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An SIP scheme would likely have reduced tax. There were also likely alternative arrangements that could have legally been made to be more efficient even in the absence of the scheme.

Ultimately I would have preferred to know in advance even if the tax had to be paid this way and had the option to discuss and obtain advice on how to proceed rather than be lied to and have tax withheld with 1 day's notice.

However given the general chaotic and disorganised nature of the startup their poor handling was not at all a surprise.

I think the moral of the story is even if you are lucky enough to cash out don't expect the company to do 'the right thing' in any way. It is really out of your hands.

I had fully vested shares not options so EMI didn't come into it.
I recently ran into the very same thing.

Instead of creating a Spring service to call a repository for data retrieval, i instead called the repository directly, because there was just a single method that needed to be implemented for read-only access of some data.

And yet, a colleague said that there should "always" be a service, for consistency with the existing codebase (~1.5M SLoC project). Seeing as the project is about 5 years old, i didn't entirely agree. Even linked the rule of threes, but the coworker remained adamant that consistency trumps everything.

I'm not sure, maybe they have a good point? However, jumping through extra hoops just because the software is a large enterprise mess doesn't seem that comfortable either, just because someone decided to do things a particular way 5 years ago. It feels like it'd be easier to just switch projects than try to "solve" "issues" like that (both in quotes, given that there is no absolute truth).
Amortizing batched operations across occasional overhead goes back to the mistiest origins of computation, and to industrial operations research before that. The very first brick-masons carried a hod of bricks to the top of their scaffold and then placed them before giing back for more.

I promise you that practically nobody doing it has ever heard of "BP-Wrapper", or of flat-combining.
No. You can use a crosswalk or ignore it as you like. Of course most people use them cause they prefer not to get hit by cars.
Our political establishment class is so detached from the will of the people I don't even know how to categorize the type of society America has become.
There are charlatans making a lot of money selling conspiracy theory content.
Currently, I'm mostly writing 2d/3d graphics code (C++)

I did briefly write some Haskell/Erlang in my undergrad programming language theory course and carried some of the functional paradigms into my professional career though trial-and-error and advice from my mentors
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Well, the front page has literally "Holocaust didn't happen" plastered on it right now (crime in many EU countries) ...

Not really going to miss this one. "Neutral" and "free-speech" have unfortunately become euphemisms for a license to spew hate that wouldn't be allowed elsewhere (i.e "censored").
One has to wonder if such a law would even have been proposed under a Trump second term.
How The Web is Really Built
While not technically related, this reminds me of Keybase's cryptographic coin flip:

https://keybase.io/blog/cryptographic-coin-flipping
That's the point. Cars have an unmatched level of potential damage compared to almost anything short of actual weapons. Insisting that drivers are careful in any areas where pedestrians might be and being strict about that isn't unreasonable.
> Of course decidability is desirable, but efficient sound procedures in the undecidable case would still solve many practical problems. I realize they are not as "nice" from a theoretical/academic standpoint, though.

This is interesting, because undecidability of SMT theories is a very practical issue. Actually, many people in academia have this point of view that solving many practical problems is useful. It helps us to drive research progress, but it is a completely useless metric for industry. What is better: (1) a tool that wins a competition by solving X out of Y benchmarks, (2) or a tool that solves your problem? In academia, (1) is a clear winner, as it gives you a free way to publish a paper, modulo peer review. In industry, you don't care about (1), because you have exactly 1 (one!) benchmark that is important for you, that is, case (2).

Imagine a compiler that works on 85% of syntactically-correct (and well-typed) programs, and you never know when it would hang on your code. This is exactly the behavior of SMT solvers when you start using quantifiers. By knowing the internals of SMT and its techniques, you can quite often work around these problems. However, TLA+ users do not want to know the guts of SMT; why would they? This is why Apalache implements a quantifier-free encoding. Sometimes, it hits us badly, but it is somewhat more predictable. Ivy does it differently, by providing the user with a language that is actually quite close to the theories implemented in z3. While it gives the user a finer control over the SMT constraints, the user has to understand first-order logic much better than in case of Apalache.
The title is a bit clickbaity, the "or Die" is not really addressed in the actual talk. But the hilarity...

I would rename that video to "Tacit Programming: It's Not A Joke <everyone bursts into laughter>"
Just say "you people invented racism" and slither back to Parler.
You may want to hold on with the pitchfork for a moment.

TL;DR If @satellite2 is, like myself, French, we do not have separate words for "murder" and "manslaughter" in the everyday language.

Longer version: we have the verb "tuer" ("to kill") which can be applied to people, flies, bears, time or boredom. It just mean to go from a state of "live/be" to "not live/be".

