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It's possible that adding women will fix some things, but that's just one binary aspect of human diversity. The diversity within a team will always be multiple magnitudes smaller than the diversity of the world.

There are already plenty of problems with accents and speech recognition. I recall people's issues with the Sony voice control game Lifeline where people had to fake a Japanese accent to get it to accept commands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7TacvYrnjI

Adding women to whatever team made that wouldn't have fixed anything. They'd have had to go out and study other accents and factor them in.
No, it wouldn't, they come with their own problems, which is why tech companies switched to greater option packages to begin with.

There are financial instruments that could solve this problem, or simply any set of conditions, colloquially called a contract in some circles. It is difficult to introduce financial instruments in the US due to a variety of onerous regulations between the IRS, FASB, SEC and the associated capital structures companies take to comply with them. I have seen financial instruments that solve this problem, in Europe.

I forget the name of them but German companies offer them to employees, they are functionally similar to a hybrid stock bond, as they are 'granted', I think they represent shares, and they also give coupons for several years, until maturity.

But don't fawn over the possibilities of glorious Europe, because the grants are pitifully small. If you think the privilege of coughing up $7,000 for your worthless options is not good enough, well you'll get like 1/10th of that out of a European company, so lets focus on the issues that matter and try to culturally appropriate something that seems like it could work better.
Retirees, for one. Many retirement communities are structured in a way to allow that. It's appealing to that segment because walking (or using public transit) takes forever as you age, but driving kind of loses its appeal as one gets older.

I'm not sure what the appeal is supposed to be for young people, but then, I know zero young people who could afford one of these units.
Nice article! Good graphs. Of course, not having stock at all because you can't afford your options may limit the upside potential even more than RSUs. Maybe it could be choice.
The fundamental question is really misleading.

> Are there any other management practices where one would
> optimize for former employees at the expense of current
> employees?

As a founder, you aren't optimizing for either case. The unexercised options were granted to former employees, based on the work they did. Extending the exercise window is a policy specifically to help all employees (current, former, future) in making financial decisions.
Interestingly, as a native Spanish speaker, when I was a newbie, I found that the programming languages being in English being an advantage. When reading a programming book in Spanish, it was clear what was a keyword or standard library function (English), and what was code written by the book writer (Spanish). When I first read a programming book in English, I was sometimes confused trying to figure whether a function call was calling something that was provided by the language or something that was defined elsewhere in the book. I wonder, though, if this confusion was because I was so used to read books in Spanish, or if native English learners also experience this sometimes.
The problem isn't C#/.NET but what GUI toolkit do you use? Winforms, WPF, UWP and others are either in maintenance mode or incomplete. The only complete toolkit is Win32 which brings you back to C/C++.
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That test only works because it conflates similarity with copying.
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Nah, when I got to the number, I realised that it wasn't going to be a joke like I thought.
I'm getting an infinite redirect from this link.
Their power saver isn't on by default either
>"Thus, in order for the company to give existing employees more options or give options to new employees hired to grow the company, the option pool has to be refreshed at a faster rate than if some unexercised options had been returned to the pool. And since refreshing the pool means dilution for all those who are still employed by the company, it’s the remaining employees who get diluted in order to allow former employees to keep their optionality (not to mention also enabling those former employees to now collect a new set of options from another employer, in their next gig!)."

No where does this investor even mention investors in the mix. It's only about how bad 10 year vests are for employees, which is laughable. It's bad for the investor class who gets diluted in this model.
Yes. On the opposite end of the spectrum is any Reddit answer or blog post by Edward Kmett but I for some reason I love reading his answers even if I have no idea what he is talking about! However his audience would be advanced Haskellers or researchers.
Interesting. Did you try to include some emoji in your comment? They did not get included:

> characters like and or even good old ︎ (which
This article is incoherent, because the notion of dead equity being unfair doesn't make any sense. If I buy a share of Microsoft, that's 'dead equity' since I don't work there and am not contributing to the company's value, yet when Microsoft sold that stock, they got paid in cash. Is that unfair to current employees?

Exactly the same for startup stock. The company granted the stock to investors for cash and employees for their service as part as a compensation package, and as the employee fulfills their service, they earn the equity as well as their salary.

>Are there any other management practices where one would optimize for former employees at the expense of current employees? I can’t think of any.

This is exactly backwards. You don't offer the 10-year clause ex post, you do it when the employee signs. That's optimizing for new employees, not old ones!
I'm not sure putting all the blame on these kids is fair. If we as a country have decided that those under 21 do not possess the appropriate reasoning skills or responsibility to have a beer, how do we accept that they have enough of the above to make such a large financial decision? If I had applied for a $50,000 loan to start my own business at 18 from most banks I'm betting I would have been rejected. Yet we're okay lending the same to invest in education as long as the student is yoked to this debt for life.
I've asked them. To a one, they got lucky. None of them had an actual plan for how their contribution would lead to a multi-billion dollar exit.
And of course couple of minutes after I made my point about my second comment being downvoted, the downvotes were reversed and that comment was upvoted instead.
>>80% of your last year salary

This was under the old retirement system called CSRS. If you entered service after 1987 you are under FERS where 20 years of service gets you 20% pension, and you get additional 1% for every additional year. So 40 years you get 40% pension, not great.
A Baphomet pentagram hidden under the arrow would've been a lot more amusing.
>>So what you are saying is that if you don't know what can go wrong then it's "obviously true."

