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Alternate: stocks are gambling; startup stocks are gambling with money you don't have; startups are so prevalent that the incentive to gamble money you don't have is harmful to a larger set of people than would accept the gambling risk under normal circumstances.
You send me on a wild Google chase and I found nothing.
A lot of companies want employees to own a part of the pie so they'll feel personally engaged in the future of the company. I don't think it's a red flag at all.

Most companies will set away 5-10% of their stock value to be owned by employees. The only reason they'd buy it back from you is to give it to others.
wait i feel like that's actually kind of gorgeous. syntax highlighting as it exists today might not be good enough to really make that form stand out, though...
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> It's not fraud because I don't buy your claim that it was a fake product presentation solely to gain acquisition support and the article you link doesn't even support that.

"Shareholders also allege in the suit that Musk planned the unveiling of a product that didn’t yet function"

This allegation is based on what they already admitted to:

"Still, the company does acknowledge that the demos Musk unveiled at Universal Studios were not functional" [1]

> "Some products" - they've sold hundreds of thousands of cars, built out a supercharging network, and a battery factory, while also making progress on autonomous driving at the same time. They were the first to prove this market against enormous odds and constant negative press.

Tesla did a lot of good stuff, I'm not denying it, and they've made EV cars desirable for certain people. But it doesn't change the fact, that their operating mode is "fake it till you make it". And they sometimes do, often don't. They also "had" coast to coast self driving car since 2017, battery changing, alien dreadnought factory, with robots speed limited only by air resistance, panel gaps that are snake chargers, 620 miles range in 2017, 500k model 3 per year in Fremont, ventilators production, etc, etc.

> Nikola has produced nothing but bullshit. I think the Tesla stock is crazy right now and I also think Elon's timelines are often unrealistic, but the amount of anti-elon anti-tesla sentiment in the face of success after success against enormous odds is wild to me.

Because Elon and Tesla is massively overpromising. To point, that they're straight up lies.

Do they deliver some good stuff in the end, and have areas where they actually have technology advantage? Often they do, yeah. But that doesn't make up for the fact, that their business is build on hype and overselling their abilities in all the areas.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/40422084/inside-steel-pulse-the-...
Counted on no, but you should try to value it and try to pick winners if you can.

Just pretending it’s $0 is a mistake.

I live in Palo Alto and I’ve seen many people get rich through equity, people who just read HN outside of startups don’t think it’s possible, but it is.

I didn’t realize how possible until I moved out here. FAANG salaries have tempered that a bit since you can just get rich on that income, but even a lot of that comp is equity too (and most of the people I know got most of their wealth from that equity).

I’m just telling people reading this in college to take equity value seriously and not dismiss it as worthless because people on HN say to do that all the time.
And with one RFP we now know Ciphertrace's claims of cracking Monero for the Department of Homeland Security are bullshit because the IRS could have just used that

> “Currently, there are limited investigative resources for tracing transactions involving privacy cryptocurrency coins such as Monero or other off-chain transactions that provide privacy to illicit actors,” the IRS added.
Those clubs still exist. I'm in a table tennis league and ham radio club, or at least I was before COVID when my state effectively outlawed them.
The man who wrote this has been working for the BBC in this capacity since 1994 at least
I find it really nice that we have county based TLDs. If I google search for places to buy XYZ and I see xyz.ca, I know in buying from a Canadian website.

Also, you can have country specific information, eg immigration.co.uk, which is pretty obvious who it applies to.
Thank you. I hate that trope because, yeah technically it's the right advice for most people, since it applies to 99% of companies. But there's that 1% that raised seed or series A from a16z or Founders Fund where your equity has a relatively high chance of a decent payout
Thank you, especially for that last paragraph that gives me a lead on what to begin digging a bit into.
Yeah, that’s literally where the 4 year cliff came from. If you joined on day 1 and stayed the whole 4 years, you could expect to make something off the equity. Alternatively, the company would go under before year 4, and you’d be free to move on.
> (CNN)Widespread outrage has erupted over a California judge's decision to give a former Stanford University swimmer a six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. Critics are blasting the decision as far too lenient.

> Prosecutors had asked that Brock Turner be sentenced to six years in prison for the January 2015 assault.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/us/sexual-assault-brock-turne...
The younger brother actually delivered value to customers by pouring concrete and paving driveways, in contrast to Nikola’s record to date.
You’ve never once decided to murder anyone either, but around 500k happen per year around the world.

