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by gizi 11y ago
The problem seems to revolve around: what is good and what is evil? The age-old answer is that it is forbidden to do a number of things but that besides that, you are free to do as you please. Unfortunately, these waters are muddied by the
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by gizi 11y ago
A consistent set of traffic rules is a mathematical problem. Mathematics emerges from the laws of nature. Traffic rules are a prime example of what would go totally wrong if you tried to solve it with typical man-made laws. Instead of givin
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Scriptural law, for example. Each religion enforces its own law. This solution may not be ideal in every possible respect, but to the extent that it puts a halt to the invention of new man-made laws, it will certainly mitigate the problem.
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by gizi 11y ago
It can all be reduced to the problem of man-made law. It is wide open to abuse. So, yes, the ultra-rich abuse man-made law to make more money. But then again, machine guns easily overrule money. That is why there are now islamic insurgencie
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by gizi 11y ago
If a startup insists that it will play by existing rules, it usually does not stand much of a chance, even though there are a few notable exceptions. So, the way to go about things, is to do something that clearly breaks the rules, but that
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by gizi 11y ago
I have never set foot in SF and probably never will. I currently make much more than the average there. Anybody who bases his decisions on that kind of meaningless statistics will obviously drive the average down, wherever he goes.
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If everybody has a college degrees, then all jobs would indeed go to people with a college degree. But even then, it would still not say anything about the likelihood to get a job, even if you hold a college degree. "If you get a colle
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by gizi 11y ago
What would be the problem if he were Satoshi Nakamoto? He'd rather deserve the Nobel prize.
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by gizi 11y ago
I am growing less and less negative about recruiters. They can be a bit pushy, but I think that recruiters can learn how to modulate and not exaggerate. If a company wants good candidates, it will have to go to them, because the good candid
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by gizi 11y ago
Imagine a company doing $10 billion in yearly revenue. If the right guy manages the joint, it will do $11 billion. Are you willing to pay 10 million a year for this person? What if another company in similar circumstances offers 20 million?
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by gizi 11y ago
If someone wants a tool to "determine their value" he is already asking the wrong question. It is his work that should have value. I can only feel sorry for people who believe that they should be the product and not their work.
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by gizi 11y ago
You see, I don't like the mentality that exudes from "How to price a programmer". Furthermore, this site, "Hacker News", is not supposed to be upvoting that kind of posts, because in that case, the people on this si
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by gizi 11y ago
The existing platforms on the internet are worth trillions already. The ones that truly work, are built, operated, and owned by programmers. The other ones ultimately only crash and burn. What do we need non-programmers for, in that context
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by gizi 11y ago
That was before the year 2000. Ever since, you will no longer get above the $100B unless you are a programmer. Non-programmers no longer stand a chance. You need to eat, sleep, and breathe technology these days. We will soon see the very la
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by gizi 11y ago
I did not say that I believe this because it would be true. Of course, I only believe this because I want to believe this. You see, I am a programmer. So, my belief is that programmers are superior and non-programmers are inferior. So, ever
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It does not matter whether programming is marketable or not. What matter is that the results of programming, such as Google Search or Facebook, are highly marketable. Mistake number one: never sell yourself. Only sell the result of your eff
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You can never make good money as a programmer, if you let non-programmers pick the subject, or let non-programmers monetize the platform in your stead. Google and Facebook are worth hundreds of billions of dollars exactly because there is n
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All of this assumes that you will work for someone else who will monetize the platform that you build. That's not how you create Google or Facebook valuations. The first rule is that you must decide by yourself what platform to build.
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by gizi 11y ago
Google and Facebook are factor-11 dollar values (11-zero decimals, aka, hundreds of billions of dollars). The typical programmer will make a 6-zero revenue in his life time. You can create 11-digit value, only if you pick the subject by you
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by gizi 11y ago
Ok. Why are political opinions useless and immaterial? One, because technology always overrules them. What are you going to do against executable technology? Some more political verbiage? Two, because almost nobody is willing to risk their
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by gizi 11y ago
Political verbiage is no match to executable technology. If you don't like something, write source code that will make a difference, and if you can't, you lose. That is why the libertarian argument will always win.
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by gizi 11y ago
> Facebook does not create value, it merely captures it. That is not up to any of us to decide. In the meanwhile, the world population has voted with its feet on exactly that subject. Technology is a meritocracy. Seriously, nobody cares
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Causality is something that you prove in repeatable experiments. Where are the repeatable experiments backing your claim?
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Wait a second. Mark did not steal his money. It is his money. Hence, he does what he likes with it. If you believe the estate tax department should have his money, let them set up a Facebook project. What is stopping them from creating simi
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by gizi 11y ago
Regardless of the law suit, I do not like the DNS system a bit. It is conceptually just a table that associates names and IP addresses: name1 ipaddress1, name1 ipaddress2, name2 ipaddress3, name3 ipaddress1 ... Nobody should have the right
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The long-term effect is that it destroys email, just like they are destroying SSL, DNS, and many other building bricks of the internet, which are gradually getting replaced by alternatives that are more difficult to subvert. For example, sh
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by gizi 11y ago
The reasoning about investors is circular. In order to be nearby investors, these startups need lots of money, which means they need investors, so that they can be nearby them. These investors then end up owning most of the shares in these
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by gizi 11y ago
Concerning "normal tax planning", there is no definition for the term "normal tax planning" for which we could implement a function that returns a yes or a no. In other words, the term "normal tax planning" wou
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by gizi 11y ago
A great part of the native French has always been openly or covertly racist towards the North African immigrants in France. I am not surprised by the presence of feelings of hatred amongst the North Africans. This event will make the native
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by gizi 11y ago
I cannot see the original comment, because it appears as [flagged], but I can imagine that it is quite non-mainstream. I do not see why it would need to be censored. It probably makes sense in one way or the other, without therefore being p

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