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by csmpltn 4y ago
> "It's a very strange move indeed. maps.google.com implies an application lives there, far better than being on the root domain." How does "maps.google.com" imply an application "lives there" any more
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Why Twitter didn’t go down, you're asking. Short answer? H1Bs: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593899029531803649/phot...
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Half of them were already fired (more will probably follow), and the rest will be messed with for months (if not years) to come (as is evident by the email being discussed here). Having nothing to lose...
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You got it, chief.
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Here's a cool and perhaps unforeseen hypothetical turn-of-events: 100% of Twitter's staff give their resignation letter on Friday, and don't show up to work. Leadership wakes up to a collapsing platform, a 44 billion USD bill
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What are the chances that the code in question was ingested without the license being available in the first place? What I mean here: 1. Person 1 writes Library 1 with License 1, and posts it to GitHub under Person 1's account. 2. Pers
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> "Theoretically this could be addressed by looking for the earliest occurrence of said code in GitHub and check its license." That's a pretty big hash-list you've got there...
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> "can we ship the "server" part of a SSR rendered app as a WASM blob?" What problem would that solve, and how is that any different than how websites already work today? There's going to be server-side business
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Every single comment in this thread is a deflection. "It's the recruiters", "the manager sucks", "subconscious bias", "the position is too specialized", etc. Why is that?
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Oh, whatever. Blame it on the recruiters. I guess we're just looking for any excuse now to NOT talk about the actual source of the problem.
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But here you have a multi-national corporation, with offices globally and ability to hire from any culture on the planet - and despite waiting months, actively searching for a "diverse" candidate, they were unable to find a single
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> "they should fix their broken recruiting pipeline" This is trying to treat the symptoms, not the disease. You yourself say "they tried for months and were still unsuccessful at finding a single one". Why do you thin
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> "This is entirely subjective." What's positive about having to buy different cables, chargers and converters every year for your phones, cameras, laptops and whatnot? Maybe you're just used to it, but if you truly t
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> "I feel like people are trying to wish the economy into a recession / depression, but I really don't see it happening." Depending on your personal financial circumstances, it may be many months before you end up &qu
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> "what a shame a law needs to specify a specific port for ~iPhones~ devices." The only shame here is that companies consistently chose lock-in over open standards, even when it's clearly detrimental to the user's exp
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> "What kind of rational system would ever incentivize spending rather than results (aka sales?). Sounds like the marketing equivalent of being paid by the line of code." OP works for an advertising company. They get paid by cl
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> "On a long enough timeline, there may only be unfortunately project managers." You won't need those either. AI will be able to just use your neuralink implant to build a complete product based on some vague ideas, in min
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That's hardware specific, right? You're not guaranteed to have a solution on every platform.
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Death Stranding is, in my opinion, another such leap.
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Thanks. If there's a subjective test involved, where some things are left to interpretation and circumstantial evidence, my take here is that it would be wisest to work with a lawyer/accountant on setting up the correct structure
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> "Paying someone through a corporation (regardless of its pass through status) and then treating them as an employee is the attempted loophole" But isn't that exactly how consultancies work though? The client enters into
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> "Single owner LLCs are pass through entities and they have no obligations to pay minimum wage, overtime, unemployment insurance etc…" Perhaps an LLC (which is a pass-through entity) is the wrong structure to use here then. Pe
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by csmpltn 4y ago
> "What you’re describing is an often attempted loophole, and there’s plenty of precedent that it doesn’t hold up." I strongly disagree, it's not a loophole, it's literally one of the most used incorporation methods i
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by csmpltn 4y ago
> "And if that's a fiction, a judge will see straight through it." I never claimed that "pro forma" contracts used for laundering illegitimate business relationships are somehow legal. This feels to me like an en
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> "It doesn’t matter that you pay income taxes, what matters is that the employer isn’t paying payroll taxes, withholding income taxes, paying unemployment insurance etc." I think we're talking past eachother here. The emp
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It's the LLC's or S-Corp's responsibility to deal with everything you've mentioned, not your client's. Your client is simply purchasing a service from your LLC or S-Corp, with a contract. The contract must not stand
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> "False self-employment is a situation in which somebody registered as self-employed, a freelancer, or a temp is de facto an employee carrying out a professional activity under the authority and subordination of another company. Su
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> "Just wrapping people in shell companies doesn’t usually avoid the legal tests for whether someone is being treated as an employee or contractor AFAIK." What does "wrapping people in shell companies" mean? As a pers
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> "The illegal bit isn’t the pay structure but the treatment of a contractor as an employee." What's illegal here exactly? 1. US Business Entity conducts business with EU Business Entity. 2. The person (let's call the
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> "This is really disingenuous. When you're interacting with a stranger, and you find out they had a bad divorce, do you suddenly feel concern that they might divorce you?" I think you got the general spirit of my comment,

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