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Billy, is a serial con artist, with a history fraudulent schemes. He continued to offend after release. This is standard con artist behavior.

Sometimes with these people you really do wonder if they believe their own lies. I think he had a pretty good idea how it was gonna go.

> Why would all of this merch have been created if they just wanted to bilk investors and festival attendees?

What was he supposed to do say? "we're not gonna do merch, because this things fake" Other people were involved. It would be suspicious not to. They might have told themselves that there's a chance it would work, but that doesn't mean they weren't setting out to defraud. You don't get to finance your moonshot with lies to investers. Not these kinds of lies, at least. Maybe some of the main guys behind Enron thought it would work, but they still engaged in blatantly illegal transactions.
there are a lot of drivers in California with extra space and free time.

there are a lot of people that need rides.

There was a company that facilitated these two meeting and took a cut of payments.

It does not need to be a company. It can be an autonomous entity, eg a smart contract. Think ethereum + ipfs. just by way of example.

in other words, cut out the middle-man. Remove the target for governments to pressure and tax.

At that point, the free market decides.
As I understand, Mozilla is not for sale and can't be acquired.
You do not want courts adjusting when they take cases specifically because of the economy. Doing that is to explicitly make the court an economic actor rather than a legal arbiter, which is a really bad idea.
> It does not strike me as a legitimate case to strip people of their human right to free agency and will by forcing people to do things they don't want to or may even be dangerous

But in a normal employer-employee relationship, this is totally typical. You can't sign up to be a firefighter but then refuse to go into burning buildings that you find too scary. You can't get a job as a developer and then refuse JIRA tickets you find boring, claiming that's your "human right."

In those cases, and with Uber as well, your free agency is that you can quit the job if you don't like it. But you have no fundamental right to be retained as an employee or contractor while refusing to do parts of the job you'd signed onto. The employer has their own right to terminate you if so.
I came to post Jive Turkeys YouTube channel. The highlight are his episodes where he takes an underwater recording, uses some Adobe audio program, and extracts all sorts of interesting detail about what we’re hearing. When you see how much he exploits from a generic public tool, makes you wonder how much more comes from super advanced, specialized tools the navy has.
Twitch streamers also retain ownership of their content which is often repackaged for revenue on YouTube.

Twitch is really the least employee vs employer relationship as payment is essentially independent of specific actions preformed by the streamer. It’s not like a streamer is paid to beat a boss, or even play a specific game it’s a question of entertaining people.

IMO it’s the closest to a ‘new economy‘ out there, though sharing roots with earlier real time online performers (porn).
Should the market also be protected from other unfair things, like venture-capitalist backed startups that operate at a loss poaching key employees from established firms?
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I've recently started a job in a very complex business domain, but sadly they're using NoSQL for everything. I've known for a while about the technical tradeoffs of NoSQL, but until now I'd never experienced that the lack of expressiveness in the data store is a major obstacle to understanding what kind of data the code deals with and how it's related. The data's all there, but exploring it without a real schema is much more difficult.
Actually, I thought that was why this article was posted -- to spur a discussion about these types of blogs padding stories with 95% fluff. As another commenter said, it is a SEO thing.
Yeah, at that point get a bachelors in CS and go work at a bigN for 140k straight out of school
> Uber argues it is a technology company first, and drives/delivers second, whereas the judge argues the opposite.

That argument reminds me of the George Costanza quote, "It's not lying, if you believe it."

Regardless of what they consider themselves, everybody else thinks of them as a big taxi company.

> Taken to its furthest extent, AB5 makes Airbnb hosts Airbnb employees, Amazon marketplace sellers Amazon employees, eBay sellers eBay employees, Twitch streamers Twitch employees, etc.

I don't think it does, and that sounds like FUD. Do you have any references of those businesses actually being required to reclassify vendors as employees?
Slander and libel laws in the USA are extremely weak (in large part because of the 1st amendment). Your lawsuit will likely not accomplish much, if it wins at all. You need to show damage, not the intent to damage.

And the stories will still be out there, no matter how it turns out.
It's obvious that he was urged to resign. Aka fired but with a face saving facade.
Thats exactly what they did with commas. Didn't help them.
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For whatever reason, it seems common to present one’s interpretation of scripture as if the author has the definitive authority on the topic. This example is particularly ironic because the topic is the antichrist. If it’s a satire, it’s a good one.
Heh, the closest I've come to "silly whiteboard interview puzzles" was back in undergrad competing in the ACM Programming Competition stuff. Our team made it to regionals a few times, but we never really took it all that seriously.
I used to do this until I became competent with that sort of thing.

