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Hi all, I'm the GP of Earnest Capital and I'll add here the comments I gave to Matt privately before this post. The terms we use for our Shared Earnings Agreement are the result of a transparent and honest discussion with the community via this post (https://earnestcapital.com/funding-for-bootstrappers/). I received 100s of comments about our investments structure from founders and investors, 99% of which were along the lines of "how will you build a successful fund with such founder-friendly terms."

I would encourage folks who are interested to read the very good discussion:
Here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18338665
On Indiehackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/help-us-design-funding-fo...
And directly in the term sheet draft that we posted with comments open on Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HoZ94eWTctYQM5O5RXDeQQ_h...

A Shared Earnings Agreement is not debt and comparisons based on interest rates are academically interesting, but misleading because you cannot go to any debt lender with a side project with $2k MRR and get a loan to take a year and grow it. A SEAL has no fixed repayment schedule, no personal guarantee, no mechanism to foreclose on the business if it fails, and critically and unlike any form of debt the investor only gets paid when the business is doing well (repayment is a % of the economic benefit the founders choose to pay themselves: Founder Earnings).

We designed it to be a substitute for equity (where seed VC is really the only real alternative most founders at our stage would have) but equity that doesn't force the company to continually raise capital or sell the business. A SEAL can still have a successful risk-adjusted outcome for the investor even if you build a nice profitable business (literally the "nice Italian restaurant" example quoted from DHH in the post).

You may as well also include the effective interest rate on every VC investment that returns 50x or 100x their investment and say "Woah what a high interest rate. Should have used a credit card." Like equity, the implied "interest rate" on a SEAL looks higher in scenarios where the business & founders are more successful (thus paying back more Founder Earnings faster) and is a nice, low 0% APR if the business fails

That said, if anyone has constructive feedback to share I would love to hear it: https://earnestcapital.com/contact/
Now that AMD has closed the gap, and passed Intel’s per core performance in the 16-core CPU market, it has a platform with more RAM capacity and more PCIe lanes along with more performance than the Intel Xeon Gold 6142M, at around a quarter of the price.

What does Intel have so far up its sleeve that AMD has to virtually give away its chips like this?
not only that but stop testing your frontend code only on chrome. i'm the only one on my team that uses a non-chrome browser and every once in a while i find a bug or a css issue that is non-chrome only because nobody tests outside chrome.
The lander plans to transmit data to Earth using a relay satellite orbiting at the Earth-Moon L2 halo orbit: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2018/0519-change-...

The relay satellite included two micro-satellites for the moon, only one of them survived: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2018/20180615-que...
I think the "quickly" in your quote is the crux for me. I'm quite happy to read a paragraph or so of anecdata that provides a useful or motivating analogy/story.

OTOH, if your article is 3k words, I'll be gone if your 'relatable hook' appears to be a third of the article. Weave it in, be didactic!
Indeed, that's only one part of security. But it's a pretty big one!
> we have developed a “resonance theory of consciousness” that suggests that resonance—another word for synchronized vibrations—is at the heart of not only human consciousness but of physical reality more generally.

Riiiight. How delusional must one be to actually take the time to publish something with this as a core idea?
What is the text editor behind repl.it? Is it custom made or does it use any open source browser editor? It’s really good.
I wouldn't be so sure.

There are a ton of people who get taken seriously who really, really don't like the "consciousness is what the brain does" consensus of modern neuroscience, and they say a lot of stupid things trying to come up with an alternative.
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It's quite different. We're talking about digital money, traceables transactions, improved security systems and so on.

I'm not saying that this will solve all problems, but will make things difficult for the thieves.
You can release the best possible hardware on a laptop and I'm still going to pass because of Windows 10.

Windows 10 is easily the worst edition of Windows I've ever used. It forces you to update and breaks the entire damn machine at every go
It's hard to beat pycharm especially on Windows...
Ok, so you're just trolling. Too bad.
the only thing i miss from containers is a shortcut to open a new tab using current container[0]. it would make usage a lot easier.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/4...
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"Its program also suffered a rare setback last year with the dialed launch of its Long March 5 rocket."

Failed, I presume.
It's a matter of human capital USSR specialists are either dead, retired or about to retire there are no replacements for them plus total and absolute corruption is significantly affecting ability to produce anything.
Would it be Mr. Jiankui or Mr. He?
I would much rather face an unarmed crazy person on foot than a crazy person in a car. I think the statistics back me up here; in a car or as a pedestrian, you face a lot more danger from the cars around you than from the pedestrians around you, even in the worst neighborhoods.
> Legal tender has a very narrow and technical meaning, which relates to settling debts. It means that if you are in debt to someone then you can’t be sued for non-payment if you offer full payment of your debts in legal tender. [1]

[1] https://edu.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/what-is-legal-...
That would do nothing to help the "I can't see all the code at once because it's bleeding off the side of the screen" problem. You'd just end up with getting to use a different set of keys, and slightly fewer keystrokes, to choose between not getting to see either the start of some lines or the end of some lines, which is a marginal improvement at best.

