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I propose the death penalty for politicians who propose ineffective laws.

(P.s. I'm not a politician)

Real authoritarianism is easily found in Communist countries.

You will be thrown in jail for six months for saying the wrong thing.

The surveillance harms/thread of a Chinese state owned app need to be fully explained to really make sense.

Unfortunately, going into the minutiae of app based surveillance technology would run head-on into other surveillance based tech from Facebook, Google, and so on.

And it would bring up the touchy subject of data privacy. Oh gosh, if Americans had data privacy this would impact a lot of American businesses based on surveillance tech.

So let's just accept, on good faith, that what the Democrat's portrayed as Trump's Xenophobia, was OK as a natsec issue when Biden did it (no xeno here, folks!), and now that Trump has his bargaining position it's time for "let's make a deal!" (and that Republican who stalled the initial TikTok ban has probably been a good boy this Christmas, and maybe deserves a quid pro quo gift).

It says "The following is the dedication of James Lambert a soldier of the Revolutionary wars with the Americas."

blah blah blah

Indeed, I've seen "data center" maps, and was surprised they were just a tenant in some other guys data center.

I guess we can always try to re-hire all those "Sys Admins" we thought we could live without.

LOL?

now?

You aren't familiar with Software Defined Chainsaws (SDC)s? It's all the rage.

I recommend against Rust.

I suspect it might have something to do with the prevalence of earthquakes, the likelihood of said structures being damaged in earthquakes, and building codes (I've heard) that require re-building on a regular basis.

When you build you civilization on active volcanoes having long-lasting buildings may not be a reasonable assumption.

And, yes!, they have insurance. So if you can insure buildings in volcano country, you can insure anything, anywhere, maybe?

The topic was "is the world becoming uninsurable?" with some climate-panic being implied, oh gosh.

If a country with 1/10th of the worlds seismic activity can have (earthquake) insurance, then well dammit, I think it can be done.

Insurance, afaict, is just gambling, and well darnit you can gamble on anything.

The odds might be terrible, but there's ways of hedging your bets I've heard.

I am not a gambler.

I like how despite my comment on Japan, I'm characterized as a geographically challenged American.

How about you take your stereotypes and go have a nice burger at McDonald's?

In earthquake prone areas concrete and bricks fall over. You want that in hurricane prone areas.

Its a country built on seismically active volcanoes.

If there's earthquake insurance in japan, it should be do-able.

"In and around Japan, one-tenth of earthquakes in the world occur. " https://geoscienceletters.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/...

No matter what happens with Devin specifically, I think this is a really important topic and I enjoy reading updates on this kind of review every time.

Please keep them coming.

I would assume that earthquake insurance in japan is a reasonable model for "world insurance".

It looks like it's a reinsurance program:

https://www.mof.go.jp/english/policy/financial_system/earthq...

So, I think the answer is "no".

It needs to give him a job :-)

I think wandering in the desert is done because there is a promised land. Yes, it doesn't mean that it exists.

But if you don't wander, you'll never find out. You gotta believe

This is a duplicate of this identical post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41147651

Where's the "showing"? It looks just like link flogging to me.

Here's a link for you.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/24201/how-did-th...

Trump says he wants to bring manufacturing back. Let's see what happens.

Prove it please.

If you had to write software to run the chain saw, and write software to coordinate socializing with your friends, and write software to enjoy the warm luxury of the fireplace, I suspect you'd feel much the same about your software.

Sadly, modern software development (and the workplace in general) is not optimized around generating immediate, tangible outcomes that might be that rewarding.

I've found that a problem I've had is that a "2 minute task" is sometimes, for me, estimated to be a 20+ minute task.

When I actually got out a watch and timed it, I was like "oh shit, that was not even a fraction of my estimate".

So it's the estimation, not the actual task length/difficulty that is sometimes a problem for me.

If you want to go into cybersecurity here's an idea (I haven't tried it, so ymmv)

1) look up people who claim to be in cybersecurity on some site like LinkedIn - see what their titles are, where they work, and so on.

2) see if you can find their resumes or any detailed cybersecurity resume - you are looking for keywords, application software, languages they claim to know, etc

3) look up job interview questions that relate to those skills, e.g. glassdoor has a fun feature where people have shared the actual questions they were asked during an interview

4) find free or cheap online resources, classes, demo/free versions of apps, set up a home lab, so you can become familiar with those skills, languages, tools. etc as much as possible and for as little as possible.

5) read a site like "stack overflow" with a focus on the skills/apps that cyber security researchers are likely to use, and see what questions the tend to ask, etc.

6) Develop some study cards on Anki with the interview questions you are likely to get and answers that might fly. Don't be complacent, expand on this as you go along, adding more and improving what you have.