We then have the noun "homicide". It is never used in the everyday language (but would be in legal proceedings and sometimes on the TV news when they want to qualify the act). Its etymology is "homme" + "occire" ("man" + "old French word for kill"). It means "to kill a man". There is no connotation beside that and you add the adjective "volontaire" or "involontaire" ("intended" or "unintended") to make the English difference between "murder" and "manslaughter". And then plenty of other legal qualifications (premeditation or not etc.)

Again: this is a word you would not use in everyday conversation. Please note that there is no verb derived from "homicide". It is only a noun.

In many cases people will use "murder" to mean "someone was killed somehow", while technically "murder" ("meurtre" in French) is an intended act. But since our "manslaughter" ("homicide volontaire") is too long we use "murder".
Ah, that sounds like a different exploit.

Above, you can fiddle the result of a coin toss by sleight of hand.

Here, you're not dexterous enough for that, but you can fiddle the result anyway by alternating between two processes. This is a more powerful approach!

There was an example of this that stuck with me in the (fantasy) book Another Fine Myth, in which the narrator must perform magic for a king, but lacks the ability to do magic. He has a single gimmick device and needs to pass it off as more than it is.

So he asks the king to choose one of two horses, and, when the king picks the real horse, says "by your word shall that creature be spared". Then the narration remarks that if the king had picked the other (fake) horse, the trick would have been performed on "the creature he [the king] had doomed with a word".

The lesson is, if you're offered a choice, you need to know what it is you're choosing before you make the choice. Participating in a process without knowing what the process consists of is another way to say "being scammed".
See @satellite2 answer above - this is not that simple and is indeed some kind of gray area.
Audit. The. Elections. First.
I have this argument a lot being a self identified liberal with liberal friends.

Two points: 1. Although it wasn't the intention, the 2A creates the conditions for insurgency. Super powers don't do well against insurgency. 2. The military by nature is much much less likely to turn against the citizenry. The militarization of the police is much more likely.
Apple's Frameworks teams tend to ship two kinds of APIs -- APIs designed around the needs of first-party apps and APIs designed specifically for third-parties to use. Core Data is characteristic of the second kind of API. It sounds cool in theory, but when you try to use it, it never really seems to do what you want it to. Hence the need to "use an abstraction layer" over an API which is itself an abstraction layer (sqlite) over an abstraction layer (file I/O).
The Slow-Motion Tragedy of Ola Bini's Trial
How about combining the best of both worlds: https://github.com/mwilliamson/jq.py
I built a Fast and low HTTP router and URL matcher for building Deno servers
Topic as in U.S.C. title?
If there ever was an illusion left that America was a democracy, here's a blatant example that control has been wrestled away from you and I by corporate interest groups.

Crony capitalism at its finest.
Hi Jacques, I’ve been reading your excellent comments for a long time. Sorry to hear you had such a painful experience with COVID. Hope you’re back to 100% soon.
> What I've never understood about XRP and Ripple is that originally XRP was meant to only be used for paying for transactions and the ledger was meant to track IOUs between people denominated in some other "real" currency. They had videos floating around explaining the concept. In fact, they were handing out XRP for free to bootstrap the network of users [0] (that post says 1000 XRP, originally it was 30,000 XRP when the post was first created).

So the thing is, isn't this kind of system (very similar to a concept I can only remember as Hawala[0]) explicitly illegal?

> Hawala or hewala (Arabic: حِوالة‎ ḥawāla, meaning transfer or sometimes trust), also known as havaleh in Persian,[1] and xawala or xawilaad[2] in Somali, is a popular and informal value transfer system based not on the movement of cash, or on telegraph or computer network wire transfers between banks, but instead on the performance and honour of a huge network of money brokers (known as hawaladars). While hawaladars are spread throughout the world, they are primarily located in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Indian subcontinent, operating outside of, or parallel to, traditional banking, financial channels, and remittance systems. Hawala follows Islamic traditions but its use is not limited to Muslims.[3]

> Some government officials[which?] assert that hawala can be used to facilitate money laundering, avoid taxation, and move wealth anonymously.[citation needed] As a result, it is illegal in some U.S. states, India, Pakistan,[14] and some other countries.[citation needed]

The whole IOU system doesn't need crypto to work -- but you just can't set up the kind of clearing house/federation that you'd need in the US because it's illegal, I thought.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
Yes, he meant "manslaughter" - see my comment below the other one of yours.
WHO-Convened Global Study of the Origins of SARS-CoV-2
That is from the definitions part of the document, which defines what "work being prepared for commercial public performance" means.

EDITS - on page 2543 https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/file...

3 years for released works.

5 years for unreleased stuff.

