The new thing to do is put employees on a contract agreement for 30 days such that even IF you complete the ridiculous interview gauntlet, you are still a "tentative" employee and have to prove yourself. I did this for a YC company this spring and it was awful.
>Bitcoin is widely regarded as the first broadly successful ecash
system. An oft-cited concern, though, is that mining
Bitcoins wastes computational resources. Indeed, Bitcoin’s
underlying mining mechanism, which we call a scratch-off
puzzle (SOP), involves continuously attempting to solve computational
puzzles that have no intrinsic utility.
We propose a modification to Bitcoin that repurposes its
mining resources to achieve a more broadly useful goal: distributed
storage of archival data. We call our new scheme
Permacoin. Unlike Bitcoin and its proposed alternatives,
Permacoin requires clients to invest not just computational
resources, but also storage. Our scheme involves an alternative
scratch-off puzzle for Bitcoin based on Proofs-ofRetrievability
(PORs). Successfully minting money with this
SOP requires local, random access to a copy of a file. Given
the competition among mining clients in Bitcoin, this modi-
fied SOP gives rise to highly decentralized file storage, thus
reducing the overall waste of Bitcoin.
Using a model of rational economic agents we show that
our modified SOP preserves the essential properties of the
original Bitcoin puzzle. We also provide parameterizations
and calculations based on realistic hardware constraints to
demonstrate the practicality of Permacoin as a whole.
> But the truth is that there are far less women than men who are like that, and that this will never change because of biological factors.
What about all the women through the 40s up until the 80s who worked as computer programmers? For a while it was a seriously female dominated field. A woman wrote the first compiler. A woman wrote the code to help get us to the moon. A woman taught my CS courses in high school and i had two female CS professors in college (and just about half my graduating class in that major was female).
Did biology change? Where's the science that says women as a whole don't enjoy IT as much? You crow on and on about science but provide no citations, no logical coherent argument.
When I see posts like this on HN, it makes me think you haven't worked closely with women. Or even know any lol
He literally says this is "affirmative action" in regards to an African nation and calls the competency of a space program into question for no reason. That's not baseless, it's quite blatant really.
I don't want to discuss the ideas of morons. There needs to be a bar set if you want to have reasonable, meaningful conversations. Not every opinion or thought is worthy of discourse and some are actively harmful. I see more and more racist and otherwise trollish comments on HN everyday and frankly I'm sick of it.
Uh like none of this happened when the dumpster bombs went off in Chelsea last year. They closed the streets for the investigation and to look for more bombs but it wasn't even close to a "lockdown of all public buildings", I'm pretty sure they just halted traffic. You could even - yes- walk around the area where the bomb went off the next day. It was a block from my office.
The issue gets even more interesting when you factor in working from home.
Is it wrong to smoke weed while "on the clock" in your panties on the couch? Perhaps if it compromises the deliverable but if the employee is productive, efficient, and timely - should it matter if they are st0ned or not?
It was a war started to invade a nation with whom we made a treaty (Treaty of Fort Laramie) to respect their sovereignty. So, we broke the treaty which is illegal and then we proceeded to plunder their sacred lands in the name of God and gold.