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by lokar 1mo ago
There are plenty of good films to see that don’t depend on sfx
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by lokar 1mo ago
But the recipient of the donation is tax exempt, which is what Google says the requirement is.
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by lokar 1mo ago
They don’t have to exempt anything. Just let them have a link to the donate page like they always have. Which is also how nearly every donation works in the US.
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by lokar 1mo ago
That’s not true. If a donation is tax deductible that’s just between the IRS, the recipient and the donor. The payment processor, banks, etc don’t do anything special.
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by lokar 1mo ago
They really are the “epicenter” of the problem
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by lokar 2mo ago
That’s pretty much what the law does
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by lokar 2mo ago
Software engineering is a highly collaborative process. To be successful you need to be pretty good at reading and writing whatever language the team is using. I've worked with plenty of non-native speakers who were well above the av
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by lokar 2mo ago
A colleague once setup a PR description template that asked for short sections like: - Why is this change needed (big picture) - Why are you doing it this way (small picture) - What are the trade-offs you made for this approach - How do you
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by lokar 2mo ago
An at various times others have done the same with the USD
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by lokar 2mo ago
My prediction is that many new contributors would complain loudly. Some existing contributors would sympathize. It’s I think a normal evolution of a social norm. There will be a period of competing values.
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by lokar 2mo ago
I tried to nod a bit to the inconsistency. Some projects clearly lost patience with imperfect contributions long ago. But many were still pretty supportive. This dynamic also plays out in many companies. I see a lot of posts from mid to
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by lokar 2mo ago
To me, that touches on the central issue. I think most people support the “I don’t care about the tool, only the outcome “ But, we have long had a stable social system for collaboration, and in particular dealing with low quality contribut
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by lokar 2mo ago
I have run into other large (well known) financial companies on 2.x as well. They were using our old unsupported SDK and some long planned and communicated service API change broke them. They could not update to any recent SDK. I did gen
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by lokar 2mo ago
I wonder what this means for cases under loss recovery acts in states that have them.
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by lokar 2mo ago
NPR reported they are already moving in with a competing product . https://www.npr.org/2026/08/22/nx-s1-5931446/flock-fallout-c...
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by lokar 2mo ago
Oh, all sorts. Distributed systems, storage, compute, security, etc. At these levels you end up doing a very broad range of stuff.
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by lokar 2mo ago
lol, I answered the question. And FWIW most of the people I worked with were from Europe, with advanced degrees
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by lokar 2mo ago
Most people who make it to staff will not ever be qualified to sr staff, then the same for each next level. All of the big tech companies I’ve worked for were founded by immigrants, and had many key immigrants in early Sr positions building
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by lokar 2mo ago
Principal and distinguished engineers, some Sr staff.
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by lokar 2mo ago
And the point to parenting is to produce a fully independent adult. That does not happen all at one on the 18th birthday. It’s many years of gradually growing independence.
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by lokar 2mo ago
They already pay mid 6 to low 7 figures. The people who can and are willing have already moved over.
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by lokar 2mo ago
Is it just a question of variance in the size of the issue? Is having 10 incidents of 10 people each the same as one with 100? I’ve argued in systems reliability that once you are already high reliability you are better off lowering incid
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by lokar 2mo ago
A Wikipedia link can be nice when you get several different sources provided.
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by lokar 2mo ago
You can’t get them to apply. They are already very well paid. It’s a finite pool that is not large enough. Bidding up pay won’t change that. Instead you just hire overseas.
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by lokar 2mo ago
It’s a big industry. There are many roles at many different levels of expertise and experience. Many can’t find locals.
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by lokar 2mo ago
And while they paid a reasonable amount of tax in 2025, that was a one off. They normally pay 3-5%.
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by lokar 2mo ago
Why is hospital use so important?
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by lokar 2mo ago
The original argument was they were safer than a firearm. IMO the problem is they don’t then use the same standard for use. Only to save a life etc, full investigation every time.
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by lokar 2mo ago
Yeah, for a modern large scale distributed system both the client api and implementations are pretty bad.
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by lokar 2mo ago
Or have the sellers of the packaging pay the fee. So the maker can buy pre-paid packaging.

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