stasmo

The US does not respond with austerity during a crisis, it responds with ever larger economic stimulus by printing money at the central bank. The next crisis will be no different. There is zero political appetite for austerity so it will not happen in the US.

If the US debt problem leads to capital controls, using Monero will become a federal offence overnight. Might as well call it money-laundering coin.

I agree with you, but one could argue that R&D money comes from a desire to patent.

The worlds best scientists don’t even know how to make room temp superconductors but this one person on HN is certain that purity doesn’t matter.

I agree that you should not be trying to find an engineer to take on a huge amount of risk co-founding a business and offer them a measly 0.1 to 2% stake in the company.

It seems to me like the author is arguing that the you don't need a CTO, you need a technical co-founder, AKA a founding engineer, and that they should be given double-digit equity. Am I reading this wrong?

I think the correct people and processes were followed, but they could have saved a great deal of time aligning on the importance and priority of the task by putting together a meeting with the leads.

For a time-sensitive and critical update to core functionality, the director of operations should have been aware of the mean time to deployment for the software and put together a team to fast track it, instead of entering it into the normal development pipeline with a high priority.

No not really any reason. Docker has a bit of overhead but greatly simplifies most of the things the author is doing manually with his self-described “better than the vast majority of off the shelf solutions” software.

The author does say double digit equity. Not sure where you got 0.1 to 2% from.

This is just simple prejudice.

AI experts believe AI will have the power to destroy the world. I am not surprised that AI experts are meeting with powerful people to discuss things privately.

The good news is that those copy/pasters are probably going to be copy/pasting higher quality code if they’re using GPT4.

Tor exit nodes are abused as tools for DDOS attacks. We had to block them too.