I never claimed that. I only claimed that FTA is obvious and that pointing out that something similar to FTA on some complex objects (a + sqrt(-5) things) doesn't work isn't a correct way to argue the FTA itself isn't obvious.

>>If you draw a distorted circle in the plane then it's obviously true that it has an inside and an outside.

Yes (as long as definition of "distorted" doesn't contain any surprises, I am assuming you mean not exactly a circle but something like it).

>>The inside is obviously contractable to a point, and the outside is obviously contractable to a plane with a hole in it.

Those things already aren't obvious. Go ask someone a bright kid in high school what "contractable to a plane" is. It's not obvious in any way to non-mathematician.

I am claiming FTA is obvious for a bright person who understand multiplication (or for a caveman who can do multiplication by putting rectangles together, then making rectangles from those rectangles etc.)

>>In three dimensions if you have a distorted sphere then it obviously divides space into an inside and an outside.

Yes, obvious.

>>The inside is obviously contractable to a point, and the outside is obviously contractable to 3D space with a hole in it

Again, those things are very far from obvious. What "contractable to 3D space with a hole" means is very far away from "obvious" by any reasonable definition of the word.
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Such sentiment seems common when talking about the Clintons.
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The rejection of the trangender guest was, seemingly, a room in the host's house (she mentions her son being across the hall).
Me too, but this link works: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/73601/is-t...
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I do too, can read it from Google cache though:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o-8fEue...
Well the actual issue is paying taxes on equity which can't be sold on either public or private markets. Founders don't have to do that (surprise) and neither do VCs.

Suggesting that early employees who are sold lower relative salaries and a dream are "taking away" from future employees is rather suspect.
I can already see Trump telling us that she is part of the Illuminati and his source will be The Enquirer.
Well, in one sense it has notches.

In another, the legs are crooked.
It makes the browser history more useful. And it’s nicer to look at (people do still see URLs in many browsers).
I think something like an occlusion mask modifier (slice off this much from this side/corner) would be more useful.
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So why even give them options in the first place then if the goal is to just prevent them from ever using them?
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The forty years and the fact the original writer is dead are good arguments. I'm not so sure about:

> Simply because the target has money?

To be honest I think they probably borrowed the intro from Spirit (they toured together and musical / lyrical borrowing was standard operating practice for Zep), but it was a very minor part of what made the song successful. However the fact the song has apparently made over half a billion dollars in royalties does rather amplify the significance of that minor borrowing.
It should be locked otherwise you can trick people into clicking on a link thinking it belongs to that company. Google, for instance, does protect against that, so you can't use http://www.google.com/url?http://www.example.com/
Is this only search engine autocomplete fields in the browser, or also on standard input forms? Is disabling JS sufficient for input forms?
I was led to believe her logo is the illuminati triangle, personally.
California state is broke. Over the last three years it's gotten better, but compared to 8 years ago, desperate. More people would move there (the new DC?) Which is why "use tax" on vehicle tags is still a thing... and the amount of military in CA? Well they don't (usually) have to pay it.
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> Server sends an HTML and browser fetches what it needs. Not fetching content is simply an advanced form of caching.

I didn't understand this part. Caching is basically "not fetching content that you already have", and I don't see how it is relevant here. I assume that when using adblocks the browser will not even issue a request to fetch the data (be it HTML, JavaScript, flash videos, images, etc.) that is ad-related, so it is not the same as caching. And even if it did choose to fetch the data but then skip rendering, it boils down to the same thing: browser engine has different (presumably smaller) input in case when you use adblock.

By telnetting I will get a response, but this is only a first step. HTML will have references to huge amount of other content that also needs to be fetched (unless everything is embedded in the HTML - possible, but unlikely for any bigger website). Open developer tools in any browser and go to network tab and see for yourself how the amount of fetched data (and number of requests / number of fetched files) differs when you use adblock and not. This is the difference in the input for the browser. Opera mentions mlive.com - with uBlock, FF fetches 2.5MB of data (caching disabled), without uBlock I get 5MB (caching disabled). We can even take the example to the extreme - let's go to the website that has only ads. Of course Opera will be better there - it will have to render nothing, everything will be blocked by adblock.
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The question decided here was whether certain government actions violated the Fourth Amendment (which talks about the government needing a warrant to conduct a search). That has nothing to do with a non-government actor gaining unauthorized access to a computer system - that's still illegal.
> “It seems unreasonable to think that a computer connected to the Web is immune from invasion,” Morgan, Jr. adds. “Indeed, the opposite holds true: in today's digital world, it appears to be a virtual certainty that computers accessing the Internet can—and eventually will—be hacked,” he writes, and then points to a series of media reports on high profile hacks. He posits that users of Tor cannot expect to be safe from hackers.

