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New comment by jraby3 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

jraby3 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:12:26 +0000

I wouldn't call it team building. I just think of it as a reminder that we are all friends that we all have families and struggles. We're all human and doing our best.

It's at a casino because it's near our facility, has conference rooms, event spaces, entertainment, and the weather doesn't matter.

Sometimes some people sit at a table and play while hanging out and that's fine. But it's not really about drinking or gambling. Just having a little fun together and getting to know each other and our +1s on a more personal level.

New comment by jraby3 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

jraby3 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:56:25 +0000

We have one annually for my company. It's at a casino, with a few scheduled meals and some activities (video game room, trivia done by a professional company).

It's voluntary and employees are allowed to bring their spouse. I think it helps a lot with communication, especially since we are a distributed team and most peoplr don't see each other.

But it's hard for me to know for sure, no one tells the owners the truth. It is voluntary and almost everyone attends. I think most people think of it as a free vacation.

New comment by jraby3 in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

jraby3 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:04:38 +0000

In the US, Zelle payments are accepted by most major banks and are free and instant. I'm not sure how it could be better than that.

It would be nice if more smaller banks used it as well, but the US has 5k different banks.

New comment by jraby3 in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

jraby3 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:12:16 +0000

Yes and I'll become another space industry. Cleanup. Sort of like how (coal/ocean/etc) pollution is both a problem and multi billion dollar a year industry.

New comment by jraby3 in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

jraby3 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:32:45 +0000

They did and it used to take a lot of planning, using paper maps, getting lost etc.

Just like once people didn't use electricity or vaccines or indoor plumbing. For all its minuses the internet makes these long trips 10x easier.

New comment by jraby3 in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

jraby3 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:38:57 +0000

The new satellites are like 100x better.

New comment by jraby3 in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

jraby3 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:38:28 +0000

This is the right answer. They are building their own cell phone network to compete with major carriers worldwide.

New comment by jraby3 in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

jraby3 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:08:31 +0000

What happens in Nebraska?!?

New comment by jraby3 in "Is the iPhone birth control? Causal evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 monopoly [pdf]"

jraby3 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:17:23 +0000

They compared AT&T users with an iPhone (the only place you could get an iPhone) to users with other carriers.

Since people using other carriers also experienced 2008, it's not that.

New comment by jraby3 in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

jraby3 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:15:40 +0000

Population of Switzerland is around 9 million people. Slightly larger than NYC.

Comparing a country with the population of a single city in America is disingenuous. There are probably some cities in America that have faster internet than Switzerland.

New comment by jraby3 in "Healthy but sedentary people show early decline in cellular energy production"

jraby3 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:58:55 +0000

Looking at a few friend's health app on their iPhone it's amazing to me to see people who walk less than 2,000 steps a day and don't go to the gym. It's shockingly normal in some places though.

New comment by jraby3 in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

jraby3 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:34:30 +0000

That only works if the rest of the parents in your neighborhood also do it. Otherwise your kid won't be in group chats, will miss events.

I live in Israel where kids are given a phone at an extremely young age (partially because of the security situation). Teachers give homework over WhatsApp, schools announce changes to the schedule, etc.

What I'm saying is it's almost not just up to you anymore, it really depends on your circumstances.

New comment by jraby3 in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

jraby3 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:43:34 +0000

This is by far the best solution and should be the top comment.

Why is the onus on the parents to chase after their kids - screen time is awful and kids get around it.

The social media and porn sites should be penalized and the onus should be on them. Just like when we were kids, the channel couldn't show certain content like nudity and cursing or they'd be fined.

How is it suddenly the obligation of the parent to supervise a million options with horrible interfaces.

New comment by jraby3 in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

jraby3 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:37:11 +0000

My 7 year old came home crying the other day because every single person in her class has a phone except her.

I can't imagine taking it away from my older kids (14,11). They use it to chat with friends and play games with them, do homework together, make plans and share common experiences and videos.

It's not as simple as you think. You have no idea how shitty screentime is how much of a cat and mouse game it is. It's pretty easy with a two year old, you just wait and see though...

New comment by jraby3 in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

jraby3 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:33:31 +0000

Your response is incredibly ignorant. You force your kid to be excluded if they don't have a phone. They're disconnected from friends, group chat, and common experiences.

You don't have a problem with age verification for drivers license, or buying a gun, or buying alcohol. Why is social media so different?

New comment by jraby3 in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

jraby3 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:02:25 +0000

US gives Israel weapons not money.

New comment by jraby3 in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

jraby3 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:54:54 +0000

Massie going against Trump is why he lost. Plenty of republican politicians are against Israel.

New comment by jraby3 in "SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity"

jraby3 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:26:40 +0000

SpaceX is still only going to be a tiny percentage of the stocks you own in an index fund. It doesn't make sense to let this single article affect your decision making. It's obviously completely biased and cherry picking specifics (like the exact window of time you'd have needed to have a negative return in the stock market).

And spaceX was just denied fast index entry https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/s-p-dow-j...

New comment by jraby3 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

jraby3 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:09:28 +0000

This seems like it's because openAI actually partnered with Microsoft and has to give them 20% of their revenue. Anthropic isn't partnering with their cloud providers so it makes sense to me they count top line revenue and then give Amazon payment as an expense. Also the numbers seem pretty minor compared to anthropic $49B run rate. The article mentioned an openAI payment of around $500M.

New comment by jraby3 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

jraby3 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:03:13 +0000

They bought insta and WhatsApp but at the time neither were really social networks. Insta was a popular filtering app. WhatsApp is just recently turning into a social network with their status updates.