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…
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…
Perhaps. But that's not a compelling argument against this bill. Perfect enemy of better and all that.
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…
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.…
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.
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…
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 important issues of…
> 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 spec…
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 assets are…
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…
> 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 ==…
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…
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…
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…
> 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…
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…
This isn't unique to tech, either. In a lot of enterprise sales orgs, literally everyone is a "VP".
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…
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.
> 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…
"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…
Also, those protests weren't about corruption. They were mostly about labor policy.
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…
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 in your work life. The…
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…
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…
Perhaps. But that's not a compelling argument against this bill. Perfect enemy of better and all that.
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…
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.…
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.
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…
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 important issues of…
> 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 spec…
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 assets are…
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…
> 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 ==…
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…
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…
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…
> 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…
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…
This isn't unique to tech, either. In a lot of enterprise sales orgs, literally everyone is a "VP".
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…
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.
> 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…
"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…
Also, those protests weren't about corruption. They were mostly about labor policy.
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…
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 in your work life. The…