Holy shit. Is this the equivalent of "if you wore that short tight skirt on a dark alley at night, you should expect to be raped"? Going by the judge's logic, it would probably be fine if it was an FBI agent doing it, too, because hey "it's expected."
They couldn't care if I mentioned it and I don't plan to. Renewals often involve just as much work as installing a new cert. This is more about personal recommendations, after I recommend its normally accepted without question.
Also, not everybody has such a cool Christmas sweater!
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Who said 200K, the $25k/year is for a CA resident staying with relatives (i.e. free rent). That still adds up to $100k.

Do we want to filter who goes to a top-tier university by those who are able to spend money there or by how well they perform? Doesn't society benefit the most if we are able to send the highest performers to the best universities without unrelated financial criteria knocking them out? And before someone points out financial aid - many potential people may self-disqualify before even getting to the point of applying.

Even if people can afford it, charging that $100k takes away capital that a bright recent graduate might have been able acces to bootstrap a startup. I think across multiple facets, there are a large economic costs we pay by charging high tuitions to students.
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I am not arguing that we are doomed, I am having as hard a time imagining that the party is over by the end of the century as predicted by the Club of Rome as most other people. It is just incredible hard to imagine how things could turn sour so quickly. On the other hand I try not to fool myself, complex systems are not intuitive and maybe we are really doomed.

But that is really besides my point in the comments here, I am just arguing that it is probably a bad idea to throw more fossil fuels at the problem then absolutely necessary. Especially I am doubtful that using more fossil fuels to overcome fossil fuel usage as quick as possible would yield a net positive outcome. I mean it could work if the boost in development would overcompensate a longer period of fossil fuel usage at lower levels and if that boost would not push us over some bad phase transition or what ever else might go wrong. But are there facts that would support such a decision, I am currently not aware of such.

With regard to Kurzweil's exponential growth curve and Ran Prieur, I will have to have look at that, I am not familiar with what they have to say about the topic.
They don't want the bottom color peeking out, so the notches ensure there are no coincident edges.
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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659863#up_11662144

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting#Use_in_garb...

[3] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf
That's a fair point. I guess we should ask then why people do it. Is it because they are stupid? (Maybe, sometimes.) Or is there something about elite schools that are attractive for musicians, despite the risk of not getting a remunerative career out of it? Should we be doing something about that?

In any case, you seem to be narrowing the domain more and more here, from "education is difficult for people to afford", to "education is difficult for artists to afford", to "education is difficult for artists who went to elite schools to afford."

The article, on the other hand, is saying that even if you do make enough to get by, it's still hard to pay for school.
Couldn't you just make a giant virtual "browsing session" with hundreds of thousands of different sites , and crunch the numbers to minimize the background noise? MS has the computing power, that's for sure.
Will this eventually solve the "Julia does not like Pizza" issue (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3721)?
The article mentions that they mine social media accounts of the players for the text. That could easily qualify as a substantial personal writing sample :)
Similarly if everyone could afford to exercise they might make the same argument.
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If you're doing that, what's the difference between MinGW and compiling for native Windows?
The author of this article should be ashamed.

The author's argument seems to be that it's better/easier for investors to wipe out employees who vested their options but couldn't afford to exercise. Well, no kidding.

I would like to present a corollary argument: early investors need to keep pumping money into the company in order to preserve their preferred shares, for as long as necessary until the company IPOs.
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We make it easy to get certificates for HTTPS, because ease of use is critical for adoption.

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Thanks, fixed (will be live in a minute or two). Should have double checked that rather than just writing it from memory!
A lot of service industry jobs won't hire people that are "overqualified" because they know those people likely won't stay long.
I really hate that his response is that the EFF should either use their scarce resources to fight them in court or else give up. I wonder if he kicks puppies in his spare time?
what's a scenario that this would happen?
Wow, their tech is surprisingly good for government/news.
"Rationally, the now-former employee will hold off until the end of the exercise expiration window before deciding whether to exercise at all."

Classic example of good maths, bad thinking.

This is nonsensical. For employees where these options represent 90% of their wealth, the benefit from marginal time value in these options is trivial when compared to getting liquidity and diversification.

"The bottom line is that if companies are going to continue to stay private longer, we need to fundamentally re-think the stock option compensation model. We need better, careful, and more thoughtful solutions."

Seems like the simplest solution is just for the investors to force the company to go public.

Going public creates the liquidity that solves this problem. It might be at a lower sticker price, but at least employees can arrange financing to pay for excercize and tax needs.

That and they might be able to actually diversify from a portfolio no self-respecting LP would tolerate.
This seems weird to me that their model seems to retrieve "money left on the table" from unexercised options. If the company is doing well and employees have the cash, the probably _will_ exercise their options. The cash the company gets from the exercise is likely negligible. So unless I'm misunderstanding, the 10-year liabilities are probably employees that would have wanted to exercise but haven't been able to yet.

I don't get how this is any different from advocating for clawing back already-exercised options from former employees in order to issue them to new employees. It would be a convenient thing to do, but who in their right mind would want to work for a company like that?
I thought the whole point of startups was that there was a chance to come out ahead. If you extend the liquidity window to 8-10 years and invent models that provide "fair value" then what is the draw for working long hours at below market salaries?