Kalium

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by Kalium 5y ago
The thing about companies past a fairly small size is that you cannot reason about them as a group with characteristics much beyond sharing an employer. Are they good people? Yes. Are they bad people? Yes. Are they vindictive, legalistic pe
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by Kalium 5y ago
Some would contend that preventing perpetual private censorship improves the lives of the public. Personally, I would be very impressed with any code still useful for incorporation into current things after 20 years. Certainly worth unshack
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by Kalium 5y ago
> So back to copyright - you made it, you control it, the only question seems to be - for how long? Which leads us to the question of why it should indeed ever expire? Patents have a public good when they expire - but what public good ha
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It was used as a source of randomness. Someone blindly fixing a "bug" as reported by a linter famously resulted in a major vulnerability in Debian: https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571
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> In my experience, porting code more or less directly from one language to another is faster and easier than people assume. That's often true right up to the point where you have to be keenly aware of and exceptionally careful with
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That doesn't have to get in the way of an acquisition. Public companies are routinely acquired in a variety of ways.
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Unsolicited Bulk Recruiting, perhaps?
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I routinely get cold calls from recruiters, several a month these days. It's exceptionally rarely anyone I actually want to talk to with a position I'm even slightly interested in. They're reliably talking up a "great op
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by Kalium 5y ago
How else should we discuss the emails and cold calls? Perhaps in terms of how sincere and how hard-working they are or how much effort the recruiters we don't want to talk to put into reaching us? Or should we simply remain silent, tol
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Unfortunately often, I've found that being kind to recruiters and generous with my time pays off in consuming more of my time. I'd very much like to believe that being kind to people on my way up will pay off, be paid back, or oth
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I've scrubbed all mentions of specific technologies from my LinkedIn profile for this reason. It's definitely helped cut down on the spam.
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Somewhere between your first job - where recruiters feel invaluable - and your tenth things start to change. You go from having a bit of contact with a few recruiters to being daily contacted by a huge number of cut-rate recruiters who want
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by Kalium 5y ago
Can you point me to something more specific? It looks like he was part of some major cryptographic advances before sailing off into snowballscheme land.
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The idea of non-deletion seems to keep coming up again and again in technology. From Usenet spam to abusive Facebook apps, I find myself wondering if being forever saddled with every abusive smart contract someone ever wrote is really a des
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We tech people see a lot of ideas. Most of them are superficially exciting. For example, a way of detecting when counterfeit parts with substandard specs are used in farming equipment. Maybe a music-centered social network for users of a
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> However some people interested in and working on blockchain and related technologies are pursuing ambitious goals that could reshape the economy and politics in ways that makes them more open to participation and "strongly typed&q
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I got a harsh lesson about this in one of my very first jobs. A senior engineer on my team had built a rather complicated system. He was accordingly intimately familiar with all aspects of it. So when he estimated something on that system,
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by Kalium 5y ago
I am reminded of when the NHL tried to use a wirelessly trackable puck. It worked until the tech involved wasn't up to the rigors of being slapped around by professional hockey players. In the same vein, I have some doubts about the ab
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Anyone who has received the economic and educational benefits of a wealthy family has gained immensely by being heir. Plus the estate itself! What's being proposed here doesn't stop generational wealth transfers. The suggestion at
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People willing to sell and leave are happy to consider it. People who don't want to leave in the near term are very interested in keeping the riff-raff out and thus in fending off structural changes that would let you make a killing. T
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I don't understand. The thing the user was concerned about - their parents being forced out by taxes - is neatly prevented. What have I missed? Or should I suppose that the goal is not keeping their parents where they are, but instead
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You'll have to pardon me if I have limited sympathy for the ability of the heirs to rich (defined here as multiple millions of USD in value) estates as they clamor to inherit tax rates from before their births. I understand the emotion
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I find it best modeled as a collective action problem. SF in particular, and California in general, has handed out vetos on housing with a quite free hand. There are a great many people who have no particular reason to want to change their
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by Kalium 5y ago
Good news! California has a system in place in place that addresses exactly this problem: https://www.sco.ca.gov/ardtax_prop_tax_postponement.html It allows taxes to be deferred and taken out of the estate. Removing Prop 13
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> You keep saying this as if supply can be increased arbitrarily. It simply can’t. True! You eventually run into physical limits of density and what we are capable of constructing. However, this naively seems likely to be far higher than
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At the risk of being contentious, it may be worth considering that there is no place on earth where the demand to live there is truly infinite. This suggests that demand can be sated and prices brought down with sufficient supply. Of course
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I have definitely seen this happen in apps. If you're less than ecstatic with the application, they direct you to some black-holed "We'd love to hear your feedback!" form. If you love it, they want your review in the app
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I think there's a lesson in here about good intentions and what happens when you fail to consider abuse. In this case, there's a whole cottage industry that seems to consist most of people with a script or two, some email template
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> These seem like solvable problems with decentralized systems. In both cases, someone has to go through the work of manually identifying the bad content, right? In a centralized system, that's someone working for the system - in a
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> Some dating apps (Bumble, maybe Tinder?) have options for swiping for friends Anecdotally, I usually hear about Bumble-friend-mode being used for gay dating. Perhaps the label might not always be accurate to the social purposes it is p

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