TheFiend7

Am I the only one who feels like a 40 hour work week is excessive? I feel like 8 hours of work in a day is eeking out diminishing returns on a persons productivity.

Secondly, if you account for "productivity" hours instead of "waking" hours. You spend more of your "productive" capable hours in your life working, by a large margin.

Or maybe I was just born with a lazy brain /shrug.

Only circumstantially in IMHO. Obscurity can be a semi-decent security tool in some situations, and in others completely and utterly useless. It depends on what you're trying to secure.

For sure, though I will say if you're trying to cut costs, it's my understanding serverless is quite cheap. So if you can turn some of your services into serverless containers/functions. I'd highly recommend it.

I'm as atheist as they come, but I guess it's a little weird how many religions describe the earth as being completely covered in water initially. Maybe it's a coincidence and a natural progression in thought when thinking up a random story of earth's creation, but interesting nonetheless.

Pfft everyone knows this is all just a simulation and "gods"/creation was just the init-script. Gotta do a bulk load into memory of all that water first before computing textures and other compute intensive shit....

I get the same impression to some extent, but I'd be hardpressed to say I wouldn't cave and do the same thing to be completely honest.

Who wants to work a 9-5 their entire life? I personally don't.

Wow I had no idea those ads on wikipedia were blatant lies. I've never donated but I've definitely thought about it a few times whenever I saw those ads. This is somewhat eye-opening.

Children grouping together for school is a massive transmission vector no? I don't think this is necessarily about protecting specifically kids and rather reducing transmission.

Domain names are not one time purchases? Secondly are you referring to monthly or yearly? They sometimes do flash deals which might be why you got it for one year at that price (assuming you paid that yearly). But the discounts usually don't last forever.

Honestly it just seems mostly coincidental to me. Reddit has downtimes every other day or every few days, and twitter only slightly less. The only unique downtime here is github, and even then it has been a bit since their last down time.

Everyone is in bed with each other. They all inside trade, they all bribe each other for different leverages. And a lot of plebeians support it ironically.

Socialism lacks checks and balances because it's a decentralized/distributed model of rule. Now in reality it's possible the military could exist as a pseudo "check and balance". But checks and balances do not exist as a defined construct in socialism, by being distributed it argues it doesn't need checks and balances, because it's run by the people.

Secondly checks and balances are arguably anti-socialism even, because it would introduce a backdoor/round-a-bout way of enacting rule that wasn't endorsed and driven by the people. So no, the lack of checks and balances isn't just a Soviet Union thing, it's a socialism thing, otherwise it isn't true socialism.

My last company did stuff like this all the time, and it always felt hollow and very kumbaya. I think there is a less cheesy and even demeaning way to handle people's emotions and disagreements.

This is probably a pretty personal opinion of mine though. I do agree with the mindset, just not the execution.

It comes back to distribution of power and if you believe power is all corrupting or not.

You either have some guys in charge managing things, or you attempt a distributed/mob rules mentality in regards to policies and legislation. Either way in a socialistic system the government is THE governing body, and there aren't really any checks and balances other than the very body managing it. Which goes back to the question of whether or not you can trust the government.

IMHO the debate between the extreme right and extreme left is more about philosophy than policy.

Though we observe the effects of the double slit experiment on the wall with the interference pattern. Thereby not collapsing the system and taking a screenshot of the un-collapsed system?

I would argue the wall is an unconscious camera in my example. Because when observed during the experiment, the interference pattern disappears. But not if it's observed after.

Secondly, the more and more I re-read the parent comment. The less and less sense it makes.

>No conscious mind will ever be able to observe anything about a quantum system that has never been observed by a conscious mind.

That isn't really true in concept though, as in my example, we observed a quantum system at play that wasn't observed during its' "execution" so to speak. We literally wouldn't be discussing quantum experiments and quantum experimental phenomena if his statement was "completely" true.

I mean, this is so far out of my wheel house I can't even claim to know anything about this stuff. But why couldn't a form of an unconscious camera exist? We could theoretically just look at pictures of the past from an unconscious camera and therefore never collapse the system?

I agree, it has been so intolerable I've been using firefox because it just feels faster. I'm getting really fed up with google projects as of late just being abandoned.

Like GMail is awful[https://medium.com/@boriscoder/peeking-under-the-hood-of-red...] and chrome is on its way.

