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New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

SaltyBackendGuy — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:03:11 +0000

Maybe legal red tape?

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

SaltyBackendGuy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:40:06 +0000

You're spot on (ex casino worker). There's no conspiracy. Speaking for myself, I was nice to people because it made me more money in tips (also, because I am not an a-hole). Made a lot of "friends" when I worked in the casino, employees and patrons. It's not any different than folks I work with in tech (i.e. some you connect with and have genuine friendships and some are work friends). They likely stopped calling her due to upper management telling staff to not engage due to legal liability (or they lose their job).

edit: Additionally, there are whales and there are folks who's job it is to get them in the door (we had game managers for the big games).

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

SaltyBackendGuy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:35:06 +0000

It depends on what you mean by "win".

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

SaltyBackendGuy — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:38:16 +0000

This is a common archetype when people get challenged (escalation of commitment), they effectively double down. I don't necessarily think it was racially motivated (but also don't doubt that it could have been).

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

SaltyBackendGuy — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:56:46 +0000

I am honestly a bit disappointed it couldn't do basic things, like play X on Spotify. To be fair, I accidentally activated Grok for holding the voice command button too long (which is another UX issue - i.e. 2 voice command interfaces).

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "MacBook Neo"

SaltyBackendGuy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:50:43 +0000

I might be a dinosaur but I just can't stand laptops that have touch screen...

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

SaltyBackendGuy — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:29:25 +0000

This reminds me of a great freakonomics podcast that talked about China being run by engineers and America being run by lawyers.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/china-is-run-by-engineers-a...

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

SaltyBackendGuy — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:20:03 +0000

Hopefully they had the confidence/insight to negotiate properly. I went through BN$ exit (was employee 19) early in my career and unfortunately, only select people at the top got retirement money. The most frustrating part was the Big Co. execs that came in much later, did literally nothing, and got a massive payday. Lesson learned though...

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid"

SaltyBackendGuy — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:35:43 +0000

> Trump has been the only one that the corporations couldn't buy

Hasn't he accepted donations from many mega corporations? My assumption is that a corporation wont donate money, without the expectation of ROI.

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory"

SaltyBackendGuy — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:23:33 +0000

Tragedy of the commons / bounded rationality for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

SaltyBackendGuy — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:41:13 +0000

Meet still works on Pixel phones as a solution/parity for FaceTime. I wonder if it's bundled in the web build or they're the same build under the hood.

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Claude in Chrome"

SaltyBackendGuy — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:53:10 +0000

More billable hours.

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"

SaltyBackendGuy — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:45:00 +0000

Something I've found useful is just reaching out to past employees. Usually folks that don't work there anymore will be more transparent. Only challenge is getting someone to respond to you, but you'd be surprised how many folks will talk if you don't come off like you're trying to sell them something or a bot.

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

SaltyBackendGuy — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:28:25 +0000

This made me laugh. I tried Epic because I got a free game that I was interested in, but could only play it on the Epic Game store. After a week, I was no longer able to login no matter what I tried. So anecdotally, your statement tracks with my experience.

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15"

SaltyBackendGuy — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:17:04 +0000

> For one there is no indication that parents are any more literate in regards to digital practices than their kids

This one hit me recently. My 4th grader has a friend who is on tik-toc and has a phone. Me, living in a bubble, where other parents I've met are terrified of social media and phones for their kids, was shocked when I met the mom and she wasn't aware of all the negative impact of social media. But, like with smokers, you can tell them it's bad for you but it's up to them to quit.

It's absolutely a collective action problem.

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Nasdaq 100 set for worst week since April meltdown"

SaltyBackendGuy — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:31:47 +0000

One of the scariest quotes I read from Why Markets Fail - John Cassidy, is a quote from a big wig at a large financial institution.

While acknowledging being in a bubble the quote was "While the music is playing, you have to get up and dance".

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Ivy League psychologist: 'Bring your whole self to work' is bad advice"

SaltyBackendGuy — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:04:37 +0000

Isn't this just baked into the social fabric of humanity?

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players"

SaltyBackendGuy — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:49:45 +0000

Exactly. You want zero risk asymmetric payouts.

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

SaltyBackendGuy — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:08:10 +0000

This is my take as well. Nothing will improve until we roll back Citizens United.

New comment by SaltyBackendGuy in "Why more SaaS companies are hiring chief trust officers"

SaltyBackendGuy — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:29:37 +0000

I am the Chief Apology Officer.

"We're really sorry it broke again, it wont happen again.. again"