Of course, it's the loudest voices that always get heard and are oft repeated, but I'd say most of us in the industry realize that cryptocurrency will never be a 1:1 replacement of traditional fiat currency--barring some significant breakdown of society and government. It's more of a complementary thing. Something more like internet and radio (i.e. both are still used today, one did not completely replace the other). Not the best example but you get the picture. And then there is 3rd and 2nd world countries where crypto can be used as a sort of stop gap solution until a viable form of government and banking can be situated.
this a remote-first company. they will have different physical locations but most of the company will be working remotely. regardless, given that SF was the original HQ, that will likely always be the de facto HQ... since the higher ups are already coalesced around there
As someone who works at a large cryptocurrency business, and who's welfare is thus bound to the ongoing success of cryptocurrencies, I would like to state my unequivocal support of the notion presented in this article.
I think the potential of life improvement for many unbanked people in non-first world countries extends a little beyond the life improving characteristics of ham radio, but overall his sentiment on how inaccurate the "BTC is basically 90's internet" people are, is entirely correct.
that is exactly what Twitter has done. they didn't block Trump's tweet, they added a box basically saying "be weary of this statement you should fact check it"
As a person who used to work in produce in the US, just wanted to say the visual image of a produce clerk dumping a box of apples to the display is ungodly.
Where are you shopping? A few discount stores might do that, but there's no way any prominent stores do that. I mean, first of all, virtually all brands of apples don't just come loose in boxes, they are layered with cardboard trays. So you couldn't just dump them all out at once even if you wanted too. Unless you want to have cardboard trays flying everywhere. That's just not a simple or quick way to unload even if you are being careless!
It's cool to see the math/statistical analysis behind this, as it's something I've always done just intiutively I guess.
I will always have more trust for a 93% review with 1,000's of reviews, versus a product with a 100% review with only ~20 reviews. Much too easy to manipulate and/or pay for reviews to trust a product with such small sample size of feedback.
I get the impression that he views his declining of severance package as analogous to Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem, or some other righteous form of protest. But you're right it doesn't carry the same weight given his quarter-mil. per year salary
also giving up a $50k severance package doesn't sound as exceptional when you've already collected $660,000 from them. Yeah it's still a lot of money, but apparently being able to promote his blog with anecdotes from Pivotal was worth the $50k to him...
It makes me suspicious of a person who passes up $50k because they would rather write a rant on their blog. What type of personality does that?
Sure the agreement was one sided, and maybe it even had questionable legal basis and would be unenforceable, but guess what, so do many other contracts consumers sign every day, and those don't usually net us $50k!
If the author had another job lined up already, the severance package wasn't worth much of anything -- it only paid out until he had a new position. So, probably closer to passing up $0 than to passing up $50K.
Still a bit of an annoying personality. If you know you won't get any $ from the severance package, just send a "thanks but no thanks" message to the person off-boarding you. Don't harass some poor corporate lawyer 2 years of out law school with inane demands for preferential terms on the severance contract for an individual contributor.
I think you're giving the system too much deference here. If an individual contributor is important enough that the company wants to give them a gag order, they're important enough to ask for preferential terms about it.
