Private emails regularly lead to awful customer service interactions because people cannot tell us the email they used to register. Fastmail at least is off the beaten path enough that people probably can understand. Apple, especially using sign in with Apple, is horrid. And not just people unable to tell us the email; they then create multiple accounts; try to sign in on web and use their actual email and then have 2 accounts and flip shit that their stuff is gone; etc. Oh, and regularly blame us for their confusion.

Apple was not the problem for rcs; the carriers are and were.

That doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad idea from a competition point of view, but good ideas can be discussed w/ an honest view of the quite real downsides.

Applying standard financial metrics (do they make money? Will they ever? What valuation does that justify?) to certain companies.

People are encouraged by package managers to treat any bit of code someone tosses onto a package manager as equivalent in reliability to the core language and sdk.

And 1/100th the feature footprint.

But again, accidental complexity. The web platform is utterly rotten. So the people we should blame are chrome et al for not providing a standard lib or anything approaching a reasonable UI framework, which forces people to reimplement what a competent platform provides.

Electron is an artifact of the richest companies in the world prioritizing their platform monopolies and trying to increase their stranglehold on businesses by forcing them to write platform specific code, which is hysterically expensive to build and maintain. When I'm confronted with writing for web then reimplementing for mac and win... the answer is electron. I don't think anybody likes building in Electron; it's just it's that or +200% (or more) eng headcount to build 3 apps, one per platform.

The structural problem is that we are destroying trading relationships built with Europe over generations.

I'd also expect a story around how it is this happened w/o a human spending at least an hour working his/her way through a call list to reach someone at Railway. Starting with ops and escalating to the ceo if necessary.

Oof.

Having been in some of these values meetings, I really imagine it went like this: someone wanted speed, and someone else wanted quality. Sorry, I mean Speed and Quality. Many people said there is a tradeoff between those two things, and only one thing can be first.

Some brilliant businessman: "I know, we'll combine them. We want Speed _and_ Quality." Thus, "Speed with Quality." Tada!

Values are a tradeoff: only one thing can be first. Trying to duck that is stupid.

The Poshmark morons demanded government id to buy a $35 shirt. On an established account, an address that matched my credit card, etc.

The only answer is delete your account.

Liars only: Apple is doing nothing.