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by ethbro 7y ago
Absolutely. Or potentially some cert wonkery. I haven't looked at this closely enough to know how the script's chaining works, or if China retains MitM capability across TLS. Regardless, it's nice to be reasonably accurate wh
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by ethbro 7y ago
The article's conclusion of sheer incompetence fits better. If she decided to "make Beijing happy", then what's the endgame? She thought this was going to end well? And she was going to get rewarded by the CCP?
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by ethbro 7y ago
> conduct a massive DDoS attack That's not an accurate summary of what they're doing. They're intermittently serving poisoned js in place of known analytics scripts. Which changes the potential "who" a bit.
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by ethbro 7y ago
The article gives short shrift to the reason this was originally put in place: to incentivize the GSA to aggressively outsource the government. The GSA, like the departments they're serving, are filled by government employees. Absent a
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by ethbro 7y ago
It's typically targeted at someone of sufficient seniority that the cost of McKinsey is negligible when compared to the cost of doing the wrong / less optimal thing. Or, in other words, if a manager makes a wrong decision then it
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by ethbro 7y ago
You don't hire strategic consultants because you don't know what to do: you hire them because you want someone else to tell your colleagues to do the thing you think you should do. So, essentially it requires the same skillset as
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by ethbro 7y ago
> but millions of otherwise isolated neural networks and tracking databases that are being consolidated by mindless drones (humans) in pursuit of profit. So... Bezos?
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by ethbro 7y ago
I think one of the subtle benefits to using well-known libraries is that they've already discovered and handled edge cases. Per most of the reading I've done on "Why software development time planning is so difficult", t
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by ethbro 7y ago
Personally, I'm happy to trade the mild cancer risk for aesthetics. I just don't make a habit of taking a grinder to my toaster and sprinkling the shavings on my toast. As for the body, I can report that as of this morning it&#x27
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by ethbro 7y ago
This is a solved problem. Simply hook your control logic to measures of radiant heat, rather than time. http://automaticbeyondbelief.org/ Thankfully, I inherited my grandmother's 1960s Sunbeam toaster [1], which still
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by ethbro 7y ago
Rich people tend to be more beloved after they retire from actively running their companies. See: Gates, Morgan, Carnegie
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by ethbro 7y ago
I would guess the problem with business as usual is that the cost magnitude of doing this means that only companies throwing off serious cash are doing this. Which has the side effect of their solutions being bespoke, because acceptable cos
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by ethbro 7y ago
And to bear specifically on the sub-point that blights the Bay Area -- by removing increasing property taxes, you are removing market pressure for highest and best use. Another way to think about property taxes is that they're annual n
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by ethbro 7y ago
I believe the full reasoning is that (1) if property owners paid property taxes on the full market value of their property, then (2) they would lobby for (or at least cease opposition against) upzoning for density, and (3) more dense housin
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by ethbro 7y ago
Which engine(s) that have made Ward's do you have an issue with, from a reliability perspective?
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by ethbro 7y ago
> I think [a decade is] about the typical life span of a modern car Stop buying bad cars. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward%27s_10_Best_Engines
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by ethbro 7y ago
Agreed. If you're really willing to quit, there's no downside to talking to the founders, if done correctly. If they're the sort to appreciate straight talk, plainly state you feel the team lead is doing more harm vs deliveri
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by ethbro 7y ago
Also, in this example, Google would be the company paying users to set up cameras fixated on their windows, watching 24/7, for purposes of serving more relevant flyers in their mailboxes.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Hasn't this almost always been true? On the plus side, it makes it fairly easy to ask cocktail-party-caliber questions and quickly suss out whether you conversation partner knows what the hell they're talking about.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I doubt it was the size of the truck that impressed, but rather how you handled it. ;) There are a few perks to being country in the city.
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by ethbro 7y ago
You can rent a 26' F-650 (6.8L V10) from any Uhaul with stock. They require ~$50 on a credit card and a driver's license (standard, not CDL). It's "technically" 1 lb shy of the GVWR requiring a CDL. It has enough po
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by ethbro 7y ago
There have been some comments on here about how career advancement optimization at Google involves hopping between projects, staying long enough to launch, and then moving on. Whereas doing good work on product maintenance or evolution is m
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by ethbro 7y ago
> A well compensated white collar professional will get judged hard for driving a pickup in some social circles Is this a fact in (I'm assuming) NorCal? I'm in one of the parts of the country where everyone drives pickups, so
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by ethbro 7y ago
But the primary cost of lifting fuel (if you have a reusable rocket) is fuel. Leaving us back at cheap. But we're essentially arguing whether max payload per launch or payload efficiency to orbit is more important.
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by ethbro 7y ago
That's debatable. In fact, it's probably more accurate to say "It's legally more perilous for them to explain why they closed your account." Which is a distinction when it comes to possible ways to fix the problem.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Your part of the country may be different, but the major cities (typically rail hubs) in mine have fairly dense towns at regular intervals along the tracks leading out of the city. Unfortunately, for the past century the larger cities have
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by ethbro 7y ago
As was briefly touched on in the article, the real benefit would be integrating and enabling sister cities (e.g. ~100 km mark around major cities). Regular, daily train service would revitalize and open up a lot of smaller communities. Prec
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by ethbro 7y ago
Hmm. I'd need to see some research to believe that's happening. It seems like non-software folks are getting paid the same, leading to wider inequality.
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by ethbro 7y ago
It's generalizable and something I'm confused they don't teach kids in career counseling. Max(salary) = unit_value * number_of_units_impacted Software generates a high ceiling because number of units impacted can be huge, so
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by ethbro 7y ago
From my experience in consulting and internal, there are two major things you can do. 1) Use objective KPIs + encourage a culture of admitting, taking responsibility for, and being forgiven for failure Failing to admit failure is incredibly

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