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This comment ignores the problem that parent identified: >> But it has the net effect of pushing the tax burden down onto smaller companies who are competing with the Amazons of th…

I agree with parent that this whole thread comes off as extremely hyperbolic. I've known this information about my friends and neighbors for the better part of the last decade. In …

Perhaps. But that's not a compelling argument against this bill. Perfect enemy of better and all that.

Companies will have a Chief Privacy Officer whose job is basically to provide oversight and, of course, absorb the risk. That person will probably be paid well. I'm actually OK wit…

Startups aren't even covered by this bill until they've gained lots of traction (1 million users and 50MM+ gross receipts). At which point, again again IFF their business is data h…

It is. Read Sec 5.(d). It's not like people will be thrown in prison because their DB wasn't patched quickly enough. They have to knowingly and intentionally lie to the federal gov…

Nope. The bill defines covered entities in Sec. 2.(5)(A) and 2.(5)(B). In particular, companies with less than $50,000,000 in gross receipts and information on fewer than 1,000,000…

Open source doesn't ensure quality code. Ideally the code would be part of the peer review process, but code review is really expensive, so who knows how that would play out.

A lot of your news is not just "not-depressing". It's actively uplifting. In fact, most of the stories on the front page are "feel good" stories. It'd be cool/useful if you could p…

> As in most descriptions of it are annoyingly ambiguous. My very first interviewer (intentionally) didn't spec fizzbuzz correctly. The real test was whether the candidate listened…

Well, no, generally they can't shove it off on their creditor and say "there we're even", if that's what you mean. There's a whole field of law about bankruptcy. In particular, que…

That's called an apartment building. Or a large house with many bedrooms. Both happen all the time. In fact, just last weekend I let 20+ people into my house for a party. The notio…

> Patent == monopoly For a very specific definition of monopoly (in particular, monopoly over use of a specific resource, not monopoly in the market sense). In that same sense of t…

Steko's comment might be a good place to continue that particular conversation. Such an approach would require careful design of incentive structures so that patents remain accessi…

Shipping & Transit LLC had not only a prototype, but also a product: Jones developed this into a service called BusCall, which had some modest success. I think the actual solution …

Being "good with computers" does not fetch $200k. Knowing the difference between "file" and "directory" and being able to touch type won't get you a $200K engineering position at G…

My comment was specific to the USA and maybe even certain parts of the USA. > Most tradies here have their own business Maybe this really is true in Australia. IDK. People say this…

> Still, it is very hard to make developers pay for software. I don't think this is true. There are lots of things that developers throw money at, and each developer can easily thi…

Do you have family or friends in the trades? I always get called elitist/out-of-touch when I point this out, but it's really true that most people working in trades do $50k with me…

This isn't unique to tech, either. In a lot of enterprise sales orgs, literally everyone is a "VP".

This is illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act as anything except a temporary, remedial, and aspirational policy (McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail, Steelworkers v. Weber, Johnso…

And if you don't recover anything, you can also write this off on taxes for the business you hopefully incorporated for the purpose of renting your equipment through.