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Can someone help me understand the licensing of this?

https://github.com/sdv-dev/SDV/blob/main/LICENSE

It was MIT licensed up until 2022 where it was changed to what it is now, where they say that it will become MIT again 4 years after release... but is that from when the license was changed or the first release of the software in GitHub?


IANL but I've taken it to mean that releases acquired under the original license would continue to be governed by those terms.

I'm liking this new approach better than e.g. perpetual AGPL though, as it provides incentives for businesses to acquire commercial rights while avoiding any dead end agreements that outlive the startup entity.


Hey there, we wrote an in-depth post on the BSL license and why we switched to it: https://datacebo.com/blog/sdv-bsl-license/

BSL is an _eventual_ open source license. 4 years after every version release, that code now transitions to being MIT licensed. SDV's roots are in academic science (MIT), so we wanted to make sure researchers could still use the toolkit for their work.


There was/is a game called Shattered Galaxy that was best described this way.

Several factions continuously battling over discrete territories. There would be calculations throughout the day that would give certain bonuses to whichever factions were winning.

Every territory had a field commander that could request people join that had leveled up certain types of units based on how the battle was evolving.

There was also a form of player controlled government in each faction that could choose bonuses and allocate resources to various battles.

It was really cool for its moment in time.


> I don't get the impression that they had a "ton" of money when they started.

Viaweb was PG's first company, which sold to Yahoo for $49 million in 1998. Just as an FYI -- I think PG/JL/YC are great.


But how much went to them, vs investors, taxes, etc? It's not like they started YC with $50 million.


even if 10% went to them.. this is 1998.. it is a lot of money back back then (more than 99% of people will make in their life time) and is a lot of money now.


But not a lot of money in comparison to the VCs who could have done it in 1998. Not either a lot of connections in comparison to the VCs.

Ten million dollars is a lot of money, but not especially rare among financial types and tech titans.

But the people who actually make something like this are much rarer.


I covered that in my comment with the “and” clause. I don’t deny they were radically successful at making a club. That’s my point, their success was in making an elite social group, not in any special VC strategy. The only way to replicate their success (if that’s what you define success as) would be to somehow supersede their reputation as the most desirable club.


> That’s my point, their success was in making an elite social group, not in any special VC strategy. The only way to replicate their success (if that’s what you define success as) would be to somehow supersede their reputation as the most desirable club.

The reason their particular club became elite is that they developed a reputation for helping people to succeed. And they developed that reputation by doing it, repeatedly. That is what I would call a successful VC strategy.


You may not remember what VC was like at that time. $50k for 50% was the expected seed round for a 4-person new grad team with about a year under their belt in Boston. I remember thinking the YC deal was crazy good crazy early. Anybody remember what it was? I recall something like $25k for 10% in the first batch. This was enough for poverty rent and ramen for 4 people for 1 year. The only problem I had with this was that he wanted all founders to quit their job before even applying, and then getting in was tough odds.


For what it's worth, that is illegal in the USA at least. Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act passed in 2008.


Which covers health insurance, not life insurance and others.


Straight up plagiarizes The Beatles here: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#dr.-seuss-oh-the-places-youll-go

" There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known. Nothing you can see that isn’t shown. Nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be. "


"Good artists copy; Great artists steal."

I don't think that it's some absolutely amazing creation, but we probably shouldn't pretend like plagiarizing isn't something realistic about it. How many MySpaces had that line in them? Reddit's got hundreds of instances of it based on a quick search of comments. There are enough occurrences of it on twitter that I scrolled for ten minutes and didn't run dry of comments with it.


Well, it's easy.


Interested to know what Rust was missing. I built an ad exchange last year and it has been great. I have been using nightly builds, mostly for access to async/await, and it has been very fast and stable.

I have had to submit a few pull requests to various projects along the way, but didn't find the ecosystem prohibitively lacking.


Would you mind sharing what libraries you are using?


actix, cdrs, rusoto, cadence, diesel, futures/tokio, serde, chashmap, slog, postgres, criterion, r2d2, chrono

That isn't all of them but those are the main ones.


Thanks, that helps!


Cool! I am working on almost the exact same thing. Grats on shipping!


I wonder how enforceable that patent is.


I have become conscious during dreams that I would describe as "being in a river of disjointed thoughts and emotions" -- the experience is exactly like I was witness to the many thoughts being considered/happening in my brain rapidly and simultaneously.

It is much more intense than normal dreams and I usually wake up within a few moments, and there is never a narrative like normal dreams -- just an awareness of many concurrent thoughts in quick succession.


Are you refering to hypnogogia? That usually happens right before falling asleep.


Nope, though I am familiar with that, too. At least in my experiences with hypnogogia I have some "control" or at least a feeling of control over what is happening to some extent. Or maybe it is better to describe it as being a more sequential experience than the other one I am describing.

Maybe if one is to stay conscious during hypnogogia for longer than I ever have they would experience a similar thing? There just always seems to be some bias in hypnagogia steered by and experienced by my consciousness in first person. In the other experience it is really more like I am an outside observer.


Do you mean that you have had a lucid dream¹?

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream


I have also had many lucid dreams -- I used to practice lucid dreaming.

This is like a lucid dream but there is no narrative or control over what is happening -- only awareness. It is really most like being in the center of a river of thoughts, briefly experiencing them as they rush by.


There is a typo in the first subheading: "Project Refrences"


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