cloakandswagger

> Industrial applications, outside of IoT? Give me a valid example that needs countrywide coverage.

Police CAD systems, streaming video from body cameras, oil well monitoring.

Just because you can't imagine an application of 5G for your consumer needs doesn't mean it isn't needed.

I can find 100 crackpot scientists as easily as I can find 100 crackpot doctors or mathematicians.

Instead of appeals to authority, why can't we work with the facts and evidence that we have already (those overwhelmingly disproving the health hazards of 5G)?

"Peoples concerns" equate to the desire to halt all human progress out of some bizarre mix of paranoia and Neo-Luddism.

There is a link on the search result page for "Search instead for X" if you really want to search for "Mousr". There's also nothing wrong with correcting what appears to be a typo'd word for a user (Google and every other search engine I can think of does this).

Seems more like poor naming on Mousr's part.

The value prop is the same for them as it is for any other company choosing a single cloud: it unlocks a ton of services and basic building blocks which empowers and speeds up software development, as well as providing fundamental stuff like access control and auditing.

The concern over vendor lock-in and pricing is one that gets thrown around often, but doesn't really make sense to me. When has Amazon, Microsoft, et al gouged one of their larger customers in the past? Why would they do that when it would destroy their reputation and scare away business?

A large customer working with a large company is like any other negotiation, both have leverage and there isn't any feasible scenario where Amazon or Microsoft go completely crazy and start gouging their customers for some short-term gain.

Will they? When I drive I have to worry about parking and, you know, driving. If I take a taxi or ride share I'm paying on the order of 6x what the bus costs.

I think you're overstating the annoyance of standing on a bus.

Glad to see the attempt to split the contract up by appealing for a multi-platform approach failed.

A multi-platform approach destroys most of the cloud's value proposition in the name of avoiding vendor lock-in. At that point you're essentially only using the provider as a glorified data center manager, and I'm pretty sure the DOD has more than enough money to run their own data centers.

I might be missing something but AWS seems to have analogous products for everything in this article. Or is your point that AWS tools are less consumer friendly?

I would imagine most prototypes would be made in a Jupyter notebook. I don't see any point in tying yourself to a platform intended for training/deploying models at scale if you're planning to switch off of it.

It's worth noting that Russia does have the .рф TLD ("RF" for Russian Federation) in addition to .ru.

Considering how ubiquitous Latin keyboards are I'm OK with countries with non-Latin character sets getting a Latin equivalent as it makes those domains much more accessible to a large part of the world.

I totally agree, and just because something is promoted strongly by Russia doesn't mean it's false, it just highlights the importance of reading a variety of different sources and applying your own critical thinking to find the truth.

Two examples: The Venezuelan aid-truck stunt. Clearly orchestrated by the US to help nudge regime change. On the other hand, the MH17 crash: clearly a case of Russian forces mistakenly shooting down a passenger jet and coming up with some outlandish claims against the evidence (ie that it was faked with CGI).

Both are instances where the truth would've been lost on someone who exclusively reads and believes only one source of news.

They definitely pick up a lot of Russian talking points (see their virulent skepticism over the Skripal attack), but they serve as a very useful counterbalance to CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, et al.

I shudder at whatever Orwellian hellscape we've landed in when people celebrate the censorship of a differently minded news source instead of utilizing it: read both it and your mainstream sources with a filter, apply your own independent thought and judgment and arrive at your own conclusion.

You highlighted a perfect example of why ZeroHedge and other contrarian news sources are so necessary: When the war drums were in full swing against Syria and every major western news outlet was breathlessly promoting intervention with propaganda of their own (pictures of shell-shocked kids, championing of the brave "freedom fighters" and white helmets, spurious claims of "chemical attacks"), ZH provided a counterpoint that challenged those perceptions.

In that particular situation, both sides were total propaganda and Syria was the grayest of gray areas. I like to think I'm not the only one who read both extremes of the reporting with a filter and arrived at my own conclusion.

The problem seems to exclusively affect HN commenters, who have the remarkable misfortune of having every single item they buy off Amazon turn out to be counterfeit. It's a total scourge on the community of HN but miraculously doesn't seem to affect anyone else.

Occasionally I'll see a broken-English listing from a third-party seller advertising a $800 camera for $200, but when that happens I just...don't purchase the obvious counterfeit product.

Then where is the similar outcry against caffeine consumption? It's a stimulant too, so if we're going with the unscientific theory of "stimulants cause heart disease" then coffee consumption should be an alarming public health crisis.

GCP's documentation has an aesthetic quality but is lacking practicality.

