AlexB138

> I find it amusing how your government treats a whistleblower who is promoting government control over social media, vs the way your government treats a whistleblower who leaks evidence of government spying and abuse.

That is because e.g. Snowden is actually a whistleblower, warning the people against the powers that be, and Haugen is an activist pushing for an agenda which aligns with what the powers that be want, making her a useful political pawn.

Well done. A very graceful and transparent announcement.

I decided to leave senior leadership and return to IC engineering work last year. I was met with shock and, frankly, negative feedback from my peers. It has been a difficult transition, and it's easy to miss the benefits of leadership, but I knew engineering was the right place for me.

It was difficult to do this as a veritable nobody, I can't even imagine the difficulty of the decision for Mitchell. I wish him luck and continued success.

Sure, pointing out a bias is fair, but it needs to be followed with an actual refutation of the idea presented. Just saying "you're wrong because of who you are" doesn't add much.

This is an ad hominem. He's making a fair point, attacking him personally doesn't improve the conversation.

It's always obvious that something can't be solved by a startup until it is. That's what "disruption" and "innovation" are.

From the article:

> Note: Each observation represents the median earnings of men of a particular age in a particular year. For example, the 1957 cohort is represented by an Age 25 observation in 1957

> Is the world getting safer? I think so. Is the risk of large scale war like France is planning for decreasing? I hope s

This is very much the feeling people had before World War I. The thought was that the web of alliances Bismarck had built would prevent war, similar to your comment about the EU.

It seems that this sort of interdependence acts more like a buffer to prevents small-scale conflicts, but results in large-scale conflict once it does actually come due to a cascading effect of allies being pulled over the brink.

We may not see another real major war in our life-times, if we're lucky, but there's a very real chance our children or grandchildren will see the largest war in history.

I'll avoid dating myself by keeping it sufficiently vague, but Open Source Software. Going from the world of closed source, for-profit software to that of FOSS is like night and day. It's more like a 100x improvement. Today's open-source world is quite different, but I'll still take it hands-down.

> She said: "This spearhead is completely different from everything else we have so we're wondering if it was deposited as part of a ritual or an offering.

Something I noticed some time ago: when historians and archeologists don't know what something is, they tend to default to sayings it may be for ritual use. I have no basis on which to disagree with them, but it's something that I see everywhere in historic writing now what I've noticed it, and I find it quite a funny assumption.

> ... proffering alien explanations for "canals" on mars, pulsars, GRBs, and FRBs to name a few

For those out there who, like me, don't know these acronyms:

GRBs == Gamma-Ray Bursts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst

FRBs == Fast Radio Bursts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_radio_burst

This seems like intentionally misunderstanding a technology in order to make an inflammatory headline. Docker images are versioned, just like any distribution mechanism. Go through indexes for any package mechanism and count how many of the old packages have vulnerabilities. It will be a lot, because old software has vulnerabilities. That's why you update your packages, and why you update your Docker images.

Isn't this the same thing Google is doing with Anthos and Azure is doing with Arc? As I understand it, those solutions are both wider in scope than this. I'm not entirely up to date on those, but this seems more like AWS half-heartedly following the pack than something new.

I played with Mmhmm during beta. It's a simpler to use OBS, from what I can tell. It's good for some laughs.

They just came out of beta and announced that it would cost $9.99/month. I was pretty shocked to see a recurring fee for such a simple app, which, from what I could tell, offers nothing new over a long establish FOSS project. It strikes me as more of a one time $10 purchase. Would really like to hear how they justify a recurring cost on this.

Somewhat related; I have a lesser known disability which is related to dyslexia called dysgraphia[1]. For simplicity sake, I often describe it as "like dyslexia, but for output instead of input". Basically, it makes it very difficult to write legibly.

Dysgraphia, and (the often accompanying) ADD, are part of why I initially got into computers. I would type much much more easily than I could write, so I would beg teachers to let me type assignments instead of writing by hand, which was significantly less common when I was young than it is today. In retrospect, it's a good part of how I ended up working in technology.

Unfortunately it has, I think, also hampered my career. It makes it, as you can imagine, significantly more difficult to whiteboard. My whiteboarding either looks like something a child would produce, or requires immense focus (often both), completely separate from the engineering consideration, to produce what seems simple for most people.

