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by hiq 5y ago
> FAANG on your resume is an instant disqualification. Is it only FAANG, or are there others that you blacklisted? E.g. is MS on the list as well? How long is the list? Genuinely curious.
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by hiq 5y ago
> Most of you on here are all woo woo Linux this and FSF that, but you won’t put your money where your mouth is. Some big companies are also big FOSS contributors. Some people even join these companies to do mostly FOSS (like Golang, AOS
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by hiq 5y ago
> The best way to interview, in my experience, is to ask about a project or projects someone has worked on. This doesn't scale and introduces a bunch of biases on other dimensions. People who don't have time to prepare for leet
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by hiq 5y ago
The Signal protocol already guarantees repudiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol#Properties But this is just cryptographic repudiation, meaning that a receiver cannot prove that they didn't tamper
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by hiq 5y ago
> without you ever having to pay server costs - i.e. for the person deploying the smart contract it can be much cheaper That's just offloading the costs (or passing the costs down to the users), that's not a solution. > it&#
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by hiq 5y ago
> Because they’re open ledgers. As I explained in another comment in the same thread, it's a far cry from ensuring interoperability. The term "open ledger" is also misguiding since it's just an open ledger of whatever
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by hiq 5y ago
> Sure, but smart contracts have totally different incentives and costs for creating interoperable services than e.g. mobile apps. I would say that Ethereum does help here. Why would you say that? For what reasons? To engage with your co
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by hiq 5y ago
> If someone provides a financial service on ethereum for example, then it will have an api that can be used by other services on ethereum. Not necessarily. You can have a smart contract that's completely controlled by one address,
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by hiq 5y ago
Why would we get it thanks to blockchains?
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by hiq 5y ago
> Transferring your deed is a very complicated process. For regulatory reasons, not for technical ones. You're using the word "transaction", but you should distinguish between legal transactions and what is essentially a
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by hiq 5y ago
I've been commenting a few times about this already, but you're just arguing for interoperability, and blockchains don't help in that regard.
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by hiq 5y ago
Why don't you ask for a credit card instead of relying on email?
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by hiq 5y ago
> i think you're missing the point of the continuum between centralised and decentralised systems I'm mostly missing the point in this continuum where I can start listing pros instead of just cons. There are fundamental reasons
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by hiq 5y ago
That, and the fact that anyone can own an unlimited number of wallets.
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by hiq 5y ago
> I'm a party to several How did that happen, how did you meet them?
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by hiq 5y ago
> But things like an EVM can be used as a template to build underlying blockchains to provide a common datastore and execution layer for multiple systems to work together. Substitute EVM for JVM and you end up with a similar statement th
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by hiq 5y ago
> Instead of having different databases and APIs that are hard to integrate with one another, a blockchain could be the central storage and transactions handler that different systems interface to. That's a common refrain that seems
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by hiq 5y ago
> I will have to relocate (which I wanted to do anyway), but I can't fathom why anyone _wouldn't_ be looking right now given the state of the job market. Could it be that most of your compensation bump is due to the relocation
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by hiq 5y ago
> I'm pretty much near the peak of my salary band in my region I assume you're not interested in working remotely?
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by hiq 5y ago
> So, what do they need that extra money for? FIRE. Money buys a lot beyond your monthly food and rent. > I fall into the group where I could probably make more If you don't know for sure it's also hard to judge if you'
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by hiq 5y ago
> why did you start looking for another job? I can think of the following, and there are probably others: 1. To know your market value so that you know what to ask for during your compensation review at your current company. 2. To practi
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by hiq 5y ago
> I have been able to focus on my writing and speaking How did you do that?
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by hiq 5y ago
> But ultimately the only thing I can truly rely on, that is protected by law, is compensation. In some countries, the working time is also protected by law, hence your hourly wage as well, which makes it easier to compare offers. Too ma
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by hiq 5y ago
> you can get another job with a signing bonus Not exactly on your schedule though.
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by hiq 5y ago
> Money just needs to be enough. That's a moving target though, if your market value changed and you could now easily get +50%, your current comp won't be enough anymore.
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by hiq 5y ago
> I am also not arguing about wanting to get paid a proper wage. Maybe I would argue a bit against always wanting more, because you can have more elsewhere. That does not really entitle anyone to "have a right to get paid more"
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by hiq 5y ago
What do you mean by revolt? As long as the attrition rate remains stable and not out of the ordinary, why should companies change this?
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by hiq 5y ago
But the comment you replied also didn't imply that people switching were sacrificing anything in terms of culture and so on. Everything else being equal, more money is better. Of course you choose between staying at a place you know an
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by hiq 5y ago
> Believe me or not, very few people accepted. Surprisingly for me. In a way, there's a selection bias: most of these employees already knew that they could get more in the same company by just relocating to a US office, and that it
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by hiq 5y ago
> what I do is try to negotiate without a job offer in hand You can have an offer in hand and just not talk about it. Without an offer, it can also be harder to come up with numbers. What if you ask for X at your current job, get it, but

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