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There’s an interesting blindness on a forum full of tech workers to the idea of market pricing being divorced from COGS. That’s kind of the whole premise of our industry.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think skiplagging should be a crime or anything. But I also think the airline is well within their (legal and moral) rights to prohibit it contractually and to enforce that prohibition.

Honestly when you put it like that it sounds like a pretty sweet deal. We get a few years of irrationally cheap services for free? I’ll take that.

VC-subsidized Ubers were awesome in my mid 20s. It’s too expensive now for everyday use but I still banked all that consumer surplus.

Amusingly the inverse Cramer ETF is in the red YTD

Yeah this is the way I feel about it. I’m not exactly clamoring for it but if someone (Apple) released a super well executed foldable phone with no major downsides I’d happily pay an extra few hundred for it at my next upgrade. Apple is probably happy to let competitors iron out all the kinks and then they’ll release an iPhone 21 Max Fold and sell a billion units.

My dental hygienist whipped out a foldable phone last week to show me a picture of her granddaughter. First time I’ve seen one in the wild. There was a very distinct thick dark line/crease down the middle of the picture… it was all I could look at.

It’s the ball hitting the paddles and bouncing on the ground. It’s a very distinctive sound

I’ve seen precisely zero of that. Scratching my head at this second hand anecdote and your motivation for sharing it

AIM was 1:1 not broadcast, apples and oranges

Facebook was bootstrapped off existing IRL social networks (i.e. Harvard undergrads)

Yes there is a mute feature, both for accounts and for words/phrases

Nah Reddit is pretty much back to normal. The protest is over.

There are a few big subreddits like r/interestingasfuck that are still closed, but these are more like meme channels than communities. People can just get the same dozen gifs a day from r/damnthatsinteresting, r/whoadude, etc.

It used to be that you could get a paper for a quarter out of a machine on the street. That quarter covered printing and delivery. the newspaper had a classified ads section (plus inline ads, plus ad inserts) which actually funded the people who make the newspaper.

Join an early stage startup with a founder that can raise money and build partnerships

People want to participate in their communities and have access to historical posts and comments. Mods are not letting them do that.

They've already reversed the permanent closing: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/14aifzm/rstartrek...

Turned out lots of the community members don't care about this and don't want to move. Shocking stuff

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Elon gave out a bunch of blue/gold checks for free in a sort of whimsical way so it’s impossible to know if anyone paid for it

Damning with faint praise

Moneyball has a little bit of this. Not sure how I feel about it cohesively but it has some excellent “people talking in conference rooms” scenes

You may be able to use this fact to your advantage if you can get someone to pay attention. Ask them to send a confirmation code to the old email and then produce it

No disrespect to you personally but after reading all your comments in this thread I definitely wouldn’t want you flying a plane that I was on

The problem is that the blue check has become a culture war so all the blue checks are aligned with Elon (either politically or in temperament) so the top replies to popular tweets are dominated by that tribe. The old way (whatever it was) wasn’t great but at least you got a mix. Not good for the product imo, it would be nice if he offered a setting to choose your ranking algo for tweet replies.

Maybe things will settle down though and blue checks will become more evenly distributed (or engagement will tank and he’ll roll this back)

Professional managerial class. Generally used derisively to refer to people with high paid jobs who serve the interests of the wealthy.

They didn’t exactly hide it but they certainly didn’t make a big deal about it. Likely because there is no software fallback

Got contacted by a FAANG recruiter, had a nice general chat and she said she wanted to get me together with the hiring manager to learn more about the role. She emphasized that it would not be a coding interview, which I interpreted to mean it would not be a technical interview.

So I didn’t prepare at all, anticipating a chat where they did most of the talking and I maybe talked a bit about my work history.

I get on the call and the guy starts peppering me with specific questions about a technology I had said I liked but hadn’t worked with for like 5 years.

I made the mistake of BSing a few things. the guy immediately caught on to the BS and seemed to have a good time calling it out. Very embarrassing. It felt like I was getting cross examined or something. After about ten minutes I managed to get off my back foot and end the interview, salvaging some of my dignity.

He weirdly became extremely friendly after I said I didn’t think this was a good fit. Still not quite sure how to interpret that.

There’s also a pretty popular podcast called Drink Champs where they get the guests super drunk

Yeah or they can just use their own phone

It used to work as more of a screen mirror (e.g. if the passenger changes apps on the phone the CarPlay screen would change as well) but they updated it a few years ago and now they are totally independent, except there’s only one “version” of each app so if you change the navigation destination on the phone it’ll change on the CarPlay screen.

Saying Elon “believed” the diver guy was a pedophile is cutting Elon a lot of slack. Perhaps “imagined” or “wanted to believe” or, more charitably, “guessed” would be more appropriate.

Most likely what happened is Elon felt insulted and decided to use his enormous platform to make wild allegations

Fwiw I work right by the spheres and walk by multiple times a day and things are generally bustling. Restaurants and food trucks have lines at lunch time, buses are crowded, etc. and there’s been a clear trend over the past year. Try grabbing a salad at evergreens at 12:30 on a weekday if you don’t believe me.

So imo this theory doesn’t pass the smell test.

It’s a good song but I’m struggling to see how it applies to the topic under discussion. Maybe if Amazon was paying their workers in Amazon gift cards I could see it.

Or maybe if Amazon owned apartments that they rented out to their employees? Afaik that’s not the case. GP said they own “skyscrapers” but really they own their own office buildings which are mostly like 4-10 stories tall and do not include apartments