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If it follows spam, they'll just professionalize and focus on the most technically inept.

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After having just gone through this with my startup - the litigious nature of society makes it hard to reveal any of the information. If the board or the C* reveal too much, it opens the company up to a lawsuit.

Is this attributable to the quality of the startups or the easy access to capital?

This is a supreme "Homo economicus" argument - there are switching costs, human factors (do I like X, do they pay on time, are they charismatic and forceful?), and dumb money problems that thwart it.

It is hard to make happen in competitive fields because good data is an expensive advantage over other labs.

It isn't sub-minimum though - farm labor rates in CA are $14+ - twice to three times minimum. There still isn't enough labor.

Transparent | Senior Backend Software Engineers & Applied Cryptographers | Seattle, WA | ONSITE

Are you upset with how money works? We’re moving past the old way of thinking and are creating a seamless universal platform to bring settlement up to the speed of the Internet. Competitive base salary, great benefits, early stage start-up, equity.

We’re looking for strong backend engineers and applied cryptographers to join us. We’re a fun, nimble, collaborative team and we trust our engineers to make smart decisions. We’re using Rust, Terraform and Docker, and looking for engineers who have experience designing and developing distributed systems with a passion for quality.

I'm the CTO - my personal email is in my profile if you'd like to speak directly.

If you want to have a huge impact on a team that’s truly doing something that hasn’t been done before, please reach out directly to careers@transparentinc.co or apply online: https://jobs.lever.co/transparentinc

The mentality is still there, but years of polish has made it hard to detect by outsiders. I wouldn't for a moment attribute any of MSFT's moves to goodwill.

They were bareknuckled and bloody for years - they got slapped by regulators for it and it was forced under the surface.

How do you know that they're not using undocumented people? That also says nothing of the price increase as the pool of documented farm labor dries up.

I agree, but they can't even get unskilled labor into the pool at that price.

It isn't hypocritical unless you see both types of government as equivalent - liberal democracy vs theological roughly democracy.

How are you subsidizing them? You're getting cheap food - truck crop farming is notoriously low margin. Are you prepared for $15/pint strawberries?

Even at wages closing in on 3x minimum wage, we cannot get enough farm labor[1] - obviously low skilled American labor still doesn't want the job. What's the solution?

[1] https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farms-immigration/

You're not a typical investor in the described class. Frankly, I suffer from this expectation sometimes too - many things that seem wildly off course make sense from the perspective of the folks driving the ship.

Very interesting! Early 2000s UIUC had it reversed - the BS was "practical CS" and the BA was highly mathematical/theory based.

Then again, despite being a top 5 program, it only received accreditation while I was attending.

Run VSCode?

Zach is the CEO of Inventables, and he's a standup dude - I worked for him and Keith as a freshman in college. I'm always excited to see Inventables growing.

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It isn't the majority they worry about - any individual on the OFAC list or folks laundering money is an enormous risk.

While Patreon isn't Silk Road, people can and will try to take advantage of any payment system with weak controls.

Banks don't necessarily trust each other and "I thought the other guy did KYC/AML" isn't a defense when the Feds show up.

The middleman just becomes the exchanges (who also have to deal with payment processors).

Not only that, industrial robots are chosen for repeatability, not speed. A flexible system necessarily doesn't take the most efficient path, and if it does, you'd just buy a dumb arm.

I do, since it has been done.

Here's a reasonable example: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2018/02/20/587356461/h...

It is an open problem still. I'm unsure of a list though.

There have been some great advancements in grasping and embodied decision making lately though, so it could fall soon.

A recent interview RE: the tenth anniversary of Bitcoin - https://www.coindesk.com/enough-with-the-ico-me-so-horny-get...

Always sad to lose deep thinkers.

As far as I know, the US is making noise about it. I don't know if any real changes have occurred.

It is essentially abusing the UBU to subsidize trade from China. There was an excellent NPR story about it: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

Even though they are highly regulated, you're still taking a credit risk against the organization, not the US Government. The government can create new money to service its debts, where Circle/Coinbase might go out of business.