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He had an acrimonious divorce where he essentially refused to minimally support his children as a multi millionaire.[1]
He cofounded Arista, but also sued Arista, and lost[2], through OptumSoft, his pet company, out of what can be summarized as spite[3].
[1] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1071866...
[2] https://www.networkworld.com/article/3016667/court-finds-for...
[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-arista-networks-billionai...
Put down your phone.
“First Russia tried to suppress the U.S.-backed Euromaidan movement in Ukraine”
A Russian canard that Ukrainians don’t have agency.
The rest of the article is more breathless sensationalism masquerading as investigative journalism. Like this nonsense:
“Trump also threatened the business interests of the most powerful sectors of society. It was the latter offense, rather than his putative racism or flagrant un-presidentialness, that sent the ruling class into a state of apoplexy.”
The ruling class? Is this ye olde Pravda?
Making more copies, with some geographic distribution, is more important than the durability of any particular technology. This applies to everything from SSDs, HDDs, CDs, to paper, to DNA.
If you want your data to last, replicate it all the time.
Didn't work for me.
As for crypto currencies, they seem irrelevant to this topic.
In Norvig's example, the code is much slower than ideal (50x slower), it adds unnecessary code, and yet, it generated correct code many times faster than anyone could ever hope to. An easy to use black box that produces correct results can be good enough.
As an aside, it would be interesting to setup a parallel HN site that mirrors HN posts and generates completely bot generated comments.
In that context, it’s not so surprising that a tweet had the effect it had.
I don't want to invest the time and effort to really connect with people.
"It's a more efficient/faster way to know what my friends and family are up to and it prompts me to communicate with them more."
So I pretend.
"I may be an outlier but I'm very bad at remembering to text/call/email friends if I don't see them regularly"
In general, I can't be bothered to care about other people.
Meaningful connections with people require time, effort, and care. There are no shortcuts.
The lack of vowels also trips up non-native speakers/readers.
Some of the best examples are CIFS/SMB and DCE/RPC over SMB which were bottomless pits of awful.
One of my favorite anecdotes is the SMB print service described as the work of a clueless college student by one of the Samba developers who reverse engineered it.
Microsoft cleaned up very quickly once DOJ forced SMB 2.0 (or whatever it was called) to be documented.