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His lawyers should take away his electronic devices from him.

I agree. If management wants software development to be more like the trades they need to recognize that training is a line item cost that needs to be paid as part of the employment arrangement with both time and money allocated for it.

If a hedge fund trades on an exchange in Singapore they will probably want a corporate structure there for trading and tax purposes. Larger trading operations aren’t just clicking sign up on random exchange websites and allowed to start trading billions of dollars. Legal agreements need to be inked, collateral deposited, etc.

Which special was this from?

I think the relevant aphorism is: you can be right or you can be happy, but usually not both.

I don’t think autonomous driving is unsolvable. But every single company in that field has shamelessly lied about the time tables for the availability of the tech. And there’s been zero accountability for it. Remember how 2020 was supposed to be the year we get fully autonomous vehicles?

The only thing unfortunate about the coverage is that the media was entirely complicit and exercised no skepticism or pushback against these seemingly impossible time tables for deliveries of such a clearly complicated and as yet unsolved problem. They just blindly regurgitated the tech industry marketing pr around it. Has any single car company ever demonstrated a car that can drive while it’s pouring rain out?

Stock buybacks account for about ~1 trillion of corporate spending and are taxed at 0%. Dividends are taxed as long term cap gains.

I’m of the opinion that they should either be outright not allowed or taxed according to long term cap gains. Since they’re just used as a loophole to give back to investors tax efficiently.

Anybody famous enough to warrant a special verification process can probably afford $20/mo.

I think this is smart. The blue checkmark is in practice just a symbol of vanity. That you're a genuine somebody, worthy of extra verification. There are so many self-important people in life and on social media that think they are in a class above everybody else, I bet a large percentage of these not noteworthy but need to be verified people will happily pay for it.

The two pieces of information I think that stand out are: 1. Law enforcement elected not to pursue charges 2. The banned parties were comfortable enough going to a respected newspaper with the facts of their case, which, the newspaper presumably also did due diligence and sided with the users.

I don’t think that there’s really any “hidden” context here that would convince many (except maybe those who get their paychecks from big G) that google is not in the wrong.

Perhaps the hidden context here is that they also investigated the couple after the journal report and found other “violations” which were ban worthy after, not before, their case was aired publicly. I don’t think many people would consider this theoretical scenario fair either.

Multiple independent organizations inside a company each with their own rigid and inflexible operating procedures. The user to moderator ratio in the tens of thousands to 1. How is this hard to see?

And don’t restore accounts even when law enforcement decides not to pursue charges.

Or a would-be employee.

Admitting that the decision to continue petroleum production is a cost benefit analysis and we still derive significant benefits from it is a conversation that much more than just the fringe environmentalists are unwilling to have. Had we been able to have these discussions earlier, we would have started working on carbon capture with much more credible allocations sooner.

An easier all be it less ethical way to remove your info is just file a dmca takedown request with google. They are required to and will automatically take down the reported page. There’s no verification and just your assertion that you own the copyright is enough to nuke any page from a search listing.

It’s okay to shame smokers because they are hurting more than just themselves with second hand smoke. But it’s not okay to shame fat parents who let their kids get fat even tho that’s hurting others. The logical conclusion of what you’re asking for is absolving people of accountability for their poor life choices. People rightly and understandably vehemently disagree with this.

NO2 interferes with the bodies ability to absorb vitamin b12. Sustained abuse of No2 even if only several times a week can cause enough of a disruption to b12 absorption that paralysis and other issues affecting motor coordination and locomotion can occurr. It is not the side effect free drug people make it out to be.

H20 can also be lethal if ingested in large enough quantities. So I understand your position on the inherent silliness of the policy response. But it is harmful and statements like these minimize the risks posed by NO2.

Past tense is really doing a lot of work here. A lot of peoples experience quitting Social media mirrors my experience with quitting smoking. On again off again.

Yeah that’s a good point. That the value argument is actually just a veiled way of saying people and buildings that don’t look like the way we want them to look.

My personal belief is that the housing supply scarcity is having the opposite effect and is actually holding property values down. Let’s say there’s two 1 acre lots that have a market value of $1m each. A developer can buy them and turn them into 8 condos and sell them each $600k yielding $4.8m. Is it possible the developer would pay more than $1m apiece for these properties? Obviously, these numbers are made up someone who has no real estate experience. with current prices the way they are largely due to zoning and external factors, the base economic case for these things holding down property values seems at the least a defensible argument.

Not everybody on this forum went to Stanford/MIT/Harvard, has multiple offers to choose from, or is independently wealthy from selling their last startup. I think levels.fyi is pretty cool because they actually go and validate that the salaries people are posting are actually real. Not just make believe. My comp at my current company is above what they are quoting, still low for a dev compared to FAANG company counterparts.

My starting in the bay area was $70k at a company nobody has heard of... all the way back in 2008. 100 now seems fairly doable for mortals that have a passion & interest in coding. I've heard the rich kids from elite schools are now getting 200 starting for FAANG tech companies. Unreal.

I wonder if adding a filing fee of some nominal amount, say $10, for code complaints would reduce these types of reports?

Title seems like a lazy to the point of factually incorrect attempt at click bait.

Fair enough. My Knowledge of what’s on the bleeding edge and mass adoption in algo trading is fairly dated. I haven’t been adjacent to that industry in over 5 years. Even back then there was turnkey ASICS you could buy that would implement the network plus whatever protocols you used to talk to the exchange.

I think the neatest thing that sticks out to me is how logging in implementations of low latency trading applications was essentially pushed to the network. Basically they just have copper or fiber taps between each node in their system and it gets sent to another box that aggregates the traffic and processes all the packets to provide trace level logging through their entire system. Even these have solutions you can buy from a number of vendors.

It’s typically done when end to end latency is more important than full protocol compliance and hardening against myriad types of attackers. High frequency trading is typically where the applications where you see these sorts of implementations being really compelling.

For these types of applications there are proprietary implementations that you can buy from vendors that are more suited to latency sensitive applications.

The next level of optimization after kernel bypass is to build or buy FPGAs which implement the wire protocol + transport as an integrated circuit.

Apples hardware is proprietary and they don’t offer or probably plan to offer server chips. I think what would make these stats more interesting is if we saw a shift in the thin client vs. fat client debate back to fat clients. Perhaps these changes will bring us into that era?

Amazons arm-based offerings are pretty interesting as are the other non-x86 initiatives. But I don’t see x86 going away in my day job any time soon.

Match makers might be worth looking into if you have disposable income. Match makers doesn’t mean mail order brides. Apparently they are worth the investment from the few friends I’ve known that have utilized their services.

A 1 bedroom apartment I live in near work is about 3k/month with utilities. I don’t do the super expensive car with a huge payment thing but put those two together and you’re halfway there. Throw in some expensive vacations (gotta fly business internationally can’t be a peasant) and you’ll make decent headway.

Or maybe you are a dog owner so you rent a house so your dog has room. It’s fairly easy to do in a high cost of living area just to feel “middle class”

Music festivals and Vegas trips are also a great way to set small piles of cash on fire.

Suppose I run a website in the us and a user in Italy connects to it. Does this mean I’m now breaking the law serving them the website? My connection logs now have pii.

What if I use a cdn that has points of presence in Italy and still pings my server with a head request and the end user ip?

Am I also now breaking Italian law by using google analytics?