Like I said, the quote was related to my first paragraph asking the question about personal net worth.

I didn’t then quote the company part as I thought the flow continued logically. It seems I was wrong.

I’m aware of the cap he said, and that’s what I was asking an opinion on.

Thank you for contributing yours.

should probably be weighed against public interest and publicly-funded and managed, if they’re beneficial.

So large skyscrapers, large nuclear plants, datacenters, etc would be state owned. Actually more…. This would be hundreds of the largest companies.
This means the state would commandeer a company when what, the market cap hit a billy? The nav? That actually seems kinda crazy to do

I was referring to the company net worth that was mentioned.

The quote was related to my question.

You can prevent this problem by taking his place!

cap personal netwoths at 10-20 million dollars

how would this work in your utopia? if the value of my investments goes over that, I have to sell them to give cash to the govt?

Seems difficult to raise capital that way. Would you put more large cap projects in the hands of a government? Things like power plants, large buildings, etc? No one could own or finance them since they are worth a lot.

Nah never do that. The curve brings trig complexity into the equation. Bananas are used to measure curvy things. Like wheels, roads, and boobs.

It’s 800k ford explorers

An independent contractor IS employed. They’re employed by themselves. Self-employed. So if you’re doing work for them, you are employed as an independent contractor doing work for them.

I think it’s pretty clear what they mean. Could have just said “you’ll be paid as a contractor and receive the relevant tax forms for your country” tho

Yet this post is about how it does work that way. There have always been pump and dumps.

Perhaps marketing and communications has advanced so much that everyone hears about everything and viral pump and dump stuff is far easier to spread.

Yeah that’s how capitalism works. Innovation driven by greed ultimately advances everyone.

I’ve been a pro software engineer for 30 years.

Colleges are doing a horrible job at relevant skill sets for sure. But also, much of the time what I’m seeking is passion for the field. In today’s world, kids with passion learn everything themselves in their teens and go directly to the workforce because they’d learn nothing at college. College became a place to go if you can’t figure it out yourself, which also means you lack the passion, hence you’re really not a great hire for a small company.

I currently never hire college grads anymore unless they’re older.

Things are different at enterprises. They need so many people that the passion requirement is dropped and you end up with tech leads who are passionate leading armies of worker bees who need constant oversight. This also works but has its own inefficiencies far outside the scope of this comment lol.

That’s how I see the state of the industry. People need to follow passion, not money. Unfortunately the incentives are misaligned by society in general. Not sure how to fix the value problem. For instance, teachers and childcare should be far more expensive and as such pay more. It’s a super heavy regulated sector tho, which is part of the problem.

But I digress. College for a general software engineering job is a complete waste.

Copilot is GPT. MS doesn’t have its own model.

I find Grok great for research, ChatGPT great for fun and image gen, clause great for coding, gemini (google) good for quick tech dev/admin ops related searches.

That’s how I’d best describe what I use each for.

Do you find grok to be shit at everything? I find it does best/fastest when intermediate searching the web is required, it does that and sources it well. Asking something crazy like “what’s the best product for killing some yellow weed in New Mexico” will typically result in nice tables comparing products with links and details like that.

This is why you self host a private Gitea instance and have it auto mirror all of your github repos.

I forked it, and my instance automatically grabbed me a forever copy.

Nah it’s more complete with comments and all. Here’s a link to a random svelte file:

https://github.com/rxliuli/apps.apple.com/blob/main/src/components/pages/SearchResultsPage.svelte

What I’m saying is just a level deeper for comp sci people. It’s the same thing, but expressed on a 32-bit unsigned integer.

Same result. Deeper joke.

Would be better as 4,294,967,295 instead of -1.

Crypto currencies are a good example.

Meanwhile I live in decentralized finance world where I see it absolutely changing the finance world.

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Pretty sure this guy was in charge. Feels like simple incompetence and bad luck.

Yes.