bearmcbearsly

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by bearmcbearsly 5y ago
At my company in the Bay Area, we get 30 days vacation plus 10 holidays. For the first few years, it was a bit less vacation.
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by bearmcbearsly 7y ago
And how's that working out for them? The median SAG/AFTRA member makes less than $1,000 per year from acting. And the pro sports players associations are tiny -- they exclude the much larger group of athletes who try to make a liv
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by bearmcbearsly 7y ago
I dunno... I was a victim of this wage-fixing scheme, as were all of my coworkers at the time. And I don't know of a single one who would have preferred to have a union collectively negotiating wages. The whole scheme was that the comp
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by bearmcbearsly 7y ago
> current crop of ads which are usually one of fraudulent, malware, or borderline pornographic. That doesn't match my experience at all, but maybe you can chalk it up to targeting?
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by bearmcbearsly 7y ago
188 upvotes in 3 hours and already off the front page. Clearly people are flagging this post. The question is why...
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by bearmcbearsly 7y ago
On the other hand, I don't think it's that uncommon for startup funding to come through at the last minute. I later found out that a company I worked for had come within 2 months of running out of cash before their next round of f
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by bearmcbearsly 7y ago
Well, yes. But I think lucidrains was referring to: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
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by bearmcbearsly 7y ago
Yeah, I always assume that anyone who disagrees with me is a paid shill too. It makes things so much simpler!
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
Do you work for Apple?
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
You mention proof of work vs proof of stake, and then two sentences later you claim that nobody is paying to the environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining. The whole point of proof of stake is to avoid the energy waste that proof of wor
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
Now that you can trivially use async functions as express handlers, what are the major benefits of transitioning to Koa?
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
> if you work a solid hour and only earn $1 gross income, that seems extremely exploitative If that $1 per hour provides you with a better income than your peers with less physical labor, then this doesn't sound exploitive at all.
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
That's what the entire article was about.
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
If you're the sole owner of a corporation and also an employee, you can move money from the corporation to your own pocket by either paying yourself a salary or paying a dividend out of corporate profits. At least prior to the recent c
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
That's completely untrue. In fact, it's the opposite -- the IRS objects if you pay yourself more than a reasonable salary.
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
I'd argue that the average person probably understands the actual implications better than the typical HN user.
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
> Steganographic communication as a substitute for encrypted text is a baffling misinterpretation of the reason for encryption in a chat program. I agree with you, but couldn't you say the same thing about using end-to-end encryptio
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
Would you say the same thing about A-list actors or pro athletes? After a couple of successful movies or seasons, they could afford to retire too, but most choose to continue working as long as they possibly can.
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
At Google and other recent tech giants, you'll find thousands of people who could live comfortably without working a day for the rest of their lives. They're clearly not doing it for the salary.
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Donald Trump – AI Voice(youtube.com)
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
Serious question: is it illegal to exploit a cryptocurrency flaw for profit (strictly at the protocol level -- not hacking someone's machine or wallet, etc.)?
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
> No you cannot, unless you're running a single threaded server process on a single machine. What you can do is _gamble_ that you probably won't have a collision This seems like a pointless distinction. If I did the math right,
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by bearmcbearsly 8y ago
> Why do people buy common shares which give them no voting rights as a shareholder? Because they trust the founders to protect the long-term interests of the company more than activist investors trying to maximize short-term profit?