razwall | 1 month ago | on: GitHub is down again
They're overwhelmed with all the vibecoded apps people are pushing after watching the Super Bowl.
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razwall | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
Sounds like you're using "Home" view. You can switch to "latest Tweets" view, which would eliminate 4, 5, 6, and 10 from your list.
razwall | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Seriously, steelman this please. 7,400 employees at Docusign?
Per their latest annual report:
"As of January 31, 2022, we had 7,461 employees, of which approximately 67% were in sales, marketing and customer success, 20% in engineering, product development and customer operations and 13% in general and administrative. We had approximately 69% of our employees based in the U.S. and the remainder in international locations."
razwall | 4 years ago | on: YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording
It was common law copyright, not derived from the copyright clause of the Constitution.
razwall | 4 years ago | on: YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording
What you say is mostly true, but in the case of sound recordings from before 1972, it's actually the opposite. At the time such recordings were made, they were subject to an infinite copyright term! The Music Modernization Act [1] passed in 2018 to put a finite life on those copyrights. As a result, all sound recordings from before 1923 become public domain this January.
razwall | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is a better approach to interviewing?
Interesting. Does anyone ever fail this part of the interview?
razwall | 6 years ago | on: Lyft’s revenues double, losses quintuple and prospects darken
You expect the company to be worth $10b at some point in the future, but the question to be answered is how much you think the company is worth today. Let's say you think the company is worth $10m now, which makes your stock worth $10k. Suppose the company then raises $90m in funding and gives the investors a 90% stake. Now your shares are only 0.01% of the company, and you think "Oh no, I got screwed by dilution!" But the company is now worth $100m, because it has its previous $10m worth of assets plus $90m in cash. So your 0.01% is still worth $10k.
What matters now is how the company spends the money. Hopefully they spend it smartly and the value of the company increases 10x. Now your stock is worth $100k. You didn't get screwed by dilution, you got a $90k bonanza because the company was successful.
razwall | 6 years ago | on: Lyft’s revenues double, losses quintuple and prospects darken
Dilution is a red herring. It doesn't change the value of your shares (theoretically). What will matter is how the company spends the funds that it raises, and whether it does so in a way that generates a positive or negative return on investment.
razwall | 7 years ago | on: U.S. Now Says All Online Gambling Illegal, Not Just Sports Bets
In case anyone is wondering, interstate wagering on horse races is specifically allowed in federal law by the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978, so it's not affected by this reinterpretation of the Wire Act.
razwall | 8 years ago | on: Equifax CIO Put ‘2 and 2 Together’ Then Sold Stock, SEC Says
The article is about the insider trading charges that were filed against him today, so yeah.
razwall | 8 years ago | on: I fought Equifax's lawyers in court and won: Part 2
Not through an ordinary appeal, but they could file for an extraordinary writ. Given the number of small claims cases that Equifax has been facing, it might be something they would consider.
razwall | 8 years ago | on: Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 46
Except that Service Worker support is a prerequisite for supporting the standard Push API, and push notifications are probably the most common usage of Service Workers. So it's a reasonable question.
razwall | 8 years ago | on: Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
Fair enough, but it seems arbitrary and capricious to single out debt collection as the one and only business function that you're not allowed to outsource. Just like accounting, payroll, advertising, lawyering, etc., it requires a specialized body of skill and knowledge that many businesses would rather not have to develop in-house.
razwall | 8 years ago | on: Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/henson-v-santande...
They were simply confirming the plain meaning of the FDCPA, which applies to people who collect debt that is owed to another person. Junk debt buyers buy their debt outright, so they're not collecting on someone else's behalf, so FDCPA doesn't apply. If people are upset about this, they should direct that toward Congress for not having amended the law.
razwall | 8 years ago | on: Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
What other kind of endeavor could it possibly be?
razwall | 8 years ago | on: Netflix Employees Are Happier with Their Job Than Facebook or Google Employees
No, bonuses are taxed at the same rate as salary. The withholding calculations are different, so you tend to have a bigger chunk taken out of your bonus check. But if that chunk is greater than your actual tax rate, you'll get the difference back in your tax refund.
razwall | 8 years ago | on: Beating the bookies – how the online sports betting market is rigged
Why is it harder to win?
razwall | 8 years ago | on: U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data
Neither of the Craigslist cases reached an appellate level. They were only district court decisions, so as I understand it, they only have persuasive value when applied to other cases. The judge in this case mentioned Craigslist v. 3Taps, and apparently was not persuaded by it.
razwall | 8 years ago | on: U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data
We can hope that this case will set a legal precedent, but it may, like the Craigslist case, end in a settlement (or some other disposition) before that point is reached.
razwall | 8 years ago | on: U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data
Indeed, and the court rejected that part of HiQ's argument.
"In light of the potentially sweeping implications discussed above and the lack of any more direct authority, the Court cannot conclude that hiQ has at this juncture raised 'serious questions' that LinkedIn's conduct violates its constitutional rights under the California Constitution."
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