It's the price of the beers in the parking lot before the concert. (or at least used to be.)

Deel's business practices are wild. I've had to call them out for overstepping their role as an EOR and to stop sending marketing email to my team about "virtual deel events". Deel treated the people I "hired" through their platform like their own users. I will never use deel again.

We had about 75 people hired through deel at one point. I actually complained to them because they were reaching out to my people inviting them to "Deel Events" and sending them marketing emails.

Deel is just another tech company that thinks they're entitled to data, you're just a user to them. I hope Rippling wins, and that management team gets put in their place.

In the mean time, I'm back to setting up local entities. They took a great idea and ruined trust. When I called them on it they just gave me corporate gaslighting.

We use Plane.com, as they are one of the few companies that support hiring in Palestine. Deel doesn't even list Palestine on their countries page, which tells you a lot about their ethics.

It’s nice to see folks in the YC community actually care about genocide for sure :)

Incredible. So they're openly supporting genocide of Palestinians?

There is no law that isn't open to interpretation. There is a reason for the judicial branch of government.

Well, the laws in civil law countries that practice legal literalism are not open to interpretation. Eastern Europe, much of which is a part of the EU, is quite literalist.

The understanding is that interpreting laws leads to bias, partiality, and injustice; while following the letter of the law equally in each situation is the most just approach.

Interpreting the law literally is very easy to do in a biased way: you just pick and choose when to do it.

I don't believe that's even possible — I'd love to see an example. How do you define anything 100% literally, 100% unambiguously? You'd have to include the entire language in your definition for a start, and keep that constantly updated.

Lithuanian laws are a good example. They are extremely verbose compared to most common law countries.

I lived in Lithuania for a while and at the time, there was a big national debate about how “family” should be defined in laws — what people it can and can’t include.

So yes — a lot of emphasis is put on verbose definitions in literalist legal texts. And very very verbose explanations of many edge cases, too,

I know first hand it will be very hard to read Lithuanian legal texts for someone who is not a native speaker of the language, and even for natives it’s a challenge. So you could instead google “literalist legal systems”, and I believe you’ll find at least some examples/more context in English somewhere.

Learning to type properly. Even if you can bump up your typing speed 10 wpm. Over the life time of a software engineer it's worth it.

What language do you write in?

99% TypeScript/JS/React. Very, very occasionally Ruby or PHP.

Edit: Oh, but it's also great for parsing non-programming languages with good support for HTML, XML, Markdown, various SQLs, GraphQL, JSON, YAML, misc config file formats, container or CI/CD definitions, etc.

It's interesting to hear Taleb talk about statistical analysis in the climate space and this seems to support his point. He's pointed out the inability to really predict what is going on and as I understand it - supports just focusing those prediction resources on mitigating the problem

This seems like classic fat tail uncertainty. We really shouldn't be F'ing around.