I’m not sure why it’s worth pointing out that few of us have done what the author describes, but it’s probably not uncommon. Some kids egged my car at highway speeds, which could’ve cracked the windshield or caused an accident. Not too much difference between that and baseball bat + tail light.
Wow, I missed that when glancing at them today but I remember reading that comment now and also the linked piece too. I just sort of glanced at the article before reading the comments and recall thinking it really didn't seem to have much of a point but and not really knowing what GPT-3 was when I read that comment. I did do a google search for GTP-3 but didn't really follow up on it. I just thought "ok, could be I suppose".

Now I'll be a bit more skeptical when I see something that seems a bit hollow like that piece does.
IANAL, but what I haven't seen mentioned here is that, in my understanding, in US federal court "diminished capacity" is not a defense against guilt, but only a factor that can result in a lower sentencing guideline.

This seems like a real Hail Mary from the defense, I'd be shocked if she is able to avoid jail time.
> At no point in my life have I ever wanted to damage someone else or their property for the fun of it

Their examples are extreme. I'm not sure if they did it on purpose.

But change it to throwing eggs at people, to baseball batting letter boxes and drink driving going home once or twice from a party and lighting fires for fun, and it'd be considered normal.

The point is young men see the value of the prank and the value of risk to them to exceed the damage to random people.

It's takes a long time to understand what the value of a letterbox might be to some people, that's very complex knowledge. Or how easily a fire gets out of control, or an egg can blind someone when thrown from a car.

The alternative to learning these things is an authoritarian rote learning rules. Free thinking societies have costs, we can try to minimise the costs but we also need to understand that is hard.
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I think that has less to do with the wiring itself and more to do with the amount of things that need to be wired at this point. What protocol and phy is used for connectivity won't change this. At least maybe wireless can be PTP and not deal with the issue CAN has when one of the links in the chain goes offline.
Unless you have NSA-level haxx to break SSL. Wonder who might have some knowledge on the topic..
I think I see the confusion between us. You don't see the difference between selling data to a company, and selling ad space where the advertiser can choose for what demographics it shows up for.

Let me try to make it more clear. Do you see the difference between "hey Chase Bank, do you want to buy this file containing data about grey-area's interests, age, political stance, credit score, purchasing habits, etc." versus "hey Chase Bank, do you want to put an ad on my website that is only shown to people with credit scores above 600 and are interested in savings accounts"?

If they both seem the same to you, then I don't think your perspective is one that a reasonable person would take. If you do see the difference, then Facebook is doing the latter, but the word "selling data" conjures the former, which you do recognize as a different matter.

I'm going to ignore the nonsensical definition you gave of selling data = selling movies, being the only other definition of selling you could imagine, in hopes that it was just an oversight.
So you agree that court orders are not that fancy a deterrent that you made it out to be.

You said

> If they wanted to intentionally examine your network traffic, that would require a court order.

I just gave you an example when that did not matter.

> Are you interested in talking about surveillance specifically or every talking point of the usual anti-American tirades?

Whenever you are willing to have an honest discussion rather than a blinkered and intentionally misleading cheerleading
Hm. My experience is exactly the opposite. Shooting a sign with buckshot or taking out a mailbox are completely unthinkable in my city neighborhood, but totally normal back home.
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Broken families and single parents are two separate issues. There are data showing children of single mothers by spousal death do better on lots of metrics. This is likely because the remaining parent arent antagonistic towards the deceased. No matter how you slice or dice it antagonism is necessary in a divorce.
Is "x<-3" an assignment to x or a comparison of x to -3?

The same problem led early C (pre-K&R1) to change its compound assignment operators from "=op" to "op=". In early C, "x = -3" assigned the value -3 to x (as it does now), but "x=-3" meant "x = x - 3" (now written "x-=3").
> That is why we have a constitution and bill of rights - to prevent abuse of the system.

Right exactly, and the powers those guard are far greater than the sorts of surveillance being discussed here.
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I don't disagree with you. I'm looking at it from a professional standpoint. Because seriously, who cares about video game consoles? In 99% of cases they are nothing more than a leisure activity with no real world consequences other than wasting time. Smartphones on the otherhand, like PCs and laptops, are used for Serious Business™ and should be open platforms because what enterprise in their right mind would give their employees hardware that is controlled by one megacorp to such an extent?
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> And the Germans similarly sacrificed tens of thousands of troops in the hope that they get a breakout offensive

And if they got a breakout offensive, the allies would have produced another million tanks. In civ terms, the game was over before Poland, if you want to find out why the allies won you have to figure out why the US had all those good production cities cranking out tech and troops when the Germans didn't even have a decent tile with oil.
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Honestly everyone I know that was like that, that broke the law when they were young, turned out to be unsuccessful. Many are addicted to opiates. Very few have real jobs. None of them are educated beyond high school. Frankly, they're all harshly considered "losers."

