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Agreed, I think the word "nazi" does the article a disservice. Whether or not it's specifically nazi ideology or alt-right or something else, it's undeniable that the X/Twitte…

I think the problem is that most local restaurants don't have trademarks nor the acumen/money to register them because they never figured they'd have to fend off things like that.

Basically, there's a spectrum which has at its ends two extremes: 1. R&D 2. Maintenance These aren't about the actual activities performed; R&D could also be something like finding p…

I read a Substack titled "Does AI have a gross margin problem" recently that stipulated that Anthropic was operating at 50-55% gross margins and investors expect long-term gross margins to b…

One aspect this article doesn't feature that's super important imo is the difference between a team that's figuring something out and a team that's keeping something going. An inte…

I certainly trust him more than Elon

I'm European and there's a lot to bemoan and many reasons why Europe is behind (overregulation, fragmentation, etc.). And this article is directionally correct in the sense that Europe has i…

I think we take this for granted with physical objects—everyone knows the qualitative difference of writing with a fountain pen vs. a promotional pen from a trade show fair, or the difference between …

All positions we know today. At the time when computers went mainstream, it automated many jobs we no longer have (e.g. manually calculating spreadsheets), but also created new entry-level ones. Peopl…

That's a funny idea—if the KPI was boosting adoption of a feature and the PM just made that feature the default and suddenly adoption was through the roof. The sad part is we can't rule that…

I mean it's probably somewhere, deep in the ToS but pretty sure if you showed that machine voice to the advertisers they wouldn't approve.

Another annoying version of this is localized google results. I'm originally from country A, live in country B, but work in English, which is not the language of either place. But google will the…

I absolutely hate this. I have the exact same thing. Even if the technology was good, I speak both languages and want to see the original. Why is it so hard to just add something as a setting/fea…

I think this is definitely true in the sense that some tasks pf junior tech jobs are evaporating. But when computers became ubiquitous, bankers worried what associates would do for a living if nobody …

I'll always applaud people building things and experimenting and building momentum, so I think this is a worthwhile exercise, but practically questionable. I think this is extreme micro-optimizat…

I work in the billing space at Lago, so I think I can add a bit of color (though I'm also somewhat confused). Technically speaking, billing and payments are two separate things. For example: Open…

Would love for this to be true, but how much of this is an intellectual writer talking about how other intellectuals (a novelist, Patrick Collison) liking literature? I'm not saying it's not…

I think it's a psychological thing where we assume what's fun can't be highly paid and what sucks must be worth a lot of compensation. The intersection between highly paid and passionat…

But you're precisely proving my point: If you're willing to go through all of that, you're super committed to that job! If you're committed for the right reasons or not ultimately …

As someone who's not into gaming, it's still astounding to me how people endure the working conditions in that industry just because they're obsessed with video games. I suppose it'…

> I think you're on the right track, but in my opinion, it is more about having reliable employees than employees who care or are engaged. Sure! I think the (maybe sad) reality is that most la…

I think you could make that case for most of Europe. I think Europe has this internalized narrative that our tech companies build what worked in the US, but GDPR-compliant or some other thing. Lots of…

I don't think these things are really done because you get more done at an office. I think it's more of a litmus test: If you care about your work enough that you're willing to come to …

As an Audible customer, I don't really mind this. Unless you're listening to a book read by the author or a Sci-Fi audiobook with multiple actors voicing characters, I already have zero loya…

I think the type of coding AI is great at is the opposite of what OSS doesn't need. There's a quote in the article: > maybe 20 to 30 percent of the code that is inside of our repos today …