Which is true because people already have large Steam game libraries. I barely game anymore but I must have 3000 games in Steam.

Epic is gnawing at the lead, at least with me, as they give out a free game every week. I must have 300 games in Epic - I've even paid for a few.

I'm a parent to 11/7 year olds, and just yesterday we were talking about how dangerous and addictive gambling is. If you ask them about gambling they will say "it's for stupid people". I doubt it's super common but I'm sure others are doing it if I am.

Microsoft at the very least didn't fire these developers and didn't convince them to not work on DirectX. Someone at Microsoft gets the credit, even if it's not upper management.

Implicit bias is real and there are ways to mitigate some of it. More process driven interview frameworks, less 'he seem like me so he probably good'.

Define "real". It's definitely measurable in the lab, but the effect sizes aren't very impressive, and the link to real-world outcomes remains quite controversial.

You could decide to work an office job?

Maybe that's people which absolutely want to see other people face that should take office jobs ?

Lots of open source software have been developed in the last 40 years with what we call now "fully remote team" without any need for webcams. Why it's suddenly becomes mandatory for some people that develop software ?

This stuff happens all of the time.

Middle management has to educate upper management on why certain metrics are bad. I do it all the time. Most recent one was length a PR was open. Some of my better devs opened PRs earlier and left them open for feedback longer, and I didn't want them penalized, so I communicated (with data) to management that it was a bad metric and we no longer measure it.

From his profile:

> Cofounder and former MD of Bytemark, a British hosting company.

You should insure things you can't afford to self insure for. Life, Home, maybe car.

You should not pay insurance for all the tech crap we buy. You're just losing money on average. Only way to win with this type of insurance is to be unlucky.

But this is exactly it. Insurance is about relative luck and hedging against being unlucky. It’s all a matter of risk/reward. It’s an ex ante cost.

Much history of costs/return in various domains show the power of ex ante investments vs ex post restitution.

If I spend $1200 on a high end phone, and it costs $300 to replace a screen, or $30 with insurance, after a $200 one time premium for 2 years… it depends how often you break your screen on average. If it’s at least once every 2 years, then yes, it’s worth it. And then that’s not even counting other things that may go wrong.

Same logic for extended car warranties. Sometimes they pay for themselves quickly, sometimes not.

x = 2 + 3

x * 2

Not to state the obvious, but... if a big centralized company built a Cloudflare for IPFS to make it easy for the masses to adopt, that company could go down just as easy as Cloudflare.

How so? Somebody links to a webpage, decentralized resolver converts it to an IPFS hash, which the client queries for any providers of that hash, and retrieves directly from them. No central authority necessary