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Exactly. Answer: How universities of yore have “prepared” founders thus far. The premise of PG’s otherwise insightful prose is on shaky ground - or at the very least - debatable.

(I hope PG isn’t outsourcing his thinking to some agentic workflow.)

I’d expect (which I grant is selfish/entitled) someone with 12k+ well-earned karma points to set a high bar for tone and constructive discourse. This feels unreasonably antagonistic.

I think you may have missed the point. Law enforcement isn’t some 100% effective panacea. And getting to the point of a class action = a lot endured. Which is OP’s point.

And so begins the enshittification.

I hope my comment ages like unpasteurized milk on a hot summer day, but I’m afraid it will age like an sp3 hybridized allotrope of carbon.

Heartbreaking. Sorry for your loss.

We’ve known about this for a while I feel from dimples on a golf ball.

You’re self-questioning and self-reflective. Totally not worried for you or by you. Keep it up.

To paraphrase Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to prioritize something when his salary depends upon his not prioritizing it.”

Waymo solved San Francisco. Non-trivial, imo. Is London more complex?

This is an evolved view. Let’s put achievements on currency, not humans. Of course, this is no panacea - “achievement” is ambiguous enough to be open to interpretation, and therefore political capture. But it’s a step forward.

Apple Vision Pro.

Emails are optimized for COA record-keeping, not efficient communication.

PR budgets exist to _prevent_ exactly this sort of response.

This is an astute point. I’m a mid-40s mech engineer in the Bay Area. HN is my tribe, by and large. I’ve been bombarded with perspectives that ADHD medication is the answer. (Not officially diagnosed, but I’m confident I meet the criteria and very likely “afflicted.”)

The brain is complex—adapted, or maladapted, for different tasks. My working hypothesis: mine is maladapted to the behaviors currently rewarded in corporate America. And I know I’m not Feynman.

So here I am, stuck in a bi-modal world (or maybe just worldview). This piece hits hard.

The comma makes it more human-readable. What separator would you suggest?

This is a largely correct, but incomplete take imo. Cultures are neither “good” nor “bad”. Some are better than others at optimizing different outcomes. Of course, culture A might be objectively better or worse for you vs culture B - depending on what you value or prefer optimizing.

This, 100%. Look East (assuming a Western reference point) for copious evidence that supports this POV. Education is a means to an end, and the only way out of abject poverty (personal experience).

Studying the classics and poetry (arguably components of a well-rounded “liberal” education) is a privileged viewpoint. Hell, I wanted to study theoretical physics. But that would be like studying poetry. Engineering just seemed more practical. Now I earn more than a tenured professor of physics at a top university. Q.E.D.

This.

More gullible fodder to influence via handheld screens.

Could you share a little bit about your journey - how you got started, your motivations? (I’m trying to teach myself programming/development, hence the curiosity.)

An elegant solution to this problem would be to enforce a very low speed limit entering the turn.

“Sharp turn ahead, reduce speed to 5 km/h”

True problem solvers. They solved a political problem, but created a real one. Certainly not engineering ethos torch-bearers.

However, they did meet spec. I’d fire leadership first.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

Terrible. Interaction loop is too slow. Not ergonomic.

People lack nuance. Nuanced views are computationally expensive.

Drones are delivering. Ukraine?

Apple does not owe Android users a superior non-Apple experience. Android a pretty damn huge platform, right? Way bigger than Apple, I hear? Blame Google. Google failed to compete.

Underrated comment.

Astute observation, and spot-on IMO.

Great app, love the privacy policy too.

How’re you planning to monetize this? Or just giving it away free?

Excellent points both. I need to ponder this…