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Re:Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and ... by eshack94 on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @06:50PM (#35707802)
Absolutely. Good planning and foresight on his part to enable him to retain ownership of his hard work.
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Re:Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and ... by endisneigh on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:07PM (#35707923)
I’ve been told all information should be free lol. I’m glad there are some sensible people.
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Re:Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and ... by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:58PM (#35708271)
If the models were Free, they also wouldn’t be locked up at Disney when he left.
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Re:Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and ... by cyanydeez on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @08:20PM (#35708395)
It's a political model and as such, it most likely will be gamed as the cost to manipulate people at scale using the patterns of behavior it follows is not disentangled.
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Re:Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and ... by hackernewds on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:06PM (#35707915)
Unlike W-2 work where EVERYTHING you do on work machine/time belongs to the organization. It's almost a hostage sitt
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Re:Disney is shrinking FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver (and ... by jerrygenser on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @08:25PM (#35708418)
Even as a startup founder, the best practice is to sign over your IP rights to the company since investors want to see this. So I can say even with a large equity stake in a new venture that's not w-2 work, you still sign over IP rights to an org.
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