representing concepts. I’d go with “name” for both zero and one — nonexistence and existence.

I’d paraphrase. I’d say that zero and one are the only objects. Everything else is a name.

So in a sense math is exploration of the relation between existence and nonexistence.

I now hate YouTube so much because of ads that I wonder which is WORSE for their company — watching the ads or paying for premium, just to take the option that gives them least benefit.