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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
This comment ignores the problem that parent identified: >> But it has the net effect of pushing the tax burden down onto smaller companies who are competing with the Amazons of the world. I.e., even if we need a solution to "s
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
I agree with parent that this whole thread comes off as extremely hyperbolic. I've known this information about my friends and neighbors for the better part of the last decade. In most states this is public info and you can even look i
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Perhaps. But that's not a compelling argument against this bill. Perfect enemy of better and all that.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Companies will have a Chief Privacy Officer whose job is basically to provide oversight and, of course, absorb the risk. That person will probably be paid well. I'm actually OK with that. We're always complaining that companies do
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Startups aren't even covered by this bill until they've gained lots of traction (1 million users and 50MM+ gross receipts). At which point, again again IFF their business is data hoarding, they will need to hire approx. one additi
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
It is. Read Sec 5.(d). It's not like people will be thrown in prison because their DB wasn't patched quickly enough. They have to knowingly and intentionally lie to the federal government in an annual report.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Nope. The bill defines covered entities in Sec. 2.(5)(A) and 2.(5)(B). In particular, companies with less than $50,000,000 in gross receipts and information on fewer than 1,000,000 customers are not covered by this legislation. And even if
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Open source doesn't ensure quality code. Ideally the code would be part of the peer review process, but code review is really expensive, so who knows how that would play out.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
A lot of your news is not just "not-depressing". It's actively uplifting. In fact, most of the stories on the front page are "feel good" stories. It'd be cool/useful if you could provide news on the import
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> As in most descriptions of it are annoyingly ambiguous. My very first interviewer (intentionally) didn't spec fizzbuzz correctly. The real test was whether the candidate listened to the customer's/lead engineer's
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Well, no, generally they can't shove it off on their creditor and say "there we're even", if that's what you mean. There's a whole field of law about bankruptcy. In particular, questions about how to value asse
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
That's called an apartment building. Or a large house with many bedrooms. Both happen all the time. In fact, just last weekend I let 20+ people into my house for a party. The notion of privately owned property didn't suddenly beco
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> Patent == monopoly For a very specific definition of monopoly (in particular, monopoly over use of a specific resource, not monopoly in the market sense). In that same sense of the word "monopoly", private property == monop
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Steko's comment might be a good place to continue that particular conversation. Such an approach would require careful design of incentive structures so that patents remain accessible without making the status quo of bullshit patents e
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Shipping & Transit LLC had not only a prototype, but also a product: Jones developed this into a service called BusCall, which had some modest success. I think the actual solution is simply improved patent review. The patent system is
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Being "good with computers" does not fetch $200k. Knowing the difference between "file" and "directory" and being able to touch type won't get you a $200K engineering position at Google... Furthermore, if
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
My comment was specific to the USA and maybe even certain parts of the USA. > Most tradies here have their own business Maybe this really is true in Australia. IDK. People say this a lot in the USA, but both statistics and personal a
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> Still, it is very hard to make developers pay for software. I don't think this is true. There are lots of things that developers throw money at, and each developer can easily think of multiple processes that would happily throug
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Do you have family or friends in the trades? I always get called elitist/out-of-touch when I point this out, but it's really true that most people working in trades do $50k with mediocre benefits. Everyone always lashes out at thi
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
This isn't unique to tech, either. In a lot of enterprise sales orgs, literally everyone is a "VP".
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
This is illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act as anything except a temporary, remedial, and aspirational policy (McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail, Steelworkers v. Weber, Johnson v. Santa Clara). We can probably expect the current SCOTUS
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
And if you don't recover anything, you can also write this off on taxes for the business you hopefully incorporated for the purpose of renting your equipment through.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
> But it's misleading to claim that they include the vast majority of Wisconsin's Republicans, as the GP comment did Oh, I misinterpreted the parent post's comment. Yeah, that's not true. 2016 was strange across the
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Yeah, this thread is a bit out of date. Those southern counties bring in hundreds of millions through a combination of bedroom households (people who commute into the northern suburbs or into Milwaukee) and tourism. Go take a look in the ma
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
"hiding data" and "factoring out the common structure" are almost always intrinsically connected in software systems, because if you can poke at the data then you can violate contracts that give rise to the common struct
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Also, those protests weren't about corruption. They were mostly about labor policy.
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
It's not like everything outside of Madison/Milwaukee is deep red. The only deep red counties in Wisconsin are extremely sparse. Kenosha County, for example, is mostly rural but was split almost exactly down the middle on Clin
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_of_control and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_inversion_principle And don't overthink it. You've probably seen this a million times
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
Used to. Pensions are gone and wages have stangated for decades. Most anything above $20/hour puts it squarely in "the capex to automate this makes sense now" territory. And everything else gets farmed out to rotating temps s
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by thrmsforbfast 8y ago
1. That would destroy the whole point of the plant, which was to create jobs for down-on-their-luck Wisconsites. 2. If you're not from Wisconsin, why would you move to Wisconsin? There's nothing wrong with Milwaukee, BTW. Nice cit

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