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The analogy is a little fraught. If a baker bakes at home it's ostensibly not for public consumption. If you work at IBM you could literally code at home too. This is more like a b…

This is tricky. There is one sense of "spare time" which concerns output - you aren't always expected to be working. But salaried knowledge workers are commonly considered to have …

See also: one-time bonuses for developing patents and assigning them to your company.

The legal perspective/doctrine here is that people who produce IP as a core part of their work are "always on." They're not paid for hourly labor, they're paid for an intellectual …

To be fair that third one is usually about your biggest worry in general. It doesn't need to literally keep you up at night - though it's a positive signal if you never lose sleep …

That's what I never understand about these proposals...we can't manage to stop climate change on Earth, but we're going to somehow terraform a planet? Or failing that, establish "c…

Amusingly yes, this is probably the best bet. The temperature and atmosphere around 34-35 miles from the surface are comparable to Earth. And you get comparable gravity and radiati…

I sincerely doubt there are many elites seriously considering colonies on Mars. I'm sure they're happy to push their personal brand using the space nostalgic idealism, though.

Triton is a nitrogen saturated, frozen wasteland colder than Pluto. Perhaps you're thinking of Titan? Titan is also an icy hellscape at nearly -200 C, but you can look forward to a…

Holy shit that demo is amazing. Are there more demos like that? I was wearing AirPods Pro and nearly jumped out of my seat, I thought someone walked into my room. That’s better tha…

I am an angel investor, but I am not a VC and I don't work for one.

Yeah. A well-performing fund will never open its books for a seven figure check. They could likely find a senior employee (not even a partner) willing to invest that. Another inves…

Basically any established HFT, though they're market making instead of market taking. TGS. Baupost. Soros had an excellent run for like 30 years. Simons' family office, Euclidean, …

I don't really care if you're a former fraudster or not. I am still outright rejecting the claim that the venture capital industry is engaged in, or equivalent to, a systematic Pon…

This probably comes as a shock to people outside the quant finance industry, but RenTech isn't the only game in town when it comes to regularly beating the market by one or two sta…

That's not a Ponzi scheme, and you diminish the fraud of real Ponzi schemes by equating them with a frothy venture capital market. Very few startups deliberately commit fraud by pa…

Presumably he thought he'd get away with it, yeah. Or just enjoyed his money while he had it and lived with the dissonance.

No they can’t, refer to the documentation on cookie flags and attributes like httpOnly: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Cookies

I am talking about a much more general class of security than just XSS. You’re making perfect the enemy of good here - yes, of course XSS is not completely mitigated by httpOnly. T…

Which is why you use domain scoping, httpOnly and Secure cookie flags so they can only be read by matching hosts (with greater granularity than same-origin policy) over HTTPS and c…

I don't think the author is drawing any connection between great company culture and great company ethics. The culture refers more to group dynamics, which values are embraced and …

> But to be fair, Bill Gates is probably the only prominent example of a billionaire who quit the industry completely and dedicated his whole life towards charity. James Simons has…