spottybanana

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by spottybanana 6y ago
Well, if you really need it there are much more incentives to learn it. I wouldn't really be good at explaining it since I don't have much motivation to even learn it myself, because I don't need it. I don't think the te
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by spottybanana 6y ago
With BTC that is pretty trivial thing to do... I think I saw guides already 8-9 years ago for that. Haven't really thought about it but I think it still works pretty much the same. Google brainwallet.
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Bitcoin market cap is 171 billion, to say if that's lot or not so lot is quite hard to say. Personally however I don't think its that much - there are lots of individual companies worth more than that.
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by spottybanana 6y ago
What's your point? It is high risk/high reward industry. There are loads of possible consequences. You might get insanely rich as some have gotten, or you might lose all your assets and sanity. Also jailtime is possibility, howeve
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by spottybanana 6y ago
There are still ICO's, they are just rebranded usually to something else like IEOs or STOs.
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Statement simply not true. First example is comparing offline interface to online one - more realistic comparison would be to something like first BBS's and the experience with those was generally insanely slow. I didn't bother re
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by spottybanana 6y ago
"Why piece all of that functionality together yourself into some fragile framework instead of using a industry standard?" Quite recently developed "industry standard". Many tools mentioned have been used for tens of year
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by spottybanana 6y ago
> I'm often critical of Linus Torvalds (in terms of communication and behavior, not technical ability), and he's got the same cult of personality around him that many abrasive CEOs do. The pudding is judged by its taste. To me
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Depending on what you mean by "shit". From employers perspective Apple was probably better place to work after Jobs left, since Jobs was pushing the employees to work insane hours and was very demanding. I would bet things were mo
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Or, the founders goals were fulfilled and the founder just loses interest in developing the organisation further. The organisation has different meaning for different people, the founder might be just totally disinterested in getting the co
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by spottybanana 6y ago
Employees have the right to express displeasure, but always makes sense to think if that really helps things or just demotivates everyone. Sometimes the discontent seems to be more on personal level, eg. founder/owner is not happy with
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by spottybanana 6y ago
This. Amazon maybe has thousands of developers working in various departments. The departments can be totally different from each other, have different culture, values whatever. Even in very small companies I have seen this effect.
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by spottybanana 6y ago
You really have to be living in an alternate universe if you haven't heard about SAP. To me it feels like every other job involves some work with it.
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by spottybanana 7y ago
Might or might not, in my experience in about any team it is usually some of the people really understand the system, can develop etc. Then there are couple ones that mostly just slack off and enjoy the salary and benefits. Maybe even smart
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by spottybanana 7y ago
You're betting on the technology demand to move to certain direction. To me it feels like investing in stocks, but instead of betting with your money you are betting with your time and brain cycles invested. What makes you so confident
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by spottybanana 7y ago
Also as a legal user you might end up paying for subscription service you don't use. I'm subscribed to netflix and HBO and don't remember the last time when I used them... Now and then try to find something to watch but it is
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by spottybanana 7y ago
How horrible that people can be swearing in these life-threatening situations. Totally distasteful.
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by spottybanana 7y ago
It is easy to take some shitty token like GirderCoin and criticize it, but what about tether and other stablecoins? Those are centrally issued tokens that seem to have demand and userbase. "But until that happens, tokenization of asset
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by spottybanana 7y ago
> Business success is users and growth and revenue. To me, business success is only the profit, what my business makes after the expenses - free cash to invest or share to shareholders. Everything else can go to hell, I don't care (
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by spottybanana 7y ago
> Part-time is the future, folks, accept it, embrace it. I don't have problems with having part-time employees, but quite difficult to see it being "the future". There are some people who want part-time possibilities, but
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by spottybanana 7y ago
If your culture breaks because you hire a mercenary, it sounds like a shitty culture to me. Other employees will be more engaged than others, and it is a good idea to accept that from the start. In my opinion it is good to have diverse peop
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by spottybanana 7y ago
I've never had any problems if someone else asks me to watch their belongings in coffee shop etc. Doesn't really disturb me at all.
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by spottybanana 7y ago
I understand that you don't like these products described in the article, but why should the developers of these products pay you money? What are you selling?
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by spottybanana 7y ago
Options can be issued on any kind of stock. I think it makes sense to issue them on preferred stock. However I don't know what is the common way of handling this. In fact, the companies I know don't even have separate classes of s
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by spottybanana 7y ago
With illiquid/unlisted stocks it is not so much about risks but transaction costs. It requires much more work to purchase the stocks, and often you need also lawyers. From stock market investors seem to happy to be paying a lot for com
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by spottybanana 7y ago
If the company also actually grows and is profitable, there is also little reason not to give out cash, because the equity is more valuable than cash. Usually equity is given so that employees would work more like owners, taking care of the
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by spottybanana 7y ago
> The answer is: it doesn't matter which is worse. Both destroy lives in different ways. Though it is very natural for people to think "how bad I am" or "how bad is that company compared to the other companies" a
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by spottybanana 7y ago
The point was happily . North Korean regime is at the point where they don't have any other sensible option than to tolerate the black markets.
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by spottybanana 7y ago
On the other hand there are lots of people happily receiving all their money from government, and also using all the public services as well. For example those having a job* at government or receiving benefits from government. Note that it
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by spottybanana 7y ago
> that governments often tolerate because they don't see a threat to their power. You think for example the North Korean government happily tolerates the black markets there? No way. If it would be easy for them to control them they

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