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Oh no. I work with very trendy Silicon Valley folks and it’s always someone in shorts and a t-shirt. Which is to say: it’s definitely a culture issue, but it do

Oh no. I work with very trendy Silicon Valley folks and it’s always someone in shorts and a t-shirt. Which is to say: it’s definitely a culture issue, but it doesn’t have to be a PHB doing it. I know a lot of really smart people who are under a lot of pressure, and combined with a lack of AWS knowledge, “just make it public” is surprisingly common.

1000units 7y ago
And it's worth noting a nonnegligible percentage of high-achieving businesspeople would torture small animals for the right price. Being a little lax with security policies under pressure isn't so shocking.
- hinkley 7y ago
  How much do you think they'd pay to get to torture small animals? I had a boss who brought up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Sanity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Sanity and organizational sociopaths about twice a month. He must have been doing a better job of shielding us from his bosses than I thought, or I've had more crazy bosses than I thought, because a lot of it seemed like normal bureaucratic pathology to me, if a little more intense than usual.
  - 1000units 7y ago
    There's only one known remedy and it costs 15 cents, so that mask is precious. It's a special gift to be able to see these things clearly, but it comes at the cost of close acquaintance, and you'll always be more watchful than the innocent of mind. It's grimly amusing how common and relevant psychological aberrance is relative to the average person's perception of it (cf. downvotes). It's tiring and unpleasant to examine the world antagonistically from a place of comfort but luckily others on the fringes don't have an option and force us to pay for prisons and so forth.
    - alexanderdmitri 7y ago
      This is a rather cryptic comment. Are you saying there's some sort of group or club where you pay 15 cents for a mask and then put it on to get well-acquainted to psycologically aberrant individuals from a comfortable distance before they go prison?
      - new_guy 7y ago
        It's not cryptic, just completely OT in a tech forum. He means the price of a bullet.
        1000units 7y ago
        Not so! A .22LR cartridge is less than three cents when purchased in any reasonable quantity.
      - 1000units 7y ago
        Fifteen cents is roughly the cost of a small informational pamphlet (likely more if printed with color and laminated but I have taken some artistic liberty in my previous comment), and prison is just one solution to a wider class of social impairments of which sociopathy is just one instance. Other instances of solutions share the quality of being unpleasant but necessary things any civilized society devotes energy to by learned necessity and include a functioning constitution, military, legislature, courts, police, and more. I thought this was clear but on rereading I see maybe I have failed; thanks for asking.

1000units 7y ago

And it's worth noting a nonnegligible percentage of high-achieving businesspeople would torture small animals for the right price. Being a little lax with security policies under pressure isn't so shocking.

hinkley 7y ago
How much do you think they'd pay to get to torture small animals? I had a boss who brought up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Sanity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Sanity and organizational sociopaths about twice a month. He must have been doing a better job of shielding us from his bosses than I thought, or I've had more crazy bosses than I thought, because a lot of it seemed like normal bureaucratic pathology to me, if a little more intense than usual.
- 1000units 7y ago
  There's only one known remedy and it costs 15 cents, so that mask is precious. It's a special gift to be able to see these things clearly, but it comes at the cost of close acquaintance, and you'll always be more watchful than the innocent of mind. It's grimly amusing how common and relevant psychological aberrance is relative to the average person's perception of it (cf. downvotes). It's tiring and unpleasant to examine the world antagonistically from a place of comfort but luckily others on the fringes don't have an option and force us to pay for prisons and so forth.
  - alexanderdmitri 7y ago
    This is a rather cryptic comment. Are you saying there's some sort of group or club where you pay 15 cents for a mask and then put it on to get well-acquainted to psycologically aberrant individuals from a comfortable distance before they go prison?
    - new_guy 7y ago
      It's not cryptic, just completely OT in a tech forum. He means the price of a bullet.
      - 1000units 7y ago
        Not so! A .22LR cartridge is less than three cents when purchased in any reasonable quantity.
    - 1000units 7y ago
      Fifteen cents is roughly the cost of a small informational pamphlet (likely more if printed with color and laminated but I have taken some artistic liberty in my previous comment), and prison is just one solution to a wider class of social impairments of which sociopathy is just one instance. Other instances of solutions share the quality of being unpleasant but necessary things any civilized society devotes energy to by learned necessity and include a functioning constitution, military, legislature, courts, police, and more. I thought this was clear but on rereading I see maybe I have failed; thanks for asking.