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Move it out from being publicly funded and into private leagues like so many other sports, then let those leagues purchase insurance.

This rant seems to be all over the place. It mostly seems to be the usual BSD is more free than GPL, but then he comes back that Redhat source is only available to people who paid for the binary (the only way to get the binary). You wouldn't even be entitle to the source under the BSD license.

Maybe I read some of it wrong, but it was painful to get through with the constant telling me how bad things are before telling me what those things are. I truly despise this writing style. Set things up first, then discuss them, please. Then come to the conclusion of how bad it is with the reader.

What city is everyone thinking of when they read the description?

I've found myself engaging more with AI writing code. There is no easy time during the work day. I'm talking to product about what they want, communicating with AI to write it, and verifying that it covers what was asked for. And the better I get at it, the more of the product I need to learn at a faster pace. If I find some downtime, I work on additional features at the same time, something I wouldn't do on my own.

Quite simply, I'm more mentally drained at the end of a day working with AI than I am a normal day of coding. There is still a lot of energy and thought that needs to go into what needs to be written.

It feels like it's all senior developers now and nobody new. At some point they will want someone new and won't be able to find them.

In the imperial vs metric conversation, the protein debate has my favorite use of units: 1 gram per pound.

This is a little different though. The intent was for that amount of shares. So the amount isn't in question, just the vesting schedule. While the schedule may be non-standard, it isn't beyond belief (like 4 days). Also, years to quarters isn't a single typo like punctuation.

The illiteracy seems to carry straight into video production. There are way too many 15 minute videos for 4 lines of instructions.

Doesn't it mean "restrict competitors"?

The real problem is that servers are now entirely the domain of the companies running the anti-cheats. We used to run the servers for most of these and could ban cheaters. But the game companies demand we play the game their way, not our way. We've really lost something.

You still need some brilliant mathematicians to invent new problems. AI is not yet good at inventing problems which are both novel and interesting.

I'm not sure how much manual review in these stores is for security rather than content and enforcement of business rules.

I imagine nearly all the security review is automated scans, and not the source of the delays.

I love how in rugby if two guys are going a little two hard at each other the referee will call them over along with their captains, and address the captains while these gigantic players stand there like children.

One other offshoot of rugby officiating is they will admit wrongs and they'll say things like "I didn't see that." Compare that to the NFL where the refs make a bad call and the league will back them up to the point of being ridiculous by reinterpreting the rules to make the officials right (see "not a catch").

Rugby is so refreshing.

I used to introduce myself to the cop who would work each wrestling tournament our teams were in. They always had a chill time at wrestling, and I asked them which sport was the worst. Basketball. Every single one of them said basketball without hesitation.

Baseball in particular has a problem with anger is the arguments. Like there is no argument without a hostile tone. Players/managers never seem to merely appeal a call -- they jump straight to harsh yelling.

Compare it to soccer where there is also a lot of whininess in the complaining about calls.

It's become accepted that vulgar, angry, disagreement is acceptable until it goes "too far".

Tantrums are just socially accepted in baseball, and some other sports.

The cars are generally in good repair. They are typically taking decent enough roads. They are sober (or more sober than the average driver). They are driving "normal" routes -- from a house to a business, or a club to an apartment, often on routes they've run many times.

I don't know where you've been getting your aggressive, distracted, impatient, overconfident drivers. Most of my ride sharing has been airport to/from home or hotel, so maybe there is some selection bias there. It all seems routine as anything.

Personally, I can't get past the car being in good condition as something which is often overlooked.

There will always be some threshold at which this argument can be made.

Driving 200 in a school zone? License revoked, certainly.

Driving 60 in a 55? Just a speeding ticket.

Pick some line in between the two where that argument seems like it could go either way.

> This assumes that mothers in the workforce earning (taxable) income is a benefit in and of itself.

I think it's more about whether the investment pays back and defrays the costs.

It's something you would have to be keeping up with as a mathematician, really.

Vaguely. It's describing connections between a number of other mathematics results than can be connected to prove FLT. I assume all the work described is being done to make the proof more presentable, smaller, basically "prettier".

It sounds like they established a minimum and maximum bounds for n in x^n + y^n = z^n, where one proof works for n greater than or equal to 17, and another proof for n < 37 (when prime).

I believe the case (remembering back 40 years here) n is even is very easy, and n is composite and odd slightly less so. Neither really being in the ballpark of what they describe here.

I agree, it's just a different vector to entry based on content. California is stepping it up to computing as a whole. Combine the two. Then the next step is actual ID, not an ID clearinghouse. But we're all paranoid for suggesting such things, just as people were paranoid that we'd get this far.

After looking at the posts here, are you being critical of those like it or those who can't get beyond hating it (and maybe discuss the actual point of the article)?

Stop throwing subsidies. Easy fix without a wealth tax.

There are a plethora of taxes that companies pay, but a tax on existence is just awful in so many ways. Make zero dollars this year? You lose a percent of the company -- congrats.

There is a middle ground: Make using the securities of the company as collateral a taxable event. If it's good enough to back a loan, it's wealth, realized.

I don't know how a company could avoid all taxes. They say that Amazon does, but that's only the corporate income tax, surely they are paying billions in payroll, property, energy, and other taxes.

As for the bill itself, it's one of those that gets passed because it is non invasive to the typical person, it's voluntary, and it should help some. There is no downside at all.

But 2 years from now a baseline has been established where the need to know your age when using a computer is taken for granted, and it's revealed that self-reporting isn't working and gasp there was this one kid in the news about something bad happening.

This is how it goes. This is one of the reasons the anti-gun crowd is so adamantly opposed to virtually everything. I'm not advocating anything with respect to guns here, but "sensible" measures were broadly supported and then turned against the owners who acquiesced.

An "exception" is two faced in this case. It implies Linux needs an exception to begin with and that the bill itself isn't absolute garbage and a direct attack on general purpose computing. Again, they establish a baseline with something that people are ok with.

We also don't want to die of pneumonia at 11.

In mathematics, there are infinitely many "computable" numbers. That is, numbers which can be describe using any mathematics available. Then there are far more "non computable" numbers, which can't be described by anything finite.

I think there is some analogy to be made here.

Algebraically, it is the number of queries: n+1. That's traditionally how you write such a number, not 1+n.

It's the number of queries not a sentence of "we did 1 query, then we had to do n queries."

> My takeaway was that interviews are a game with their own rules, and you have to play by those rules

But you don't get to know the rules.

My current stumbling block is the "design" interview. I get what they're going for and what I have to practice, but as someone with 25 years of experience I just can't help but have my experience creep into my thoughts.

Chief among those thoughts is that we can't design a clearinghouse for a banking system that already has 11 components and the request is just two simple sentences asking for a design. I apparently have an hour to complete this design task. An hour is so laughably small a time to get onto the design phase.

Again, I understand what they are going (I'm just not practicing it) for but it all feels like they're hiring for tennis but interviewing for ping pong.

I'm a bit surprised to be downvoted on this, except maybe that it's seen as an attack on Europe.

There have been other attempts at a league superior to the individual national leagues -- like a permanent champions league. Establishment of anything more regular at the international level would be one more way this could be accomplished.

Each European league (and leagues from other confederations) has a vested interest in keeping the World Cup not just "free" but rare as well.

The time to be on the high horse against FIFA isn't 2026, it was against he labor conditions in Qatar, or the corruption to award the 2018 and 2022 hosts, or any number of other things.

However correct they are, they only complain when it's against their own self interest.