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They just stratified online shopping. Everything is becoming more and more stratified, from airline cabins to online content to education.

I'd argue that copying this trend and tweaking the spreadsheets to extract money in a more fine grained manner while just cutting every dime on the lower tier is not exactly innovation. Holding this up on a pedestal as the great moment of triumph and creativity in tech is not really on the mark.

So we're using an imaginary alien threat to justify massive military spending while literally destroying billions of dollars by just eliminating it from the economy through stock buybacks.

Fictional times indeed. Just don't think too hard about the money.

I mean if you want to get into the nitty gritty details yeah I think the biggest waste of time of all was the years implementing and tweaking linked lists in C. Not sure who decided to define that as "computer science" at the time, but I have trouble with those definitions too.

I feel the same way about much of Computer Science. So much nonsense was forced into my head as the "best practices", from OO development to Agile to cloud snake oil to crypto scams.

And then on top of that it turns out the CPUs are designed to be inherently insecure so all those amazing mathematical proofs in perfect penmanship were a waste of time.

Companies seem to have realized that security incidents are more of a public relations issue than anything else after Equifax. Just lockdown as much info as you can, limit anyone talking about anything, spin spin spin. No reason to be more proactive than that, you only get punished for it.

We're brought up in this hierarchical system where you're told you're supposed to be churning through the meat grinder of competition and failure and growth every day or you're a worthless nonhuman waste of space. Most people have a very hard time saying no to a manager no matter what is asked from them when this is the only system they've ever known.

You don't need to ask a bunch of questions and use waffle phrases, this is not a complicated space. Cryptocurrencies are a silly scam and people who love new scams gravitate towards it, most other people don't care.

There's no need to be nasty and sarcastic.

It's not just email, it seems like any service is at risk of being ignored through malice or just being too tiny it gets neglected if it doesn't help the walled garden somehow.

At one point I heard a rumor that no human had worked on Google Finance in over a year, simply because nobody was interested. Not their biggest service of course, but still a major site that presumably generates a lot of revenue. If they think that global finance is "too boring" for their amazing engineers then support for everything is liable to be canceled at any moment.

Tech has had many conscientious objectors, I've watched them come and go over the decades.

Most of them drive trucks now. A few lucky ones became artists or writers, but mostly a lot of bad outcomes.

One of these failed truck drivers even makes deliveries to the house of the person who forced him out sometimes, a fact which he loves laughing about.

We had to shoot these "omg zombie" deer with CWD in our backyard in the 50s, just seems like nobody really measured it or panicked about it back then.

Is CWD more or less prevalent than it was in the past? The article fails to even ask this question as you'd expect from the title, it just sort of weaves some other irrelevant wikipedia info into clickbait hysteria.

Honestly I'd much rather have a bunch of dice rolls on incompetence than the current centralized, single point of control over the entire index.

Google has been purging large swaths of data from the indexes and they won't say how or why or exactly what criteria they are using. It's difficult to imagine a worse solution for the web than this current model.

Much less egregious behavior than this resulted in anti-trust action against Microsoft in the 90s. We are far past due to start working on breaking up these abusive giants.

Are they just flat out teaching people how to be super deceptive and how to tactically play stupid in MBA programs nowadays?

It's becoming hard to believe anything that Tesla puts out or Elon says. It is a real shame the $35K 3 turned out to be a lie, the amount of PR that phrase has generated over the years is on par with all of SpaceX.

What this means is the rich get new roads, the poor don't. The cost of adding these lanes will be enormous, especially in tight areas where you may need to seize property or realign streets. Nobody will advocate for the poor areas to ever be redeveloped at these cost levels.

The cycle continues.

> Milwaukee is where we will transition our AI 8K+5G vision into reality

I've been reading and hearing a lot of nonsense in tech since the 1980s but this is really something to behold.

It's sort of an open secret that google's data is not nearly as anonymized as they would like you to believe. I'm only familiar with how advertising data works, and I can tell you that many of their large customers know exactly who they are targeting. It's not anonymous at all.

They are combining google tools and data along with their own in ways that often violate the TOS, but everyone does it anyway. I think some companies have backtracked on this in the past few months, but it is still quite widespread.

We're sort of making up this whole online spaces thing as we go. Whether you love them or hate them, the decisions Google made are arbitrary and were done behind closed doors by a very small number of people.

Framing the question as "do you expect the online space to be like X" seems much more natural to me than "Google has already decided X", because the latter is likely to lead to far different answers. If we lead the question by defining it with the status quo, then naturally that's the default most people will want to agree with.

Yes. I regularly see failures and weird issues that are technically "impossible" according to the spec in things like TCP/IP, HTTP, as well as higher application layers.

And trying to convince someone like Google or Microsoft that their site or service is not very robust when things start getting lossy is a complete waste of time, even if you have a massive following on social media people who dare to complain about not having megabits of data are completely ignored.

Welcome to the reality of being poor in America. You summed up the exasperation we feel every day quite nicely, it's like the game is already over before I even got a court date.

My car is only five years old but already has two sensors that have gone bad in the engine. Neither of them are vital and everything works great despite the occasional check engine light. Redundancy. It's a time intensive process to pop the head off and replace sensors. Nobody wants to pay their mechanic $100 an hour if they can avoid it.

I can't even imagine a sensor failure having zero redundancy, much less changing control inputs to a complicated system like a multi-engine jet. This is completely against everything I know about engineering and I find even discussion of this being possible to be deeply offensive. The fact that it happened twice and hundreds of people are dead is just mind boggling.