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by snotrockets 2y ago
That’s a lie we tell children so they think the world is fair. A Marxist reading would suggest alienation, but a more modern one would realize that it is a bit more than that: to enable modern business practices (both good and bad!) we desi
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by snotrockets 2y ago
It’s not security, it’s compliance. The two are sometimes aligned, sometimes less so.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
If I had to guess, the kickback isn’t from the auth provider. Maintaining a system takes people & resources. For 40+ years, there’s a push to not allow the government to actually hire and manage those itself, but use commercial entities
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by snotrockets 2y ago
It’s part of the inflation reduction act https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2024/02/08/...
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by snotrockets 2y ago
There is a new policy: the IRS was funded to allow investigating and collecting that. For years it was starved, just so it wouldn't be able to. The ROI in investing in the IRS is amazing.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
To exercise great opsec, one would have to be a psychopath. Most folks aren't, hence at least in the US, banks aren't allowed to excuse themselves by customer's lack of opsec ("regulation E"). The effective monopoly
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Some qualifications are based on GitHub contributions. If those are tired to the same account you use for work, you're out of luck. GitHub encouraging and enabling using the same account for work (-for-hire) and personal (or work, but
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by snotrockets 2y ago
The underlying issue is that those tickets have a "no resale" provision that doesn't apply when the original seller acts as a broker. Do other brokers, when they go and work around that limitation break the sales contact? May
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by snotrockets 2y ago
There are very strong guarantees of that not to happen. Wealthfront and Betterment are tiny compared to others, but share the same field with the big players who have interest to not make people scared shitless. It is the fast and loose, in
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by snotrockets 2y ago
The marketing I got from Chase after the buyout made me realize they may know what assets they got, but not what customers. True, I am not wealthy enough for Chase to care, but they send me marcom as if I had zero understanding of finance,
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by snotrockets 2y ago
That’s not really how it works. The keyword to google is “fbo”.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
QED
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by snotrockets 2y ago
The system still grooms Googlers to think they're better than though. Until that root cause would be fixed (which would have to be at a huge cost to Google, so no surprise it'd never be), nothing would change.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
It's not culture (organic), it's systems (planned): if you don't, on day zero, agree what code reviews should cover (and what not), then code reviews are a pissing contest first, and a useful tool second. I noticed a lot of p
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Building tools for others is a competency that is under rewarded at Google. They would never.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
> I think many of my colleagues at google found it surprising how many of the things they thought were unique to google actually also existed at FB. Google workers are groomed to believe Google is the best, and hence they are too. A coro
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Good luck trying. Dealerships hold municipal governments by the balls.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Both sensible, and required by many compliance frameworks.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Mind you, in the US, you are not allowed to take a life insurance on a person you don’t know (but you are allowed to buy a life insurance that person had taken on themselves)
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Fun fact: in the US, you can actually buy an insurance against a specific event that had already happened when you took the insurance (the term to google is “title insurance”)
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by snotrockets 2y ago
FOSS originalists insist on no limitations on use of the software. The FSF prohibits such in what they call freedom 0: > The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0). And OSI explicitly forbids it in their open
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by snotrockets 2y ago
(Disclaimer: not tax advice. If you get one from randos on the internet, it’s your own fault). In the US, gifts may be due taxes by the giver, not the recipient. In the above case, the question was if it was a gift (and not needed to be pai
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by snotrockets 2y ago
That is considered a sales discount (you wouldn’t get a free pizza without buying another one), and as such not taxable. Just as if you’d buy something on a 50% sale.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Unlike the payphone analogy, where there is metering rules, and as long as you abide by them, you can keep talking, even if it's impolite, there is a legal definition for gifts (it is, after all, a transfer of ownership, and such thing
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Last year, valuation multiple for public across tech was about 2.6. That would make this contribution worth less than $11M in valuation. Considering Redis raised about $350M, $11M valuation is minuscule compared to the expected valuation to
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by snotrockets 2y ago
What can I say? I'm very generous with other people's money.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
We're living in a society, with certain systems baked into it. Fighting to change those systems and norms is a Good Thing™, but I'm too pessimistic to act today as if the change is coming tomorrow. I'll both work to change th
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by snotrockets 2y ago
I really like Redis, used it a lot in the past, but I just don't see a place for it in a modern, cloud-hosted architecture. A central cache just doesn't make sense in any scenario I can imaginewhen considering the cost/perfor
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by snotrockets 2y ago
OP suggested the CSP should give 0.1% of their revenue to open source software they make their revenue from. As Redis isn't the only SaaS AWS offers, I was gracious and allocated 10% of those 0.1% to it.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
nit: s/founders/executives/ (sometimes they are the same, but not always)

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