I think people care more about their own convenience. There’s nothing else in our market that’s even comparable. People talk a lot of shit and it wasn’t great to start but FSD is on a different level now, especially on newer cars like the new Model Y. Having a car that mostly drives itself is the best purchase I’ve ever made.

It doesn’t seem to be slowing down sales in Seattle. New Model Ys are everywhere here.

I don’t think it’s meant to be taken as a chess metaphor.

People crucified Sears for making teams compete internally but that’s literally what’s happening at Amazon at a larger scale. Teams and orgs regularly push back against helping each other. Will not waste resources to help others.

I don’t believe Amazon has a good outlook over 5 years unless they get lucky with random bets. They no longer innovate, they just copy and try to compete with scale. Even then, it doesn’t work because no one working on that product actually cares about the problem so startups can easily outcompete with “customer obsession.”

Online shopping requires returns. Removing that option significantly reduces trust and value.

I personally knew people getting more than a cancer patient should’ve been given for day to day chronic pain.

I’m sorry if you were personally affected by regulation but that doesn’t mean they didn’t cause the crisis.

None of that would’ve happened if they didn’t start the flood of opiates to begin with. It wasn’t a marginally increased issue, they flooded the market with it. People with minor pain were getting massive bottles of OxyContin and selling or using it. This led to pill mills and crooked doctors. You had normal people getting hooked on high dosages. These are not the people who were using opioids before that. Pills made it seem safer. Most users don’t start with heroin, they start with pills because of exactly that. “A doctor prescribed it, must be okay.”

This is some insane logic to absolve them of responsibility. I say this as someone who also saw the problem firsthand. Was regulation handled badly? Sure but there’s no way you can say they didn’t start the problem.

I really wish Paul set up endowments to continue his projects. I don’t know if he knew how his sister would handle his estate but it doesn’t seem like what he wanted.

I just wanted to write a quick update post about the Hames Joffmann channel. For those unfamiliar, it was a channel that recut and recomposed my videos delightfully and hilariously, and did so having asked and with my full permission. Recently, @YouTube removed the channel, citing a violation of its policy regarding impersonation. (Some people have asked if I had anything to do with the takedown - I did not.) The channel was clearly labelled as not being me, and they appealed against YouTube's decision. This was denied, and the channel was completely removed. I contacted YouTube through my partner manager and through their support channels, explaining that they'd made a mistake and advocating for the channel's return. The response from YouTube kind of broke my brain. I hope Hames has the masters and reuploads them to a new channel, but I'd understand if they didn't want to. It just seems very disappointing and also weird for YouTube to advocate taking legal action against them.

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Response from YouTube:

Hi James,

I've followed up with our internal team regarding the channel (@hamesjoffmann). Unfortunately, it seems the best course of action is to file a formal legal appeal.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211749

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A true electric successor to the RX-7 would capture so much attention.

Does knowing the employee did it make the company liable for damages?

Inscape is their ACR/Ads subsidiary. https://www.inscape.tv/

Other TVs are doing similar things but Vizio pioneered it. That’s how they subsidized their TVs to offer the lowest prices and the rest of the industry followed.

Vizio TVs are literally data collection devices.

If the group is saying X is the right way to go and you’ve already given your reason why you think Y, you should disagree and commit. If you sit there complaining for weeks that they should be doing Y without any new information, you’re just being a shitty teammate and dragging everyone down.

The main point for the commit part is setting aside your ego to move the team forward. Most decisions are two way doors. If X doesn’t work out then try Y but don’t complain, work less hard, or sabotage because you didn’t get your way.

One big exception is if someone is making a decision that goes against company principles or morals.

So have the customer make the account, take advantage of the free 10k emails a month to claim a lower price.

I don’t see the point in it. I doubt there will be much customer service if problems happen. Maybe if you’re trying to launch a free newsletter or something but otherwise it’s worth paying for peace of mind and potential lost time. You don’t want to deal with emails not getting sent or issues with the service when you’re focused on growing your company.

Clear goals and acceptance criteria.

The goal is excitement and investment in the app ecosystem so, when they figure out the form factor, the cheaper/lighter/more useful future device is a bigger hit.