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Easy to dismiss him because of his wealth or other prejudices you may have of him. "Free America Now" raises an incredibly important debate that all lockdown-ridden countries should be having. Were lockdowns constitutional? Were lockdowns effective? Could other measured responses have achieved similar outcomes?

Were lockdowns done in vain? And have we set a dangerous precedent?

Bunch of questions. Don't flame him or me. Just participate in the debate.

Lockdowns were the wrong solution, imo. I think we've underestimated the spread pre-lockdown and the spread during lockdown (grocery stores etc.). We'll know once broad antibody tests are administered. But if the virus has already spread to 30, 40, heck 50 percent of the population, then what the heck are we doing in lockdown...

There is also the likelihood of this virus to have already infected a large % of the population. Antibody tests will confirm that.

As I see it, lockdowns are not effective and were a massive mistake. You may find this epidemiologist's perspective to be interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfN2JWifLCY

Audio/video chat is atrocious for relationship building.

- There's the speed of sound/light delay. - You lose all the physiological feedback: Body language, tone, facial expression. - The barrier to start a conversation is way higher too. Some would argue that is good. - You cannot go for a walk with a peer.

Briza.io | Toronto, Canada | ONSITE | Software Developers

Briza... the air cooler company? Nope! Briza, the technology startup connecting small businesses, insurance brokers and carriers in the buying of commercial insurance -- initially focused on the US market. We’re a seed-stage company headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Frontend: https://angel.co/company/briza/jobs/603663-frontend-develope...

Backend: https://angel.co/company/briza/jobs/674250-backend-software-...

Pickering area -- 40 km away from Toronto. Nonetheless, training exercise that erroneously issued a provide-wide alert.

Yes. We don't have the means to know so. Just like fish in the ocean don't know we exist, but we know they exist.

Briza | Backend Software Developer | Toronto, Canada | Full-time, ONSITE | https://briza.io

Insurance technology startup connecting carriers, agents and small businesses in the placement of insurance. Our stack includes Node.js, Typescript, ES2019.

Interested? Email us at careers@briza.io

Who pays for the "free remote data storage"? And who writes the software for the cell phone mesh network?

> All we need is the right software

Who authors and maintains this software? And what is their incentive?

How does the layperson know how to set up a node? And, care to.

This. And who will constitute these 1000's of decentralized nodes?

We're in a very similar business. And have embraced the existing broker network. gen220 -- mind if I ask what company you are part of?

Briza | Backend Software Developer | Toronto, Canada | Full-time, ONSITE

Insurance technology startup focused on US small business insurance. Node.js, Typescript, ES7+.

For information and on how to apply, please visit: https://angel.co/company/briza/jobs/674250-backend-software-...

Show of hands... Who is throwing shade on We while being a tenant?

Could you provide the source for this quote?

"Untrustworthy governments manipulating currencies" appears to be the problem that decentralized digital currencies are supposedly solving. Instead of this indirection, how about addressing the root problem? Replacing that untrustworthy government with a trustworthy one, changing incentives, or identifying new forms of government/control.

What would you recommend for ACH bank account verification?

Hard delete of an issue over closing it or closing comments... for such a security sensitive issue... under the rug sweeping.

Don't abandon it and don't sell yourself short to a large corporation. If you are needing to be surrounded by a team, then let's chat. I also loathe going solo on a project for similar reasons. Over the past few months, I've been able to manufacture a schedule that has opened up a lot of time for me to explore serendipitous projects.

Hit me up.

Briza | API, Back-End Engineer | ONSITE Toronto, Canada | Full-Time | https://briza.io

Briza connects insurance brokers to commercial underwriting products.

* We are hiring for a seasoned Engineer that has built API platforms at scale.

* Tech-stack: Node, Typescript, Serverless (AWS Lambda)

To learn more, contact me: <UserName>rsharma<Symbol>at<Domain>briza<Symbol>dot<TLD>io

I will give it try!

> Just got coffee from 711

Is 711's coffee any good? Always curious but reluctant to try.

On a more serious note, are you able to share more about the product, its pricing, and who you demoed to?

As per your description, engineers would be individual contributors.

For the sake of conversation, let's loosely define a manager as someone who is responsible for enabling teams to succeed and assessing performance of their directs. Could you pay that manager equal or less than their direct individual contributors? How would the market respond?

> First, this is not strictly true; many senior ICs get paid more than managers, and the comparison between manager-track job levels and IC-track job levels varies at different companies.

Are those ICs getting paid more than their immediate manager?

Your machiavellian take holds water, in my opinion.

If managers were paid less than (or just as much as) their directs, what would change?

Good perspective, pbiggar.

Question for clarification: Do those ICs making "a lot" report to managers that make more, less or equal (generally speaking of course)?

I too am hands off with respect to managing. I am of the opinion that if you need to actively manage your directs, then you have not hired well. I am a point of escalation when there are incidents or when mediation is required; otherwise I trust individuals to make decisions and be accountable for them. They will mistakes and you should not protect them from it; they need those experiences to grow. For decisions that are irreversible (or really hard to undo), I encourage them to solicit input from me and peers outside the immediate team.

For individual career growth, I try to align interest with opportunities that arise. I give timely feedback, I recognize their successes with new challenges and increases in compensation.

As it concerns project planning, I help with ballpark estimates so as to inform resourcing decisions. I negotiate the scope of projects with product/business leaders.