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unintended consequences abound.

This sounds like something a VC would tell the press as an excuse.

It's no coincidence that Delaware has very low corporate taxes:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/09251...

“Taxes don’t have a lot of impact on business decisions. It’s something that has been exaggerated for years”

If I'm paying 50% in taxes as opposed to 10%, I will be making different business decisions.

Most SF startups incorporate in Delaware because of the low corporate taxes.

I've been seeing this for at least a couple of months. Especially speed trap warnings.

Was this even advertised anywhere? I didn't even know it existed.

"Marissa Mayer, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steven Spielberg"

Most of the people listed here essentially built their own businesses. You don't really need to network and schmooze your way to the top when the top isn't even built yet.

How about people that started out as a non-executive at a company and worked their way through management and then to a top executive position? I'm guessing this is much less common for introverts (but more of a common leadership position) because you need to network and interact with people constantly and effectively.

I've been working remotely for over 10 years and I get way more done than I never did in an office.

Why? No water cooler talk, no long lunches with coworkers, no general conversation/disruptions that always seemed to happen 4 or more times/day, and no commute.

The downside is that there's much less socialization, but I can always get that on my own time.

Indeed is also filled with recruiters. Almost every job I found on Indeed was a recruiter.

Usually the ones that aren't have a much shorter and brief description of the job.

"For example, the program defined one white woman as a “stunner, looker, mantrap,” and “dish,” describing her as “a very attractive or seductive looking woman.” Many people of color have noted an obvious racist bias to their results. Jamal Jordan, a journalist at the New York Times, explained on Twitter that each of his uploaded photographs returned tags like “Black, Black African, Negroid, or Negro."

They claim this is AI, but earlier in the article, it states that mechanical turk was used. Mechanical Turk is basically just people getting paid pennies or fractions of a penny to tag these photos.

Many people on Mechanical Turk are from countries where English is not their first language and they don't have the same idea of racism as we do here in the US, which would explain the racist tags mentioned in the article.

This doesn't really show us anything about AI and racial bias and more that other countries still aren't up to our levels of what we consider decent.

Duo security isn't really in Detroit. They are in Ann Arbor, which is much different.

Ann Arbor is home to the University of Michigan and many talented engineers that graduate there.

It's usually included when you purchase a commercial license.

I work with a company that generally stays away from open source software, unless they have an in-house developer that can maintain it.

Most open source projects (unless it's backed by a huge company that also charges for support) are run by volunteers that have a day job. This means that support will be non-existent beyond what the developer(s) feel like and bug fixes/updates may or may not happen. This doesn't work that well when a company relies on this software for any critical task.

A degree only matters if you have zero experience, which could be supplemented by personal projects or open source contributions.

"Does anyone really think 17 bots on Twitter tweeting messages in Chinese is going to change this?"

Try 17 thousand or 17 million bots, Tweeting in English.

This is also only a small fraction of what they are actually doing. If you take a look at many new movies coming out in the US, many are financed by a Chinese company.

They have also started buying major stakes in media companies, like Reddit.

The strange thing about the Hong Kong protests is that I can't seem to find any balanced coverage of it and I almost saw no coverage of it here on major US television networks.

China has been using armies of bots for many years to sway public opinion. Much scarier than Russia, because they have 10X the resources.

When I was in high school (in the late 90s), we only had a C programming class. I took this class with 10 other students, who were all in the top 10 GPA of our school. I was the only one that wasn't and the teacher, who was also the calc teacher, would constantly think that I was cheating/copying other students because I couldn't possibly write code better than his top calc students.

One time, I helped one of the students in class (I had been writing C code since I was 12). The student decided to outright copy my work and just change the variable names (they were so lazy, they couldn't even bother to change anything).

I didn't know this until after everything had been turned in and the teacher confronted both of us. I told him what must have happened and I got a C and the other student got a B. The other student was one of his calc students. I would have gotten a perfect grade otherwise.

I also remember I would get negative behavior scores (we were scored from 1-5), from this teacher. When I asked why, he would tell me it was because I didn't ask him enough questions. He spent the entire class flirting with the girls and was pretty much useless when it came to help.

I realized high school was bullshit after this.

This looks cool. How much space will this take up, to backup the entire site?

If you expect money or compensation for your hard work, charge money and have a commercial license. Plenty of open source developers do this and make a living.

It just seems disingenuous to me to give out your work for free, with little to no strings attached, and then expect companies to either give back or pay you money.

This isn't really what the open source movement is all about. I've contributed to and release many libraries as open source. There are many companies using it, for free, and not giving me anything in return. I really don't care, because I just wanted to release something that anybody could use.

I feel like the movement is starting to turn from giving code away for free to all..to giving code away to only be used in the way I see fit.

I only read a few paragraphs of this article, since it's behind a paywall.

The financial system in China may be technologically advanced, but it's scary. The Chinese government uses this system to track every transaction for every citizen.

I've been banned from selling on Amazon for over a decade, with no recourse. A customer (who I think was competition) bought one of my products, claimed it was a counterfeit, and then never returned the item or sent pictures. Nobody at Amazon will ever respond to me and if I login to another seller account from my computer (not related to mine), it will be suspended within a few minutes).

I really don't care about selling on Amazon anymore. I can't imagine if my entire financial future was dependent on a company like this, like it is in China.

To motivate me: No death marches, don't keep changing the task I'm working on and expect the completion date to stay the same, and respect my personal time after regular business hours.

It's great to have a career over a job. But aside from some of the big tech companies, most companies will only ever offer you a job.

My question is why hasn't the open source community shunned him for these sorts of comments? Someone like the ex-Mozilla CEO was shunned and booted out of his position for much less.

It's a numbers game. I used Craigslist last year to find freelance jobs. I talked to about 40 potential clients in a month. Out of those, 30 were a no from me right off the bat (wanted to hire cheap developers, etc) and out of the last 10, I was able to setup a contract with 2.

Here are two things that have helped me:

1) Answer the ad within an hour of it being posted. This may be tough if you have a full time job. My response rate when up 100% when I did this.

2) Give them your phone number and offer to talk on the phone. Email generally doesn't work that well to sell yourself, especially now with all of the low-wage competition.

3) get good at selling yourself. They need to know why they should hire you over a $5/hour developer from overseas. Some don't care and only want to pay peanuts.

Freelancer.com is horrible. I used it a few times and got a few potential clients..but most expect things like a turnkey Facebook clone for $100.

Last year, I was looking for contracting gigs and was posting on many of the various job boards. it's amazing how many jobs are posted by recruiters.

On a site like Indeed.com, which I know pulls jobs from other sites, at least 60 or 70% of the tech jobs are posted by recruiters.

AI technology has spread very fast in China because there is no regard for health, safety, or privacy.

A good analogy would be the ability for a company to make a very fuel efficient car in record time..without having to deal with things like air bags, safety features, or regulations.

I don't really think we should be using China as an example of anything to emulate. It's an example of what can happen to our privacy and rights if we aren't careful.

This is exactly why I'm against UBI: As more and more people get UBI, we will have more generations of people dependent on the government for all of their needs.

This also means they have control over large portions of the population, directly funded by the billionaires.

I was on Grand Bahama island in Freeport last summer for my Brother-in-law's wedding. We took a guided tour one day and there were still entire parts of the city ravaged by the previous hurricane that came through.

China Town was uninhabitable and was just a bunch of collapsed buildings.

I can't imagine the damage there now.