lawnchair_larry

That’s hilarious. I had to self-sensor a lot for wrongthink as well. I still do on some topics. These people don’t listen, they do a quick pattern match of your keywords and dismiss if it sounds tangentially related to a non-left narrative, or contradicts theirs. Even when you explicitly differentiate from whatever narrative they’re associating it with. It’s maddening.

I assume you saw Yuri’s paper?

This is incorrect. You’re behind on this one.

Doesn’t matter if it’s on a US exchange. If you’re a US person, and you move bitcoin from one wallet to another without cashing anything out, this is potentially a reportable event now. And if you fail to do so, the public ledger has cryptographic proof of your crime.

There is a mountain of research on that, and they do.

Awful article with false and slanderous allegations. The study would be interesting, but this blogger’s agenda overshadowing it is not. Can’t believe they are still pushing lies about James Damore.

Skip this nonsense and read the actual study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342...

HN is definitely not an exception.

I think this is what you say when the heat is on you too badly. They’re trying to shed the target on their back.

Weird to see this downvoted, it’s completely accurate and pretty basic economics. Security is a cost center, product development is a revenue multiplier. Investing in the latter as much as you can get away with is the most rational way to allocate resources.

That’s a pretty silly way to look at it. There are a lot of reasons, but the most obvious is that you just moved people around, you didn’t get any new ones. It’s zero sum in the short term, because there are many many years of latency to correct the talent pipeline on something like security.

This is basically accurate but with an added problem. When devs do their job, the product is software. When security does their job, the product is “not getting hacked”, so if you act busy enough, it’s easy to appear as though you’re doing important work, until it’s too late.

Then, paradoxically, you aren’t actually punished, but usually rewarded, when you do get hacked. That’s the one time you’re needed most, and you get to act like the hero for saving the company.

The issue is less about people unwilling to take those wages, and more about a lack of people whose breath can even fog a security mirror so to speak. I work in security and have been involved with hiring at several “brand name” companies including FAANGs in hot tech markets, and it’s always been a talent pipeline issue more than anything. Given how difficult it is for the biggest players to keep security staffed up, and they still get hacked routinely, I can’t imagine how low quality the applicant pool is at Colonial, and doubt it would have made a difference. Almost every company of moderate size perpetually has openings for security roles.

The other problem is that the industry has an oversupply of by-the-book certified security people who can configure firewalls and run scanners, but who have never dealt with live hackers or hacked anything themselves. But hackers are clever and artistic, and defending against them isn’t like following a recipe for baking a cake.

And as an employer looking to introduce security, there is no way to really evaluate a good security leader vs a charlatan, and then it’s either bad hires all the way down, or talented people on the bottom who lack leadership and are ineffective in the bureaucracy.

If you actually were a potential Tesla buyer before this, you'd certainly be in the minority if this is what changed your mind. Most people see the transparency as a good thing, especially people with concerns about whether their own car might kill them. By getting in front of the story, he's doing his job. Correcting a false and derogatory narrative that threatens your differentiating feature in an extremely competitive market is absolutely the most important thing he should be doing.

Country of origin is not a race. You can’t just call everything racism because the numbers are different.

It doesn’t exist.

The headline is pretty much a lie here.

Sure. That doesn’t change the fact that many are now being paid to not work.

I know, I expected the ideological downvotes ;) Hearing the same from a restaurant owner friend, and have seen another friend free-riding for the last year. He’s been taking cheap vacations and going on hikes and road trips. Anecdotal, sure, but with no requirement to even be looking for a job like before, and extra money, it’s quite rational to not work for many people.

Where did you read that it was fixed or acknowledged as a bug? It definitely was not fixed.

I’m talking about the riots and antifa/anarchist attacks, not the protests. And it doesn’t matter that there are places that are not being attacked and vandalized. This is of little consolation to the business that are suffering from regular criminal behavior.

You should rewrite it in rust

You’re an example of the boiling frog if you think it’s perfectly normal and acceptable to light the mayor’s condo lobby on fire and riot over 100 days in a row. This has nothing to do with propaganda.

I can assure you that nobody in this conversation got their information from right wing news.

A lot of progressives seem to share this delusion and I find it puzzling. I have no idea who started this meme that there are “right talking points” going around about Portland. If such a thing exists, I have no idea what it is or where it comes from. Rest assured, my talking points are completely original and synthesized by my own senses. I’m in Portland quite frequently and was there earlier this month. I have many good friends there as well. I’d offer you some video footage that I took personally, but there is no shortage of it online. Ted Wheeler has even (finally) acknowledged it. The city is an embarrassment, and has gone to shit in the last 5 years.

I am basing my opinion on my eyeballs walking around with my own feet. Please stop basing your worldview on denial and delusion.

It has changed a lot with antifa having free reign for the last year. Lots of businesses boarded up and leaving. Even the Apple store was just set on fire again.

An unfortunate myth that is easily disproven after a quick glance at the data. Yet, it persists.

> So why would people care if there were women there? Is it different?

Yes, it's way different, obviously!

> I’ll go a step further and say I think the entire concept of a single-sex changing room may be outdated.

You're definitely in the minority there. Having been a 13 year old boy myself, and knowing how 13 year old boys behave, there's no way in hell I'd allow a room full of them to be in a room with my 13 year old daughter naked.

Yep, and they already do it voluntarily in the US.

What IP laws do you consider insane?

I don’t think this is true. John Mcafee did not have this capability (he’s a notorious liar), and it’s unlikely that anyone else did either. No one willing to say so in public anyway.