FreakLegion

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by FreakLegion 1y ago
It's a much more banal claim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_in_General_Linguistics#...
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
LinkedIn only shows you authenticated viewers. You have no idea how many automated systems have filtered you out because you didn't include a link in your resume/application or because, as you said, the account has no connections
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
Everything you mention also happens. American investors invest abroad, American companies hire abroad, increasingly Americans even leave the US to found companies abroad. This is all fine, I guess, if you want the money and the jobs and the
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
At least five of the traitorous eight were immigrants or children of immigrants, but do go on.
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
> If you think all that's missing They said it's necessary, not sufficient. I have a couple dozen open roles right now, at a 50-person company. Each posting gets thousands of applications. Most are fakes, or AI-generated, o
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
B2B procurement in this range can take anywhere from a few days to a year, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the very specific and demonstrably false claim I was responding to.
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
It isn't two weeks until end of quarter. Like many businesses, Salesforce's fiscal calendar runs Feb 1 to Jan 31. Slack's did, too, before the acquisition. Q3 ends on Oct 31.
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
That list seems to be limited to political targets. If we widen the net to political motivations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_s
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
If you just want a different source, I can vouch for what cybergreg is saying. Cybersecurity companies aren't passive data collectors like, say, Dropbox. They actively hunt for attacks in the data. To be clear, this goes way beyond MDR
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
Yes, use FIDO, you'll be better off, but no, passkeys aren't immune to account takeover. E.g. not only does GitHub support OAuth apps, it supports device code flow, and thus: https://www.praetorian.com/blog/in
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
Even if you're an expert, you can't read every paper in every journal. There aren't enough hours in the day. That was the context of JumpCrisscross's original question. You could say kelseyfrog's response is stuck i
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
They're the ones who published the bizarre AI-generated rat last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39391034 That was my first encounter with Frontiers Media, but they have a...history: https://en.wi
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
Most startups are open to trading cash for equity if you ask. Many even offer it explicitly. Investors also encourage it, e.g. see Index's Rewarding Talent guide: https://www.indexventures.com/rewarding-talent/ba
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
Everyone stubs their toe on container invariance once, then figures it out and moves on. It's not unique to Python and developers should understand the nuances of variance.
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
dsign's callout of the minutiae of comma placement is a useful starting point because it's largely rhythmic, and monotony, you could say, is the enemy of rhythm. My go-to example here would probably be the comma splice, which is i
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
It's a decent systematic look at something people have been doing ad hoc for a long time. In 2010 or so I realized: 1. Authenticode signatures have unauthenticated sections. 2. ZIP files don't require headers. So you can shove a Z
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
They're just matching your energy. $100k is an entry-level number in this conversation and, yes, solidly middle class in most cities in California. There's no shortage of homes in nice neighborhoods available here for under $600k,
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
Your analogy contains a category mistake, but no doubt you'll 'examine your prior mistakes so you know what not to repeat'.
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
It's the opposite of the point you want to make. This is obvious if you simplify the example to something like flipping a biased coin. If the coin will come up heads 50-eps% of the time, and tails 50+eps% of the time, then the correct
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
Being wrong and making a mistake are very different things. A weather forecaster, for example, can be wrong about the weather without making a mistake in forecasting it.
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
Preferred stock isn't protected against dilution. That's why the big investors also negotiate pro rata rights, which allow them to buy proportionally more shares in future rounds to maintain their target ownership percentage (the
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
It's the case. And the kicker is that if you understood the tax games we play with startup stock, you wouldn't want preferred shares. Why? Because common shares have their price set by a 409A valuation, which through the first few
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
Yes. Preferred shares give investors their investment back first if things go wrong. If an investor gives you a million dollars for a piece of your company, and you turn around and sell the company for a million dollars, then the investor g
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
"Managing up" is the term: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/managing-up .
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Today the 50% number is only for Reg-T, and even then the net account requirement (maintenance) is lower. But there's also portfolio margin, which gives you much more leverage, and a lot of people end up using it who wouldn't othe
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
Cuckoo filters with windows instead of buckets ( https://scispace.com/pdf/3-5-way-cuckoo-hashing-for-the-pric... ) would be a good addition. The xor_singleheader repo's chart is deceptive. Cuckoo filters are actuall
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
Yes, they are. You're wrong that nobody's heard of these things and that they aren't in the news. Pick up the NYT or Fortune or any moderately substantive source. These issues have been discussed all over for decades, and the
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
QSBS is only capped for sweat equity. My Series A lead gets a $200m exclusion. With the new $75m asset limit, the Series B lead will probably triple that. Things like QSBS and carried interest are absolutely part of what people mean by &quo
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
The BBB increased the QSBS exclusion and gross asset value limit by 50% and quadrupled the SALT deduction, among other things. I guess you could argue the meaning of "for the wealthy" here, but it would be hard to do in good faith
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by FreakLegion 1y ago
I've seen Steve's talk. Like all historical accounts it's just a story. It pulls some details into the foreground and pushes the rest back. Other stories arrange the details differently, for example marking Silicon Valley&#x2

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