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I don't know that replaceability (true or not) should have that much of an outsized impact on the expectations of humane treatment

I realize capitalism rewards scarcity here, but imo this is a piece explicitly about the tolls that tends to bring

i've never seen a company take action from someone leaving, and any push for change has to be sustained by people still at the company.

i'd be curious if anyone has ever seen it happen

i think there's also a fallacy there that you can't work on billion dollar cases while also pursuing million dollar ones

even if they were the same people, relatively simple cases like this probably helps provide some sense of closure while the big fish are being hunted

like art, not all software must be commercial

> Being an engineer who wasn’t happy with a situation like this, I gave my manager a piece of my mind. She brought gender into the equation and said that I couldn’t speak to a girl like that, so I decided to hang up the phone.

I'm going to guess there's more to "gave my manager a piece of my mind" than described that led to firing

Talk about property taxes next tim

(this was published back in dec)

This article is focusing on user customization in the wrong places. OS window chrome is mostly invisible to most users nowadays. The places where customization happens is within apps. Custom emojis, sticker packs, browser themes, slack themes, whatever else.

IMO "theming" and customizing visual appearance is alive and well. But it's moved to higher layers.

> They've solved the trust and the brand issue, and _that_ is their moat.

I think they've solved it better than their competitors, but I'm not sure that they've solved it broadly for people using hospitality services.

For better or worse, one bad experience tends to sour people that I've talked to on the overall host-driven places to stay. Whereas for hotels and other more traditional forms, that seems to be compartmentalized to specific locations ("ugh, the hilton in boston") or chains ("I'm avoiding all Marriots from now on").

teachers at your school are able to directly effect organizational budgeting and spending?

> $1 per mask to $10 per mask would still be very much affordable for everyone who really needs a mask

teachers and many essential workers who need masks the most are also most vulnerable to unexpected expenses like PPE costs. and the organizations they work for typically have strict budges and can usually only provide limited supplies.

that statement feels wildly out of touch.

I've started using IFTTT to sent RSS feed updates over to my email, and I think I've finally found my preferred way of consuming feeds.

My email client is actually much more powerful than most readers in letting me capture read status and labels / sorting.

> Epic, btw, has the exact same kind of agreement with Sony, Microsoft, and Google, for access to their gaming platforms. All three of those companies are extracting the same 30% fee that Apple is.

You don't have to agree to Epic's terms to access the platforms from Sony, MS and Google. You do, however, have to agree to Apple's terms to access their Platform.