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Yes, in my company some of the fastest proposal writing has been done during lockdown as 3-4 people co-author the same document online via Word. It works very well.

This article nails it. Particularly the part where the author reminds us that Gibson's cyberspace and Stephenson's metaverse were both DYStopias run by and for massive evil corporations. It's like they are trying to make that awful future a reality.

They aren't, so this topic is off to a bad start. Nice try in pigeon-holing an entire sex.

In my (UK) experience, a 1x liquidation pref seems requested. 3x seems unpalatable. Maybe things are different in the US west coast. (It's certainly easier to raise money there, so perhaps the terms are harder as a compromise.)

You're right that employees with options don't get enough information to understand the value and potential value and mechanisms of their options in private companies. That's what I was driving at (poorly) in a separate comment.

Sorry, I wasn't suggesting anyone was stupid for believing the hype that founders use to punt their stocks. What I was trying to get at was whether you had an idea of the valuation of the stock relative to your exercise price. If so, and that looked good, what happened to your company for it to sell at a low price?

But was this a surprise to you? Did you expect to make more money from the sale of the company, and if so, why?

This is an oversimplification and, as written, is not quite right. It doesn't matter whether the company is acquired outright or floated on a stock market. If the company has a well-structured employee options scheme, then either of those events should be classed as an 'exit' event and the employees' options should be automatically exercised and sold, giving them the net gain in cash on that day.

As for preference shares, most VCs try to get that. They can be negotiated away by the company management sometimes. If they remain, they come into play in situations where the company isn't successful - where the shares are sold at a lower value than they were bought for. The preference gives the VCs to get their money out first, and leave the scraps for the others. Usually the others includes the founders who are similarly shafted - but then again they evidently didn't build the value of their company very successfully and they signed the deals.

The British did this a while back when their Empire still looked strong - the Foundation was North America. The silent sleeper cell second foundation is probably New Zealand. Unfortunately, Boris Johnson a.k.a the Mule came along.

It's OK everyone, the government says there is no shortage, so there isn't one. That's how it works in the New Sovereign UK.

One of the most annoying blogs I've ever seen.

Also, the end results look quite good, but not amazing.

What on earth makes you think this is remotely probable?

Yes

Seems like there is rather a lot of misunderstanding about what Apple are doing here, which is a bit disappointing. They're running an algorithm to detect known child pornography pictures from a database (CSAM). It's run on your phone and the hashes of images are compared.

Separately, if you are a child, and I presume you are not if you are reading this, photos sent in messages are scanned to catch if you are sending something sexually explicit. You can opt not to send, but if you do your parents are informed. So this is relevant if you are a child or if you have a child with an iPhone. Otherwise, it is not relevant to you.

Please help me understand what is so outrageous about these systems that would make you throw away your Apple products and move to something (what?) else.

Is this a reprint from April 1st?

You're missing the point though, which is that people need time with people to learn. Watching videos isn't enough. What happens when they have questions and need to have a conversation?

I don’t know the solution, but I’m not currently in charge of a G7 member state.

I look forward to Westminster taking climate change more seriously now…

I'm probably missing something but W10 has for some time had a Privacy dashboard built in that explicitly lists and gets your permission to grant access for apps to things like Camera, Microphone, Location, Account info, Notifications, Contacts, Calendar, Phone calls, Messaging, Tasks, etc etc... in the same way my phone OS does. I'm sure macOS does the same thing too. Is this not good enough or is there a lack of trust in this protection?

People don't accept it because it doesn't solve the problem. The problem is why an experience is had by someone, not why there is a mind.

I don't think they are under-rated. https://www.nationalgrideso.com/news/skys-cobra-series-solar...

Yeh that seems to basically be what we call fiber in the UK!

That's really interesting. I'm in the UK and the consensus is generally that the US doesn't give much holiday to staff and that Europe is more generous. I'd never heard of unlimited vacation before. Here the standard is 28 days plus the 8 or 9 public holidays, so about 36 days off per year. In Europe it's more, and often you must take them.

Unlimited vacation?

I was speaking from a UK perspective which, as another commenter says, is mostly co-ax from a point on the pavement. 'Actual' FTTP is coming in now, like HyperOptic, starting with apartment blocks where they can get lots of customers per one new civil engineering job. Most consumer telecoms fibre networks in the UK were laid in the 90s and don't go right to the home.

If you're in the lucky situation of having true FTTP, then it's still very unlikely such fibre could be used as a 'microphone' because of the sensitivity and spatial resolution issues. It would also be pretty obvious it was being used because it would probably interfere unless they were very careful with bands. So don't worry, DAS isn't going to be used to listen to your voice. Much easier to do that with your phone!

There are a few different flavours of physics you can use for DAS, and they 'use up' different areas of the spectrum. As long as what you want to do for telecoms is using completely separate wavelengths (channels or bands) then yes you can do both. Most DAS providers and users prefer to just use un-used/dark fibres though as it avoids any headaches.

Photonics engineer here: DAS isn’t sensitive or spatially accurate enough to eavesdrop like that. Also, fibre is very rarely to the home. Normally it’s to a connection box just outside the property and then co-ax to the modem. Lastly, fibre telecoms uses lots of repeaters and switches that DAS can’t see past (needs optical line of sight).

4500%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

That's 45,000,000 ppm!!!!!

...Isn't this an advertorial for a drone business?

I'm a geek and I think Windows 10 is good. Sorry.