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What apps are in the gray area? To me it’s pretty clear and not much room for “making an argument.”

This isn’t an Apple “senior executive” exactly. Probably not one of the top 100 guys.

The whole “diversity industry” (and it is a huge industry) is based on a lie... that “diversity” improves a company’s performance. The research on this is so shaky with so much empirical evidence to the contrary, and everyone knows it, which is why companies are trying to do nothing more than “lip service.”

"this reminds me almost exactly of what I was asked to do while working for a short guy and his wife."

"What do you have against short men?"

This was always a fun duck idea made mainly to serve Central Valley towns whose population could not justify such an expensive boondoggle. Glad to see Newsom speak some truth and put an end to this lunacy.

Because detail is how we bring stories to life. Otherwise all of our statements would be “I did a thing with a person.”

My working definition of religion is a system that produces easy answers to tough questions. These tough questions can eat away at a person so religion has an important “damping” function in a society, especially with the 90% of the population who need an answer to these questions to stay mentally healrhy

Great, Google gets 5 more years from its technical women while the kids are raised by government mouth breathers. No thanks

My values don’t contain anything about Taiwan. I’ll call whatever you want because I don’t think I have nearly enough contextual knowledge to know who is “right” and “wrong” in that conflict.

It’s not that Amazon is primarily culpable, it is that a person in the US has more leverage, however minimal, over Amazon than over the Saudi king.

My friend "applied," knowing full well it was a scam. He said that he regretted nothing, as it allowed him to fantasize about the journey more concretely. So perhaps it served the same function as pornography.

The median is certainly lower than $79, and may even be $0.

200 companies at $5m is only a billion dollars. Softbank is deploying close to 100 times that, so they write checks 100 times the size.

The term “social justice warrior” doesn’t refer in modern parlance to people who leave bad reviews for SaaS products. It’s a term referring to a particular conflict in American culture/politics and just detracts from any point you’re trying to make.

I used Dropbox’s 2GB for eight years before becoming a paying user.