And I'm guessing it would only worsen the problem of sprawling code that's difficult to read, by removing one of the few sources of pain that encourages developers who are less mindful of what it's going to be like for the person who'll have to read this stuff 3 years down the road to exercise at least a little bit of care.
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"He" (贺) is his family name, so it would be Dr. He.
I don't know the legal details, but I think there are constraints on how much revenue a nonprofit can receive from non-donation sources. So back when the initial search deal with Google was signed that created the initial funding stream for developing Firefox, the Foundation could not have signed it itself. Again, this is my best guess about an area way outside my expertise; you'd really want to talk to a lawyer specializing in this area for details.
I don't remember the current status. It's probably developed outside of the main Mozilla tree, as a number of other features.

But the big difference is that people actually use it.
Interesting. Why did they get rid of it? "Moore’s law could quickly make this type of licensing financially unattractive to the licensees. At the rate in which compute performance increases, the cost of a UPU license doubles about every two years. The industry quickly caught on to this and called Oracle out, which is why the UPU licensing model was very short lived." Well, clock speeds are no longer changing very much, so today I don't think there would be that much difference between "price = cores * speed" and "price = cores", so I suspect UPUs would be fine.

Currently, "price = cores" gives this weird market distortion where there's an incentive to get individually-fast, disproportionately-expensive cores to run software that might well be embarrassingly parallel. Perhaps it functions as price discrimination for those willing to put in the effort to customize systems like that. Eh, who knows.
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My bank locked me out of my account because they didn't approve of the way I was using it (crypto whitdrawal). All fully legal, from an exchange account I hold in my name. They now give me the runarround asking me to prove with paper documents that I own the money (interesting reversal to physical interaction). No calls, no case person I can talk to, just an impersonal postage address, and if I contact the branch all I get is 'you need to send the documents'. I did, more than two weeks ago, I dropped them in this very branch. Sorry, we can't help you because "an investigation is ongoing". So I am guilty and without money until proven otherwise.

Bottom line, cashless without a citizen right to unreversible banking is a form of bondage. It creates a paralel, private justice system, where you have no rights and your are judged by the value you have as a customer of the bank. A small customer is worthless and rightless.
I seriously dislike the fact that an exteremely wide-spread open source project - wordpress.org - is driven by a for-profit company, wordpress.com. I guess there's no way around it, given Automattic employs most contributors, but this is not the first time when community requests and doubts are ignored (see emojis, half-baked media library refactoring, etc).

On the other hand, I'd welcome if these forced changes would revive half-forgotten CMS systems - Typo3, Silverstripe, concrete5, or boost newcomers, like Grav, ProcessWire.
Maybe this will break the WordPress monoculture.

(downvoting an opinion, that is not how discussions should be made.)
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But probably more of a factor is that people are used to them and trust them.
> Tam Hunt is a practicing lawyer (renewable energy law and policy) by day and by night a scholar (affiliated with the University of California Santa Barbara's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences) in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of physics.
The reason this is outrageous is because they weren't doing this kind of thing before. The reason this isn't outrageous when Chrome does it is that Chrome always does this. Using this as a reason to distrust Firefox and instead trust Chrome is insane.

It's valid criticism but seeing this presented in arguments about why Firefox is bad (and you should be using Chrome instead) is absurd.
I hate to sound like an asshole but man having kids sounds terrible.
Battery University ( https://batteryuniversity.com/ ) has a wealth of knowledge on this subject. LiIon cells are quite temperamental, especially when it comes to extreme climates as it turns out.
Same here. It must have been sent out to everyone with an account.
Whatever metric you use people will game it.
Sum of all frequency and you might see AVX-512 being used a lot or something
'He' is his surname.
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The most infamous example is that of Haskell. Reasoning in Haskell is not the same as reasoning in the category Hask [1], whose objects and arrows purport to be Haskell types and functions; many folks are actually reasoning in an idealized, simplified Hask. Papers like "Fast and Loose Reasoning is Morally Correct" [0] justify this stance. (There is, to be fair, work on determining Haskell's actual categorical properties. [2]) This attitude is popular across the ML family, but spikes in the Haskell community for some reason.

