795 karma · joined January 19, 2012
They are on a drone scale (the purpose of my comment) and you've acknowledged this yourself:
> but also can have significant eddies induced by the fire, landscape, and vegetation. This would make it very difficult for a drone to remain stable and on course, let along drop ordinance with any accuracy.
This is a good point. Bushfires are also largely caused by high winds that are unpredictable. It makes drones carrying heavy fire retarding payloads a very difficult proposition.
<citation required>
It's not equipment...it's purely a financial business decision that this hasn't happened yet.
Your home automation system is a complimentary enhancement to a traditional, switch-on-the-wall and physical TV remote control set up.
People aren't selected at random. There isn't any luck involved. It's hard work.
I feel it's diminishing peoples achievements to say that their lotto numbers came up and YC let them in.
This is every business decision!
It's great that Toyota has measured the improvement in customer trust or loyalty being more valuable to them in the long run than shirking on quality.
I only wish more companies would do this!
Outsourced CISO/InfoSec is a valid and reasonable thing for some companies.
It doesn't change the fact that the job is rubbish.
Is it hard to imagine? Does it really matter anymore? There are [non-Amazon] breaches every few years with 100m+ records.
It will happen and people will be shocked and outraged and then it will happen again. Wash, rinse, repeat.
For example, a 9% swing results in a tie.
Why not use a simple fuse?
Can I ask who this was and is there any more info on their work? Seems important and worth naming them :)
With segregation, you crack one service you get access to just that container/physical service.