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by alfredallan1 8y ago
So the only victims of said guerilla style warfare will be the small shops. BiCo will get away with it, and get emboldened at their success. Might not pushing for a policy change be a better altrnative?
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
As much I hate to admit it, I have no proof that it was infact my idea. So there’s not a damn thing I can do about it :( But, if I had in fact patented a practical implementation of my abstract idea, or my idea itself was about a practical
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
I know the line of business you’re talking about - getting landlords to list their properties. It is a gnarly problem, but one that’s solvable. The catch is that it is truly hyper local. You can’t do Thai from Chile. It needs to be done by
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
“engineer's career usually tapers off beyond a certain age.” With the caveat that we’re talking about software, not most other kinds of engineers, I know that this is broadly true, but just now this made me think of how modelling caree
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
theft == crime.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Haven’t been through an acquihire process myself, but I am familiar with this sort of thing. Yes, you should have an NDA and other agreements (e.g. an MoU) before you divulge serious details. Think of it like this: there are two possiblitie
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Just go the Finland route, and declare high speed internet access a basic right. Maybe add it onto the constitution. That should pave the way for getting back NN and keeping it for good.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
I don’t know how knowledgeable you are about this, but if you’re up to scratch, you should hash out some actual ways this could be done..
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Isn’t there a chance a subsequent administration could “reinstate” net neutrality? If so what’d that mean for Comcast, AT&T, etc.? Or are there ways such a move could be blocked?
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
^^ word. Been in the same boat..
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Yes, that’s a good way to go about it… Any educated opinions of what form it should take (resricted stock, rsu, options, etc.) to be most employee friendly?
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
And most of the few that do happen to be arrogant entitled pricks. People on this thread who're saying that the founders should try and be fairer towards engineers might actually have a point, although until recently I’d not have agree
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
I’m not too sure why you’re being downvoted, but it is probably because you phrased your statement a bit awkwardly. But you’re right that (if there is only a very small number of co-founders) employee #1 should never be accepting 1/100
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
That’s a good thought. As bad as JS is, I’d still prefer it to VBA.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
When someone politically notable gets thrown in the prison system, word of it gets around within the prison communities straight away. The official version released to the press has to go through officials and PR people, and arrives a bit l
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Ah, that’s a good idea. The EU could/should mandate specifying very clearly what precisely the service is. Of course, like another commenter mentioned about face recognition and image processing, that is hardly relevant to most kinds o
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
You’re right that what they collect and what what they use it for should be specified more clearly. I suspect if one carefully read through the 10K word ToS, it covers just about everything they do. If it hadn't historically, it will h
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
When you offer 10% per employee, how many employees can you actually take on??
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Make a reasonable estimate - what do you think is the total number of people earning in the range of 400K at FAANGMUA? How about in terms of percentage of engineering staff? Do bear in mind that it takes almost 10 years of steady relevant e
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
No, but if you came in super early, wouldn’t you have (negotiated at the start) more equity anyways? A super early employee with decent equity ought to be treated as a late stage founder - so if the founders don’t take 50% raises, neither s
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
It is not the same thing, but some people learn to switch between analytical and creative activity. I am many more could, if they tried hard enough.. Of course, there’s no recipe for how to learn this sort of thing which makes it a lot hard
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Oh I wouldn’t worry about it. Pretty much 100% of all successful inventors have, at one stage or another, been considered crackpots. Not 100% of crackpots are successful inventors though. Just blog with a pseudonym, so your real life credib
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Pardon my apparent impertinence in putting it this way - but isn’t the implicit contract rather obvious? In the digital/information age, personal data is the new currency. You pay for online services with that currency. If your data (m
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Oh no. The trouble with “chat app with weapons sales feature” is that it is illegal to buy or sell weapons (online or offline) without specific licenses. Now If I made a “communication tool” exclusively for registered gun dealers and people
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Doesn’t “consent” (point a) supersede all the rest? Looking at how people have been conditioned to so easily click on "I agree", that will be the most obvious thing to pursue for most companies.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Yes, indeed. It will take a few cases to see what reality is. Though I am equally sure companies which make billions off personal data will leave no stone unturned to argue that their use case is legit. Their case will be helped by the fact
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Consider a company which offers two services - 1. Latest news stories with personalized ads on the side. 2. Just news stories. There is nothing illegal about having the above two lines of services. But when a user wants service no. 1, their
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
If the service I offer is “communication tools with in built personal ads”, or “latest news reports with personal ads on the side” it is not possible to offer those services without access to personal info.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Where do you get the impression I am arguing against the GDPR? I quite support it in fact. The discussion was about whether the complaints of the type mentioned in the article are valid under the GDPR.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
>It's my understanding (which could be wrong, is constantly evolving, and desperately needs test cases) that being able opt out of unnecessary PII collection or processing is a legal right, and phooey to the ToS that claims otherwis

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