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Excellent article really enjoyed it.

Yeah, this is the kind of thing that makes me really enjoy the internet.

Thought provoking critiques of recent implantations. Number 2 seems like a catch-22 though — how does the group with agency identify their own blind spots?


I would recommend if anything a life-experiences checklist of the team collectively. Did any of them hail from rural poverty? Urban poverty? Did they attend a fancy dinner party? Were or are they disabled in some way? Can they read? Did they do factory work? Customer service work? Did any not go to colllege? Did they go to college?

All those questions build a picture of perspectives they may have missed. The real hard part is figuring out which ones are germane to the circumstances involved. Books not being accessible to the illiterate should have gaps and even collectively you should expect a career bias.

An auto engineering team may or may not have anybody with factory floor experience but all will have worked in the auto industry. They would be expected to be more familiar with the terms by necessity. Thus they may need external focus groups to jusge ledgibility to outsiders.


> I would recommend if anything a life-experiences checklist of the team collectively. Did any of them hail from rural poverty? Urban poverty? Did they attend a fancy dinner party? Were or are they disabled in some way? Can they read? Did they do factory work? Customer service work? Did any not go to colllege [sic]? Did they go to college?

I think such a wide-ranging exercise is likely to waste time and not help the team's performance. It might serve some other purpose, but improving team performance is not it.

> An auto engineering team may or may not have anybody with factory floor experience but all will have worked in the auto industry.

An auto engineering team with some guy who used to work on the factory floor is exactly the kind of diversity that I think would actually improve team performance.


My impression is that the question is whether “business” in this instance refers to the Yellowpages company itself, or the companies that make up their customers base.


Yes, and my read is that "business" was internal to Yellowpages.


Damaging USAID irreparably damages the US soft power around the globe. As Elon’s businesses are not limited to US borders, I wonder if there is perhaps a bigger picture here.


FWIW, this is now possible albeit with a third party app: https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise


Proper focus-follows-mouse does not autoraise the window when it gives it focus. I see that that app does offer "don't raise the window" (which I think is an improvement from last time I was researching this some years back), but only under an "experimental feature" flag that relies on undocumented private macos APIs that might go away in any future macos version...


FWIW wBlock is on GitHub and can be used without an Apple account. I’ve found it to be excellent.


Lossless Cut is free, open source, and very simple to use. Highly recommend. Wayyyyy lighter than screen flow.


Lossless Cut is a 300 Mb Electron app, not exactly light. But it does its job.


If the US government requests such access, do you see a world in which Waymo says no, given the current landscape?


Furthermore, if a National Security Letter came along with that request, Waymo wouldn't be able to let anyone know about it.


I think you might be happily surprised for sure.


Just fwiw, my understanding is that this has already happened on both Android and iOS (via TestFlight): https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/


That's not Facebook moving to an alternative store, that's Facebook the company introducing another application outside of the store.

Also worth noting that they got called out and ultimately shut down for being shady. Even though they were operating outside of Apples locked down environment. It's almost like we don't need Apple to protect us, and in fact we can protect ourselves


Here's what they just got caught doing on Android - "secretly communicating with Meta’s apps on Android devices"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/protect-yourself-metas...


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