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Evervault (https://evervault.com/) | Engineers, Designers, Interns | Dublin, Ireland or San Francisco, CA | ONSITE

By building the encryption engine for the web, we’re enabling developers to make the next generation of products as secure as possible, and to build in areas that have previously been too sensitive to build in.

We’re a team of five, based primarily in Dublin, Ireland. We get things finished and obsess over minute details. We think rigorously and tinker quickly. We do the most challenging things first. We build, and don’t just talk about building. We’re generalists, and are not afraid of exploring unfamiliar domains. We keep things as simple as possible, but no simpler.

You may be a fit for Evervault if:

* You want to build durable infrastructure from ground zero.
* You can decide what to work on, and can teach yourself whatever you need to get things done.
* You understand that building something important means working long, hard, and smart — not two out of the three.

The things we spend most of our time on are:

* Applied Cryptography (fully-homomorphic encryption [1], post-quantum cryptography [2], trusted execution environments [3])
* Infrastructure (designing ultra-low latency systems backed by TEEs)
* Applications (we know that developers will never want slower implementation, so we invest tremendous energy into carefully crafting how our interfaces & flows work)

Our investors include Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Jeff Weiner (former CEO, LinkedIn), Dylan Field (CEO, Figma), Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog), and Alex Stamos (former CSO, Facebook).

We also offer paid internships year-round, and invite interns who impress us to join full-time.

You can reach me directly at shane@evervault.com.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

[2]: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography

[3]: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...
From the article: "An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks..."
What does everyone use IFTTT-style services for? Up until about a month ago I had had an account since the beta, but never really found a use for it beyond something like:

"Hey, Honey! Watch the lights change when it rains!"
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I didn't say anything about states rights - I was speaking to incompetency in state government.

I worked for years in state government IT and with a contractor that worked with state IT in most states. Their ability to make and perpetuate messes is almost incomprehensible to the crowd here - it's that bad.
I’ll take the devils advocate position for the sake of the discussion.

I think what’s being stated is that if you can’t manage to be happy within the top 1% income bracket, maybe focusing on more wealth isn’t the way to find fulfillment. It’s not about being wrong or stupid, it’s about misunderstanding what needs to be optimized.
The name Bit Gold was already recently used for a similar project by Nick Szabo when Bitcoin was announced:
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bit-gold/

Contrary to what many people who only recently discovered Bitcoin probably believe, it was not created in a vacuum as some Ponzi scheme. Instead it was a concept that had been iterated on for decades until Satoshi discovered the right combination of cryptographic technologies and economic incentives to make a so-far-unstoppable decentralized digital currency.
Quantum Teleportation over a 44km Distance
>The problem is that I have not been able to find any jobs in my area that actually allow me to do this.

This is because they don't exist. The people who have these jobs have created them; they weren't handed these jobs by their employers.

This often requires going above and beyond the pay grade, doing not only your work but whatever needs to be done. i.e: it is a momentary expenditure of a scarce ressource to reach escape velocity.

This is something I believe the majority of people will shy away from for fear of being a sucker or because they'd work "more than they're compensated for". I understand where they're coming from and that people have different circumstances and that there are abusive employers who'll take advantage of you, but you won't know if the envelope is set by yourself or your employer unless you expand it. If you do what most people do, you get what most people get.

There is a risk, but if you're in a good organization, there is payoff, and if you are in a bad organization, you'll get to know that quicker than if you had worked at a leisurely pace.

What I mean by going above and beyond: being good at the job and tasks you have been given is table steaks. That's your official job. Your mandate, though, is to make your team and organization win. Here's a reply that draws the contours of what I mean: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25367011

There's a lot to do at any company or organization that is not being done for a number of reasons. You can go ahead and be helpful and you'll be dealing with a lot of problems that will knock boredom out of you.
On the flip side, this nightmare scenario is also currently a fantasy in an industry that has had minimal union activity, in a country where union power has been slipping for decades. This is slippery slope catastrophizing.
I grew up in a communist country, everything was state owned, everything was crappy (I mean quality wise) and generally out of stock but hey, it had amazing price (dictated by the state of course), theoretically anyone could afford it. That resulted in huge lines waiting for small stock drops (not unlike the new PC hardware situation with scalpers these days, which is funny) of chicken, electronics, bananas. Of course, it was even better if you knew someone working at those stores, then you'd get a heads up or they'd "reserve" some for you.

So in general I'd say I've seen government fail to run plenty of businesses. A more modern example would be PG&E which is in this weird situation where it's so regulated that it's almost government run but it's technically a private entity. There are also plenty of pure private entities that haven't run well (but at least, such entities end up being bankrupt, a healthy alternative for non-profitable private businesses).

