Qubes is the best for managing VMs, it’s known as a security minded distro but it’s really the most well thought out VM manager I’ve seen. VMs are so well integrated.
NLNet funds some of the most interesting and diverse projects, including some ideas that have massive potential like Femtostar [1] which is an open version of Starlink, and Precursor [2] which is device which now physically exists and is arguably the most secure personal computer ever designed in modern times.
I browse through their projects all the time when I’m looking for interesting, cutting edge work.
There can be a good number of opinionated armchair know it all‘s, but, like HN, if you’re willing to sift through comments there’s lots of great insight and references you might not come across on your own.
I always love Eno’s description of the spec for this job:
“The thing from the agency said, ‘We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,’ this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said ‘and it must be 3.25 seconds long.’”
I personally feel that the word that most accurately describe the windows 95,98 and XP startup sounds is "cathartic". Specially the slowed down versions.
The closest way to describe my experience of hearing these startup music is like Tom Haverford from parks and rec saying,"A piece of art caused me to have an emotional reaction. Is that normal?"
In case you're unfamiliar: it's a whole microgenre. However idk what to call it: afaik the more popular slowdown values are 400% and 800%, so ‘slowed down’ together with these can be used as keywords for searching.
Unfortunately you don’t understand what trustless means in this context. “No one trusts a trustless coin” makes no sense, there is no trust required for it to function (theoretically). It works as expected whether your counterparty is a saint or entirely corrupt.
Completely untrue. Just finished up my interview process and my experience was that comp is higher than ever at the strong FANGs (I.e not Netflix). Microsoft and Amazon just massively bumped their comp maximums. Google was good as ever. Pre-ipos cash comp is still very strong although they are currently relying on previous stock valuations so the comp isn’t as good as they claim right now
If you think those comps were only from last two years - I suggest you go back in historical data. $400k+ wages have been a thing well before the pandemic.
The truth is somewhere in the middle. High comps have existed forever, but they have also been handed out like candy the last few years.
If you're in the bay it might be hard to see, but high comps spread rapidly across the country, to Canada and to some parts of Europe. It became more commonplace hence why everyone and their dog has been trying to get into the industry.
If a significant part of your comp is in stock, then yeah, that portion of your pay is down potentially 70% or more in six months (Netflix). There’s probably some employees at FAANG that are negative on their equity.
Even so, a 50% decline over the last 12 months is impossible. Of the FAANG companies, only Netflix is down more than 50%, and Netflix is notable for compensating people in mostly cash. Someone's compensation would have to be 100% stock and even then it wouldn't be down 50%.
High end tends to be equity heavy, and equity has dropped in value massively this year. Not sure how common it is to issue refresher grants of RSUs to top up the total comp.
The first time I passed accreditation, I created a crypto token with a super high supply and sold one, this affected some applications to extrapolate the value of my holdings. A lawyer looked at it and made the attestation that I was accredited and I was able to participate in a couple offerings over the next few months. (Lawyer verified onchain as well)
The second time was after some professional and speculative successes, and I realized that people expected me to be accredited. That was nice. So I “self certified” that I was accredited and got to participate in the rounds. No need to bother with extremely low float assets, although still an option.
All subsequent times I continued to self certify regardless of the economic reality, periodically it’s above the threshold in pure liquid assets, otherwise it was a stretch of the imagination and pure financial engineering. There are also much higher monetary thresholds like “qualified investor”. Everything higher is also a self certification. Its a dumb caste system so I have dumb solutions for it, its super effective. I took it waaay too seriously when I was younger, I just didn’t know the consequences and expected to be treated as a joke by super serious people, turns out nobody cares and capital games are all casual entertainment to the wealthy, show up if you’re interested, bring your own capital.
You still have to actually have the cash to invest. If you can’t come up with $25k minimum it’s going to be weird.
You don’t need that if you earn $200k a year, have two kinds of stockbroker licenses, or are good at lying.
I signed up for some accredited investor sites after passing via the income rule and was kind of annoyed that it just causes people to call you who expect you to have $50k to invest like it’s pocket change.
