Yeah, my read is that the teenage hacker confronted with this ridiculous payslip sees two ways forward: accept the pay cut for the CV benefit of working with bug bounties, or get a bit better at hiding your ass and make them really pay.

If I were 16, I’d be thinking I just made an obscene amount of money ($4,000!) messing with computers for fun, and got to meet people at a famous company.

That’s a free car. Free computer. Uber eats for months.

And my status with my peers as a hacker would be cemented.

I get that bounty amounts are low vs SE salary, but that’s not at all how my 16yo self would see it.

When I was sixteen I was already familiar with the concept of leverage. I’m not sure if I’d have had the cajones to use it though.

> That's 1-2% of an annual SE salary for someone with similar skillset.

I agree $4,000 is way too low, but a $400k salary is really high, especially for security work.

> That's 1-2% of an annual SE salary for someone with similar skillset.

So commensurate for approximately 2 days of work, a little high for two hours of work, and a little low for 8 days of work.

And this will help them land that six figure job

I mean, as a hiring manager, a fresh grad with multiple bug bounties tells me a lot about their drive and skill, so I'd agree. It's a great differentiator.

that means it could not be sold as fertiliser since that term is presumably regulated.

Unless I misunderstand your question, isn’t the obvious answer just short-term profit?

No investor has thus far invested something they can’t yet cash out.

If there's no better growth story probably people have already trimmed for short term gains.

In some ways the technology companies, which such large growth, are their own consumers.

Unless they feel pressure from another growth story or a technical monetary effect, and I emphasize story because its about future returns, its unlikely.

Additionally this has grown so quickly that there is amazing talent being applied to these problems, its hard to imagine every good person has been sufficiently compensated that progress will stall.

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She has significant links with parties of the right and far right in Europe, such as VOX, which is a major concern whatever is happening in Venuzuela.

SEP is always an interesting companion to these articles about physical fundamentals. [0]

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time/

I'm only slightly disappointed that this is not the "Someone Else's Problem" version of SEP.

There’s certainly a business case for “which nines” after the talk of n nines. You ideally want to be available when your competitor, for instance, is not.

Exact same experience here.