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by lokar 2mo ago
It seemed pretty standard at B2B tech providers. You have Sr support engineers who are the final line, and can often setup a reproduction in a test environment and file a good bug. Then you just count up the rate of tickets that hit that
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by lokar 2mo ago
This is why you need to diligently track escalations/exceptions, and add more software support as the business case to automate or streamline supports it.
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by lokar 2mo ago
There will always be bugs. The larger process and organization needs to be setup to deal with that.
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by lokar 2mo ago
You have a written procedure. And after a long list of known/common things the procedure has an escalation clause that routes to an official with agency. You update the procedure as needed to manage the escalation rate. This is extre
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by lokar 2mo ago
You have to have a moral compass and enough humanity to tell the difference.
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by lokar 2mo ago
I enjoy telling recruiters I won’t work for companies funded by obvious sociopaths.
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by lokar 2mo ago
The do make it easy to skip past the ad embedded in the video.
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by lokar 2mo ago
It worked over the network as well
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by lokar 2mo ago
I think you are conflating corporation with limited liability. Corporations are “people” because they are associations of people. Most of the rights you have as a person also apply to groups of people (for good reasons). Limited liability
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by lokar 2mo ago
There some sense that the structure of the EU is predicated on a stable rules based international order.
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by lokar 2mo ago
While that is bad, so is unregulated crypto, sports betting, prediction markets, gutting of consumer financial protection, etc we are getting now.
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by lokar 2mo ago
oh sure, but at some point it's too much, which is up to a jury. If you were on the jury, how many would be enough?
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by lokar 2mo ago
Are you sure? At some point a reasonable person would conclude that this activity can’t be conducted safely.
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by lokar 2mo ago
How many escapes until it becomes reckless disregard?
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by lokar 2mo ago
I’m not sure people think that way, or even understand the details. But they see lots of stories about police officers misusing the system.
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by lokar 2mo ago
A weird take. They seem oblivious to the fact that real problem is not distrust of flock, it’s distrust of the police. They are in a situation where the public just barely trusts the local police, and a new surveillance system pushes them
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by lokar 2mo ago
Can’t gross negligence or indifference to consequences lead to a felony?
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by lokar 2mo ago
Or, they are convinced the other side is much worse
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by lokar 2mo ago
Or more narrowly, terrorism is the use or threat of violence to influence a political outcome. Clearly not the case here
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by lokar 2mo ago
Will they just find some way to give the money back?
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by lokar 2mo ago
Off-ramp? They have trouble going in a straight line.
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by lokar 2mo ago
On news information?
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by lokar 2mo ago
Meta pays an effective federal tax rate of like 3.5% We owe them nothing
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by lokar 2mo ago
You could imagine another approach: A tax on any advertising appearing alongside text information (so not video or audio). And then a public service subsidy for local reporting. Both could be totally technologically neutral.
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by lokar 2mo ago
Seems like a recipe for massive US tariffs . We will see exactly what all the bribes and sucking up gets big tech.
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by lokar 2mo ago
They are going to assume all lines are live and ground them before working on them. But mistakes happen, so extra layers of safety are valuable.
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by lokar 2mo ago
I assume it’s the first phase. Based on how companies respond they can enact more rules.
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by lokar 2mo ago
“ The draft was drawn up amid growing concerns that texts and images may be used to train AI models without consent” Who should tell them?
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by lokar 2mo ago
The media should report the number that actually matters: debt to GDP ratio. It’s quite high as well, but it’s the more meaningful number.
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by lokar 2mo ago
My basic HEPA filter is keeping my (large) house at <= 1 ug/m^3 vs 17 outside for PM2.5

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