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vinger··on Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries
What would you recommend now?
vinger··on Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
They haven't uncovered who created bitcoin yet. While working with exchanges accounts can be linked to a person. The ability to do this at scale or find any person from any account isn't real.
vinger··on Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
The big miners in China and Iceland are using hydro and geothermal. Pricing the other miners out might have some interesting side effects.
vinger··on Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)
Add it only in the queries that require that column. Knowing where you need a new column should make adding a field easy.
vinger··on Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)
I would write a view and then you can do select * or move 800 columns names into rows in another table and create another table with an id,field and data column or separate...
vinger··on Why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance (2020)
In theory yes. When you are joining two tables that have the same column names you have to alias them anyways.
vinger··on “Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
Can you extract actual money from your equity or is it locked in until some future event happens? Private stock can be internally valued highly but the hard part is extracting the value. Before going public so many events can legally occur to reduce the value of your shares.

Don't count your chickens before they have hatched.

vinger··on “Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
Based on price alone facebook would seek out lower paid workers and exclude SV employees. Is that the final outcome?
vinger··on “Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain?
Employees are a marketing asset and powered by a SV dev team is more marketable compared to a dev team. Many companies are funded / sold by the value of their employees.

There isn't one market. A remote SV developer should be able to command more if they can sell a connection to SV. Same for a FAANG company.. you can get paided more for being associated with a faang

vinger··on Banned in Boston
If people have to be naked, most would prefer to strangers to friends and extended family. Probably because a shame / judgement fear exists.

Why would you want to be naked at all? Better sun covering, skin can breathe, etc

Why would you want to be naked infront of anyone? You are comfortable with yourself, perhaps pride in latest fitness routine.

With covid I don't really want to be around strangers..

vinger··on Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
You called it not "truth". Have you been to your local university to research this? Did someone give you an opinion you are repeating? What informs your strong opinion?
vinger··on Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned
When pompeii was discovered we saw into homes 1,000 years ago. Without any regard to privancy for those covered in rock we broadcast their lives around the globe.

I don't think we give a lot of weight to what the original publishing intent was for anything published 100, 200 years ago, why would the change in the future?

vinger··on 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
After quitting caffeine I can now fall asleep fairly quickly everynight. For 20% it could be negative.
vinger··on Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned
Yet what was always predicted. Followed by homes taking families hostage and we are almost there.
vinger··on Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned
To a sociologist

connect with people and work through some pretty heavy emotional challenges

is a goodmine and insight into history.

vinger··on The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook
Have you tried microsoft access?
vinger··on Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
These ideas are not completely new. Can you backup they aren't "truth" or they don't offer a peek into a reality that maybe taboo? Personal opinions are great do you have more to comtribute?
vinger··on Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
Sometimes we fear and fight reality. If the Bell Curve has information / facts that upsets your worldview don't be so fearfull. Embrace new ideas and change your worldview. You can run but you can't hide from the truth.
vinger··on Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
Abhorrent facts are still truthful. If you feel it's distasteful and wrong that men can be attracted to other men how far should the world go to defend your worldview
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