Inconspicuous disabilities are such a strange thing to live with. They're not evident, so I think it's difficult for people to relate to them. I really appreciate the effort that was put into making the linked site and I hope it makes it easier for people to understand the struggles some people deal with without most other people ever noticing.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia

Indeed. This is a thought experiment libertarians often suggest. Just substitute "The government should ..." with "We should send men with guns to people's homes in order to ...". A bit hyperbolic maybe, but a useful lens.

I also suspect the quality has dropped. It may just be because I'm not too big on sweets, or my palate becoming dull with age, but when I had a bit of Halloween candy recently it all tasted like wax and sugar. Even things that were favorites when I was a kid (Butterfingers and Whoppers in particular) were bland and flavorless compared to what I remembered.

Distributive Justice is a central topic of how societies are structured. The idea of fairness is important in pretty much every single culture (but with different ideas of what is fair, obviously). Your ideas of fairness likely just line up with what the article supports, but the people who feel angry about it feel exactly how leftists complaining about the 1% feel. A violation of fairness inducing anger is exactly what you would expect, it just seems odd to you because it's not your idea of fairness being violated.

It exists. One example is called Rocket Lawyer.

That may be true for you, but it's not universally. Having kids, including a daughter, has made me a lot more cautious of our authoritarian government and what it means for my children's future.

How is treating people equally "not even close" to complying with those laws? I feel like I'm misreading to your comment, but it seems like treating people equally is exactly the point of those laws.

I'd suggest reading up on the rise the Bolsheviks in Russia and Mao in China if you want to have some context for what these people are talking about. The Great Courses offers some great lectures on both subjects.

It seems willfully disingenuous to attribute the growth of the 40s and 50s to high taxes. The growth and the taxes were both due to the most brutal war in all of human history. It was a transformational event for the United States including so many variables that it would be basically impossible (not to mention undesirable) to replicate. Pointing to it and saying "we can just tax everyone one like then and things will be better" is like pointing at a nuclear explosion to warm your house.

While probably part of it, I don't personally believe that to be a primary cause. America is probably at or near the least racist it has been in its history. I think the entities driving narratives that make people believe racism is rampant, and cause people to make flippant accusations of racism, have more to do with it.

America makes more sense when you consider that Civil Society (as in the third sector) is mostly dead, and what is left is extremely fragmented. There is no cohesion, very little shared culture, and a lot of outright animosity between groups. They aren't countrymen, they just happen to live in the same legal boundaries.

When people in this mindset see homeless they don't think "This is a member of my society that is suffering", they see an Other. Put another way, plenty of old men want to plant trees, they just only want their own group using the shade.

> My perspective comes from Hannah Arendt and her opinion that goodness demonstrated publicly necessarily becomes corrupted

I checked your profile for info to contact you privately to ask, but there wasn't anything, so my apology for the public request. Could you suggest any of Arendt's writings, especially around this subject? I've seen her referenced in interesting contexts and would love to read more.

I try to have a charitable interpretation of other people's actions, but I can't help but feel like this is the old trick of using "think of the children" to force the leading edge of a wedge on something reprehensible.

This is an absolutely disgusting level of surveillance on developing minds, and trains them to think it's normal to live in a virtual panopticon. It's easy to force societal change by poisoning the impressionable minds of children and simply waiting.

Then there would be unfilled jobs for firemen, which would increase the wages for firemen, which would prompt more people to move into a career as a firefighter, which would increase the supply of firemen until the jobs willing to pay the new prevailing wage were mostly filled, approximately.

That's exactly how pricing signals work. "Firemen" is not a fixed set of people.

That's more of a pop culture trope. In my experience,the experience of my friends close enough to discuss these things with, and existing studies the opposite is true.

> Actually, that's about the opposite of true. Average age of a CEO is 58.

Most CEOs being older people does not mean most older people are CEOs. "Few old people become peak leaders in their respected field" is absolutely true, almost by definition unless you consider a huge portion of people in their field "peak leaders".

I'm a big fan of open source, but why is it obvious that "proprietary is bad for society", exactly? I'd venture to guess that most of the people that frequent this site work for companies that sell proprietary software in some form or another. People being employed is pretty beneficial to society.