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by _jal 4y ago
A Bunch of young, mostly male, underpaid, low-authority folks abuse their customers? Shocker. I mean, sure, we should expect better, but being surprised by this is naive. To the extent that you could once trust your sysadmin, those days are
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> And I guarantee anything that would happen in the cloud is already happening. Then you should be much more careful about what you choose to guarantee, because you'd be wrong, and that heavily devalues your "guarantees".
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There's a huge difference between the effort required to get one person's records from wherever they are now and the effort required to trawl through a centralized database. Put all the data in one place and make it easy to access
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When I was a kid, my father tried to explain "how electricity works" using water analogies. Works well enough to make a curious kid stop asking questions, but won't take you much further than that.
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I thought that too, for a while. But I was getting them earlier today. I wonder if any of this is intentional.
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I knew it wasn't trained on HN when it didn't immediately try to correct my word choice.
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Whatever "Apple's" feelings (really, the executive team's; a corporation does not have feelings) about it, Apple is the entity that made the change. And it is a weird kind of "force" they face. Apple, over the
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> might be the only useful thing that is left That's a good point. If nothing else, the stupid money caused more practical exploration of ZKP and other exotic math constructs than we'd seen in decades previously. I'd like
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> Where's the value? The value is partly in Google, the corporation. Google is effectively a bundle of legal contracts, shared knowledge and habits that together tend to spit out money. The rest of the value is in society. Laws, pra
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Aside from Cisco, Juniper has not exactly been forthcoming about backdoors: https://www.wired.com/2016/01/new-discovery-around-juniper-b... If my job were to ensure backdoor access to everything I could, at least
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Sounds like you have identified an underserved market niche. I look forward to viewing your videos.
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Former employee, or contractor?
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In the 80s, US AM radio was taken over by similar content. It is happening again with local news, both broadcast and "print". Seems to be the fate of declining media modalities.
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> The people [...] went so far as to criticize and attack you for your achievements I've seen this personally, including from family. Actually managed to get to a point with one family member where we could honestly talk about it, a
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> provides a vastly greater RoI Of course it does. Thinking about it in terms of ROI doesn't consider externalities. When the OPM gets hacked, nobody at the NSA worries about their budget. Reason #7893 "run government like a bu
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I find it entertaining how many people there are who apparently have this need to psychoanalyze things like musical tastes. Apparently if you like whatever's on the radio this week, this requires no special analysis, you pass as normal
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Encourage them to take an art class. Feedback sessions with others at roughly the same skill level can help with that.
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Damn right! Why can't I burn my garbage in downtown San Francisco, instead of having to pay The Man? And if my homebrew wiring job torches down the neighborhood, well, my house, my rules, bucko.
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They do both, but it has been the case for a while that the NSA prioritizes offense. You can agree with that stance or not, but it is there, criticism on this point goes back at least a decade. I agree that the security environment is awful
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Sometimes I eat fast food. And thats fine. Sometimes I'll spend hours making a meal. That's also fine, and personally, I find it more rewarding. I love my fancy tools - I have a couple mills and a lathe I've converted to CnC,
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> where's all the hate for giving to charity You're misreading it. EA, on its own terms, reads something like what you describe. But many people do not believe that it plays out that in the real world, and instead is something
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Expectations mismatch. That post was not a single-point essay, it was a pastiche of current event topics. You can try to make a pie crust with a hammer, but a rolling pin works much better.
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> He has a monopoly on what exactly? You can argue about about the exact contours of different markets if you like, but they're quite obviously pointing to FB and Twitter being controlled by two tech billionaires. What "hateful
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I used to know multiple people there. One was laid off in the first batch, one quit of their own volition, and one just decided 3 months salary was better than signing the suicide pact. Even completely ignoring my own evaluation, theirs&#x2
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This is just an argument about definitions. "Independent" means "from a different power center". Now, it is entirely fair to argue that that the powers in question are colluding in some way. But most states that haven&#x
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They've been starved for labor. That is being fixed, but it will take a while. Last time I had to actually talk to someone at the IRS was over a decade ago, but I recall it being an efficient conversation, and as pleasant as it could h
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I'd guess grown-up mall ninjas who never got closer to serving than TV shows.
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A couple years back a sign memorializing the Emperor Norton Memorial Bridge was placed at the onramp around 5th and Bryant in San Francisco. Unfortunately it was taken down fairly quickly. (The history is, some wag called the Bay Bridge the
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"The lamestream media, whom I never listen to, failed to warn me!" Anyone else remember those folks who suddenly realized climate change was actually happening and immediately started whining about how the media failed to tell the
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> FTX only got started because of political connections You can say this about many, many companies. > Sadly this won't be the wake up call that we need to bring back some sort of meritocracy What date range are you pointing to h

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