It doesn't surprise me these things happen in rural America. Small towns, your dad knows the local sheriff, you doing something "illegal" and getting arrested is them taking you to your dad.
> I’m just telling people reading this in college to take equity value seriously and not dismiss it as worthless because people on HN say to do that all the time.

The vast majority of those people who you are giving that advice to will be played for suckers. It is good advice only for a tiny fraction that have the capacity, the opportunity, and the resources to negotiate a non-exploitative equity package. It is terrible advice for all the rest.
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That'll make it more stack efficient too since it doesn't have to go through the same dance for a function call. It probably didn't do them while adhering to the C ABI but it'd still put at least a return address and I suspect some registers during the call.
They are the same thing. The GP makes a distinction which does not exist. Witness the fact that two different compilers refer to the exact same feedback technique as either AutoFDO or SamplePGO.
I think the advice of valuing it as $0 in most cases makes sense, except if you happen to board the likes of Stripe, Spotify at a time point when they have fairly matured.

Only few companies make it to the much vaunted IPO/acquisition stage. Even in acquisitions, esop holders can end up getting a raw deal.

It is very hard for one to gauge companies which are going to succeed, I joined a newly Series B startup, a leader in its space with huge market opportunity with a very good product that went nowhere. While I love my initial days building stuff there, I do rue the missed opportunity of not just minting FAANG stocks.

Also, even public company equity appreciates. Among the already big FAANG, equity price has increased between 3-6x in the last five years; that is very good considering the amount of equity you get.
Banning Instagram and Tinder would be great for America and the world. Get people, relationships, and social networks back to reality.
There are no language features that can't "be used wrong". This argument proves too much!

Status Quo Bias is probably why we don't think of existing language features this way.

It's of course true that we're all likely to work with (or even be) incompetent people, but I really doubt individual language features has substantial impact on the damage they cause.
That roughly sums up my feelings and experience as well. I found it curious that another commenter suggested such behavior is unique to America, which I strongly doubt.
> You don't have an unlimited right to publish other people's imagery for commercial purposes absent permission, even if they are photographed in public

You disputed it right here. You 100% have a right to PUBLISH even for commercial purposes without permission.
It's fair to point out that if a company gets to Series A, it is substantially de-risked. IIRC, ~30% of YC startups get to Series A, so this milestone is material.
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Of course you don't. Rome never fell that's why the czars of russia were named for caesar. The roman empire never fell by all estimations. It just kinda... Went away.
Public companies are completely different from private companies though (by definition). In public companies, employees can liquidate vested shares immediately to cover any tax liability.

With RSUs in public companies, it's essentially (if not entirely) impossible to lose money. With RSUs in private companies, it's very much possible to be worse off than if you didn't have those RSUs to start with. Namely, if you pay the taxes out of pocket and the shares end up being worth less than what you paid in taxes (or are even completely worthless).

Options make the math even more complex regarding taxes/potential upside or downside.
Some wrinkles in the article, it looks like it was well-translated from the original, but figure 7 is explained "on the right" twice; one instance should say "on the left", and figure 8 is missing entirely.

I wonder if the FDSOI back-charge technique could be cycled to provide periods of immunity, then "dump" the stored charge (while holding the chip in reset), then become immune again..

Fascinating stuff! Mostly over my head! Literally! :)
Less years, but I concur.
There's a reason why sociopaths are over-represented at the highest levels of business. It's a culture that self-selects for these traits.
From what I remember (and I may be wrong) companies can't actually stop you from selling your shares to someone else right? That is why so many private secondary markets exist?
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Don't change goal posts now. I responded to your claim

> I'm very sure that you're wrong. Do you have any evidence that the NSA kidnaps and tortures people?

that NSA can get people tortured or killed without much difficulty.
Oh, got it! There are multiple fears then.
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"Huckster" is the word you're groping for, I think.
> > Pay software engineers on their payroll to help Spotify sell music on the iPod (oops; I mean iPhone)?

> Well, Microsoft did that, they developed the Spotify app for Windows Phone back in the day.
I was trying to be _too clever_ in my reference. What I was trying to say is that there's no moral highground for the developer community to stand on and demand that Apple reduce their commission or allow sideloading on the iPhone. A similar argument demanding that Apple open up iPods for 3rd party apps would've never sounded reasonable when Apple had the largest revenue share or market share or whatever share of the digital music player market. The exact same situation applies to the iPhone as well.

