jchoca

Maybe "most companies" was the wrong choice of wording. How about "most large companies that actually influence the world?"

Most people in business, like most people generally, are ethical human beings. Good to deal with, trust worthy and reliable.

It doesn't matter if the people you've anecdotally dealt with are ethical. It doesn't even matter if most of the people "in business" are ethical. The incentive structure to make the right choice for large public companies, or even venture-backed private ones just isn't there.

I wish I was incorrect, but I'm not. If I was, we wouldn't still have companies producing fossil fuels, animal agriculture, or surveillance capitalism.

You say that, but it’s how most companies operate unfortunately.

I just started using this service: https://controld.com/

$20 a year and acts as an ad-blocker too. NextDNS is another one. It's nice you don't need to install anything (other than configuring DNS). Using DNS for ad-blocking also avoids the "we noticed you're using an ad-blocker" popups.

Facebook bought it up because they saw the opportunity for that sweet behavioral surplus and just couldn't pass it up.

I think the problem is not with threads themselves but with Slack's implementation. Threads provide a much-needed way of creating a discussion around a specific topic that doesn't pollute the main channel. In Slack they seem like more of an afterthought than a primary communication tool.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989112/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23372809/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...

If we care about collateral damage done to animals due to plant farming, then we should still stop eating animals due to the efficiency loss in calories when converting plants to animal calories. 70% of soy is grown for animal feed, and so is something like 50% of corn. Don't tell me all cows just need to be grazing all the time. There just isn't enough land for that. Even assuming 100% of our calories aren't coming from meat.

The carnivore diet simply isn't sustainable. Suggesting that's something the entire human race should be doing is lunacy. I'd wager all these people who feel good on the carnivore diet feel that way because they've stopped consuming processed carbs and other garbage. Meanwhile that diet and keto are associated with increase in all-cause mortality.

Those who choose not to get vaccinated are making a risk calculation; they are making a choice.

Yes, but that choice does not only impact them. Being disallowed the luxury of going to restaurants and bars could be seen as a form of payment for creating that externality.

I wish more companies thought like this in general. I often think about the nature of the work I'm doing as a developer and wonder if it's making society better off as a whole. The answer is usually a resounding no.

Having guests with opposing views doesn't make it less of an echo chamber when the host is totally biased towards one of the opposing viewpoints.

I wonder what effects the lack of variety might have on someone's gut bacteria.

If you haven't heard of John Carmack I highly recommend this book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom

Completely agree. I think it would be okay to pick up a book on React or whatever, but only after I've had some real-world experience with it so I can actually appreciate the concepts.

One of my friends started a company that basically does that. It's called Qualaris (http://qualaris.com/).

A less related question: how do you decide between adding something as a property vs. creating a new subresource?