harryh

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by harryh 7y ago
I've been using Slack on the desktop daily since the alpha version. I've never found it to have UI lag. I honestly think that most people us use phrases like "webtech junk" are offended on principle and not because of an
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by harryh 7y ago
If someone is running so much stuff that an app (or a few apps) using ~250MB of ram instead of ~100MB (or whatever) of ram is a huge problem they can easily spend $200 or so for an extra 8GB of ram. Ram is cheap. Usage at this scale just do
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by harryh 7y ago
250MB floor is still too high Too high for what? Low end desktops and laptops today come with 8GB of ram. Using ~3% of that for a chat app doesn't seem like a big deal.
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by harryh 7y ago
The way they handle companies with > 1 founder is a bit weird. If there is at least one immigrant / 1st gen American it's counted in the "founded by" category. And then the 45% is taken by looking at things just at th
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by harryh 7y ago
Wild! I had, apparently incorrectly, assumed she'd get handily trounced.
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by harryh 7y ago
That's much closer than I would have guessed. What poll is this?
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by harryh 7y ago
It's important to note that there is a ~0% chance that this will pass the Senate or that the current President would sign it. This is best discussed as politics and not policy.
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by harryh 7y ago
@threadreaderapp is your friend: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1152277166996017152.html
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by harryh 7y ago
They do ask. It's one of the conditions in any loan you take out.
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by harryh 7y ago
There has been zero evidence that anyone's bank account was emptied due to the equifax breach.
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by harryh 7y ago
That being said, it's important to understand that in the US, penalties are assessed based on the seriousness of the infraction, not on whether the fine is a suitable punishment and deterrent.
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by harryh 7y ago
The FB fine was due to violating a previously existing consent decree with the FTC due to previous violations. The "2nd offense" nature of the offense probably contributed significantly to the higher number.
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by harryh 7y ago
Equifax is currently worth about 16.6B. This takes into account the fine, so without the fine they'd presumably be worth 17.25B or so. So this was a fine of 3-4% of their market cap. Total costs associated with the breach were probably
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by harryh 7y ago
As with many things in life, it's a tradeoff. Do you want to accept a higher risk of security incidents or make it easier to recall information from a long ago IM conversation? There are rational reasons for an organization to do eithe
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by harryh 7y ago
Slack has some options to delete all messages over N days old. Unless there is a really good reason not to, turning on this feature generally sounds like a good idea. At least you can drastically limit the length of the archive available to
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by harryh 7y ago
FWIW, I read that passage as being presented somewhat ironically.
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by harryh 7y ago
I'm fairly flexible about any reasonable proposals privateSFacct would like to make.
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by harryh 7y ago
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -John Maynard Keynes Though there is some evidence that the quite (like many) is apocryphal. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09&#x
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by harryh 7y ago
Strictly speaking, probably not. But I don't think the SEC reads Hacker News.
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by harryh 7y ago
I'll sell you WeWork shorts at a 40 billion valuation. We'll resolve the short 30 days after the IPO. How much would you like?
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by harryh 7y ago
No, it does not count. The IRS isn't stupid.
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by harryh 7y ago
Amazon earns a lot of money from quite a few things that have nothing to do with warehouse workers. In particular I have read that half their profits come from AWS. I don't think that is enough data to support your claim. A better set
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by harryh 7y ago
I do not believe that this is true. Again, profit margins for this sort of work are tiny. Adding significant wage costs would almost certainly consume a huge percentage of profits at which point the suppliers of capital will invest their mo
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by harryh 7y ago
Because the taxes fall on everyone and not just the buyers of low paid labor.
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by harryh 7y ago
As I said before: "This competition has pushed profit margins into the single digits" This is not tons of profit. Your assertion is incorrect.
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by harryh 7y ago
If you do it by pushing wages around artificially then you artificially change the prices of certain goods relative to others. If you do it via taxes and transfer payments then you don't distort the prices of goods.
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by harryh 7y ago
Competitors do take advantage of this! There is vicious price competition for most of the kinds of goods that amazon ships from its warehouses. This competition has pushed profit margins into the single digits (probably low single digits).
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by harryh 7y ago
I completely agree. If Amazon pays their workers better, that won’t fix the millions of other workers stuck with bad pay and abusive jobs. That's not what I meant by "more efficient." If every company employing low skille
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by harryh 7y ago
If we want unskilled laborers to have more money, it's much more economically efficient for governments do this through taxation and transfer payments then for individual companies that happen to employ people in this category to pay a
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by harryh 7y ago
There are some stats here on where the money goes: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&... I'm not really sure what "wealthy people structuring expenditures they were going to make anyw

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