afinlayson

Love this. Most North American cities are built around cars, it'll take a lot to change this. But it won't happen by the free market alone, cities need to hire good urban planners and user experience designers to build these cities.

We gotta make consequences matter again. No one or no philosophy behind this have been punished. Small government is still a valid approach because the message of 600M is >> $80/ day doesn't get traction.

I imagine Zuckerberg doing the same thing Taika Waititi's character "Antoine" did at the end of Free Guy while watching the 60 minutes video.

I don't get why we are still using Integers to do phone calls. We could solve this with either a little bit of cooperation with Google + Apple or government stepping in

RSS has a lot of benefits for accessibility that we don't talk about enough. I often wish RSS was still a thing so I can diff pages when they update. The content is what matters not the chrome.

I’d bet they have data that prove people aren’t doing their job as well. Either the taking longer to do a task, having less team cohesion (aka I’m willing to work hard so my coworker doesn’t have to do it all themselves) or more leaks because secret hardware is seen by 3rd party individuals.

If wfh is better and companies like Apple aren’t adapting they’ll see it in their stock price because they aren’t as efficient as their competitors, more people will quit and we’ll see new startups doing similar things named after other fruit.

3x2 means they can test both hypothesis and will know which is better after the pandemic. So that’s a big improvement over the company when I was there. Where only those who proved themselves got to wfh (I did at times and I have friends who have been able to for years)

It's hilarious how many people are religious about WFH. Like arguing you must not have a social life or you are extraverted if you need to be in the office.... Some people like the office some don't. At the end of the day if people working from home get more done, they'll be allowed to do so. But I've seen a lot of schedules slip the last year, most likely it's because of the pandemic, but maybe it's the ability to come to a space and focus. In a year if companies that remain WFH get more done, then that'll become the norm, but if people who WFH get less done, more restrictions will be added. Instead of being a zealot about it, go prove it works for you.

It's funny how people who like remote worker expect everyone to commit to their lifestyle, like it's a religion. Some people will work better in the office others will work better at home. Not everyone is the same ... why haven't we figured this out yet

Only 72 hours a week, that's adorable ... When the iPhone first released at Apple I was working 100ish hours a week ...

In all seriousness, I was in my 20s, Apple was the dream job, and I was foolish. When you work those kind of hours you are donating money to those own the company. If you are lucky like I was you'll get some of it back. Most do not.

This is a competitive advantage for companies who can do this better than others. Different technology stacks and different development mentalities make this easier or harder. If it were easier, than smaller "startups" wouldn't beat companies like FANG.

It's not about the information you give, it's all those friends and family who signed up for it and uploaded their address book... They now have your phone number and email probably your date of birth, and even some photos of you.

They are like the credit companies, they have information on you whether you allow them to or not.

Why can't we have a private/public key phone number ... that'd fix this problem... We gotta stop using integers to identify people.

Just because Texas isn't locked down, doesn't mean everyone acts like normal. as well just because CA is locked down, doesn't mean everyone complies to the lockdown....

This is why the politicization ruined any useful correlation analysis.

It'll be a huge problem if they try that the first time they have a really bad quarter and stop their own trading. But I could see them trying if we have a "business favorable" FTC.

The question is if it's a social network for people or for him. I could definitely see someone conning him into making a fake static HTML site with "Tweets" From his phone that make it look like he tweeted.

Only works if the small town has good enough internet ...

If this ever succeeded, then you'll have crazier and crazier apps test the boundaries of platforms and sue for losing their fictitious valuation. Parler lost because it was poorly written, it's hard to keep trust when all your data is uploaded and your users go to jail for sharing that data with your platform.

Companies like Amazon have no incentives to police gaming of reviews. A purchased item is money to them, regardless of if the purchase was a sponsored purchase. It's why fake products have equal or more reviews than popular products found in stores.

Imagine building a platform like facebook today without finding your audience first ... it'd fail cough Google Plus cough You must remember there was 100s of other social media companies trying to make it that didn't succeed. Just because FB did, doesn't mean it will again.

Clubhouse's tech is so simple it could be built in a few days, the thing they figured out is how to get a clubhouse feel by having a bunch tech celebrities on their platform. It's like a secret society of people who get together in their "clubhouse" and talk about #TOPIC.

Facebook will fail, because it'll be open to all, and no one wants that.

Love the idea in theory, just wish it would export to Google Slides

100% This is why phone and internet work together. Imagine if AT&T said Verizon couldn't call its customers or couldn't connect to other websites? Yet Facebook doesn't have a way to connect to Twitter, meaning they own the whole sandbox ....

I've been in the USA for 12 years because of the pay difference, and job perks. I'd move back, but I'm married and have a family now.

The biggest stress down here is the healthcare and the immigration status, if you are at a stable enough company these aren't an issue, I'm lucky I only had 1 startup fail and cause me months of stress as I tried to fix those issues.

This is amazing!! I'm so glad you open-sourced it!

There's so many things that need to be done around real time communication ... they aren't done there. Unless they are planning on making something completely different, don't get distracted.

Wait until you hear about how some people get given free products to review them. Amazon has no incentive to police their reviews, because they just want volume.

The title made me think it was about dual/triple monitor setups.

I grew up playing video games and watching tv at the same time, never impacted me back then, but do with phones ... hmmm.

I've always wanted a git based database.

This is a giant transfer of wealth, LA, SF, SJ will all see their housing prices tank, as people who can't afford cars are expected to move to suburbs where they can park a car.

Without a minimum wage, some jobs would pay effectively zero.

You see that with waiters, who get paid below minimum wage, and are expected to make tips, the issue is if there's no customers because of a pandemic, they are now making no income.