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New comment by nsotelo in "Tech talent is still in demand but outsized salaries may be disappearing"

nsotelo — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:45:42 +0000

As a European I work hard but do expect labour laws to be respected, if that's what you mean. Minimum of 22 days annual vacation (that I use 100% of), paid sick leave, 14 national holidays per year, etc.

New comment by nsotelo in "Bank of England warns of 'apocalyptic' global food shortage"

nsotelo — Tue, 17 May 2022 05:31:57 +0000

It's not important because it won't affect the US?

New comment by nsotelo in "Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work"

nsotelo — Sun, 08 May 2022 08:21:27 +0000

These are not morally equivalent. The office-worker wants others to modify everyone's behaviour to support them, whereas the remote worker just wants to control their own behaviour. The remote worker is completely ambivalent to where others want to work.

New comment by nsotelo in "Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?"

nsotelo — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 12:43:07 +0000

Future historians will laugh and cry knowing we invested trillions and boiled the oceans for the sake of a useless append-only log.

New comment by nsotelo in "Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses"

nsotelo — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 17:32:48 +0000

This doesn't make it immune from criticism. What if the United States added "Caucasian state" to the constitution and started discriminating against other ethnicities. Would that be okay for you?

New comment by nsotelo in "Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?"

nsotelo — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:16:00 +0000

You can use the onion location header[0] to redirect the user, as mentioned in another comment thread.

0: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/oni...

New comment by nsotelo in "The Crypto Backlash Is Booming"

nsotelo — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:42:47 +0000

Are there any valid use-cases? For any suggestion I've heard, it always seems that a relational database or PKI would be better.

New comment by nsotelo in "Crypto, the left, and techno-feudalism"

nsotelo — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 08:53:55 +0000

He does state that when (not if) we move beyond the current system, distributed ledgers will become a useful tool.

> I consider blockchain, and Ethereum-style mechanisms, as technologies that will prove extremely useful once private property in the means of production ends. But, on their own, these technologies will not liberate us from the extractive power of the few.

New comment by nsotelo in "Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview"

nsotelo — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:49:18 +0000

The point remains, maybe as an autistic person they don't like eye contact or sitting still but that's where discipline comes into it.

New comment by nsotelo in "Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for spare parts"

nsotelo — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:09:03 +0000

I got an occulus quest 2 (manufactured by meta) recently and it's a lot of fun. VR is not revolutionary but it's definitely going to make money for meta and others.

New comment by nsotelo in "Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network"

nsotelo — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 07:16:07 +0000

maddy

It's a single go binary that supports IMAP and SMTP, with a CLI (maddyctl) to help you set it up. TLS can be added with acme.sh.

New comment by nsotelo in "Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1"

nsotelo — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 07:31:30 +0000

Solana transactions currently cost $0.00025 and can handle 50,000 transactions per second. For comparison visa handles 1700 TPS and MasterCard 5000.

New comment by nsotelo in "Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1"

nsotelo — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 07:19:28 +0000

I seem to remember pornhub being hit by this, which is why they removed unverified content. Perhaps it's also why OnlyFans decided to ban explicit content a few months back (before backpedaling).

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/visa-mastercard-...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/20/tech/onlyfans-explicit-co...

New comment by nsotelo in "Reporter may be prosecuted for using “view source”"

nsotelo — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:49:37 +0000

I read this as a failure of the state for publishing information that "should not be public".

New comment by nsotelo in "What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too (2020)"

nsotelo — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:40:07 +0000

It is 'avoid "success at all costs"' meaning success is good but must be balanced against other priorities.

New comment by nsotelo in "PDM: A Modern Python Package Manager"

nsotelo — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 06:59:36 +0000

I use this same setup but with a requirements folder. Inside I have a base.txt, dev.txt and tests.txt where dev.txt starts with '-r tests.txt', etc.

It's very handy for having different environments but doesn't lend itself to a lockfile.

New comment by nsotelo in "Issues with Cloudflare Images"

nsotelo — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 07:53:08 +0000

I direct my hate towards those who make this necessary.

New comment by nsotelo in "Common Jobs in a Medieval City"

nsotelo — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 05:00:46 +0000

I doubt if many enterprises would survive this level of catastrophe.

New comment by nsotelo in "Ask HN: Isn't keeping up with tech for your career same as “timing the market”?"

nsotelo — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 17:00:28 +0000

I'm not sure it really works like this. Suppose you've spent 10 years becoming a master java developer, and now all the investment is going into python. You're going to better than the boot-campers after 1 week and a master developer after 3 months, whereas the others will still need years to catch up.

I think it's worth keeping a loose working knowledge of all the mainstream software in your field, but don't really go deep until you need it.

New comment by nsotelo in "Would you guys be interested by a Stripe Atlas for the rest of the world?"

nsotelo — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 07:32:28 +0000

I would love it for Europe and am sure that a lot of governments would too. France is openly pushing to get the startup scene going in their country, and Estonia is famous for its services to digital nomads.