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by asuffield 11y ago
There's a big difference between "not authorised" (the current reality) and "disempowered". You are not authorised to send emails that place the company in legal jeopardy. You are disempowered from doing so if every
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by asuffield 11y ago
That's not unreasonable in principle, but then it gets more complicated: do you propose to hold the entire company accountable for the actions of a small part of it? If not, then it devolves into the kind of accounting complexity that
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by asuffield 11y ago
I'm not interested in defending Verizon here, but your math is wrong. Comparing fines (or taxes, the other popular variation of this error) to revenue is meaningless. You need to compare them to profit. The amount of money that they ha
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by asuffield 11y ago
They may also have been the save for the game you had almost finished (oh hey, cookies). The most important thing is to think twice before taking any irrevocable action, and be sure that it's really what you wanted to do.
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by asuffield 11y ago
The answer to all of your questions is approximately yes (names vary). I've also done a lot of work to address these problems when they come up, and I've read the data on the current state of the economy. How many of these things
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by asuffield 11y ago
I've dug into this in more detail in some past political events, and I've always found that the people making the strongest "there should be more for me" demands had incomes above the median. I never had much sympathy fo
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by asuffield 11y ago
It is certainly true that a common political tactic is to attempt to convince people that there was some time in the past when they were better off than today. Remarkably, people are far more willing to believe this (even in the face of all
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by asuffield 11y ago
The main flaw in your argument is that living standards are better than at any time in history before now.
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by asuffield 11y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinions only, not representing anybody else or my employer. I work at Google, not on YouTube) There is a big difference between paying for one of the support offerings, versus being a free user. The status of free u
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by asuffield 11y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinions only, not representing anybody else or my employer. I work at Google, not on hangouts) These problems are largely resolved by using chrome. Pop out any tab into its own window, notifications will work reliab
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by asuffield 11y ago
(Tedious disclaimer: not speaking for anybody else, my opinion only, etc. I'm an SRE at Google.) "Within the last 10 years" covers several generations of refinement to the interview process. I'd suggest forgetting about
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by asuffield 11y ago
It's legal because Americans consistently vote for the people who do it over the people who don't. This is democracy in action, in a very real sense.
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by asuffield 11y ago
That doesn't sound plausible. You expect to pay for basic income with net zero money? The only way this works is if people with productive jobs end up with less money than today.
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by asuffield 11y ago
My job is, in a very real sense, to automate jobs out of existence. How much $fiats were you proposing to pay me, again?
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by asuffield 11y ago
Where did you find that 2.7m number? The most recent data is the Credit Suisse 2015 set, which you can see here: https://www.credit-suisse.com/uk/en/about-us/research/resear... They put the 1% line at $7
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by asuffield 11y ago
Funny story: not being american, my red and blue are the other way around. I'd recommend not interpreting this in terms of US politics. I'd even more strongly recommend not making claims about the beliefs of the side which you don
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by asuffield 11y ago
Regardless of my personal perspective, this is unfair. He stated a position which is not only widely disputed, but the dispute over which has an entire field of media and academics devoted to it, and which routinely splits the population ro
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by asuffield 11y ago
There's a secondary dimension to this: You can still micro-optimise for memory and cpu performance. That's certainly a thing that is possible to do. Alternatively, you can buy more cpus and memory. What has changed in the past
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by asuffield 11y ago
Agreed. Replacing menial work with automation frees up the people doing the menial work to learn new skills and do other work. The net result is that more useful work is done, which equates to wealth created. If some of those people are inc
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by asuffield 11y ago
It's basically just a rant. I noticed a few paragraphs in that it was a series of angry statements with no justification offered for any of them, then kept watching and it continued to be exactly the same all the way to the end. Regard
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by asuffield 11y ago
There are a couple more dimensions on recent (more recent than this article) models running M. There's a TEE (~android TPM equivalent) chip involved in encrypting user data, it knows whether your bootloader is locked or not, and it wil
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by asuffield 11y ago
A quick glance at the world of software engineering would seem to disprove this as a claim about engineering. We have the opposite problem. Perhaps you mean that people don't want much variety and the market responds to this? Better en
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by asuffield 11y ago
Interesting. Why?
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by asuffield 11y ago
My default assumption is that "don't try to engineer things to be better" is the wrong answer. If we don't understand it well enough yet, just experiment more until we do. The awesome thing about indoor farming at scale
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by asuffield 11y ago
It sounds like a really cool idea, but to some extent we already have this with Linux out-of-tree modules - it doesn't work very well, but it's there, you can build a new version of the module, unload the old one, and load the new
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by asuffield 11y ago
Erm. I suppose I should mention that I'm an SRE at Google, but I'm very carefully not talking about my current job here (which is special in ways I can't discuss). Interpret my perspective as relating to personal projects and
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by asuffield 11y ago
> In other words drug addicts really want to be addicts. That is a reasonably accurate definition of the word "addiction", yes. When they no longer want the drug, then they are not addicted to it any more (this is a good exampl
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by asuffield 11y ago
The main issue I have with microkernels is that they don't solve any problem that I have. A robust system is designed such that any machine in it can randomly crash. Crashing machines then only represent a risk that needs to be mitigat
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by asuffield 11y ago
I believe you are making the common mistake of confusing what people really want (the desires they act on), and what they say they want. What people say they want is usually "the thing that they want to want" - it's a bit met
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by asuffield 11y ago
> How do they think they can possibly compete against huge factory farms? As with so many of these things, there's this idea floating around that the factory farms must be "bad" because they are big and wealthy, and that s

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