So it's not just for pre-release. Pre-release just gives you an additional 2 years in prison!
It's sad to think that the list of 5801 sites probably only accounts for a couple percent of the total amount of offenders.
Microservices are indepently deployable modules. Thus the same principles of modular design in a monolith apply. So, yes, you're correct with the network part.
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100% nodding
Make a Chromecast-Like Smart TV with Raspberry Pi
That is a conflation of two things. The first is an bitstream from a hwrng, and you're right that if it was non-uniform this would probably mean that it was biased and would be a weak key. Not because it has a bunch of zeros in a row, but because the attacker could assume that it did and guess it more easily.

The other issue is the key itself, and in AES for example, there are (believed to be) no 'weak' keys. All zeros is just as secure at mixing the plaintext as anything else. If you reject keys with too many zeros in a row all you're doing is lowering the keyspace you have to work with.

So no, uniformity is not a goal for keys.
Polarization of Light [video]
While it's a clever method, it's also worth noting that for moderately-sized groups you can achieve the same thing with a much simpler method and almost no math.

Let's say you have a 256 bit key as the secret, and you want any 5 out of 15 people to have access.

For each combination of 5 people, pick 4 random 256 bit numbers. 4 people get those and 1 gets the key encrypted with those numbers as a one time pad.

Once you do every combination, each person will end up with a list of a thousand numbers. Any 5 of them can get together, each grab their number for that group, and XOR them to access the secret.

That's only 32KB of data to hang onto. With 15 people the absolute max is 107KB. Even printed as plain text it would need less than 20 sheets of paper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
If you do not have jq installed or if you like SQL more to query/handle your data, you can rely on sqlite. For example:

sqlite3 <<< "select json_extract(value, '$.Plan.Plans[0].Output') from json_each(readfile('explain.json'))"

Reference: https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html
Reddit NSFW content is best viewed on scrolller.com anyway :)
Our tool provides several solutions, however, we do not force users to use all of these abstractions. It's very important for us that our product is interoperable with the rest of the ecosystem.

If a company is already using a pipelining tool, a visualization tool, or a data management tool, Polyaxon will work and integrate with those tools seamlessly.

That being said, and I fully understand where the OP is coming from, there are several companies not interested in managing several solutions and all the complexity that comes with the infrastructure, deployment, maintenance, upgrades, user facing clients, authn/authz, permissions... Polyaxon provides the right abstractions for covering the experimentation and the automation phase.
In this case, screwed w.r.t privacy (your credentials may still be safe). But you may become a target because of your sign-in activities which are no longer private.
It should be kept in mind (without unnecessary enmity or antagonism, just as a fact) that almost a year later we still do not definitively know the origins of the virus. That position is reflected in WHO’s Terms of References for the relevant study[0], for example.

Note that the document appears to imply that WHO’s team will not be allowed to operate on the ground in China to collect evidence (see Phase 1 of Implementation plan, the paragraph about building on existing information and not duplicating existing efforts).

Note that the document does not mention the possibility of lab escape, despite documented evidence of SARS-CoV previously escaping from a lab in Beijing and resulting in at least one death years earlier, and the fact that Wuhan is home to another one of the very few BSL–4 labs.

I am tired of uninformed “who dealt it” finger-pointing as much as the next guy. First, we currently lack information. Second, even if we had that information, we should accept that mistakes happen (human factor and so on).

The only valid grounds for finger-pointing, as far as I’m concerned, is if someone attempts to undermine an effort aimed to make humanity better equipped to deal with a similar scenario in future.

[0] https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/who-convened-global-...
Microsoft’s iron cage: Prison surveillance and e-carceration
>tech courses we took in the army had plenty of emphasis on ethics, both the moral kind and conflict-of-interest kind

All the things done to all citizens of Israel (for example, indiscriminate movement and contact tracing) and residents of occupied territories are made possible by graduates of these courses.

Main emphasis of "emphasis on ethics" is explanation to soldiers how each choice made during a chain of events resulting in underage kid, teenager or old woman in her sixties being shot point-blank is correct and no other choice is possible.
> But obviously we can’t have a rule where people are allowed to just cross busy city streets at will anywhere. It would be terrible for overall mobility in the city as well as dangerous.

That's how many many countries operate and it's actually relatively safe.
>> For coins with a 75% bias, you can represent the possible outcomes by "HHHT"

> Your method seems to lack rigor.

> Lets take a fair D4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-sided_die), and define "Heads" as 1, 2, 3, and 'Tails" and 4. This gives us a perfectly biased 75% Heads coin.

...but that's exactly the same method you just complained lacked rigor. (It doesn't, but what were you complaining about?)
One more proof that Ripple, being centralized, was bound to fail from day one and never was a match for Bitcoin (and all its more or less retarded cousins).
Actually it is the main component of many (very successful) drug delivery systems.
You pay for it one way or the other. People who don't feel heard radicalize and do things like commit street violence or mass killings.