What Microsoft did was because they had no leverage. Apple beat them to market and successfully attracted enough developers to write apps. Sure Apple's platforms benefit from having 3P developers, but that doesn't mean they should set prices based on what 3P devs feel is "fair". If devs don't like the iPhone they should've developed for Windows Phone.

>I guess because such a large portion of phone users use iPhone, not developing for iOS means you remove yourself from competing about not only those customers but others as well. Say you develop a chat app (fat chance of that now but anyways), a large portion of Android users will say "It's nice and all but because some of my friends have iPhones I want to be able to chat with them as well."

> So quite simply, you need to be where the customers are and customers want native apps not web apps. They don't want to open Safari or Chrome or Firefox, type in a URL and some login credentials. It's too much of a nuisance. So if you don't write a native app some one else will and then they take all your customers...

Yes I completely agree with all these points. That is precisely what costs 30% of your app's revenue. The argument around "fairness" doesn't apply because the value provided by the platform is massive. It's the same reason why any argument comparing the iPhone to a Mac or PC wouldn't apply either. You can always build a web-app that's based on open standards and pay the price of losing to a competitor who will build a richer native app.

I'm a legal expert or something. As a developer myself, I find the arguments presented by the dev community against the App store & it's commission self-serving and hypocritical. That's just the cost of doing business on an iPhone. It's expensive! So the best thing to do is to go out there and build for every other phone maker.
My point: Civ4's tactical combat simply isn't rich enough to represent things like the Battle of the Bulge, where a breakout offensive could give the Germans a fighting chance for a few more weeks.

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And yes, tactics are ultimately secondary to production. That doesn't change the fact that the Romans had to fight the Gauls while outnumbered in Battle of Alesia or Carthage's Battle of Cannae.

These sorts of events aren't really going to happen in Civ4. The tactical engine and decision making in Civ4 is just too shallow to have something like that ever occur.

So Carthage were going to lose against the superior Roman production eventually. That doesn't make Hannibal's win at the Battle of Cannae any less interesting.
I think the comments here reflect a crowd that doesn’t see the reality of this world. For those without purpose, or those that don’t feel the love from society or that they’re creating value for society, these types of scenarios definitely take place. And then these young people are given records and never get the opportunities that others have because once you have a record that’s the end of everything. And it stems from the lack of exposure to the infinite possibilities life provides that a good parent or mentor could foster. Try to put yourself in the shoes of these people for a second and stop judging. This judgement leads to the punishment vs rehabilitation we take towards these people when we lock them up in the US. Understand the root cause...to some people who’d read this (apparently not on hn) this is quite normal. Instead of criticizing, the better questions would be how to solve challenges like these that are rampant.

Oh yea, I used to live int he bay with some programmers who were paid hundreds of thousands a year. Every Friday night they would come home with red bull and jager and get hammered. These were guys in their 30s. And needless to say, they would do some pretty destructive stuff without fail...years later, one of them told me, I’m bored with my job, I feel like I want to contribute - no shit...
You may want to read OSI 7 layers model. Those L1,L2,L3,L4 and L7 concept derived from that model.
L1 is the physical access. It is the cable, the fiber or the WiFi itself.
L2 is datalink. We use Ethernet for IP network. The device that mainly handle communication at this later called a switch.
L3 is network. In IP Network it handles the routings between IP Network. The device usually called as a router.

Some devices can do L2 and L3 at the same time. That’s why another term came up: L2 only switch.

And so on, you can read it more on [1].

1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
> Yeah I do do that, but you have to risk more and I disagree about it being easier to value from the outside.

I don't know. To me, wasting my time (AKA - my life) seems more risky than anything. On top of that - when you do exercise your options that you earn, you have to pay $$$ for them anyway. (Along with paying AMT - yay!) I'm pissing away a third of my net income on my options + tax right now. Who knows if I'll get jack shit. At least with the stock market I can usually get SOME of my money back unless you're doing something super risky like playing with options.

IMO - playing the market is less risky than playing the startup game. Especially if you're joining early startups or ones that haven't just been straight up rockets.
Well, I find it to pretty obviously be a self-expressive style, given the rest of its "form of writing itself (content and/or writing style) and/or visual aids (images)."

I could be wrong. Oh, well.

You might not have brought them up, but I largely (if not only ever) make the criticism regarding capitalization within contexts concerning grammar/punctuation or conveyance. And, given everything else in the article, I think it conveys pretty all right :)
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> that's not enough evidence for me to believe it

One popular quote by Upton Sinclair comes to me mind.
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