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> It appears a few other companies are doing this too, including Kraken (https://www.kraken.com/)

Kraken is still silly for going after them, IMO, but the Kraken case isn't as cut and dry. The person who had left the review on Kraken had accepted a large severance package that was conditional on signing a NDA.

I think the bad PR Kraken got for going after them wasn't worth it (especially as the review wasn't really even that bad) but the ex-employee was also not really in the right there either, having violated their NDA.

> governments allowing PoW

Is there any precedent for this? Have governments ever ruled on how people can use their computational power?

> the more you have of the capital the more you influence the system

That's not how PoS works, though?

Consider a "TinyMiniMicro" type slim PC instead of a RPi4. You'll get a lot more bang for your buck. https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...

I think another big reason for lower compensation is because a lot of companies working at a low level tend to be companies making physical electronic products. Profits for physical profits don't scale as exponentially as they do with software only products, so companies don't have endless amounts of cash to throw around at engineers.

If you're after good compensation and want to work at a low level, then go for companies that sell both hardware and software. FAANGs are an obvious choice but B2B companies (usually IoT-ish) that have have both a software and hardware subscription component are another option worth looking at.

NAT and firewall traversal are two other things that Tailscale gives you that you don't easily get with Wireguard alone, FWIW.

In this case, IIRC, the upvoted comments changed _because_ she called out the negative comments in her response.

The vehement shilling against anything blockchain related is something I still don't really get. Sure, I get it, you don't like blockchain. But this website would've taken a bit of effort to put together, and for what? To shit on something the author doesn't like? What's the author trying to get out of making something like this?

> 4. A long USB C cable (or the official one)?

Airlink works surprisingly well and it's so much nicer to play wirelessly. You might need to connect a wireless (AC or better) access point to your computer if your existing wifi AP is in a different room, though.

Nothing, except convincing other people to use their fork.

It's interesting to think about how they'd measure success with this. Like, I guess with normal marketing for a product, it's already difficult but at least you have metrics around increased sales etc. What do they measure here, positive sentiment for Bill Gates?

I think it's often hard to cut through the unnecessary stuff when researching a new hobby because the people talking about it the most are the ones that are deeply invested in it. I long for a collection of "good enough" guides to get started in hobbies.

> Am I the only one feeling uneasy about this?

Why does this make you feel uneasy? Who's to say the original creator of the repo has any better intentions than the author of this article?

I recently joined a series B startup valued at ~$200M with ~100 staff and was granted what amounts to be ~0.015% over 4 years. (So if I had all my options now they'd be worth ~$28k). Seems like that might be a bit low comparatively, have I been fleeced?

Centralised management and simple NAT/firewall traversal, basically.

In general, no. This is a good rundown, imo: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29/

What a bizarre read. It's like he had a episode midway through writing that post. I hope he gets better.

Luck Surface Area (https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...) definitely applies to this, though - it's all about positioning yourself so that you have the opportunity to get lucky.

It's a beautiful country but because of the small population there's a lack of opportunities, especially compared to the US or even Australia. The time zone makes remote work difficult too.

I think something that's not readily apparent with the success so far of remote work during COVID, is that organizations are operating on the organizational 'shared context' that was created before remote work started.

It's why I think outsourcing often doesn't work out. Outsourced workers lack an understanding of this shared context which makes for a high level of friction and impairs their ability to deliver the work as imagined by the organization.

Right now, IME we're still in the sweet spot of being able to work from this shared context, which I think means the benefits of working from the same physical space are not appreciated.

It'll be interesting to see how things play out if remote work becomes the norm. I do think remote work can be successful, if the effort is put in to make sure that collaboration etc. still occurs. However, if companies stay remote and try to run on the fumes of the previously held shared context from pre-COVID then I think it will mean disaster for them.

Difficult to work with because of the mess of cables, not because it wouldn't actually work, I think.

> If a company is looking for an open source work in the candidate CV it means they want to know if that person is keen on providing work for free. It means that the candidate shouldn't have problems staying over time without pay because it is his or hers passion.

I think this would honestly be a bad assumption to make. The people I've worked with that did the most amount of work on their own time have typically not done any OSS work.. because they were working on work stuff all the time. Those that dabbled in (non work related) OSS stuff often were able to do so because they had clearer boundaries between work/personal work.

> One thing a Docker container gets you for a simple Go app is the ability to run it on any platform that runs container images (like ECS); that's more flexibility than you get with something that needs a proper VPS to run. Everything knows how to run a Docker image.

It is kind of bonkers that we've gotten to a stage where more things know how to run a container than know how to run a statically linked binary.

It's a little different with proof of stake. If there's a minority group that holds a large stake that "attacks" the blockchain against the majority's wishes, the majority group can decide to roll back and blacklist the minority group. It's much more difficult to blacklist hash power in this same way.

This sounds cool, do you have any recommended resources to get started with running a lnd node and getting it connected to a larger network? And, just curious, do you make any money from lighting fees?

What am I missing? What is wrong with those? I read the complete review and honestly, if I didn't know better, would have thought that a human wrote it.

I don't understand this take. I went the same Melbourne lockdown and am extremely grateful for how the government handled it. I have colleagues in the US and, while they're not under strict and enforced lockdown, they've had to effectively self lockdown since the start of the pandemic. They also have 400,000 deaths and no real end in sight for when some normality might resume.

I'm happy with the measures taken, even if they were a bit draconian, because now I can, without needing to worry too much, do normal things like going to visit friends/family and going out to restaurants/cafes. It sucked to have a curfew and only be able to get out of the house for 1 hour per day, sure, but it would suck much more if we were in a perpetual limbo state with only the promise of a vaccine to hope for.

Perhaps you could disable the button, but I don't think a firmware update can change the red LED on == microphone off behaviour. This is a good compromise IMO, as if the microphone off button stops working then you can deduce that the firmware may have been tampered with.

> They inherently have different life cycles.

Can you expand on this?

Mainly that they sell health data (anonymized and aggregated, but still), to undisclosed third parties and they're not super upfront about it.