So in my experience, seeing both private and publicly run companies fail, I've started to think that this aspect of it (being privately or publicly controlled) is not what makes the company run well but it's one of the many factors that can contribute to it. I think a more important factor are the interests, skills, will and agenda of those that control it, regardless of whom they answer to (voters or board).

And let's not discard the particularities of each business. Some enjoy a natural monopoly, others face tough competition. These are more important aspects contributing to efficient use of resources than, again, who the CEO answers to.
I was with you until this statement:

> Facebook decided they don't want to be a part of this type of content distribution

Facebook's entire business model is built around the proliferation of "crap" content.
Who uses BTC as a spending asset on a daily basis?
I don't see this as a big deal. Not all metrics have to be real time.
Yup. 5-6 seconds, which is 10x the usual latency I see as well.
Before anyone gets too impressed (though I may be too late judging by the chorus that has formed), it's $57M CAD, and over the course of 14 years, so roughly about $3.2M USD in spending per year, or roughly $266k USD per month. Fairly typical customer.
Well let’s be fair here.

They made that conscious decision after running away with the money.

After the first few mil wouldn’t you understand your partner a little better?

At 57 it’s a rocky divorce and you know full well who you were sleeping with.
"Business takes the easy and ethically questionable route to continue making money" news at 11.

I'm not condoning Zoom's actions but this is hardly a problem unique to Zoom. Few if any businesses will stand up for consumers and citizens unless it's directly aligned with their profit motive. In this case, the business choice is to operate or not in mainland China. If they choose to stand up against the Chinese government they're going to have difficulty continuing to operate in China and risk losing that entire market.

Google played this PR game many years ago in China (rejecting some of the governmental policies) and ultimately caved to Chinese policies to do business there.

Businesses are not the organizations we should look to for empowering people, that's simply not their goal no matter how much their marketing team may want to sell that idea by following trending (popular) social movements that they've already done market studies on to assess potential fallback.
DCOs don't give copyright ownership to anyone else or even any more rights to anyone else. It is simply a declaration that you have the permission to license the code you wrote under the license you're giving it for.

This article gives a nice description of the differences: https://opensource.com/article/18/3/cla-vs-dco-whats-differe...
I'm not in the US, but working with wine seems like a good one. All other freelances, go for it if you can :-)
anyone throwing those critics at bitcoin needs to provide criteria for when their critic is no longer valid.

They need to provide:
- vol metric thresholds
- price targets
- adoption %
- etc...

We've had over 10 years of shifting the goalposts with bitcoin. At this point it's starting to sound like denial. Every meaningful metric has continued to improve in bitcoins favor yet we keep hearing the same critics.
yes, I remember when I got my trump kidney from a poor anti-fascist liberal. /s

America is fucked up, that doesn't mean that other countries aren't also fucked up or aren't doing worse things with the data they collect.
I think on the whole Google leadership is pretty representative of what Google employees want and the ones who want this union will be disappointed with what the union wants if they get enough people on board.
Given that US prosecutors are part of the administration, I'm inclined to think that they may have political motivation here.

But why would british politicians get involved. Regardless of how they got involved it would be political suicide if they were caught doing so.

British politicians have very little to win by getting their hands dirty here. For them it would be preferable to tell the Americans that they can't interfere.

Seriously, UK politicians have a perfect excuse for not having to make a choice and take a political risk -- they are not allowed to!

Give a politician the option of passing a hot potato to someone else, and you can be sure they'll pass the potato :)
This is a very important comment, not sure why it's not higher. This isn't really a union in the traditional sense - it's just a group of hyper liberal Google activist employees who are banding together to try to get institutional change.
Rare is not never.
>> I do not care about the "how" - that's the CEO and board job. I care about the profits.

One element is diversification. Consider a hypothetical investor that holds 50% bitcoin 50% stocks may think he's somewhat diversified, but if underneath, his stocks just hold bitcoin on their books, then he's just 100% bitcoin and completely undiversified.
> Crystal is the closest I've seen to match that

And it's 20 times faster than MRI Ruby JIT 3.0, see http://software.rochus-keller.ch/are-we-fast-yet_crystal_rub.... It's a pity Ruby typing went in another direction.

> The trade off for that powerful type inference is a slow compiler.

When run in the default (i.e. no release, debug) mode, build time is ok, especially for rebuilds when only one file has changed which is less than a second. Release builds are slow (see my PDF).
> We'd all take the higher paying job and maybe regret it later.

I had the good pay at Google and I left. I had to give up early retirement goals to do it but there are things more important than just money. You can still live a very comfortable upper middle class life in the Bay Area on 250k.

