To which ideals is Amazon's success "repugnant"? It seems to me that Amazon is facilitating demand much better than its competitors, which means, according to the rules of the free market, it should win. Or am I misunderstanding?
In what way, shape, or form does slavery have nothing to do with capitalism?
The millions of American Indians that were murdered because they wouldn't give up their valuable land?
How is throwing away good food because no one pays for it, and thereby letting poor people starve, not capitalist? How is it the "antithesis of free enterprise"?
So you look at the millions of poor people in the United States and think, "Yes, these people have a clear path to a better standard of living"?
Do you know how many children are living on the streets in Havana? Or how many die of starvation or exposure? Maybe they're poor, but they are alive, healthy, fed, and have a roof over their heads. That's a lot more than Americans can say about the at risk in their own country.
I am by no means suggesting that Cuba is a utopia -- my own standard of living is probably quite a lot higher than the average Cuban's. I'm lucky in that way. That's not the case for many, many others.
I'm not 100% sure about any of this (I've only listened to most of the video above), but I think the gist is that WebAssembly provides a compile target for applications, meaning you can pre-compile an application so that your source is downloaded essentially as machine code. Furthermore, that means your compilation can perform as many optimizations that you care for, because it's happening ahead of time (not on the user's machine).
Without WebAssembly, browser vendors have to strike a balance between optimizing the JS as much as possible (for increased performance), and running the script as soon as possible (so the user isn't waiting too long for execution to begin).
edit: Demo of this in-browser video editor charts a FPS difference between the JS and WebAssembly implementations.
https://github.com/shamadee/web-dsp
What is most surprising to me about these stories today is how uncommon NDAs are. I read somewhere that 20% of workers in the US have signed one.
I don't know if this is a common experience, but my employer recently began putting NDAs in place and, in retrospect, I feel they took advantage of the ignorance of most of the employees (including me). They insisted that the NDA was "standard," managers told us that there was no room for negotiation and pushed to have us sign immediately (eventually relented to having it signed by end of the following day).