I don't have a good citation for categorical subtypes, but it is well-known category-theory folklore that often objects have subobjects and that a given arrow `f : X -> Y` has fixed source object X and target object Y, and therefore that f likely embodies not just categorical structure but also subobject structure inside X. There may be many distinct arrows of type `X -> Y`, each with different subobject behavior. This is where concepts like dependent typing shine, right?

I'm going to take the other branch of your implicit dilemma. Let's protect against the same bugs that dependent types protect against, but without dependent types. This is valid E [3] or Monte [4], and languages in the E family are what Haskellers would call "unityped" or "untyped". The specification is that `y >= x` and also that the return value `rv >= y`. The compiler is not obligated to infer corollaries like `x >= 0`.

def f(x :Int, y :(Int >= x)) :(Int >= y) { return x + y }

It is not accidental that Monte has a categorical semantics [5] at the level of values and not types. It seems to be the case that, even if the category of types is trivial, the category of values is rich. At the same time, studying only the category of types and never examining the values is insufficient! Ponder this Haskell REPL session:

$ nix run nixpkgs.ghc -c ghci
GHCi, version 8.2.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
Prelude> :t reverse
reverse :: [a] -> [a]
Prelude> :t const [] :: [a] -> [a]
const [] :: [a] -> [a] :: [a] -> [a]
Prelude> :t cycle
cycle :: [a] -> [a]
Prelude> :t map id
map id :: [b] -> [b]
Prelude> :t tail
tail :: [a] -> [a]

Studying the types alone, we are helpless. We need to know something of the values as well.

[0] http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~nad/publications/danielsson-et-a...

[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Hask

[2] http://www.cs.gunma-u.ac.jp/~hamana/Papers/cpo.pdf

[3] http://erights.org/

[4] https://monte.readthedocs.io/

[5] https://monte.readthedocs.io/en/latest/category.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18619754
I'm of the mind that soul involves the encoding in DNA and the magnetic fields generated and sensed by the electrical systems of the body.

When you have a group of people "gathered together" ("In my name") there surely must be a subtle but coherent magnetic field that interacts with the physical to bring about "unexplainable phenomena". Perhaps the notion of God/gods could be explained this way.

Indo-european rune technology involves subtle magnetic fields in complex shapes, and are believed to affect the physical in "non-deterministic" ways as well. [1]

1. "Runelore" by Edred Thorsson
IIRC this bug is known (something about compositing and rounded corners on Mac because of how Core Graphics works) and there's work going on to fix it. The Webrender stuff helps here too, I think.

(I don't know the exact details, I have a vague recollection of pcwalton explaining it to me)
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"You're free to dislike it, but your conclusion "it does not help anyone" is objectively false."

Well, you think that, but you don't actually know. Even if it helps in some ways it could have downsides (for the individuals or the society at large) making it a net loss.

"Seeing people like themselves represented.."

Probably, and that's all fine and dandy. It's possible to do that without pretending. It's the misrepresentation of reality id dislike, not the diversity itself or even the highliting of it.

"Just because it doesn't help you.."

That's very condescending. Also, I'm sure I'm in some minority if I look hard enough :P
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I hope. If you need redundancy, I would consider setting a parallel setup with glitch.com which to my surprise also supports python and is battle-tested. No affiliation, just a happy user (of both repl.it and glitch)
Did you ever try to use speech-to-text-software? I have written dictandu for that: https://www.dictandu.com/

You can just dictate like you would talk and averwards use the style and spelling assistant to improve what you dictated.
Is 20% just a guess?

SaaS companies want to automate as much as possible. If there's a payment provider offering to cash in checks or make wire transfer less of hassle then that's good. At some point through it gets too complex to support 3-4 payment providers. So most just choose one unless they really see "money on the table", which would require customers to ask for a certain payment method.

https://www.bspayone.com/DE/en/services/payments is a German company offering some methods you've likely never heard of, even paying cash at a supermarket (you receive a barcode, then you pay online by scanning it with your mobile phone).

There must be 100s in the world. Here's a list what Spree Commerce supports, payone isn't even on the list https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant#supported-...
And 'a savings of $...'
This depends on the laws. In the UK there are requirements lenders and collectors must follow. You can get an agreement for a low repayment based on your required spending.

> It's no longer possible for them to pay 1/2 their rent with a promise to pay the rest in a couple of days when they get paid so that they can feed their children during that period.

Why not? You can transfer money whenever you want.
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Think how simple it would be to 'launder' genetically modified babies (at least in the US). Just leave them on the front step of a hospital and you're good to go.