Additionally, most Google engineering positions are not that specialized and getting a position at another FAANG or hot startup with TC higher than 250k would not be very difficult.
Try to find a legal statement to that effect. You’ll find a lot of people claiming that but there’s nothing binding for the reasons I gave: nothing is certain in business and people will reasonably differ about the best ways to produce growth over any non-trivial time scale. Remember all of the people who very confidently said that Apple was wasting its time with phones and would never overtake Nokia?
The unspoken assumption behind this line of thinking is "if an entity/person can afford to pay more, the entity/person on the other side of the deal deserves more". This reasoning is applied to arguments about other things as well, such as taxes.

The problems with it become apparent when you realize that the standard isn't applied everywhere and is really impossible to evaluate fairly, so the conclusions are derived from personal ethics and concepts of "fairness" instead.

As an example, "they can afford it" is often used as an argument in favor of higher taxes on "the wealthy" (whatever that means), yet nobody says "you can afford to pay starbucks more for your coffee". You could have certainly afforded to pay more for your car or house or macbook, so why didn't you if "you can afford it" is the bar? Likewise many SV tech workers could "afford" to take pay cuts, but nobody's arguing that - why not, if "you can afford it" is the measure?
This project looks nice! Instantly shared it on my blog: https://jlelse.blog/links/2021/01/n8n. Thanks for this tutorial!
Maybe it's not updated in real time? I wouldn't publish my teams uptime metrics while a crisis was happening...
I've been intrigued by property taxes since reading a book by Heinlein that sat on the shelf for 40 years before being published last year, "The Pursuit of the Pankera". In this otherwise forgettable story, the family settles on an Earth in a parallel universe where most of the taxes are property taxes. The rate is set by the government, but each parcel is self-assessed by the owner. The catch is that anyone, including the government can purchase the property at the assessed value at any time. It sounds like a good idea, that would encourage fairness, but I wonder if there are unforeseen consequences I am overlooking.
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Carta is building the network graph of asset ownership. We help 15k+ privately held companies and a growing number of public companies track who owns what. We're a series F company ($3+ billion valuation) and offer very competitive benefits packages (equity, free lunch, 401K, fully subsidized personal healthcare, transportation and cell phone allowances, etc).

Specifically, the Enterprise team creates products to satisfy the needs of large private and publicly traded companies, such as equity management, foreign/domestic money movement, and brokerage (trading stock) services to name a few. Carta has over 800 employees world-wide.

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As of December 18th, 2020 deaths in Sweden are only the 3rd highest for the past decade:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

So its unlikely that COVID has lead to much excess death outside of what could be expected from an unusually strong 'flu year'.

However the avoidable major driver of death is lockdown (from suicides, overdoses, homicide, destitution, interrupted medical care) and mismanagement (eg. sending symptomatic people back into nursing homes as in New York).

This whole state of affairs has been great for Billionaires though - who have increased their wealth by 36% in the past 9 months thanks to egregious money printing and economic disruption:

https://yubanet.com/usa/net-worth-of-u-s-billionaires-has-so...
Totally - you can also easily sync it with your own service, if you don't want to use their sync service. The flexibility is definitely a huge selling point.
Getting a job somewhere doesn't mean being able to negotiate for the things you want.

Eg. Google workers don't like the facial recognition or censoring search results in China.

Getting a new job isn't going to change that, nor is closing down orgs going to be part of your job offer negotiation
Oh no question. It was the idea of 'bitcoin' I find appalling.
I read this as a tongue-in-cheek joke.
Neither of those cases have got anything to do with CCP wanting to export their governance model or invade foreign countries. This is apparent if you look at the historical context of the issues in those areas.

China isn't in Hong Kong because they're afraid of democracy. Under British rule, Hong Kong never had democracy in the first place. In 2014, CCP offered a limited form free elections for Hong Kong -- that's more democracy than under British Hong Kong. Why would they do that if they want to destroy democracy? The Hong Kong opposition shot down the proposal because they wanted more concessions. Unfortunate, because if it was accepted, it could have paved way for more democratization down the road.

As for Taiwan, the conflict exists because it's a leftover of the Chinese civil war. At the end of WW2, the Chinese Nationalist Party fled to Taiwan -- a part of the [People's Republic of China]'s predecessor, the [Republic of China]. Officially, both Taiwan and China claim to be the legitimate goverment of the whole of China -- this is the One China Principle. Heck, Taiwan' s modern-day flag is the exact same as that of the Republic of China.

Ever heard of Macau? It's democratic, part of China, and is doing fine under One Country Two Systems.