Take for example a fundamental usecase: working with a blob storage service through a client library.

Googling "gcp cloud storage java example" and "s3 java example" returns these as top results:

https://cloud.google.com/java/getting-started/using-cloud-st...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/v1/developer-guide/...

The AWS doc is clear and gives me exactly what I want: Java code snippets for doing common actions with buckets.

The GCP doc is about a sample bookshelf application? And it starts off by creating a bucket through a terminal command followed by a couple of massive code snippets specific to the example app?

Changing the search terms a bit reveals this:

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/creating-buckets#stora...

That's a bit better, but seeing options for the various arguments requires me to copy and paste a non-clickable link from the code snippet, which brings me to another attractive but minimally helpful page.

Another example: renaming a bucket. I find the link easily enough..

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/moving-buckets#storage...

But only the first code snippet has code samples of any kind. The remaining steps only have instructions for the console and terminal (and the JSON API if you want to curl against that..)

To me, GCP's documentation just doesn't surface information in a way that's conducive to getting work done quickly.

Salary and wages would be recorded as OpEx, not CapEx, correct?

I would imagine the CapEx growth is from data centers and equipment for GCP

17% of the US population self-reported taking some form of psychiatric drug [1].

We're way past the point of truly disturbed people not seeking help due to the stigma of mental illness. Instead, it's cheerfully celebrated and encouraged in a way that I imagine will only stop once 100% of the country is zombified by mind-altering drugs.

The pendulum needs to swing back towards self-help and the idea that some discomfort is a part of normal life.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/1-in-6-americans-...

In my world people aren't encouraged to start any sort of professional treatment as a first course of action, as it totally externalizes one's locus of control and robs them of the ability to help themselves through learned skills of introspection and metacognition.

At 7km/s, it would take around 20 minutes for an ICBM fired from the US to reach Moscow. It takes about 3 minutes for an intermediate range missile to travel from Poland to Moscow.

So yes, there is a huge advantage to pursuing intermediate range missiles.

Better than asymmetrical capabilities.

This was 5Gbps until January of last year, when it was increased to 25Gbps:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-floodgates-are-open-inc...

Reading about the murders is interesting--especially since I just picked up Kingdom Come, an excellent game set in medieval times--but the map works horribly.

Nothing notable here except Amazon's punny acronym for unprofitable products.

The nice thing is the elimination of waste. The lack of margin on those items implicitly means there is significant waste involved with selling them: large, wasteful packaging as well as more fuel needed to transport them to warehouses and then to customers.

It serves as a forcing function to encourage manufacturers to adapt their products to this new form of distribution, similar to Walmart or other retailers being selective about what they grant shelf space to.

> That increases demand for those assets, which drives down their price.

I'm not an economist but this seems wrong

I'm commenting on the article that was posted, which describes the "human cost" of Black Friday. I'm asserting that the complaints presented in the article don't sound like some excruciating human cost, it just sounds like...a job.

That the source was tangentially involved in the military makes it even more comical. A job that requires its workers to be screamed at, put through torturous physical conditioning and possibly blown up by bombs, but I guess that's nothing compared to working a 10 hour shift in a warehouse.

This article indicts Amazon of the following cruelties:

- Expects workers to work compensated overtime during a busy period

- Tracks worker performance

- Expects people to take only their scheduled breaks, and writes them up if they're MIA for 30+ minutes

- Requires workers to show up and work during their scheduled work hours

The humanity! And this poor guy, working a non-specialized manager position attainable with just a high school degree, was only paid a meager $80,000 a year!

More seriously though: the caterwauling over Amazon's cruel and unusual work conditions is getting a little long in the tooth. I had more sympathy when it's peeing in bottles and passing out from heat exhaustion, but if the above is extent of the complaints now...get over it?

Totally impractical for any small business and of questionable usefulness for large ones. You'd be giving up the largest benefit of platforms like AWS--ready to use services for common tasks--to avoid the infinitesimally small chance of AWS having some doomsday global outage.

To answer the original question: It looks like this issue was just a UI bug that affected the console, the service itself wasn't impacted. Events that do impact the service will be contained to a region, meaning you can mitigate it with proper redundancy across regions, no zany multi-cloud solution required.

What are you trying to imply with this comment? Are you uncomfortable any time you're in an elevator alone with a man?

Did anything untoward happen? If not, did this at all affect your perception of men and/or men who work at Google?

It's actually a pretty reasonable and logical claim, supported by 20 years of globalism that gutted American employment.

I don't think severance is normal or expected of any business teetering on insolvency.