I can't imagine it would be that difficult for a reasonably sophisticated organization to keep track of the child as it grew up, and with popularity of genetic testing you could probably find them again anyway.
Reading List used client-side encryption. Also, Mozilla acquired Pocket more than a year later.
> There is a general expectation that when a browser starts turning on DoH, it will give the user a choice of trusted DoH providers and enable end users to specify their own trusted configurations, similar to the list of search providers seen in browsers today.

Is this really the general expectation?

From what I've read so far, I'd expect that both Chrome and Firefox will simply hardwire this to dedicated resolver endpoints selected by them - and maybe provide group policy or about:config options as an override, with strong communication that ordinary users should not use them.
Bullshit. Windows 10 is the best Windows ever made. Never had a problem with it, and the updates are generally great. They had one recent one that went bad for a small number of users. None of our machines had any problems.

My Ubuntu desktop and my Ubuntu server in comparison are constantly having problems, especially when I upgrade the distro to the next version.
What are you even talking about? You're making it sound like Firefox has ever been a lot worse than Chrome, but that's far from the truth.

I've used both quite a lot and I've always preferred Firefox, even _without_ considering the privacy aspects. I still use Chrome on my laptop as Firefox doesn't support decent pinch zooming (that's more or less my only complaint), but for desktop usage I definitely choose Firefox over Chrome.
> To be fair, Mozilla now owns Pocket. It's not just some random extension.

My understanding is that at the time it was foist in users it was very much just some random extension, tho
>> Not only is the theory seeming a bit too large fitting but...

But it's not even a theory. That's the problem with these types of people, they confuse the term "hypothesis" with the term "theory". One is simply a proposition - possibly a wild-ass guess about something - the other is backed up by observations and can be used to make meaningful predictions.
The recipe thing is 100% driven by SEO, and yes, it's annoying, even to most of the people who are forced to do it if they want their recipes to rank.

Beyond that, I don't see an increasing trend of this on the internet or elsewhere, nor do I think it's a mistake or even unpopular. Features have been written this way for a very long time, vs the "inverted pyramid" style of news articles. Done well, it's a great format, even if the grumpy HN crowd typically finds it too meandering and relational and anecdotal and would (allegedly) prefer a bullet point list of the facts :)
I don’t have the faintest idea of what your scheme is supposed to accomplish?

Edit, after turning off strict mode: if you’re thinking of a doctor performing fertility treatments trying to hide their experiments with CRISPR: that’s trivial. Just don’t tell anyone. Stealing babies from mothers after birth to then leave them at hospital doorsteps would actually seem to be ... counterproductive?

Edit 2, after consulting my equally puzzled dog: you do realize these babies weren’t actually created in a test tube, right? As in: there were still a womb and the person attached involved in the process.
You mean, theories to be taken with a pinch of whatever you have at night..
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Microsoft would be the one forking Chromium in this case, so I really don't think that's true. Microsoft is more than capable of doing it.
Having cash as an available option throughout the economy greatly complicates a whole range of bad behaviors by private entities and governments.

Having a cash option available benefits society and just giving poor people electronic banking would not confer the same benifits.
Robert Goddard from USA was pretty far in rocketry. Nobody in his country was interested much though. But the Germans were...
And that argument is stupid. If Firefox had the dominant browser market share, they'd be the ones stripping your freedom and spying on your crap for money instead. Their history makes that pretty clear.
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Attestation of identity should be seen as a service, not a product. Revocation exists. The fact that certificates are pieces of data is a compromise, not an ideal design.

Most CAs already support OCSP, which is effectively one-day-long certificates: the client can contact the OCSP server for a signed response saying "yes, it's still unrevoked", or the server can include ("staple") such a response along with its certs. Some certs have the MustStaple extension, indicating that they should not be treated as valid unless a recent OCSP response is stapled to it.

If we had the computational resources to just not have certificates at all and have every client check the CA's current belief that a public key belongs to a name at each use (and magically avoid the associated privacy problems), that would be ideal. Certificates are an approximation.

One neat thing about 3-month certificates is that it's a meaningfully different human lifescale from a year (or multiple years): operators may not still be around in a year but will certainly be around in 3 months. Operators may just plan to manually renew in a few years, but generally decide they need to automate the process if it's every 3 months. (For extremely boring reasons, I manually update the certificate on my personal website every 3 months and it's a pain, and I think I am one of very few people who do manual updates to their Let's Encrypt certs.) So it forces people to think of certificates as running their end of a service with ongoing operational work, not a one-time transfer of data.
I think it’s probably more like them capitalising on the elastic nature of the demand for these scenarios. Definitely an element of control as well though, as there is increased demand too (but it’s likely more elastic and therefore more tolerant to price increases).