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The real question is: is there a market for privacy-respecting tech services (think Apple's new stance on E2E privacy or laptops like Purism), such that consumers themselves can vote with their own dollars? The best way to protect and re-establish the right to personal privacy is through market demand, not legislation.
Re:Uber disclosed 3k sexual assaults in U.S. rides last year on Thursday December 05, 2019 @10:34PM (#21719060)
Three thousand out of what? A million?
Bitcoin.
Re:A Forty Year Career on Sunday October 20, 2019 @04:16PM (#21306777)
"I know I'll be out in 9 years."

Guessing you FIRE hard? The rule is that people in this field upgrade their lifestyle, the exception is FIRE.

Re:California Approves Statewide Rent Control on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:27AM (#20947983)
Yes. Price controls are a race to the bottom.
Re:California Labor Bill, Near Passage, Is Blow to Uber and Lyft on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @10:27AM (#20928565)
Yes and no.

This will force companies to hire more employees, true, but at the cost of a much smaller overall workforce. Remember that cost is a constraint for businesses.

Depends what is more valuable from a human + capitalism perspective, fewer work opportunities that pay better or more competition and “starter/flexible” work overall.

Re:Philosophy of Computer Science [pdf] on Sunday September 08, 2019 @10:14PM (#20914684)
+1000
Re:Ask HN: Good Remote Work Literature? on Thursday September 05, 2019 @04:06PM (#20890233)
I quite liked the book 'Remote: Office Not Required' from the founders of 37signals.com
This sounds right.
Re:Rust 1.34.0 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @02:27PM (#19637640)
^ this.
Re:US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:49AM (#18246436)
Can’t have real free trade with central-banking and fiat, must have hard global money.
Re:Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge? on Saturday September 01, 2018 @02:42PM (#17893317)
Notion for everything: my work, personal, and wife+I joint workspace.
Re:Ask HN: Have you built a house? on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @03:52PM (#17862268)
Came here expecting to find nifty "tiny house" anecdotes.

I see the virus is not spreading :(

Re:Congrats Dropbox on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:45PM (#16659968)
Is there any talk about how late stage employees have done? I suppose they’ll be in the waiting game as their lockup progresses.
Re:US Senate passes sweeping tax overhaul bill on Saturday December 02, 2017 @03:59AM (#15831037)
Annnnd they pulled the AMT repeal.
Re:Fixing the ‘Brain Damage’ Caused by the I.P.O. Process on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @10:02PM (#15300029)
Well said.
Think of the end application: internal tooling. Is it "good enough"?
Re:The Best DevOps Is NoOps on Monday July 31, 2017 @07:05AM (#14890881)
Cloud services don't save you money, they buy you focus.

There are very little companies today that need custom buildouts, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep an eye on portability.

Re:Docker operations slowing down on AWS on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:09AM (#14854388)
Cloud services don't save you money, they buy you focus.
Re:Redis 4.0 on Friday July 14, 2017 @11:09AM (#14770350)
Well this post certainly went to hell.
I just spent 30 seconds looking at a loading spinner - no thx bye p5.js
Re:Two years of Rust on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:17PM (#14346061)
Curious, since I haven't been following closely - is Tokio fit for both IO and CPU-bound work, or do you need to break into threads?

I use Golang daily, and have been spoiled by the opinionated approach taken to solving both CPU and IO-bound workloads.

Searched "runc" on this page - 0 found :(
SJW girlfriend? That seems out of line TBH.
gRPC seemed to have had a pretty rough opening.

Initial announcement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9114748 And for their 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12344995

Re:Pipfile for Python on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @01:47AM (#13012159)
Wth happened to pip-tools? The Python ecosystem is a mess...
Re:VirtualBox 5.1.8 on Saturday October 29, 2016 @11:29AM (#12824352)
I said goodbye to VirtualBox the day Docker's Mac/xhyve story rolled out.

It was a beautiful day.

Re:Why we chose Vue.js on Friday October 21, 2016 @02:32AM (#12758551)
Not a single link to Vue.js
Re:House Passes Employee Stock Options Bill Aimed at Startups on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:12AM (#12564291)
Not often.

But making it costlier to participate only makes the proposition riskier or fiscally unfeisable.

That hurts employees.

Startups are useful in that they trade off innovation for risk - a handful of startups make huge impacts and grow into successful companies.

People know that when they sign up to work for a startup - finding out they can't realize the upside potential is the surprise.

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