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by swyman 10y ago
Probably very dumb question: is it normal for options plans to expire for an employee that hasn't left a company?
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by swyman 10y ago
Police departments and corrections officers of all types. The TSA is a giant jobs program for workers no one else will hire, and the body scanners are produced by a company owned by the Secretary of Homeland Security that mandated their pur
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by swyman 10y ago
"Should" is a personal normative statement. The very nature of the market is that my "should" is different from your "should", which is also different from everyone else's. You are free to disagree with an
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by swyman 10y ago
This point is missed so often. The same applies to lots of things that are urgent, immediate demands like urgent care, car repair, and even addiction.
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by swyman 10y ago
Thank you so much for reminding me of CMD+[ and CMD+]. I use backspace to navigate all the time and was initially really annoyed, but I remember learning that habit, and this is a usable alternative that I will learn in time as well. To boo
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by swyman 10y ago
Your programmer's dvorak link didn't work for me. I believe this is the correct URL: http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
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by swyman 10y ago
Difference in company maturity, same reason startups get valued at higher multiples than public companies. Everyone knows what Ford is and for the most part doesn't think they have much of a shot to make enough significant changes to,
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by swyman 10y ago
It sounds like he's just providing financing for a Gilbert-led group of investors. I don't know enough about private equity or Warren Buffett to know if that's still significantly out of character for him
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by swyman 10y ago
> In the more general sense though my first impression of the phrase "route energy through metabolic pathways that cancer is disadvantaged for" is that it sounds like random word salad. "Eat food that cancer/tumors do
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by swyman 10y ago
Probably dumb hypothetical: What happens if Apple comes up with an excuse to remove Uber from the (Chinese) App Store and corresponding iPhones?
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Celery Joins Forces with Indiegogo(blog.trycelery.com)
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by swyman 10y ago
No one absolutely, positively, no-possible-other-options "has to" do anything ever. People make decisions on a spectrum and at the margins. There are people who never drink ever. There are people who drink every night but would ne
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by swyman 10y ago
Sorry, I guess I just read your phrasing to have more authoritative intent than you were going for. As I (also not a lawyer) understand it, there's nothing in particular that limits how intermediate/circumstantial pieces of eviden
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by swyman 10y ago
Where does that list come from?
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by swyman 10y ago
The idea is that other parties on the network won't be able to snoop on the location data.
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by swyman 10y ago
Or getting more API partners or converting more suppliers to use the sponsored/promoted placement within the app. And 5x top-line growth in a year isn't completely crazy at all for a growth-stage startup of Postmates's size.
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by swyman 11y ago
I think it's pretty clear that we're talking about white-collar, US-based, urban workers and not about a rural Argentinian engine mechanic
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by swyman 11y ago
> The legal question "is not whether the government should be able to force Apple to help it unlock a specific device; it is instead whether the All Writs Act resolves that issue and many others like it to come," Orenstein wrot
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by swyman 11y ago
> Without civil forfeiture, this turn of events would require the police to either arrest the starving man, or break the law themselves to take the bread. Or tell him he'd be arrested if he didn't hand over the bread...
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by swyman 11y ago
Is a company that makes safes legally required to have a master key or to create a master key even when they don't want to? The question is whether or not a 3rd party can be compelled to create something which does not exist in order t
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by swyman 11y ago
Great article! Friendly suggestion: in the following sentence, I'd remove "explicitly" because the judge reasons that congressional rejection can take more forms than an explicit legislative ban (ie the comprehensiveness of C
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by swyman 11y ago
Well that's just like, your opinion, man.
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by swyman 11y ago
Wouldn't that be this decision? And thus unfavorable to the government?
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by swyman 11y ago
I might be wrong, but my understanding is that HIPAA privacy rules only apply to healthcare providers like hospitals and their employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_a...
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by swyman 11y ago
> Essentially you will have to argue that compelling a company to create an exploit to satisfy a warrant constitutes an unreasonable search if that exploit can also be used to perform illegal searches. From the majority opinion in anothe
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by swyman 11y ago
That story's relatively old now, and it's only recently that Apple has taken such an aggressive public stance on encryption and privacy. It's willfully ignorant to pretend that the Snowden revelations didn't change marke
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by swyman 11y ago
I think the important part is the "unreasonable burden." Apple's position is that it's an unreasonable burden to be required to dedicate finite technical resources to a problem that directly and very publicly counterfeit
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by swyman 11y ago
Any insight into which presidential candidates have the most privacy-friendly views here?
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by swyman 11y ago
Quit moving the goalposts
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by swyman 11y ago
Where can one read more about this?

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