If you're the sort of person for whom this is a bandaid, a calendar won't fix it, and you're also not the sort of person who cares about $15/year. Hell, I haven't missed a bill in well over a decade, and I don't care about $15/year.
Reading the title and actually reading what Bertrand Russell was talking about are two different things. Russell when he refers to leisure isn't talking about sitting on a porch staring up at the sky(or binge watching netflix), he is talking about pursuing interesting hobbies and learning into subjects not core to ones occupation(but also a little plain idleness as well). With most people in tech jobs and especially if you have a family, time is extremely constrained. I would love to get more involved in astronomy, study into physics and just learn more about various areas of history. Due to the pandemic work has for me increased tremendously and become very stressful. I sometimes wish I was unemployed so I can focus on these side projects which I love, but couldn't deal with the loss of income. If I had the extra time I would be extremely busy so to speak, so its strange when I hear about people who are bored during the past few months who are not working.
Not easily, but I think it's the only reasonable stance. Anything else is too subjective and easily falls into slippery slope territory. Long term, I know harm will be minimised through free speech.
>The taxi industry has existed for a long time with a lot of the regulations that people are trying to force onto Uber.

Not really. Most taxi drivers are 1099 contractors as well. They pay the dispatcher a cut of the fair for connecting them with the ride. They either own their cab and medallion, or rent them from the dispatch company.

It will be interesting to see if Cali prosecutors go after the dispatch companies the way they are going after uber and lyft.
I certainly saw the hype for no man's sky and perhaps they released the game a little earlier than they should've, given the scope that they claimed.

But hey, at least the rubber hit the road when the game was released.
I think the whole world would benefit if we’d make it so that code formatting happened separately from what was committed. Then everyone could have their local checkouts formatted the way they wanted and there would be nothing to argue about in terms of coding style.
But what google did here was not listening to every song and writing down the lyrics. They just copied the text off another website.
The goal of AB5 is to help drivers - so they can get health insurance, etc.

All these changes Uber is doing just so that drivers are not employees.

The question here is: what is the problem with making drivers employees? How much money that will be?
First of all, you probably will get less total comp at Mozilla than you could elsewhere. You'll still be paid well compared to many developers working outside SF/NYC/etc, though.

Second, instead of stock you'll get a higher potential bonus. The bonus percentage increases based on your level.

Third, benefits are generous. Being able to work remotely was a particularly unique and valuable one for a long time.

Fourth, the class and scale of the problems Mozilla is solving are interesting and challenging, which is a motivation for some employees.

Fifth, the mission and the commitment to open source are a motivation to many employees as well.

(These are just my personal observations as a current employee)
Are there societies which have smooth scaling on workers? i.e. where the cost of adding a new worker for 20 hours is about the same as the cost of adding 20 hrs to a worker working under 20 hrs?

I like to think of what an amoral money machine would do as a base-case for what we set up the incentives to be. Then we can tweak the incentives to get the outcome, but we start with the machine. After all, moral outrage alone rarely has lasting change without policy change.

Things that encourage fewer-people w/ more-work-per-person are:

* Laws that explicitly disincentivize larger companies (that kick in at >24 people or >49 people, or that are flat per-person-on-payroll fees like medical benefits)

* The learn rate of individuals given sustained work

* Increased overhead with more individuals (i.e. communication costs, scheduling costs, hiring costs)

There's portions I can't immediately nail like the fact that if I share a desk with someone I can't spray my things all over it like I normally do. My hardware has to be out of the way and clean for the other guy.
This is a capital strike (as compared to a labor strike). It should be viewed in that way.

Uber isn't shutting down to comply with the law, they're shutting down in CA in protest of the law.
The Turkish startup that wants to be your “personal butler”
That line is the size of a Venn Diagram intersection.
Interesting video. Pychil claims that procrastination is a weakness of will. For another perspective, check out the book, "Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much" [1], which claims it's not just about will (executive function), but also about tunnel vision and reduced fluid intelligence, all caused by a situation of scarcity--time scarcity in the case of procrastination. And they claim reduced executive function is situational. It's not a fundamental attribute of the procrastinator.

[1] = https://www.amazon.com/Scarcity-Having-Little-Means-Much-ebo...
I meant to show that more as a benchmark. The claim was that Mozilla hires employees in low-cost countries.

