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by holy_city 8y ago
Versus not being able to sell at all? Hard to complain if you work at a startup and actually have a massive liquidity event
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by holy_city 8y ago
The link to the measurements from your source: https://kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qualit... According to those measurements the adaptor's DAC is fantastic, especially for a $9 part. And in the s
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by holy_city 8y ago
>learn the safe way to discharge them According to one electronics professor (prefaced this with "do not do this at home") - all you have to do is short the leads with a screwdriver. Or really use a resistor and some alligator
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by holy_city 8y ago
>Anything that reduces competition in the marketplace is bad for society as a whole Just like engineering, every economic design has tradeoffs. There's no ideal solution to the problem, and if there is it certainly isn't unbrid
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by holy_city 8y ago
If only the IRS felt the same way. Any income should be treated the same when it is realized as currency, none of this bogus taxation on unrealized gains when your equity doesn't have liquidity. That way we could exercise our options a
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by holy_city 8y ago
>potential startup employees internalize the economic reality of working at a startup. Treat your salary as your total income and equity as a lottery ticket?
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by holy_city 8y ago
It's not the web that needs to be open (or "more" open I guess). It's the legal teams at media companies that need to be educated on how FOSS works, what it can/can't do to/for your products, and the legal
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by holy_city 8y ago
They altered the rules for the H-1B visa program to deal with abuses. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2019/01/02/recent... The slowdown has nothing to do with H-1B abuses or exploitation.
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by holy_city 8y ago
Speaking anecdotally (which maybe the dataset backs up?) - yes. Immigration bureaucracy has slowed to a crawl, processes that used to take 6 weeks are now taking 6 months. It's unfortunate, since the news only talks about the administr
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by holy_city 8y ago
non-competes are illegal in California.
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by holy_city 8y ago
That's pretty standard for the United States. On the flipside, it means the employer isn't required to keep employing you no matter what. Most unions will negotiate it (this is why Police go on paid suspensions instead of being fi
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by holy_city 8y ago
Nested schemas are pretty disgusting in TOML. Granted, there's an argument against having deeply nested schemas in the first place.
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by holy_city 8y ago
I've noticed buffering and locking issues on Roku as well. There's too much crap going on when you're trying to browse, to the point where my TV misses lags on user interaction while it tries to load a video for autoplay, mak
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by holy_city 8y ago
It's sad that people equate employment to being "functioning members of society." Your job is just one thing you do in society. Education is about teaching children how to think, communicate, and act as much as giving them sp
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by holy_city 8y ago
>This is despite SCOTUS constantly telling the Federal Circuit that they have it utterly wrong on patentability; they just haven't gotten the message yet. The remedy there is for SCOTUS to make definitive rulings, is it not?
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by holy_city 8y ago
This is one of those "it's a bug, not a feature" things. I don't mind having unified connectors so long as we have segregation between powered/unpowered connections at the cable level. It prevents faults by design.
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by holy_city 8y ago
>I mean what's the point of a faster network if you're still capped at 2,5,10GB Bandwidth isn't just increasing to meet future demand but to ease existing demand. I recall a conversation I had with an industry exec a few y