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There is plenty of evidence, look at the lives of nearly anyone who has been suspected of online piracy. You're going to see a very strange pattern where something catastrophic happens to them and their lives fall apart in a nearly impossible series of events. I personally know dozens of people this has happened to, there was an entire floor of RIT engineering students who were running piracy servers out of their dorm in the late 90s and had their lives torn apart with psychological operations. I tracked all of them over the past 20 years and it becomes deadly obvious this happens all the time if you start paying attention to anyone who was involved in online piracy or was friends with anyone in online piracy.

In particular, take a look at anyone connected to Efnet and Freenode IRC networks.

I'm not suggesting anything, that's exactly how it works.

The justice system is complete crap, the US government doesn't have the ability to deal with piracy because it is international.

This doesn't work the way people think it does, there is literally no justice involved. The CIA is used to using movies and television as a pathway for manipulating the American population. There is a very long history of this happening and the people they use (yes use) to do this aren't making the revenues they are used to making.

As a result they are resorting to ugly tactics like taking over companies to play psychological games with people in online piracy and gaslighting people who run piracy servers. Several people who run piracy sites have been gaslit to the point of suggestibility and that usually ends in the person committing suicide or dying in strange ways. Deimos (the founder of demonoid) and Aaron Swartz were targets of this kind of treatment and almost none of the people who know them are aware of this because it is all psychological.

The way this is handled in reality is brutal psychological operations (triggering schizophrenia, learned dependency, triggering PTSD, gaslighting, etc), never believe anything you hear about the American government prosecuting crimes like online piracy, it is not handled in the courts. When you see someone who was perfectly normal and has their life fall apart out of nowhere until they are worn down physically or psychologically it is almost always the US government in one form or another. Sometimes it is intentional and sometimes it is unintentional (i.e. some part of the government gets tricked into running a psychological operation on someone), this isn't conspiracy it is being done in broad daylight everyday all over the country because it only has meaning to the person being targeted.

You're correct, there have been companies that quietly paid a million+ just to avoid litigation. It can cost certain companies tens of millions just to deal with a public security breach.

This happens all the time, I worked for a company that was audited by a security firm. The security firm compromised every part of the company by pretending to be employees, third party vendors or competitors looking to hire away current employees. Some of their existing employees gave away every single detail you'd need to compromise the infrastructure during interviews.

Fooling auditors isn't going to be all that difficult, most auditors get confused if there is too much going on in the room . I've literally seen a publicly traded company pass an audit just by making the audit frustrating and then providing every perk you can imagine outside of the audit room (including attractive men/women). As you can imagine, they didn't do a very thorough audit.

If you see an individual paying hush money to conceal a breach, check the commit history asap.

This is impossible to stop, there are private companies that collect road side camera data and combine it with cell phone GPS coordinates to figure out the same information. If you own a home your address is apart of public record, if you collect a paycheck anyone get run a background check on you and get the same information.

We should just stop the illusion of privacy, your data isn't private. It may have never been private.

Can anyone explain what the benefit of Erlang is with respect to microcontroller development?

Maybe its just me but I have yet to work for a company that didnt have legacy infrastructure that was hold them back in some way. Even the startups I've worked for had to make odd business decisions in order to take on new customers. Those odd one-offs and business decisions eventually led to sprawling legacy infrastructure. If there is an infrastructure Utopia I have yet to work there or hear of it.

And this is the attitude that causes businesses to tell lies about everything they are doing. If you want transparency with regard to how you're data is being handled you need to ease up a bit and realize there are biological limitations to how fast people can make changes. Most of these companies have people who want to fix these problems. They just have hurdles you don't know about, some of them are internal politics and others are technical.

I agree with you completely, no one should be hiding behind "It's a really complicated process". They need to actually sit down and come up with a concrete plan on how to tackle the problem then communicate that we have a plan in place its been added to the roadmap and we are going to tackle it in Q3 20XX.

It's not that simple, some of these companies have tech stacks that are run-a-way trains written by people who had good intentions but wrote their code and built their infrastructure in a way that was meant for 1/50th of the traffic they currently have. I don't know anything about instagram's infrastructure but what I can tell you for certain is that every one of these companies has legacy infrastructure and code that keeps them from being able to meet all legal requirements. You can't just make a blanket statement that they don't have an excuse.

Whenever someone publishes an article like this, I want them to find out what its like when you reach the threshold of 100000 individual delete requests per second which ends up being five million actual deletes when you factor in all of the associated references to the item being deleted and its metadata. Then I want them to find out what happens when you have to propagate those deletes across geographically distributed data centers, clear a geographically distribute cache and do it in a way that minimizes user facing errors and guarantees consistency. Finally you have to also ensure that deletions don't effect any business facing applications since ad revenue and metrics are all generated from certain types of data.

These people imagine you just rm -rf a file and run a few SQL queries, you literally can't just delete data. I've worked at the scale of Instagram before. Literally nothing works like that at that scale, the person who wrote that article should have called up someone from Instagram and had them explain at a really high level how complicated deleting data is at large scale.

Exactly, a lot of people move into small towns and then unintentionally create tension with locals because they have purchasing power that is 3 to 20x anyone in the surrounding area. Most people don't factor in envy when they move someplace.

We should try addressing another issue, there shouldn't be expiring skills in the first place. A lot of the tools and software that are being called "expired skills" aren't even old enough or mature enough to expire in the first place.

There are eight new frameworks for every new language someone invents every few years, which is ridiculous. It can take decades for software to mature to the point where it is reasonably stable and secure. It takes millions of collective man hours to write the software, millions more man hours to fully document it and then people spend their whole lives maintaining and defending the software from attackers. People get burned out and all that effort gets wasted so people can create a new "skill".

