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ah yes, let private entities pay for it. then when there is a vulnerability with one of those entities' software, they can pay a bit more to bury it!

Ah yes, because CEOs often face consequences for their poor decisions. They definitely don't get golden parachutes and move on to a new company when they run a company into the gro…

Neither of these things is completely true. 1. While it is technically true a company could sue a worker for quitting, the amount of damages they'd have to show is far beyond anyth…

Contracts might require it, but the law says 2 weeks (on a regular full time contract or a limited contract after the first year) and contracts can't supersede the law.

> I have an llm inference rig that I enjoy on the weekends and the problem for the first time in my life it that I have supernormal stimulus which doesn't seem to reduce in potency…

Web3 enthusiasts?

now you're just describing the business model of most fintech companies

I'm trying to figure out where you are getting this "go above the CTO's head to the CEO" situation from the message you are replying to? I am not the person you are replying to, bu…

ES was already huge before AWS made everyone think it was an Amazon product

I don't know if it still exists but there used to be a company that advertised public lice as a service

The first step is that you start rich

What failures did he learn from? The other two social networks at the time, Friendster and Myspace were both hugely popular still when he launched Facebook.

What is wrong with the article? It seemed to be a fairly normal piece, certainly not "braincell killing"

This, but not sarcastic.

#1 matters if you want to own and ride a bike for a few decades, which used to be a relatively common thing.

hard to donate a used steam key

...why would it bother you?

SBF wasn't anything new, just the latest in a long line of scammers and frauds. Mitnick, for all of his faults, inspired a generation of people to poke and prod at technology and o…

Python has strong typing which seems to be what you mean here rather than strict typing. A "character" is not a well defined term in Unicode, rather the "base" that does not vary a…

As someone who has done both, I'd say that argument is wrong. It is much more convenient to index by code point. Indexing by bytes is almost always what you don't want to do, and l…

except that Google Bard gets the answer wrong? It says that it can currently be viewed at the British Museum in London, and then lists several other museums, information which conf…

That doesn't make any sense, the Oregon law works very well for the landlord in that case. Tenant is locked in at $1000/mo. 6 months in, decides they want to move. Tenant pays $150…

It has nothing to do with any particular editor, it is for autocomplete and build time type checking in any editor and type checking in people's build chains.