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by manquer 2y ago
We did celebrate like this when software releases were something that happened every couple of years and with loads of press coverage, hype leading up to the release, and usually in a physical media with packaging and fancy art accompanyin
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That is just one customer, and also it is not just lawyers, Contingent liabilities(potential amount for settlement) when it escalates from possible to probable, in GAAP that means it changes from mere footnote to a line item in P&L whic
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by manquer 2y ago
CrowdStrike problems are also structural the incident timeline hardly seemed like a fat finger mistake, but series of fundamental poor practices a org in their position should not have. We only get to see the one newsworthy incident like th
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by manquer 2y ago
Lawyers have to paid now till then. Companies settle much faster typically to reduce some of this costs, it ends up being cheaper. Also many of these will be resolved through their arbitration clauses that would be present in the contracts.
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There are consequences, with significant financial impact, not necessarily world ending for them. There are already lawsuits filed around this incident. If a court sides with the customers or if CrowdStrike settles them, it will not be chea
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That is the normal state of things in most countries. Yes their efforts should be remembered too. There are currently 800+ "voluntary" prisoner who are working firefighters battling the wildfires in Southern California for less th
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by manquer 2y ago
As the U.S. has done to our closest allies and their leaders, would be shocking and incompetent if they have not done much more in Russia and China and vice versa There is no equivalence intelligence gathering or gaining the capability for
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by manquer 2y ago
> (Not-really volunteers as well) There were many volunteers at Chernobyl, like the three engineers who went underwater to close the valves, many people fully understood the risks associated and still worked on it voluntarily. Lets not
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by manquer 2y ago
benefits from the perspective of the startup, i.e. chances of its success or growth. Who in turn benefits from that in terms wealth, power, influence is whole different topic for which i have no expertise, i was only talking about frequency
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I would say it is on similar to criticism of TikTok or Huwaei and China. It has less to do with whether it malicious intent from the start of building an organization for explicit intent of capturing core infra. It has more to do with how t
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by manquer 2y ago
Talent or skills is essential but alone is not enough. while the size and quality of the talent pool helps it is not sufficient to explain the success rate, considering that there are similar or better quality talent pools which are larger
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by manquer 2y ago
Only the rich get to drive too. Cars loans, insurance , fuel and maintenance all costs money. There are lot of people who cannot afford to pay for any of it, we subsidize them too[1] to buy cars or invest in public transit instead ? In a c
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> Why not? 500 years of slavery, colonialism, genocide and religion, propping up banana republics and dictators and countless other crimes in name of civilizing society or recently bringing freedom, fighting communism or spreading democr
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Subject of the conversation not its participants. In a public conversation preferences of the subject i.e. who being talked about when discussing about them publicly matters more than the participants i.e who is doing the talking Period , d
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I don't disagree with the spirit of your argument and lived experience should not trump all, it should have only some weight and other points should qualify their statements clearly. We live in the age of disinformation, influencers, a
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You mean property testing ? QuickCheck would be the go to library ( the original is in Haskell, however most languages have one ).
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I should have been clearer. Anonymous source in the meeting leaking to news media that person X said something controversial in this summit . Since nobody would know the anonymous source itself , social norms like being shamed or not being
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> Rude, inappropriate, presumptuous, offensive . All degrees of the same thing ? And the degree in the eyes of the subject
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Forming opinions should not need anything yes, however promoting or publishing that others will consume should be based on stronger foundations don’t you think ?
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Nobody is expecting anyone to follow someone else principles. You and OP should follow the principles that you feel best. It wasn’t a mere discussion on military aviation history, context matters, the implication here is post apartheid the
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The irony is not lost to me, my comments without lived experience are one reason why we shouldn’t do it My objection is bigger than that though, it is independent of the merit or quality of the discourse , unwelcome discourse is impolite ev
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> If they're having a conversation in their house about your relationship It is not private though, we are not talking about diplomats doing it in confidential communications, nobody is objecting to that . What we are describing is
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> You're the only one who presumed this I didn’t say you can’t be helpful, but if not being asked that is the definition of presumption . > Why is this an inappropriate topic to discuss? It would be same as my neighbor discussin
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Why is that shocking? It would be the case no matter how they do as a country As a long it was a white government there was lot of monetary support and knowledge transfer to South Africa, all the way to building nuclear weapons those collab
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> South Africa not doing so well currently? Unless it is group of South African expats why should we brainstorming? Is South Africa asking for help ? Either for ideas or for money? Or is there genocide or other basic human rights abuses
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Only if they associate their name with the disclosure ? anonymous sources to media is pretty common way to share information.
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You have to give clear evidence that china’s environment impact process is weaker than those followed in global north. Even if what you presume without data is 100% true .. That is hardly the only or a key reason for slow adoption of green
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Many normal hydroelectric dams can be converted, they already have half the setup . As long as there is a lower reservoir or space for one , any hydroelectric dam could converted to pumped storage without additional ecological impact .
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Legally? yes. The users own the content, SO only has a license to do as they please and users have already given CC license to anyone (that is the nature of copyleft after all). Is it feasible to build a community that will contribute, and
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> taboo the way sex was Was it? the puritanical views in some western social groups is hardly how the whole world saw sex, even in those western societies sex was seen differently as long as it was within the same class.

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