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by freepor 7y ago
California’s homestead exemption is $75,000, which won’t even get you a parking spot in San Francisco.
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by freepor 7y ago
Somehow I don’t think we’ll see him in a studio apartment eating Instant Ramen.
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by freepor 7y ago
The government can set any kind of regulations it wants without force-fitting into the antiquated dichotomy of “contractor” vs “employee”
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by freepor 7y ago
Also, why your software should not be infinitely configurable, unless it depends on a network effect. Let the 5% of users with specialized needs go elsewhere.
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by freepor 7y ago
All of this is a legal system that has a square hole and a circular hole not knowing what to do with a triangular peg. Governments job is to realize that this is a new category of work and create laws specifically to address it.
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by freepor 7y ago
Which is why so many people are on 29/34/39 hour schedules.
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by freepor 7y ago
With the “lose” being the US-based developers being paid less by virtue of working at HP instead of Microsoft.
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by freepor 7y ago
Well if you can pay 1% of the lawyers 10x the lifetime earnings they would get in BigLaw, they will happily destroy the business model for yo.
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by freepor 7y ago
I wonder if economic indicators will temporary blip up because of stockpiling. I recently bought $1000 of food and supplies and books and toys for my kids if they get stuck indoors which would have normally taken me six months to buy.
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by freepor 7y ago
Well that’s what happens when the elected leadership isn’t held accountable for performance.
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by freepor 7y ago
But in the federal government sometimes the decision makers are so absent that you become the decision maker. As in, the President appoints his golf buddy to run a big agency, that guy spends all his time with hookers and drugs and your age
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by freepor 7y ago
I hope that doesn’t make a bunch of people think that WFH is a failure because it didn’t work when they threw people suddenly into it without the appropriate tools or norms.
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by freepor 7y ago
I would also talk up idiotic concepts on my blog for his kind of money.
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by freepor 7y ago
They’re about $5 each. An electronic solution would probably be similar cost at scale, but ultimately easier to tamper with by hacking it, etc. These have been used for decades and are pretty close to tamper proof.
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by freepor 7y ago
React Native (or any framework) isn’t good when you can literally afford billions of dollars of R&D given the financial value of the app. Just like the Mars rovers don’t run Python but it is a great language for a experimental SaaS app
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by freepor 7y ago
Email is not a good analogue because it doesn’t have the concept of revocation or editing. Facebook posts can always be deleted... and Alice can always delete her post from your wall...
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by freepor 7y ago
The other passengers on public transit (presumably) don’t have their abdominal cavities opened up 12 inches in front of the doctor’s face.
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by freepor 7y ago
I only read fiction ebooks. With nonfiction I’m flipping back and forth to notes etc and it just sucks.
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by freepor 7y ago
Nothing. If you wanted money why were you moderating Reddit when you knew you weren’t going to get any?
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by freepor 7y ago
SFO is an airport, not a city.
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by freepor 7y ago
Would all men named William Gates get to be a verified Bill Gates? There must be hundreds or more.
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by freepor 7y ago
And thus the final step in the handover of the nomination process is complete, from the pre-17th Amendment wisdom that the people’s judgment is only useful when applied to their local leaders in their town and city, and are patently unquali
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by freepor 7y ago
It’s even buttery smooth on an iPhone 6s.
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by freepor 7y ago
A high spec Mac Pro isn't much more expensive than a similarly spec'd HP/Dell workstation.
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by freepor 7y ago
Whatever Kierkegaard was drinking, calling it coffee would only dignify it.
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by freepor 7y ago
With China and India getting more and more product companies like Baidu/Tencent/ByteDance/Flipkart/Paytm/etc, the average engineer left in outsourcing gets worse every month.
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by freepor 7y ago
My favorite place to offshore is Eastern Europe. Genuinely love working with those guys.
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by freepor 7y ago
A fun iOS one was "Amazing Alex," which was The Incredible Machine with user-uploaded levels.
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by freepor 7y ago
Your estimates show that you know enough other shit to make good estimates.
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by freepor 7y ago
This is a kind of problem where just knowing a lot of shit is a partial inoculation. If you know the population of New York City, and the weight of a Boeing 747, and the number of languages spoken in the world, and random shit like that..

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