I agree that the pay in The Netherlands is pretty bad for software devs compared to other countries with similar wealth (UK, Germany, US, etc), but I know that it’s much worse in e.g. Eastern European countries, which I also expect Mozilla to hire from.
Have you tried reading the ToS? Might help...
Sure, in the strictly technical sense, there's "SOOOO much you can do" — but that's not really useful information, is it? Just because you could pound sand, or eat dirt, or bang your head into a wall, that doesn't mean those activities are enjoyable or enriching. The challenge is not finding something you can do, it's finding something you can do that's more rewarding than staring at your phone, and there are a lot fewer things that fall into that category, and they're not all the same for everyone.
Most cheap apartments in Sweden are within walking distance to those things. If you build more such neighborhoods they get cheaper, it isn't rocket science.
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I take it your experience in cities is extremely limited.
"Car on road and in motion" seems to cover most scenarios where operating the controls of a car would be something you'd want to do.
Companies pay in stock because it's not an immediate cash cost like salary, and because the value is tied to the success of the company which encourages employees to drive progress/profit for the business.
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The words aren't the problem (unless it's a rally to violence), the action is. Any culture that can pivot to genocide from being exposed to the written word has bigger issues.
I'm over a decade into web development, and I still reference it every week. Last week I thought I should start a blog post about how, for me, it's the single best resource on the web. I sure hope it stays that way!
It better stay around, w3schools finally started to fall off in Google results. I feel dirty anytime I accidentally click on it.
Homebrew has always been a hacky abomination. I get that it has made life easier for many people, but MacPorts is so much better. It's basically apt for Macs.

Homebrew used to unilaterally take over /usr/local, and do all sorts of unconventional things. A few years ago it started playing nicer, but at its core, it's eschewing time-honored conventions across the board.

One of the biggest things about Homebrew that is annoying is that it tries to reuse the stock MacOS libraries to avoid installing dependencies. So you end up with things built against ancient broken regex libs, etc.

MacPorts takes longer to install because it does things right. After you install all the MacPorts GNU libraries and utilities, you have a real Unix system that closely resembles Linux, which is what all the development tools expect.

Linux won the Unix war decades ago, whether anyone likes it or not. MacOS's BSD heritage is still causing pain for people today, especially since the core libraries are literally a decade out of date.
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> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

You may be a "good hacker", but you're not the only one. Enough people here find this stuff interesting that it's within the purpose of the site.
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I'm afraid Churchill is very much included. He didn't say "up with which I will not put", he didn't say "I am drunk but you are ugly and in the morning I shall be sober", he didn't say "if I were your husband I'd drink that poison", and so on. He didn't say most of the best Churchill lines. Lincoln didn't say most of the best Lincoln lines either. Same with Mark Twain, Einstein, and so on.
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My dude's just trying to get a promo, I guarantee it.
> A competitor wants to hire away 100 of them and offers them an enhanced salary. They only need to offer that to 100 people, but to stop them getting any of those 5000 employees you have to offer a competitive package to all of them.

I don't think this is true as (I think) you're assuming that all 5000 employees are equally skilled and desired. More realistically, the poaching company wants the more senior/experienced so TSMC only has to watch out for these. Still not an insignificant number nor amount of money.

Long-term, the solution is probably for companies to focus more on building their culture and focusing on the non-financial perks (e.g. ala Google) so employees will think twice about leaving.
I was similarly surprised, but it's true. The original text is essentially the exact same (probably a 99.9% overlap) with the exception of a few spelling mistakes or grammar errors. My editing was about as much as you'd get from Microsoft Word, if that.
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For sure, that's an integral part of communicating! I'm talking about a hospital, so there are several staff members controlling the entrance. The people who sit behind the desk and actually do the checkin are generally understanding, and the person who questioned me most specifically about the valve now remembers me from day to day - in fact I've since gotten her attention when getting flak from a security guard a few times.

The security guards are meanwhile more on alert, presumably because they are primed to be tough with any covidiots (although thankfully I haven't seen any incidents!). They have that cop mindset of seeking trouble with people who stand out, and don't know specifically about the valve requirement. One time after I was approved by the checkin person, I heard them talking among themselves with one saying "those masks are actually better", but it's tough to directly pierce the fog of their authorituh.

I haven't had a larger problem here precisely there are people in multiple roles, some empowered to exercise actual judgement. But I can just imagine that when you try to scale this down to a single overworked security guard, the better equipped people are likely to experience unreasonable pushback.