You would have to be insane to move because you've recently been given remote work privileges, especially in the middle of a recession caused by an ongoing pandemic.

Companies provide remote work options all the time and once you move they ask you to come back into the office out of the blue thenlay remote workers off if they cant come back into the office.

The other thing you need to keep in mind is a lot of the places you want to live have people who don't want you living there. If they find out you work remote and don't need anyone they will start screwing around with your life.

If you move and work remote be extremely careful, dont assume you're welcome anywhere in the countrh a lot of places are filled with backwards luddites who hate anyone in STEM fields. Yes, this is a real thing.

Is this a joke?

Universal Basic Income is never going to work, we all live in a universe where everyone wants to build or create something. The average person isn't going to build or create a damn thing, they aren't going to do anything productive for society they are going to tear the whole country down or sit on their asses watching Netflix all day long. Every time I see someone mentioning universal basic income I start to wonder how much contact they've had with the outside world.

I agree with all of your points, including the fact that I do not have supporting data.

Just keep in mind that the people who are really good at skirting prescription drug laws do everything to make their operations look innocuous. They use regular family practices and they dont fill any more controlled substances than any other family practice by percentage of perscriptions. You're never going to see these people showing up in any reports, there won't be any supporting data.

Pill mills were shuttered, but you'd be surprised at how creative people are when they need to feed their habit. There are doctors and pharmacists all over the place that are either:

1.) Being explicitly blackmailed by prescription drug addicts.

2.) Whose employment is completely dependent on prescription drugs because their patients demand prescription drugs as a quick fix for their problems. There are people who literally feed clients to those doctors because they know they are afraid to tell their patients no when they ask for prescription drugs

3.) Don't bother to find alternatives for their patients that don't involve prescription drug abuse because it is a faster method of getting their patients out of the office.

If you understood how bad the prescription drug problem was in the United States you wouldn't remotely be surprised.

Thank you, I read the title and was trying to figure out what this person was talking about. There are references to thought experiments going back to the Ancient Greece and Rome.

They are advertising for GitHub, I still don't know why people feel the need to use Github for well known projects other than the "social" aspect of GitHub. It would be interesting to see if it would be possible to extract the "social" aspect out GitHub and allow people to host git with a distributed social model (i.e. you host your own git on your own decentralized server but your social account and associated comments/metadata are all centralized.)

I hate to rain on everyone's parade but no one transformed Wall Street. If you saw how most of the banks are run and who is in charge of these places up close there would be a run on the banks. Everyone would be withdrawing their cash and storing it under their mattress.

It's entirely possible they launched competing products because they know something everyone else doesn't. Did anyone bother to investigate why they didn't acquire these companies?

I've worked at several startups and you'll be surprised at why some corporations don't purchase a startup.

Some of them have awful cultures of psychological abuse, you walk in the door and you know something isn't right because the founder(s) have a cult-like environment that includes abusing his/her employees to the point where they are all afraid to say anything.

Some startups have founders and employees that are lying about everything and when you actually dig into their source code and infrastructure they aren't doing anything they say they are doing.

Some of them have the worst infrastructure imaginable and/or they have such poor software engineering practices that they will never be able to scale to meet the kind of demand a company like amazon has.

Just because they have a good idea and a company doesn't mean they have an implementation that is worth investing in.

I would be careful abour this one, some managers do everything they can to get rid of exemplary employees. If you're going to this make it as public as possible and make sure you have sound reasoning for why you are singing the praises of your co-worker. Include managers as close to the top of the organization as possible as well.

90% of ppl have ridiculously short memories. There's nothing to be afraid of.

Pick up a neuroscience book and you're going to quickly find out why your statement isn't possible. Have you ever had to conduct tech interviews or spoken to people who have? Tech interviews are the biggest crapshoot you'll ever see, for every 100 interviews you'll be lucky to find a single person who can code fizz buzz on the fly, introduce a small variation in fizz buzz that requires them to be able to read their own code and they can't modify their own code. The number of people who have a long enough short term memory and can concentrate on a single thing for three hours straight is exceedingly small.

Even the very best tech companies are constantly filtering through thousands of people who claim to have worked on extremely complicated development projects but can't code extremely simple things.

I'm completely in favor of randomized interview questions. My personal favorite approach is a two-way interview. You get to ask a technical interview question of the person you're interviewing with. If they ask you a ridiculous question, they get hit with a ridiculous question also. As an employer you could monitor this and see if you're employees are giving unfair questions to candidates they can't answer themselves. It would also be a good idea for HR to record all of these interviews so they can have someone knowledgeable judge the interview process and track the performance of new hires versus the questions they are asking. If the interviewer starts having problems answering their own difficulty level in questions then maybe they should be looking for a new job also. I was once asked a ridiculous question and threw an interviewer off by asking them how many times they had actually implemented something like they were asking, they stopped talking immediately.

My personal opinion is that all of this should be scrapped in favor of seeing what the person has produced and having them partially implement a solution of something they have written in the past. It is a virtual impossibility that anyone could work on a project of any sort without being able to sit down for an 8 hour interview where they are responsible for partially re-creating something they have worked on in the past. To this day I still remember large parts of source code I've worked on 10 years in the past.

If you're working on a large scale project you wouldn't be implementing a specific algorithm by yourself anyway. You'd be discussing a specific problem and then discussing the pros and cons of different algorithms that you want to implement and implementing POCs in different algorithms. The interview is just to see if you can think and discuss in terms of algorithms and data structures.