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by tedivm 5y ago
What an awful article. Two quotes to show how garbage this is- > The great-resignation thesis seems strongest in America and Britain. In September a record 4.4m Americans quit their jobs (see chart 1). In the third quarter of the year ne
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by tedivm 5y ago
The revolving door between the financial sector and our government- if they jailed people now then when it's their turn to get rich off of their government connections they might risk jail.
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by tedivm 5y ago
I have a copy of this (not a first edition) and it's an amazing piece of art.
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by tedivm 5y ago
I'm honestly at the point where I assume the AWS Console is awful on purpose as a way to drive people towards infrastructure as code. It's just so awful that it can't be on purpose (I hope).
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by tedivm 5y ago
The only problem with BigQuery is that it's on GCP, so either you have to migrate your whole workload over or you end up eating a lot of data transfer costs. Having used both I do think BigQuery is better in a lot of ways (although it&
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by tedivm 5y ago
Athena is not BigQuery. Athena is just a fancy wrapper around Hive (you can see this right from the log output) and just runs map reduce over your S3 data. It's a great tool for what it is. BigQuery is a full database. It is significa
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by tedivm 5y ago
There's a difference between putting up a flyer telling people their rights, and having them sit through hours of video as part of their actual job. Scale matters.
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by tedivm 5y ago
It wasn't yet. The regulators seems to be annoyed by Facebook buying and shutting down potential competitors before they've had a chance to grow into real competition. > The CMA found that Giphy’s ad services would have been ab
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by tedivm 5y ago
It's all about the Ads. > Regulators also determined that the deal was uncompetitive because it shut down Giphy's advertising business, therefore eliminating Giphy’s competition to Facebook's ad business.
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by tedivm 5y ago
Answering this question is tricky because any answer is essentially inviting trolling. This community has both extremely technical people as well as a variety of people who basically live on 4chan (and there is quite an overlap between the
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by tedivm 5y ago
While I primarily program in python these days I have two major open source PHP projects (millions of downloads each). I was also part of the standards group that tried to modernize some aspects of PHP (to various degrees of success). In ge
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by tedivm 5y ago
There is no world- none whatsoever- in which I would trust a browser embedded wallet.
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by tedivm 5y ago
If accurate this means any mailgun user can pretend to be another one when sending email out- that's pretty damn bad. Since companies add mailgun to their SPF/DKIM records it means those spoofed emails will be hard to distinguish
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by tedivm 5y ago
Signal is a 501c3 nonprofit- they don't have all that much funding or legal firepower beyond their regular operations. The ACLU also loves them, and getting a letter from the ACLU probably makes matters go away faster then getting a le
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by tedivm 5y ago
My favorite part of their response is that they gave the timestamps in unix milliseconds.
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by tedivm 5y ago
> Now, if your own place of work took a large turn towards the unethical, would you live up to these expectations or call yourself an exception to the rule because you have reasons? I've quit better jobs for less, to be honest.
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by tedivm 5y ago
I'm sorry but you keep trying to act as if Onavo was a high integrity operation but it clearly wasn't. I'm just quoting from wikipedia here- * In October 2013, Onavo was acquired by Facebook, which used Onavo's analytics
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by tedivm 5y ago
This is part of the problem with talking with Facebook engineers. Most of society is against spyware. It's not a controversial topic- spyware is pretty frowned upon. Spying on people does, to most people, show a lack of integrity. So d
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by tedivm 5y ago
Anyone who was actually willing to join facebook is by definition unqualified to work on an integrity project.
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by tedivm 5y ago
The person created spyware for profit- something that clearly lacks of integrity. The fact that this is even a question shows why no one who worked at Facebook should be in charge of any integrity project.
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by tedivm 5y ago
> In reality, their life span is more like 50-100 years, and sometimes less. Building codes and policies generally require buildings to survive for several decades, but deterioration can begin in as little as 10 years.
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by tedivm 5y ago
There's a huge difference between angel investors taking a share of the company and acting as an advisor and what happened here. When you talk to these angel investors, do they offer you contracts for your new company at their existing
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by tedivm 5y ago
> Within the last year, AWS added a handy Empty button to the S3 console when viewing a bucket. You can click that button and watch the S3 console make API calls on your behalf. > Here's what it does: It calls a LIST on the bucke
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by tedivm 5y ago
No, he's unethical. > While working at Google's Project Chauffeur, the self-driving car program that would later evolve into Waymo, Levandowski allegedly modified the car's software so it could be taken on routes that were
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by tedivm 5y ago
If you look at the people who have been "cancelled" the vast majority of them are still employed, still selling their books, and often have even more prestige as a result (just amongst a specific group). Most of the internet has n
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by tedivm 5y ago
They can take wastewater (which is no longer fresh), clean it up for use, and return it back to the system. While Arizona is landlocked there's also not a ton of distance between it and the Gulf of California so they could do desaliniz
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by tedivm 5y ago
In theory Google could send the Do Not Track header to notify people they shouldn't track, but very few sites honor that (and Google Analytics certainly doesn't).
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by tedivm 5y ago
They stole much of their initial content from other people and ripped all attribution from it. I found two of my blog posts on their site, without any attribution or permission.
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by tedivm 5y ago
I'd have more sympathy for that viewpoint if Elastic didn't start off by using the open source community before switching to a proprietary license. The never would have gotten to the level where they mattered if it wasn't for
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by tedivm 5y ago
That subreddit was exploiting children for sexual gratification. It wasn't just teens, and it wasn't people posting purposefully provocative images. It was children living their normal lives and having their pictures exploited for

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