Thinking about it, my own next step might be to put a piece of visible tape over where vent would exhaust, so I can at least point to something physical. But the problem hasn't been the security guards not believing me about the valve specifically, but rather just seeing that my mask is not their standard surgical mask.
Honestly that would mean there's ample room for competition considering what's happening especially with Intel, Nvidia, and AMD. Though I imagine the barrier to entry is high.
Exactly. "Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measurement of prices in different countries that uses the prices of specific goods to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies." [0]

The Big Mac Index is a more approachable way of looking at it (and also shockingly accurate). For instance, in this case a Big Mac is $5.71USD in America. However, a Big Mac in Taiwan costs 71NTD ($2.44USD). This means that your $60,000USD salary in Taiwan will go ~2.34X further in Taiwan than a $60,000USD salary in America. So a 60K USD salary in Taiwan is roughly equivalent to a 140K salary in the US. [1]

Using market exchange rates only makes sense when you earn in one country and you're planning on buying something from a different country. If you earn and spend in the same country (for instance, looking at moving from Taiwan to the US), you want absolute purchasing power, not relative, so PPP compensates for that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-glo...
Incredible! I had no clue this existed. Thank you for pushing me down a rabbit hole for the last 45 minutes :-)
Amdahl would agree.
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Never read the release notes for MySQL. Unless phrases like "server exit" or 'regression' don't bother you.
> You're not arguing against the post you replied to

Yeah, I'm not granting the premise that an idea can be "dangerous" (neither would Mill) -- I think the burden is on @tyrust proving how/why/when ideas are "dangerous" because that's kind of a tall order.
Right... so is that what Mozilla do or not? Do they actually pay the same as their (literally over the road) competitors but entirely in cash?
Nah, I disagree. Capitalism is the most natural system because it accepts what we are - selfish beings in a competitive environment. If we didn't specialize and trade skills/products/services, we'd still be a hunter-gatherer species. The system is what kept us going, not what holds us back. It only looks like oppression in 2020 because of how easy the rest of life is.
You've done nothing but spam your blog from this account, that isn't allowed here. I think you'll find a more receptive audience elsewhere.
Sure, the point isn't for me to Google it but to have a conversation here. Thanks for the info, though.
> You hire a digital marketing agency or a marketing manager that has contacts inside Google Ads to get you unflagged.

Google might prefer to get broken up for monopoly before the racketeering cases get started.
The absurd part is that this is exactly what a taxi service does as well. Most Taxi drivers are 1099 contracts that are connected with rides by dispatch.

Taxi driving contractors have less autonomy than uber drivers, but you don't see Cali prosecutors going after taxi companies.
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I think the point is that you can be whatever you want. It's a change from being forced to do something just to pay the bills to doing what you want because you want to do it due to personal interest. It seems to me that many people need to be told what to be interested in. It is the reason we have fads of interest, driven by media exposure or personalities. It is very rare for somebody to decide to do something without some type of stimulus.
A government can ignore "basic economics" (bit of a vauge term), the government creates the environment that businesses exist in.

If "basic economics" produce a result that is clearly unethical or a detriment to society then it can be ignored.
>Google's acquisition of double-click should have never been approved by the SEC.

It seems obvious in hindsight that the acquisition would kill competition but at the time, it didn't seem so. Like right now, in hindsight, Facebook's acquisition of instagram should be blocked - at the time it looked risky.

Same with Google's acquisition of youtube.
Well, we have one big agglomeration in the US for policing workers. That hasn't led to positive results for society.
This is not it.

The problem is that the law does not account for ‘gig workers’, so produces are shoehorned into one extreme or the other.

I don’t think that Uber drivers should be employees, but I think the law should afford (enforce companies to give) them more protection than they get as ‘contractors’.

It’s funny - the laws and regulations changed to accommodate ride sharing, creating specific schemes for them. But it hasn’t for this new bread of worker.
If you've found info on its progress as recent as January 2020, you're doing better than me.
TLDR: divide money salary by local price of big mac, and compare big-mac denominated salaries.
Well there are worker co-ops. Lots of farming is as co-operatives. Sunkist is a cooperative, for instance. https://growers.sunkist.com/
> The first obvious issue is the creation of echo chambers or online cults, where instead of choosing truth and seeking the best information, people trust those who confirm their existing beliefs.

This can be somewhat mitigated with the ability to set a trust filter level to a low level, even in the negatives, to see posts and opinions one may not usually be exposed to. This again is up to the end user if they wish to expose themselves to differing opinions or not.

It is up to individuals to determine what’s best for them. Of course, one would hope they make good choices, but it is not society’s job to save people from themselves. It’s far better to have this freedom and the power to use or misuse it, than to allow companies to build the echo chamber behind closed doors.

That's a nice dogma - which breaks down as soon as one of the cults/echo chambers starts harrassing or doxxing or otherwise hurting someone they declared an enemy.

This whole concept is based on an assumption that if someone bothers you online, this is always a personal issue that can be resolved by you pretending they didn't exist. By now we have enough experience with online communities to know that things don't work that way.