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I stopped reading immediately after this: The endless war between Vim and Emacs users has continued ad nauseam over the years. "It's less a war at this point than a grumbling shuffle of ingrained habit and stubborn resistance to change."

I am very interested in "workflowy offline" for Desktop. I'm unable to use Workflowy at work at all because it syncs everything to the cloud. Just an FYI.

This is incorrect.

https://mashable.com/article/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-detai...

lol im sorry but this is probably not the best go-to example of real world consequences:

> What if one of the databases has a record of credits you've purchased at your local spin studio?

p.s. bobby tables did it first

> Designed to protect your privacy, Mac notebooks have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on.

LOL

Yup that's how I knew of Ecstacy of Gold originally. First album I ever had. Our walk out song in HS basketball was to the S&M version. I also went to the second showing of S&M^2 in SF.

I didn't realize he composed Ecstacy of Gold. Thanks for sharing: https://youtu.be/ZNGe7iK1O-4

The sad thing is, what are they going to do? Change it? Leave? Let's pretend each of these individuals are making $2M a year. They'll just be replaced with someone else that'll take the humongous paychecks. They could take a moral stand and leave, and I think continuing to work in that environment would be hard, but I don't fault the individual to the point I'd consider them a "bad person." Their complicity in these activities is not bad enough to warrant being angry at them, but I do feel a bit sorry for them. It is a hard choice they wouldn't have to make if there was a bit more oversight of these internet behemoths.

Use Firefox and DuckDuckGo instead of Chrome and Google.

This seems like an easy thing to test for? "Like, are you sure you wanted to pay 19,403x in fees over what you're transferring? Please submit again if yes." Unreal.

Anyone in this thread that is saying there is nothing wrong with this practice likely has an agenda.

The NCAA should be given the death penalty https://deadspin.com/c/death-to-the-ncaa

Good addendum (which causes to donate to) after the site is back up and running!

So grateful for everything you have done. Please list at length here what gives you the right to shit on efforts of others.

Hug of death

You are female then? The author used the word "all" also.

Hello Streisand Effect! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Go ahead and downvote... same goes for Amazon (hello antirust), Facebook, and any other company. They are not your friend... they are your adversary.

Zomg good thing this is visible.

STOP BUILDING FOR CHROME. THEY WILL DELETE YOU. THEY WILL INVALIDATE YOU. OR THEY WILL COPY YOU.

I wonder if a dedicated company could build a non-privacy invasive RSS reader that could: (1) show targeted ads based on a user's curated blog feed; (2) Develop a profit-sharing model for those authors that generate the most traffic. I'm kind of thinking like hackernews but (A) user-curated content; and (B) Advertising; and (C) optional subscriptions to support the bloggers. There could of course be a discovery mode to find new blogs, but the default would be user-curated. To ensure payments were significant enough to overcome the micropayment problem, perhaps a "minimum payout" could be set for authors so they could accumulate proceeds (and see some fruits of their labor without having to set up their own individual payment system) even if they couldn't withdraw them yet. If someone really was motivated they might even be able to set this up as a non-profit. Just kind of a brain dump. Thinking of this as "the front page for blogs" by bloggers for bloggers (instead of a big corporation whose primary objective is to generate profits, which is exceedingly difficult with traditional RSS feeds). Fraud and spoofing views would be an obvious challenge of this framework.

Really well written email... This seems like a smart thing to do: `We must establish ourselves as a self-sustaining enterprise that no longer relies on new capital or investors to keep growing, expanding, and innovating.`

I think the issue with your original comment is with "there's no point," which is in effect invalidating the opinion of others.

Congrats!

Aren't there more than two explanations for "won't" beyond (1) ignorance or (2) malice? Perhaps we are the ones who are ignorant for why things are this way.

This video by Ray Dalio, "How the Economic Machine Works in 30 Minutes" is an excellent primer on understanding the financial system as a whole: https://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0

I disagree and I think your "come on man" comment is ignorant, as though a journalist did not put in effort on the article you so blithely dismiss. On top of that your lack of insight or significant analysis is stunning for a comment with 100+ upvotes. And no, I'm not on Reddit. As you offered nothing but your opinion I'll leave this as mine.

This anecdote is particularly damning for Lambda School, like a hedge fund choosing not to update their investment return numbers year after year because they were so great in year 1:

> So where does that 86 percent figure come from? Lambda has reported graduate-outcome statistics at the Council on Integrity in Results Reporting (CIRR), a voluntary trade organization of coding boot camps whose purpose is to ensure that participating schools publish truthful information about student outcomes. Allred has often used this report to defend his company online. But where other boot camps have multiple reports spanning many student cohorts, Lambda has only reported statistics for its first 71 graduates — 86 percent of who, the school claims, found jobs. Sheree Speakman, the CEO of CIRR, told me that Lambda has not undergone the standard independent auditing for the sole report it has submitted, and that her communications to Lambda School regarding further reporting and auditing have gone unanswered.

Agreed! Was looking forward to some questions from the employee perspective. I find constructive criticism and feedback to be very helpful in staying on track.