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by pc86 2y ago
Nobody, not even the ATF, is claiming he bought the guns illegally. They're claiming he was illegally "engaged in the business of" dealing weapons because he didn't have an federal firearms license. Prior to 2022 he woul
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by pc86 2y ago
You are correct - and I was wrong - that it wasn't a no-knock raid. Malinowski's widow said they heard the knocking but no announcements that they were law enforcement. 28 seconds later their door was knocked in with a battering r
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by pc86 2y ago
I don't think this is whataboutism because I'm not saying "what about this unrelated thing that the last guy did?" I'm saying "what about the fact that the last guy said he was doing the exact same thing ?&quo
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by pc86 2y ago
You can't seriously be defending the treatment of Malinowski. The agents did not wear body cameras in direct violation of ATF policy. They conducted an early-morning no-knock raid for a search warrant when they knew Malinowski would be
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by pc86 2y ago
I don't think an off-topic comment about Roger Stone and a 15-year old ad hominem meets the bar of constructive HN discourse but we can agree to disagree. I've seen plenty of constructive, right-leaning comments downvoted and flag
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by pc86 2y ago
I looked through the filing cited in this comment and every instance of the word "background" just says that backgrounds for a given employee are either complete or in progress, plus the quote. Nothing indicates anyone failed any
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by pc86 2y ago
And yet some trust, estate, or descendant somewhere ultimately has the authority to change those agreements. These things are not immutable facts of the universe, they can be changed. As for the minority where that is not the case, it also
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by pc86 2y ago
Not sure what this random unknown website has to do with 4chan. It's similar only insofar as both things let you post. Soj requires a sign-up so no anon posting at all, and the community structure is a pretty clear rip-off of Reddit wi
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by pc86 2y ago
What does Reddit have to do with this? "Jannies" (janitors) are pseduo-mods on 4chan (the subject of the linked thread) who clean up posts and do other work, for free. Actual 4chan mods are paid.
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by pc86 2y ago
Not to mention all those legal covenants have another party to them - they're not written in stone. I'm sure a good number of them would be willing to considering loosening legal restrictions if it would really help.
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by pc86 2y ago
At least in public companies there are enough safeguards where I think a reasonable person could be fine with it.
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by pc86 2y ago
The Venn diagram of people who are sophisticated enough to make these kinds of investments with better odds than gambling and people for whom $10k is hard to scrape together is indistinguishable from two circles. I'm sure there are som
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by pc86 2y ago
Have 1x preferences become standard? When I worked in startups early investors often has 2x or 3x liquidation preferences, especially at seed.
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by pc86 2y ago
Ah yes the cornerstone of any stable judiciary - "ignore the rules and do [what I want]."
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by pc86 2y ago
I'm generally pretty against paternalism in markets, but when you get to the more "finance-y" stuff like this the opportunity for large scale fraud is just so prevalent and there are so many people just looking for their next
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by pc86 2y ago
When the option pool is created that is the dilutive event, so new employees getting their grants doesn't result in current employees being diluted, because the entire pool was already taken into account.
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by pc86 2y ago
Somewhere along the line "privately-owned company" morphed into "do what in any regulated industry would be considered fraud." Multiple classes of stock for non-investors in a pre-IPO/private company should be illeg
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by pc86 2y ago
Employers want the degree because it's supposed to verify that you have a certain set of knowledge and/or skills, or at the very least, you're capable of thought to the extent required to get that degree. That's the only
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by pc86 2y ago
Which is why Derek [correctly] points out that everything is percentages, not fixed dollar amounts.
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by pc86 2y ago
Derek writes a lot of great fashion threads but he is a dyed-in-the-wool partisan and it comes through any time he touches on things remotely political. This doesn't mean he's wrong and it isn't even necessarily a bad thing,
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by pc86 2y ago
This assumes the point of education is to be fair and get everyone a good grade, which it's not (at least, it shouldn't be).
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by pc86 2y ago
For the most part degrees from roughly comparable schools in the same subject are fungible. However, graduating cheaters who should have flunked out of school their freshman year is a one-way ticket to having a reputation that your degree i
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by pc86 2y ago
At the end of the day you can't force people to learn if they don't want to. As a society we need to be okay with failing people who deserve to fail and not drag people across the finish line at the expense of diluting the degrees
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by pc86 2y ago
Well graduation rate is a pretty terrible way to grade education, especially country to country. You could have 100% graduation rate today by just passing everyone - that's basically what we have in primary education and there was an a
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by pc86 2y ago
To me this is the bigger problem. Using LLMs is going to happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. So it's important to make people understand how to use them, and to find ways to test that students still understand t
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by pc86 2y ago
It's an issue in grad school as well. You'll have an online discussion where someone submits 4 paragraphs of not-quite-eloquent prose with that AI "stink" on it. You can't be sure but it definitely makes your spidey
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by pc86 2y ago
Honestly at the CTO level even making that first hire is borderline fireable depending on how bad it was. Second time is very quickly approaching "what salary/bonus/options/401k match can we claw back because this is pro
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by pc86 2y ago
I've yet to find a simple-to-moderately-complex CRUD use case that Supabase can't handle with almost no manual configuration required. There are a few postgres things they hide that you need for more advanced uses but overall it&#
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by pc86 2y ago
TIL anyone making less than $1M/yr is budget. I was specifically calling out being able to do so (easily) from within the ORM itself, so I think implying that I don't know you can just call the database directly is a bit of a stra
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by pc86 2y ago
The problem is that for every example like yours where you run into very specific ORM edge cases, and seems completely reasonable, there are about 95 where a story like this is used as justification to spend months building something when a

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