7) See if you can find one-off "cybersecurity" gigs on craigslist or fiverr, etc. where you can be paid something - anything - to do something security related. Not only might this improve your confidence, it will generate a little bit of money instead of you paying money. You can also check out the competition and see what they are doing, for how much, etc.

8) Read up on "cybersecurity" related topics, people, trends, books, movies, etc. Get a feel for things as they are, were, or might be.

Good luck.

Hilariously well written.

"But the problem with checking if the user is a god, is that the user is a god. They can just tell you what you want to hear."

NISUS: Good. Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each. Next. Crucifixion?

MR. CHEEKY: Ah, no. Freedom.

JAILER: Hmm?

NISUS: What?

MR. CHEEKY: Eh, freedom for me. They said I hadn't done anything, so I could go free and live on an island somewhere.

NISUS: Oh. Oh, well, that's jolly good. Well, off you go, then.

MR. CHEEKY: Naa, I'm only pulling your leg. It's crucifixion, really.

The author earned a discount on his Big Mac.

Google, the ad-monopoly pretending to be a competitive "tech company" to avoid scrutiny of it's monopoly [1] had a dizzying array of "tech products" it generated to maintain this subterfuge.[2]

Other companies, buying into the marketing smokescreen that they were a "highly competitive tech company" and not a search monopoly figured that 'cargo culting' their OKR process would help obtain the super-profits of they craved.[3]

The statements of departing Googlers during the successive waves of layoffs in '23 and '24 supported the hypothesis that GOOG suffered from having people just meeting their OKRs for products no one wanted or needed, and without any external guidance of profitability or customer feedback.

Just say no to OKRs. They won't give your company the monopoly it wants.

[1] Thiel, P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFZrL1RiuVI

[2] The obvious failures: https://killedbygoogle.com/

[3] If Google does it, it must be part of their recipe for success! https://blog.maxjahn.at/analysis/unveiling-the-ghosts-of-tec...

Just say no to OKRs.

I'm reminded of a company I used to work for that had one sales guy with with a phone, you called him and he would quote a price and ask if you wanted it. I sat across from him. He never left his desk.

After a year, our company was bought and merged with a competitor and we got to see how their sales team worked.

They had a dozen sales guys doing the exact same job as our man, however, they met with prospective clients, had lunch, and 'worked the field'.

Our one man with a phone outsold all of the others combined.

Having a more efficient sales process can be a game changer.

1) yes the burden of proof is shifted, but if the recourse is relatively simple administrative appeal (showing a source of income, a history of savings, a chain of withdrawals, to explain why you have $300,000 in small bills in your trunk) vs hiring a defender and a trial, that's seems like a reasonable trade off.

The history of civil forfeiture in maritime law suggests it arose when you captured a pirate of smuggling vessel. They are loaded with stolen or illegal merchandise. The owner of the vessel is in France. You seize it and send a letter to him saying "hey, if this is yours, come get it and tell us why you have it legally. Otherwise it's ours."

2. Lots of things facilitate corruption. This might be one of them, but even if we eliminated it, corruption isn't likely to go away (it is not the unique driver of corruption). Moreover, it may not be even a particularly significant driver of corruption in general (there may be specific cases where it is) - so removing it wouldn't impact all the forces that generate corruption. So removing it would have little or no impact.

That said, if the perception is that it is a corrupting force, it would be useful to make changes to make it seem less so: have all proceeds go to FEMA, for example, instead of back to the departments. Or specify how the recovered moneys can be spent - on buildings but not salaries - like jail improvements- so specific people cannot uniquely benefit.

And if corruption is the problem generally, addressing it directly is likely to be more effective than eliminating civil forfeiture and letting corruption go unchecked otherwise.

I have no way of knowing if this is true, but supposedly Musk gets down and dirty at the front line, on the factory floor, every single week trying to solve problems:

https://techstartups.com/2024/12/20/marc-andreessen-on-elon-...

So the CEO as "big ship pilot" but not in the trenches fire fighting seems to be contradicted by at least one CEO if this is true.

I doubt that's the whole of it, but I'm sure a past pattern definitely comes into play. As someone once said, we are faithfully true to our defects - we tend to repeat our mistakes.

Someone who plays fast and loose with the law to get their sales bonus doesn't just find Jesus and give up one day. More likely he gets promoted and does it all over again.

But some of the short seller research I've heard of like interviewing ex-employees about internal irregularities is quite clever.

In another case (I think it was a different short seller) he went to the actual physical locations declared on paperwork as "offices" and found them to be empty warehouses.

So this kind of interviewing and boots on ground stuff is next level.