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by sealeck 2y ago
> They could keep logs, but they choose not to. They are intentionally unhelpful. Some tech companies have extremely sophisticated observability which dumps huge volumes data about the internal state of a program. Some companies have ver
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by sealeck 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/opinion/kamala-harris-dem... This was on the front page a couple of weeks ago
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by sealeck 2y ago
> If you accidentally burn cash you cannot recover it. The paper in your hand isn't replicated in another place. Which is (one reason) why most people use a bank account and don't hide their money in big bundle of cash under th
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by sealeck 2y ago
> Etsy should join the rest of the worthless SPAC companies that almost all of them ran straight to zero. Goodbye. I don't think Etsy is worthless (it has ~US$2.5bn in revenue), but I think the correct value of Etsy is much lower th
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by sealeck 2y ago
I think the tone of this comment is unnecessarily condemning (apologies if I am reading it incorrectly) – I can totally understand why someone who has worked for years on a non-profit business which has created a lot of value for people (I
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by sealeck 2y ago
To me at least this isn't that surprising when you multiply the rough price of a lawyer per hour by the number of person-hours required (you have to trawl through thousands of pages of documents, interview huge numbers of people, etc).
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Bedrock (Expensify's distributed database built on a custom fork of SQLite)(github.com)
1 points by sealeck 2y ago|1 comments
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by sealeck 2y ago
I genuinely don't see the harm of these things – I often think the issue is that lots of measures improve safety at the margins (e.g. if someone is drunk and stumbling down the stairs this announcement might help them) rather than on a
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by sealeck 2y ago
It's one of many things that can give you some idea what an asset is worth.
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by sealeck 2y ago
> How do you know you have over 100m in assets? If your bank determines that assets you post for collateral are worth 100mn or more, that's a pretty good indication.
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by sealeck 2y ago
> Of course governments and tax authorities are one such traditional player, so they will be disintermediated. The government calls it "tax evasion", while the crypto world calls it a feature. Where do these people think tax re
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by sealeck 2y ago
I think this is unsurpring given that the crypto userbase seems to consist mostly of speculators and criminals.
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by sealeck 2y ago
The US government can (and for many years did) tap the phone calls of the German chancellor; I don't think getting to data held by European cloud providers is really a big challenge for them.
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Ledger – a CLI-based plaintext double-entry accounting system(ledger-cli.org)
1 points by sealeck 2y ago|0 comments
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by sealeck 2y ago
You can say this for a whole bunch of new features people role out but this doesn't erase the fact that they are very much not the stakes and introducing them is great because it raises them!
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by sealeck 2y ago
Because law & PR 101 says you should never make a statement to the effect of "so um we may have sent some people into space on a rocket we knew wasn't safe and it's going to be a bit hard to get them down safely". A
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by sealeck 2y ago
Presumably any private equity firm you'd want to work for would respect the fact that you were capable of getting a good deal for your founder client (and the implicit assumption that because they have additional evidence that you are
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by sealeck 2y ago
I think this is especially true in businesses where the thing you are selling is literally your ability to do good engineering. In the case of Boeing the fundamental thing customers care about is the "goodness" of the actual plane
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by sealeck 2y ago
> Where the engineers want things to be perfect and safe, because we need to fix the arising issues during nights and weekends. The business people are interested in getting features released, and don't always understand the risks b
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by sealeck 2y ago
> Asking me to solve an extremely esoteric problem that has zero relevance to my day-to-day and if the solution I come up with on the spot under time pressure is incorrect or even just not the most efficient I'm rejected? At that po
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by sealeck 2y ago
It's a lot more servers than a business would need?
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by sealeck 2y ago
The example is there to establish the principle – once you accept that sovereignty has limitations it's then just a question of which limitations you think are legitimate and which aren't. I think censoring pirate websites kind of
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by sealeck 2y ago
This is literally just a framing issue. Note first that people generally believe in universal human rights, e.g. states shouldn't be allowed to do horrible things (e.g. genocide) just because they would be asserting their national righ
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by sealeck 2y ago
I think securities law usually only applies to things you tell investors? I could be wrong here though, I am not a lawyer.
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by sealeck 2y ago
Turns out businesses have a stated preference for "nice things for the customer/society" but a revealed preference for money.
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by sealeck 2y ago
There's just the small problem that Tasmania is part of Australia?
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by sealeck 2y ago
Because abandoning the One China Policy would make the PRC much more likely to invade?
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by sealeck 2y ago
This is an extremely general problem which I think comes down to temporal biases in the human mind and a kind of survivorship bias.
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Tax vs contribution?
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by sealeck 2y ago
Some missing essential context: pretty sure this was Russian users in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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