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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
You could certainly propose it to them (especially with a PR that includes code), or patch it into your local copy if they decline. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google wouldn’t allow that in the Play Store-compiled version of the app, but I d
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
According to https://zulip.com/plans/#self-hosted , the only things you get by upgrading from free self-hosted (which is absolutely offered) to paid self-hosted is to remove the limits on mobile notifications, which is
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
They definitely don’t fall under Mac or Windows, at least.
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No problem, it’s deceptively court-like with much less of the rigor and independence; Khalil and his team are right to call it a kangaroo court for such procedural reasons alone, whether or not he should be deportable under the law. At leas
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
A red herring: Even the government hasn’t accused him of illegal speech, nor have they charged him with any criminal or (non-immigration) civil violation at all. If his speech was of that constitutionally unprotected kind, they very likely
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
This time and last time both ordered by an immigration judge, who is a non-tenured employee of the executive branch able to be fired at will by the President and who is not allowed to consider constitutional defenses. Very different from th
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
Good to know! To be clear, when I said “only some would be tech bro wannabes”, I was commenting on the general pattern and not the specific incident or people. I didn’t mean that assertion to imply anything about any of the particular indiv
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
Yes, sure. Any such new cooperative wouldn’t automatically come with the colleagues or contract/revenue which his former employer had just handed off to the newly formed business discussed in the blog post, and its creation wouldn’t so
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
Yeah, a lot of different types of people get involved in this ecosystem, not only the stereotypical primarily altruistically motivated old-school hacker. This is especially true for the for-profit sector rather than among the purely volunte
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
My framing seems backwards because I’m commenting on what Nate wrote, not on what Jonathan wrote. As you and I have both said, with the way the world works now Nate is within his rights not to want to found a cooperative, and Jonathan is wi
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
Oh, the example I gave is still a corporation for tax purposes, for sure. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But it doesn’t have shares in the sense that can be bought or sold or even profited from upon redemption, unless I guess the coop
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
What I said is even true in the US - employers have payroll and other compliance obligations such as their portion of Social Security and Medicare taxes, unemployment insurance, worker’s compensation insurance, sometimes a state-specific re
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Yeah, that part of the blog post wasn’t clear to me either. I assume that’s only clear to people with other context that wasn’t included. Maybe whichever agency oversees the welfare of adopted kids where he lives is more skeptical of the fi
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
It’s very common in the tech world to have a relationship between companies and international remote workers which legally meets the definition of employment in one or both countries but which pretends in the contract wording to be an indep
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
Thanks for sharing that. Nate’s article links to a comment in which he says the US has no legal cooperative structure “except for limited state-specific exceptions”. I don’t know why those state-specific laws for cooperatives don’t count -
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
Thanks for that informative analysis and extra details!
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The court opinion doesn't mean what he is implying, although he isn't outright lying. See my explanation in this top-level comment I just made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45228927
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
Matt is in large part mischaracterizing, although not outright lying about, the court's ruling. If you follow the link he provided to the ruling itself, many of the dismissed claims were dismissed "with leave to amend" (basic
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
Except in Seattle, which explicitly bans caste discrimination as of 2023, and in California, which interprets its own state anti-discrimination laws to already include caste discrimination in other broader categories (which was the reason G
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
Yes, by Congress, even if and when required by a treaty or other international agreement. Look up §101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, codified at 8 USC §1101(a)(15), for all the nonimmigrant classifications: https:/&#x
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
> My understanding is that SK citizens cannot get E-4 Nobody can, because it doesn’t exist. The E-4 visa mentioned in the article is a proposed new classification that a bill pending in Congress would, if enacted, create just for Korean
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by jkaplowitz 1y ago
Judge Alsup’s ruling is not binding precedent, no.
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I suspect that ruling legally gets wiped off the books by the settlement since the case gets dismissed, no? Even if the ruling legally remains in place after the settlement, district court rulings are at most persuasive precedent and not bi
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Also (3) work around overbroad restrictions on public Wi-Fi, which still sometimes do things like block Reddit or HN or SSH. But I guess more typical consumers than those of us here are less likely to experience those obstacles.
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My understanding is that the EU sanctions themselves do care about place of birth, separately from citizenship, not just Apple’s implementation. I’ve certainly seen such a question in non-Apple implementations of these sanctions. As for not
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The proof of residence that he said he sent Apple was his Maltese residence permit, so unless Apple verifies provided documents with the issuing authorities (honestly doubtful), the bottleneck is within Apple and/or anyone to whom they
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That’s also weird to me. I don’t have current 2025 info on the sanctions, but back in early 2022 I had a colleague with Russian citizenship who was living in Ireland (with proper permission to live and work - I think even permanent residenc
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Interestingly, legally, the Holy See and the Vatican City State are not the same thing. The one which is the global seat of the Roman Catholic Church, which has existed since ancient times including for a time without any territory after th
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Presumably way the same as .google and all the other special-purpose organization-specific domains. Blame ICANN for allowing any public or private organization who can meet the requirements to buy and operate a gTLD back in 2012: https:&#x
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Tailscale + Mullvad does have a privacy advantage over either one by itself: the party that could potentially spy on the VPN traffic (Mullvad) doesn’t know whose traffic it is beyond that it’s a Tailscale customer. Any government who wanted

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