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I’ve always just used Zelle through my bank’s app. For a large number of folks, there is no need to involve Plaid.

I think it is reasonably to maintain professional distance from your reports for that reason.

I’m not sure what you mean by “something important” but I don’t think that’s significantly different than a risk you might take with a neighbor or a classmate. You can be stuck with those as well.

I don’t they’re saying you must go to the office because people need you to socializing them, I think they’re saying some people prefer the office because they have the opportunity to socialize. And at least for my part I was agreeing that these folks exist.

I didn’t read anyone up the chain suggesting it be forced, just that there are some people who do like being together in person.

Would you say the same about school?

On the contrary some of my best friends I’ve made at work and I continue to spend time with them years after we’ve all moved on to different jobs.

I’ve always felt the “coworkers can’t be your friends” argument was as silly as saying “school mates can’t be your friends.”

Make friends where you make them.

Even with a 30 year mortgage, you can refinance (take out a new mortgage and pay the old one off early) at any point. So even if you take out a mortgage with a 6% interest rate, you’re not stuck with it if the rates go down.

Mobile app works the same way. Twitter is basically unusable to me without changing this setting.

There isn’t really a standard beyond processors publish an OpenPGP and you negotiate over support tickets to determine where an encrypted file can be delivered.

There is no standard for the file format used to exchange data. Could be JSON, CSV, Excel, etc.

How does raising children work in that world? Do you just strap them in when their infants?

(Also curious how sex and exercise work…)

You could do the same thing with a different email provider.

When I saw the title I thought this might be from someone in their 50s or 60s.

At 23 you haven’t wasted anything. You’re just getting started. I would argue instead how boring things would be if you just picked something at 10 and only did that.

We’re supposed to change as we get older. You’re not the person you were before so just focus on who you are now.

It’s possible to do none of those things.

Beneath the Surface by Stripe Press

I was just thinking this.

Personally I've migrated from sharing things with friends and family on Facebook/Instagram, to a few group chats where friends and family share photos, life moments, etc.

Somewhere along the line Facebook and Instagram made me feel like my personal photos and updates were competing against ads and other more engaging content in people's feeds, and I felt like I wasn't communicating with the people that I was on those platforms to communicate with in the first place.

Judging by the increase in messages I get through more private channels with casual update content, I don't feel alone.

I would be curious if others have had similar experiences.

> That's a good rationale for hiring a cleaner or eating at a restaurant. But I honestly haven't seen a smart device actually saving you a significant amount of time. Even a perfectly functioning vacuum robot only relieves you of vacuuming the floor. You still have to do all the other chores that are involved in keeping your place clean and tidy.

I completely agree with this. In practice I've never owned one that did anything to improve my life.

> Indeed it does, but trust includes deciding who you can trust. Why would you specifically trust a tech company not to collect data about you?

> Incentives of toaster and car companies are roughly aligned with yours: The companies have no interest in setting your house on fire or causing a car crash. Meanwhile, incentives of smart device makers are strongly disaligned with yours: They you want to keep privacy, they want as much data about you as they can get.

I don't think it is that black and white. A random fly-by-night company certainly does have the incentive to vacuum up as much data about you as possible. Other companies do, to some degree or another, have a reputation to consider.

For example, I do believe Amazon is interested in learning about my house. However, I do believe they are also incentivized to not sell it to the highest bidder on the open market. I think reasonable people may disagree.

See also AWS. I trust AWS not to use my interactions with them to pry into my data to sell me ads. This trust seems to so far not be violated.

I used Red Pocket, which comes down to about 2.50/month if you buy a prepaid card on eBay: https://www.redpocket.com/plans/annual

Someone might acknowledge they have a limited amount of time in their lives to worry about such things and life involves trust to one degree or another.

Maybe they believe the incentives involved result in the risk of something actually terrible happening being relatively low.

The same reason I don't worry about auditing the engineering that went into my toaster or microwave. Or car.

I haven’t had fake goods, but I’ve had it happen where a generic part seems to get substituted for an OEM part, even if it is sold by Amazon.com. Things like replacement water filters or vacuum cleaner bags.

The distinction between “browser extension” and “baked into Safari” didn’t seem like an important distinction for this discussion.

The similarities are that in both use cases the user is presented with a request to approve or deny.

The UX is similar to buying something with Apple Pay from a website in my experience.

It reduces friction for purchases.

If I am on my phone, I am more likely to complete a transaction if I can just hit the Shopify Pay button. If I need to complete some form that looks like it is from the early 2000s, I might wait until I am in front of a computer, by which point I may lose interest. (There is a lot of middle ground between these two extremes though.)

Similarly, I am more likely (when there are multiple alternatives) to revisit a merchant that uses Shop Pay because of the reduced friction.

I think the parent was referring to a private plane that you pilot. 180 would about cover the expense of fuel for the hour.

The checks would probably just bounce.

They're all owned by Evergreen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Marine_Corporation

Same. It never occurred to me that technology would need to get involved.

We have a filing cabinet where we store important papers.

This, except in my circles I heard “police abolitionist” followed by “it doesn’t really mean abolishing the police…”

Is that a new thing during the pandemic? Because booze in the economy section was definitely a thing before.

I was at Amazon for almost 10 years and my experiences echo yours. The few people that I saw PIPed were people who were under-performing. I never saw people who were performing their job be forced into a PIP category.