Whether anyone thinks Hong Kong and Taiwan should or should not be independent is besides the point, as well as totally irrelevant. The CCP has issues in those areas because they are, or used to be Chinese terrority. These issues are not new, and have been there since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, back when the CCP was small and weak and in no position to invade anybody.

But these issues persist because many mainland Chinese people care. Unity is and has been a Chinese core value for thousands of years. The issues don't persist because the CCP is evil and want to destroy democracy. Even if Hong Kong and Taiwan were under a seperate communist rule, the CCP would still have issues with those areas.

The narrative that China is an expansionist invader is based on the twisting of half-truths, for the purpose of painting a "China threat" in order to justify spending more money on the military industrial complex. China has not fought a war or shot a bullet outside its borders for more than 30 years. In fact, if you take out the People's Republic's map, and compare ot to the maps of the last 2 predecessors (the Republic, and the Qing dynasty), you'll see that the People's Republic's map is smaller.
>> Having control over supply of your currency is a good thing, as long as it’s well run.

Depends whose control we're referring to. The people who control the currency control the dynamics of the economy and society. That's all good if the dynamics work in your favor (e.g. your friends are central bankers and billionaires) but otherwise it's terrible.

Also, what does it mean "well run"? Well run from whose perspective? Monetary policy does not create economic value; it can only help those in charge to decide who are the winners and who are the losers.

My personal values don't align at all with the current monetary system. It doesn't work for me. It works against me. I'd rather accept a currency which cannot be controlled by anyone than one which is controlled by my enemies.
Moncef Slaoui of Operation War speed's idea of half doses is the dumbest idea EVER! Why?

1. 12M does distributed and only 4M vaccinations given. Therefore, current supply is not the issue. It's the admin process that is inconsistent across States and not supported by Federal funds, Fema or Army Reserves.

2. He is recommending a half dosage for the age group 18-54. Not states are even to that age group yet. Therefore, again, cutting dosage in half for that age group does not help current distribution issues which is primarily still to healthcare workers and those in nursing homes.

3. All Phase 3 trials were done using two full does. Therefore, without the studies, those claiming to use one shot vs two, or two half does are guessing at its potential efficacy without studies. Great...so let's waste the vaccinate and give it to more people incorrectly, so we then need to re-do the entire country. For heaven's sake...just do it right the way it is intended to be administered the first time and get your deployment processes in gear.

4. Moncef has only 17 days left on the job.. so why is anyone listening to him for advice at this point.
I'm "plussed," because an app that I manage uses slackclient, and some people depend on it to get paid. Obviously it's my fault for not handling the error, and I hotfixed it, but still, wah.
I've been WFH for nearly 6 years now. The one constant I've found that hampers my productivity is working from a "shared" space. Working out of a space like the living room or bed room, where you would normally relax, tends to make me slack off, get distracted easily, etc.

I have noticed though that your work space doesn't need to be fully dedicated though, it just needs to not be a leisure room. We adopted a Belgian Mal mix in February that needed supervision throughout the day, so I transitioned from my office to my dining room. We don't use that outside of the occasional game night or other gathering, and the table makes a nice makeshift desk with a laptop. I found working from there comparable to working from my office.
Are artists necessarily innocent in this scenario, or are they totally fine with artificial streams to boost discoverability via Spotify's recommendation algorithms?
I'm not the biggest Bitcoin fan, but this article is dumb.

I'm not a Bitcoin "believer" in that I don't believe the modern Bitcoiner's dogma. But many newcomers don't know the history: a significant number of early Bitcoin engineers have moved on to other projects (like Ethereum) that better align with some of Bitcoin's early goals, such as a cash alternative and an accessible economic cypherpunk system.

There are many cryptocurrency projects that are less dogmatic and more pragmatic.

>"Is Bitcoin money? No."

While I appreciate the upfrontness, the problem with this mentality is failing to conceive how the technology itself can easily overcome these minor criticism.

>"1. Medium of Exchange."

Even if Bitcoin isn't, which you'd need a very narrow definition, Eth easily overcomes this argument. Eth has functional, successful, trustless, and distributed stable assets that serve as stable priced mediums of exchange. I don't see how other cryptocurrencies aren't money even if Bitcoin isn't, which also undermines the intent of the article.

>"2. Unit of Account. ... We denominate BTC in terms of how many USD they’re worth, so BTC is not a unit of account presently."

That is severely ignorant and makes it obvious that the author has spent superficial time in the space. I cannot think of a charting tool that doesn't allow denomination in at least one other cryptocurrency. The Eth community refers to "the ratio" (denomination in Bitcoin or other assets) constantly.

> 3. Store of Value.

See point 1. This is a solved problem.