We actually agree with each other so I'm struggling to see what your point is that contradicts mine.

I explicitly said what I'm talking about isn't necessarily directly applicable to amazon kindle. I also agreed with you regarding software telemetry being used responsibly and irresponsibly.

So I'll repeat I don't see where we disagree.

Honestly that's somewhat nonsense. People don't just believe whatever they want to believe, education and diffusion of information has radically changed humanity over the last few centuries and you're fooling yourself if you think that somehow improved communication and discussions didn't drive that. Schools have improved reading and mathematical literacy of the general population, that isn't just some made up statistic.

Humans are incredibly social beings, they hide in each other, as well as grow in each other. People absolutely can and do change their minds on all sorts of things every single day, and it's a "throw my hands up in the air and quit" to say otherwise.

Haha I think that's the point of OP's post IMO, and people were even discussing this dichotomy in that thread as well.

Total gold, nothing in this world is clean or definitive.

This looks super cool.

Though somewhat offtopic, this line absolutely cracked me up.

>A VPS (or bare-metal server if you wanna ball hard).

I can appreciate a sense of humor.

Very different concepts actually.

One is optimizing/improving experience based on anonymous data, the other is building user profiles for targeted ads.

Mapbox is a fantastic example of mass data aggregation of users that has been anonymized.

EDIT: Why should we do clinical studies on medicines when that could be invasive to a persons privacy collecting such personal information? Is it necessarily wrong? Tools can be used for good and evil, that's the problem here, not the tool itself.

This isn't necessarily sinister. I know UI/UX designers and a lot of them talk about wanting a heatmap of clicks on a given webpage for experience reasons. They want to know where and what you're clicking and how often so they can optimize processes and flow.

It gives insight into how things are used and what's used most often etc. Granted this isn't necessarily directly applicable to this case with the kindle, but similar in concept.

I fail to understand what your product offering is by looking at your site. Could explain what exactly is trying to be achieved by this product and why I would even want a carbon credit cert?

I experience a lot of what OP describes but obviously am not OP. It's tough though, who wants to take the anti-anxiety medication that we don't really understand every day for the rest of their life? Just for you to eventually not need it? Why would I all of a sudden not need it? Doesn't even make sense.

My doctor always tries to get me to take it but it just seems like a bandaid. Granted, I don't claim to be able to fix it myself either, but the last thing I want to do is mess with my brain chemistry more, especially since I'm starkly aware of the arrogance of humanity (i.e. nobody really knows what is actually going on).

EDIT: I feel like baby(user comment below) might be on to something. I constantly am in fear of something bad happening and stress about that far more than I stress about things that have already happened. But I do experience both.

IMHO I think one large part of it is synchronization. If you're having to synchronize things all the time, you're probably misusing threads and should be using a different execution model.

Literally just semantics and opinion. What's the difference between symbolism and meaningful moments for some?

And yeah, everyone is aware you don't remember anything when you die. When I die, I want to die in a way that impacts those left behind, because like you said, I won't remember it but they will.

I would disagree with that idea that the vast amount of irrelevant and distracting content is somehow the problem.

Believe it or not it's an incredibly challenging problem. Google is burned at the stake everyday for their biased response on searches when they're parsing disgusting amounts of data and attempting to minimize noise. It's a damned if you do and damned if you don't honestly, because even if you can effectively minimize returns for a given query (regardless of topic), there is then information loss to some degree and therefore arguably a bias.

I don't really agree with the idea that people are being too critical of FB, or these massive social media giants in general.

People vastly underestimate the power of data IMHO and therefore the responsibility that comes with it. We'll look back in 20 years and wonder wtf we were doing just like any other decade, cause hindsight is 20/20 (after a certain number of years out ofc).

I don't think our society is really prepared for the digitization of so much information and there will be growing pains.

That's kinda non-sensical IMO. If Oracle, the parent company is trigger happy, there are no guarantees they won't go deeper to protect their children companies IP if they feel they're being infringed.

It's my understanding good sysadmins have always been able to script.

It's bridging the gap between software developers and sysadmins where devops falls into place. Taking applications and optimizing their environments, rollouts, versioning, reliability of deployments, reduction of downtime, automating server provisioning, etc.

IMO the best devops are software devs with some sysadmin experience.