@icst @meeper
The concept is called "accredited investors": https://www.sec.gov/resources-small-businesses/capital-raising-building-blocks/accredited-investors, basically unless you are rich OR you know what you're doing, you aren't allowed to invest in the private market. To play devil's advocate like I so love to do, it makes sense because private markets are extremely risky and if you're "poor" you could easily get fucked by some risky investment (or outright scam). You can also get around it by being FINRA certified which also means you should know what you're doing

When it comes to those kinds of employee benefits I'm not exactly sure but my best guess is being an employee makes you a stakeholder so the SEC doesn't really care. Maybe it's this "knowledgeable employees" thing? I'm too busy and lazy to find precedent.

@icst @meeper a good point the problem is that would lock out a pretty lucrative market (US equities) to all but the select very rich (the SEC doesn't allow Americans under a million net worth excluding their residence invest in private equity whatsoever) even harder than it already does.
Pensions and investment monoliths Vanguard don't really care what a company does as long as big line goes up most of the time (Blackrock's flirting with ESG and other corporate hogwash disguised as "ethics" notwithstanding).
There's probably a better way to let people directly benefit from a company like Nvidia doing well without a stock market but I'm not smart enough to know a solution to that

@meeper many such cases

@meeper That's illegal under US precedent, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co. The shareholders are legally the only thing that matters

and the matrix server is back, missing 2 weeks of files

whoops

@meeper the shareholders love it but everyone else hates it so the shareholders win (it is illegal to go against the shareholders)

@mischievoustomato Unfortunately I do not want to detonate the database again so synapse is stuck here forever (rip dendrite my beloved)

also why the fuck does microsoft want to cram copilot down my eyesockets I went along with it trying to figure out pgbackrest stuff and it was hilariously wrong

Synapse got corrupted again fantastic
thanks postgresql

I did not die I just have had absolutely nothing interesting to say

@binkle @tyler @Nudhul one of the capstone projects I saw when I was finishing up university was a prototype pest remover but it was for deer eating plants, it probably could be scaled up a lot and actually be put to use doing things

Also global logistics for having things always in season is nuts they will put things in no sunlight, minimal oxygen environnements so they ripen when they hit the Wal-Mart

@binkle @tyler the latter would probably be a good market though elevenlabs is probably doing something on it (wouldn't hurt to get acquired by them)
Living in the middle of nowhere surrounded by farms makes me respect farmers less; most of them are entitled, live off of government subsidies and will hire whatever is closest to legally allowed slaves to do their work for them

@binkle Depends on what you want to do. A wrapper for ChatGPT will have VC investors all over you. Anything else, good luck
Interest rates are high and all of the global uncertainty is leading to a pretty cool investing environment for most

@splitshockvirus Do you not have arms and legs? What else do you even need?

I am going to explode

Just got a rejection email for a trainee position, guessing I didn't have enough experience to BE TRAINED. That, or I have TOO MUCH

@benis_redux @nicholas @nuko It, like Mein Kampf, is both way too long and extremely boring

@icst True, the problem is most companies are so bureaucratic the disconnect between HR and the person who is actually looking for someone that they're probably looking for two completely different kinds of people

@sneeden @icst I probably should have just lied and said yes but I didn't because I am a terrible liar

@RustyCrab @sneeden Also true. It's fun when everyone except the people at the very top suffer