>Like, I don't see you moving to the ghetto and putting your kids in shitty schools so that you can even things out.

I don't know about your schools, but around here the "magnet" schools with the high level law/math/science/etc programs are ALL in the bad schools. They do this to attract high performing students to poor performing schools. So if you want the benefit of the best public school education specifically geared towards your interest, you pay for it by going to a "bad" school.
> Isn't this the type of vanity purchase that usually happens after you validate your idea with 10,000 customers and you got a round of investment to go big?

- The founder previously flipped his startup Screenhero to Slack and got some cash out of that I suppose.

- Interest is negative, that money is just costing money.

- Short dictionary domains are a pretty low-risk investment, I don't know the market well but I suppose they tend to increase in price over time.

- So if the company fails he can sell it. Meanwhile it's an asset on the company's books so it's part of the valuation etc.

Sounds like this is the "second startup" version of rich-ish parents buying an apartment near college for their kid to live in, hoping to flip it for more when they graduate. Doesn't seem all too "vanity" to me, it's just combining pragmatic usefulness with an "good enough" investment opportunity.

ps. wow this app works really well!
Thank you for this brave and fair stand.

I for one am absolutely appalled by the virulent anti-Albanianism which has somehow taken root in my HackerNews. It is my earnest hope and prayer that we may open our hearts and minds to these oft victimized people and understand their storied history and potential. All peoples are capable of great beauty and accomplishment - including Albanians - and it strikes me deep in my soul to witness the unjust downfall of such an exemplary young man who had risen above hardship and disadvantage to build something so great. In my mind there is nothing more responsible for the unearned hostility he has suffered than brutish prejudice, and I hope he still has time to complete his grand visions for a future with fewer life-threatening illnesses threatening humanity despite these unfortunate setbacks.

Hacker to hacker, stay strong Shkreli, my brother. We support you.
It doesn't leak information to the website but even worse it leaks your information to Google.
Short answer: I am comfortable with my job.

I think your question makes some incorrect factual assumptions, but also it incorporates a world view that I don't subscribe to (not wrong, but also not what I believe).

I think that if I had your belief system and your set of facts, I would probably feel uncomfortable about it.
It makes string handling much easier, that’s for sure.

However I always liked the way Objective C did OPP vs how C++ did it.
I politely disagree with you. From my experience, cross pollination of ideas from alternatives makes both the person and the product much better.

I personally always try to use some alternatives at the same time (XFCE, KDE, macOS / C++, Python, Go, etc.) to see what others are doing.

This allowed me to think both out of the box and carry good ideas between systems. Some examples:

- Implement just works approach in a set of python utilities developed for a project. Extended development time a little but, removed setup from so many nodes so it compensated itself and allowed me to sleep well at night.

- Copying GNOME2's desktop layout to KDE with some macOS influences allows me to become extremely efficient in my Desktop systems. Since it contains something from everything, everything other DE is familiar and I'm also more efficient in them ("This is UNIX, I know how to use it!" effect).
I also find it disappointing that people still think that blindly applying measures that may work in one case, will work in any other case. It's like countries don't have different cultures, different climate, geography, demography, political systems and so on. And people still think that taking one set of rules that work in one context we can just apply them anywhere and have the same result.

I heard this quote on a podcast recently, and somehow stuck with me, because it's quite amazing how we think that we can control somehow such a force of nature like a new virus: “Man cannot control the current of events. He can only float with them and steer.” Otto Von Bismarck.
What is the upside to being on S&P? What were they on before, Nasdaq? What is the material difference? Genuine question.
I was in roughly the same boat. I got Covid relatively early in the US, late March / April. I was quite sick for most of a month. The weird part is that a low grade fever and other symptoms persisted for months and would come and go for weeks at a time, almost always tied to visits to a grocery store (happened three times, about ~5-7 days after visiting a grocery store, which was my primary exposure to such spreader environments). It felt like the virus being topped up, rebooted. To put it into perspective, I haven't had the flu in 20 years and never get sick for more than 2-3 days in a given year. My immune system seemed unable to kick Covid.

It took six months to feel back to mostly normal after the worst initial month of symptoms went away.
> attacker can create a website and ask you to join it under the hope you'll reuse your horcrux on the attacker's site.

I don't think that reusing the same pepper (horcrux string) for all sites would be best practice.
>Always remember that "free speech" is 100% about the right to say what you want and not be prosecuted for it

No I don’t remember. You can have “free speech” except the social consequences are that your neighbours lynch you in the streets. No I don’t recall it like that. Free speech has always been absolute because the majority opinion is immune from social consequences. It is the minority opinion that requires protection.
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