yellowarchangel

I think it's fair to say even if we adjusted for lower US taxes, higher livings costs, that the Californian worker would be far better ahead still.

There is a reason the entire Silicon Valley doesn't pack up and move to Finland. The money is in California right now.

From a purely business decision? Sure. But why does Valve support linux and attempt to bridge the gap with steam play if it's only about profit?

There are other reasons to support linux:

- Game devs are usually a fan of linux / vulkan / open source (windows is bad for developers, it's closed source everything) - Linux is still a market portion. Some engines like UE4 support cross-platform builds with minimal work - Supporting competition to microsoft, and the really poor DX software

Moral of the story is actually to use a VPN regardless of what you do, so you can't be held accountable for someone else's actions or lack of security of IT department of some company.

Once you get used to Linux updates happening without restarting or freezing your computer, you'll never want to go back.

In a world with security updates, updates seemingly every day, every week, and monthly large updates, this would be such a great feature on MacOS.

Websites choose to use AMP because it has favourable search results.

Google is trying to monopolize the internet, and they also sell data / ads. So inherently "spending more time in google ecosystem" leads to inherent value.

Isn't Netherlands in the nine eyes?

EDIT: "We will never share your personal information with any third party, except when we need to respond to a legal request from Dutch authorities" - https://www.wifimask.com/terms

As a VPN service that means it is not thoughtful about privacy.

> the capital gains which is lower, as it should be

Why should capital gains be lower?

I don't think censoring facts is ever anything but black and white. The fact that Taiwan exists, Hong Kong exists, Falun Gong, Tibet...

These are all real things. There shouldn't ever be a reason to hide the fact that they exist no matter if todays reality wasn't todays reality.

The most important and missing information at the start of the article is _why_ the OP had their information posted on the forum, why they were getting sent this package.

FOSS has always been a give and take. You use FOSS every day in your daily life from software on your phone, your computer, maybe even your microwave is using FOSS!

No one has to do FOSS! It's a give and take, you take, so there's no harm in wanting to contribute back. It's about freedom, passion, getting your work out there for the benefit of humanity. Can you be sponsored / paid? Sure! Are you obligated to work for anyone or do what they want? No!

It's is just impossible for big companies to pay every FOSS developer everywhere. When I install create-react-app, it downloads thousands upon thousands of libraries, from thousands of developers. Do each of them get a fraction of a cent from the profits of my company? No.

Does a developer at a job cloning a repo mean they have a moral obligation to pay the developer? No.

Right now, the top companies do primarily mobile / web development, and use code probably written by thousands if not millions of developers. Splitting payment to all of them is impossible.

The big projects like Blender, Krita, GNU projects... are all sponsored, and receive donations. The devs work on them for the passion, recognition, and "fun".

FOSS has always been a give and take. If money is a driving force for you, getting a traditional developer job (as they're very in demand) is the best choice for that goal.

I still firmly believe Reddit is only usable with RES infinite scroll enabled. It's such a joy not having to click the 10px wide "next page" button.

Infinite scroll works in a lot of ways, and is integral to a content absorbing functionality (if that's what you want).

The article mentions how a very small fraction of adults have jobs, and who are diagnosed with being on the autism spectrum. I wonder how accurate that number is, or how far on the spectrum the individuals in that study are. It seems like a lot of great tech minds have some form of autism.

> instead of just regulating drug prices domestically

The current administration is very anti-regulation, so this would be a bad move. Also, allowing Canadian drugs to enter the country will force current producers to lower pricers, which will organically (capitalism) reduce the price through competition.

It's satire playing on the fact that the entire Node.js ecosystem is built around 1-liner packages that in any other language this would just be code snippets you'd find on stack overflow.

Look at: is-windows (seems archived now for some reason) or https://github.com/jonschlinkert/isobject - 2.6million dependencies

These packages started out as a good idea to make a standard library for javascript, but after event-stream, left-pad, and other controversies, it's becoming apparent how much of an anti-pattern small 1-liner packages have become.

There is absolutely no way the bad press they're getting is worth saving a measly 3430. HOWEVER, from this 1 point alone (and the thread from last year about the same issue with kitsplit), we can deduce that kitsplit probably has enough thefts that they can't afford to "pay off" all the people being stolen from.

Their claim that "99.99% of people aren't scammed" seems awfully smelly, as they could use their modest 20% cut from rentings to pay off all the people who are stolen from.

This sounds familiar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18332918

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340552

"... They’ve also assured me they are making improvements to their policies and will have additional updates soon..."

So in the 7 months since that last article, they have seemingly made deteriorations as now they won't even offer to pay for the OPs equipment.

I feel like you're assuming way too much when the only evidence we have to base YC's rejection is by their rejection email. They clearly wanted MRR and company that moves fast, and the OP clearly showed that both are possible in a measly 48 hours.

Also YC even asked to meet them before the next round, so it might have intrigued them.

You might have missed it in the article, but their explanation is really apt.

"Therefore, we thought that if we can get first paying users and MRR over the weekend and get back to YC next Monday morning, they would see that we had achieved MRR in only a few days. Additionally, we would look like a team who could move fast, listen to feedback and get stuff done."

The reason they were rejected is because they had no MRR. They were also told they need to move fast.

They proved over 1 weekend that they can get $500 in revenue and move fast.

It's the notion that they got feedback, moved fast to implement feedback, and showed that users were willing to pay on day 1 with a half-baked MRR plan.

Also their reply email hits all the points they were rejected: https://ghost-veed-blog.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/2019/06/S...

They did all this in 48 hours as 2 developers.

This is moreso "how to start using SDL2".

These tutorials exist and are really well thought out here: https://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/

Tracking the movements of all citizens is not a compromise that ought to be made to keep society safe. This power can and will be abused to target minority groups (closeted LGBT, minority ethnic groups..). Also in America law enforcement has too many times to count abused their power, and fabricated results from "evidence".

As any lawyer would say: Don't speak to the police, even if you're innocent. Same with this. If I personally want to share my own private tracking data that my lawyer says I can share.. sure. But I do not want this entire data free for law enforcement to see.