greedy_buffer | 4 years ago | on: A magical AWS serverless developer experience
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greedy_buffer | 4 years ago | on: Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
Try "Chief executives and legislators"
greedy_buffer | 4 years ago | on: Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)
You're not alone with this specific gripe. Some of my colleagues include sites similar to https://nohello.net in their staff directory page.
greedy_buffer | 6 years ago | on: US Senate report on Equifax breach [pdf]
While this may be a serious problem it doesn't actually seem relevant to this breach - if a CRA has an incident of this severity, most ID schemes are still going to end up with a pretty large leak of PII that can be traced back to the individuals involved.
greedy_buffer | 6 years ago | on: Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider
The blog post and cloud provider's website both say the servers are bare metal.
greedy_buffer | 7 years ago | on: Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads
If they were personalised it would be hard for sites like camelcamelcamel.com to exist, right? I would speculate that they don't personalise. Offering price discrimination as a service to third party sellers sounds like a minefield too.
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: How to tame the tech titans
Running a few product lines at a loss is a classic way for a large company to put competitors out of business, in general terms. Once the competition is gone there maybe an opportunity for the remaining company to raise prices quite a lot.
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: US government approves 'killer' mosquitoes to fight disease
This is happening inside cities though. I'll take some arrogance and selfishness to reduce the incidence of dengue.
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed
Didn't know much about this conflict, thank you for educating me. One other difference between those combatants and a theoretically nuclear armed Ukraine is that that war is more widely seem as an existential threat to an independent Ukraine. Kashmir political disagreement seems to rest on somewhat more limited territorial claims versus the desire of one party to post its military inside the other as well as to exert widespread political influence.
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed
> The conflict was low intensity warfare, which nukes are not particularly well suited for.
Firstly "was" is not the right word, the war is ongoing: http://tass.com/world/965974
Secondly, imo the nature of the conflict is less important than whether a concentrated population of the adversary's citizens are within range of the weapon as far as determining the effectiveness of nuclear deterrent.
> Even if Ukraine had nukes, would it have threatened and actually have the will to use it over the lost of the Crimea?
Would those that made the decision to invade have accepted the risk of even the most minute possibility? No leader has done that so far.
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: This Could Be the End of Facebook
One could even go as far as calling the title clickbait.
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: Solar power grew faster than any other fuel in 2016
Doesn't this assume maintaining existing usage patterns? There could be enough flexibility in workloads that with an economic incentive they will be run at peak production times with only the necessities being turned on at other times.
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: Fresh Horrors from Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Congressional Hearing
As Brian Krebs reported in the "dumpster fire" article the response site was setup by their PR company. Perhaps they did not want to give away ownership of part of their domain... For security reasons
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: Fresh Horrors from Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Congressional Hearing
Maybe. The separate domain might be explained by lack of trust in their PR company though. See Krebs' article: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/equifax-breach-response-...
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects
about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled
Some sites are buggy with this preference. Hopefully you will not lay that at Mozilla's feet.
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: “Use of open source software has been declining rapidly in the private sector”
If you release your tools under GPL it is less likely anyone will get paid to improve them. If you release under MIT, commercial users will try to upstream their changes so they can continue to benefit from trunk development as well as avoid the maintenance burden.
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy
Your second paragraph makes it seem like those weren't really humans - "cleared out", really? And having been decimated by plague diseases makes shooting the survivors equivalent to crossing a border illegally so you can work a better job? Maybe my knowledge of American history and politics is poor but those do not seem like the same thing at all.
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: Sleep deprivation is increasing our risk of serious illness
Might be interesting to look at the study itself. It doesn't say if it was summer or winter when it was undertaken. I wonder if results would be much different for other non-electrified people
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions?
Depending on who you are pitching, it might turn out something like http://getcoleman.com/
greedy_buffer | 8 years ago | on: Equifax Lobbied to Kill Rule Protecting Victims of Data Breaches
I don't know if there should be more or less credit, although it sure seems like an improvement to reduce fraud and have less people up to their ears in debt.
Even if the companies running the system have serious problems, it still provides a mechanism of trust. Most people are likely to experience at least one event in their life, for example an unexpected expense or some long term investment, which would easier to navigate if credit were available.
Replacing the credit score system with the subjective judgement of a creditor introduces arbitrary, discriminatory bias into the system.
If credit is a competitive advantage then isn't hurting its fair availability is somewhat an own goal as long as the USA remains part of a global economy?
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Are you arguing that using SaaS developer tools like the ones in this journal entry consumes a greater proportion of engineers' capacity than self-hosting does, and that this cost difference becomes proportionally greater as a company grows? If you're right, perhaps some cloud-based startups and also larger businesses will be eaten up by more nimble, efficient self-hosted competitors.
(I work for a cloud host)