rabidrat

No, they give you 10k options that vest in 12 months, and then next year you get 5k options that vest in 12 months, and then 2.5k, and then 1.25k (if stock price doubles every year). So you get less than half what you would have.

Agreed that the government at the highest level should pay a huge amount of money. Though I think he should get $10^7 and the rest of the $10^8 should become an endowment for a criminal justice/prison reform organization and he can lead it.

So either the process is overlong or the vaccines are not verifiably safe.

> Religion has emphasized surrender as a way to find peace but I don't personally see how those words do anything

Surrender is not resignation, it is acceptance. You have to acknowledge and then emotionally accept what truly is, in order to be able to effectively construct a different future.

It's the combination of defaults that's problematic. If the site requires https, because it's e.g. a bank, then sure, require non-expired cert. But my static sites which have no auth, payment, or even subpages (path-obscuration being another of the touted benefits of https-everywhere), do not require https. Except because of the defaults Google's overzealous security team decided to inflict on the world, now I have to have a process that reaches out to LE every 3 months. For a static website which otherwise never needs updating.

I was a half-pack-a-day smoker for about 10 years, quit several times (once for several months), and the only thing that "worked" ultimately was realizing that I simply could never have another cigarette. After the physical cravings subsided, I still had frequent longings for that wonderfully ubiquitous way to 'fix' my internal itchiness/discomfort, but I had made such a commitment that I would have literal nightmares in which I smoked a cigarette--and then woke up in a panic, similar to dreams where I found out I'd accidentally killed someone and was debating whether to turn myself in or go on the lam.

Then one evening about 10 years later I was at a festival wandering around and I had this desire in my brain for something, I didn't know what, and it was a few hours later that I realized the thing I really wanted was a cigarette. It was that night that I changed my internal conception of myself from "ex-smoker" to "non-smoker". I don't have cravings any more for cigarettes, though there is a certain pang, I guess I would call it "nostalgia", and maybe it includes "envy" of people who can smoke a cigarette/cigar socially at an event and then not think about it again for years. Occasionally I will have accidental contact with nicotine (like buying a joint on vacation and getting a weird taste while smoking it and realizing half-way through that it's actually a spliff), and for a few days or a week afterward the light switch is again visible in my mind--though I'm thankfully not tempted to flip it. I wonder in those times whether a never-smoker who has a cigar once does have the same cravings in the days after, but doesn't recognize them as such.

So at least for me, who admittedly was never a heavy smoker, it doesn't resonate that I will struggle with this addiction until I die. The only apparent lasting (mental) consequences are that I have to consciously refuse nicotine even when it would be a legitimately fun and interesting experience (like when I was offered some fancy snuff at a party which everyone else got to enjoy). And when I see someone smoking a cigarette I might get the nostalgia or envy I mentioned above. But when I get within smelling distance it's just foul and unappealing.

Best wishes for anyone who's thinking of or trying to quit.

And the person they don't steal from to get the money to get their fix?

But the hard disks are general purpose storage devices, right? Any chance they will become custom ASIC storage that can't be repurposed too?

It's a meme for Long Now members showing that they intend/expect civilization to continue past the year 9999. It's an effective signal to other members and a great "Ask me" button.

Yeah just don't accidentally paste your password into a terminal and press Enter.

And millions of animal species occupying thousands of ecological niches are being replaced by 10 species across the planet: humans, the animals that humans eat, and the animals humans keep as pets. Even if the quantity of biomass is relatively constant, I think we can all agree that a planet with only humans and cows and chickens is a pretty bleak outcome.

> holding out on us

They're doing the fun part (coding) for free. It's well-known that developers don't like writing documentation (esp "properly" which is ill-defined and for some definitions can be a much larger task than writing the code in the first place); in fact, does anyone enjoy writing docs as much as an engineer enjoys writing code?

So this makes total sense to me. As a user of free software, you can choose: a) pay for a commercial package with comes with docs; b) use free software, and pay for the docs in the form of a book (perhaps waiting a few years until lots of people want to do the same); c) use free software and figure it out from breadcrumbs the developer left in whatever forums they use; d) (c) but then step up and write some docs.

Too many people think that free/libre software is supposed to be like commercial software, only better, but it's not the case. It's definitely better in the "libre" way, and of course cheaper in the "price" way, but it's usually not packaged for easy consumption, nor is the developer going to do a bunch of work they don't enjoy for other people who don't want to pay them for it.

> people could make money from those who didn't like free.

Does GPL ever work this way? In practice, GPL discourages corporate (=widespread) adoption, driving down the quality of open-source software, and creating the market for paid closed-source software (which is often worse than open-source software, but packaged better). I'd love to see cases where a GPL-dev successfully negotiates a reasonable "cost-plus" arrangement with a company for a non-free license.

Your analysis of the MIT license is spot-on, btw.

wait until you hear about the cloaca