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No, that doesn't constitute implicit moral approval. We all understand that platforms and providers can't police each individual user. That's a concern about logistics, not moral consistency.

That said -- there are products that Shopify does (and would) kick a user for selling. Shopify isn't neutral, in fact, they're saying Breitbart is acceptable.

They frame it as "imposition of morality" though the issue is broader than that, i.e. Breitbart's tendency to incitement and spreading disinformation.

Crying "free speech" over issues of incitement or violence is the bread-and-butter of the alt-right, and I'm deeply curious as to why Shopify decided to employ that tactic.

> In a way, my position is an appeal to preserve some of the gray in the world. All solutions necessarily have to come from the middle ground.

This is bankrupt, morally and intellectually.

As someone who owns a couple rental units, the prospect of being a rent-seeking gentrifier or a slumlord

Lmao, if you paid $10 you got ripped off.

Genuinely lmao at the narrative that the taxi unions all got together and conspired against greener rides

yeah, real shame that the unmitigated sexual harassment got in the way of their complete avoidance of regulations

Companies that grant options could fix this in a heartbeat by extending exercise windows; they choose not to do that. Nothing to do with AMT here.

If AMT repeal would 'fix' stock options, companies will change the terms to 'break' them again because they are handcuffs, not payments.

Nothing says "normal demands of everyday life" like bouncing quarters off of bedsheets

You'd... know if it was him. He'd, uh, have some choice words about Bomb Man.

I was most surprised by this CEO who goes around messaging randoms on LinkedIn to start friendly conversations. Does that happen?

70x faster? If Crystal gets its own port of Ruby on Rails, oh boy.

If you're a tech company, and your stack is so tightly coupled to Amazon that it represents an existential threat to your server fleet, you were never going to make it anyway.

Wal-Mart, probably. They bought Jet.com, which is effectively Amazon retail. I've tried it and it works just fine.

Amazon's definitely the 900 lb gorilla of convenience, but the BATNA of simply not using them is not really a material concern for the normative middle-class consumer who can drive to Target.

Off the top of my head -- protobuf, thrift, avro, XML, lua tables, properties files, yaml.