throwawaythekey

Is there a time when you would find "nanny state" to be a useful concept? What would make that situation different to the social media ban?

I find it uncomfortable that so many of the arguments focus on practicality and that so few focus on liberty. It almost seems like a forgotten concept.

In day to day life we are fairly free but for example we have much weaker freedom of speech/opinion than the USA. For example if you raise your arm at a particular angle you can now be sent to jail [1].

We also had some of the longest/harshet COVID lockdowns in the world in my state.

[1] - https://www.dw.com/en/australia-man-convicted-for-performing...

Are these same parents unable to tell their children "no you can't stay out late it's a school night"

Due to the shared nature of the internet it's very hard to implement a technically foolproof block.

For example you could rent a server on AWS, forward your traffic to it (e2e encrypted) and then have that forward your traffic to a regular VPN.

Now just imagine that the VPN does the forwarding for you and offers it as a service.

I started using the internet unsupervised heavily in my tweens in the early 2000's and came across some horrendous stuff pretty early. Despite that, for me I think it's been a net positive and I would like my children to grow up in a similar environment.

The lasting qualities I think it's given me are:

- An open mindedness and the ability to examine issues from multiple angles

- A thick skin against shocking material/online forms of bullying

- A stronger understanding of how technology interacts with society/power structures

I think the country needs to be building digitally strong youth, not trying to put the genie back into the bottle.

I thought native edge was pretty good, it was disappointing when they gave it up.

Call me old fashioned but I think browsers will advance faster when we don't have a chromium monopoly outside of the apple ecosystem.

My ideal outcome would be something like:

1) Chrome is spun out as a standalone entity. Google would originally have full ownership but be forced to sell down over time.

2) Google buys the Chrome traffic at a fair price

3) Apple sells their traffic to someone else, potentially an AI search player (Meta??)

4) MSFT makes a new browser in response to Chrome going closed source

Firefox makes hundred of millions of dollars in revenue per year. If you assume the same revenue per user and apply it to Chrome's market size (about 30x that of firefox) then you have a top 20(?) tech company in revenue terms.

They will have more money than they know what to do with. But yes, going closed source does seem more likely.

Companies regularly buy and sell parts of themselves. I think the standard approach would be for Chrome employees to be given golden handcuffs of some sort.

In the context of Google's ad business the fact that chrome is open source has little bearing. Chrome is both massively popular and also a loss leader designed to further entrench Google's ad monopoly. If Chrome were broken off then a competitor in the ads space like Meta could purchase the search traffic instead which would force Google's ad business to be more competitive.

There are different forms of overpayment but to give some examples:

- The recent story of AWS using serverless for video processing comes to mind [1].

- Google is renowned for rest and vest.

- Many government jobs pay more than their private counterparts.

- Military contractors

- Most of the healthcare industry

- Lobbyists

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35811741

> If your "dumbest engineer" got a job and a hefty raise going to Netflix, it means he was very capable engineer who was playing the part of moron

It's also possible that there's very little correlation between capability, reputation and salary.

Don't we all know someone who is overpaid? There are more than a few well known cases of particular employers who select for overpaid employees...

Also note that the government is attacking social media on a second front.

Last night they took advantage of the population being distracted by the US election by having an extended parliamentary session to push forward with a second reading of the controversial misinformation bill.

The government and state media apparatus are of course both immune from any penalty under the bill.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-11/acma-crackdown-social...

I'm not an expert but gut checking against this chart https://c19early.org/plot/bpall.png

  1. The exercise, diet, sunlight, zinc, and vitamin d results all seem plausible. They are well known to improve your immune system.

  2. Remdesivir was originally recommended for covid19 but then they stopped using it. I'm surprised the plasma has such a poor result because that was heavily hailed originally too.

  3. Paxlovid and HCQ are both widely recommended, in line with the results presented.

So as far as I can tell (which isn't far!) it seems like a reasonable analysis.

The main point I wanted to make is Borody is far from alone in being interested in c19 and ivermectin.

I'm mostly just trying to provide Thomas Borody the benefit of the doubt. I'm sure he would do a much better job of defending himself.

Funny podcast in general and great if you are looking for one that is highly critical of whatever book they are reviewing.

Cure is a strong word but there's plenty of research which supports ivermectin being effective against COVID.

https://c19ivm.org/

The medical commmunity will almost always be skeptical of new theories, sometimes this is well placed but sometimes it isn't.

That's neither here nor there though, the main takeaway is you probably shouldn't go to economists for medical advice.

Mostly guessing but -> duration is usually inversely correlated with throughput.

If you require high throughput and have a high duration then partitioning/distribution are the normal solution.

I agree that cloudwatch is dogturds, but want to dive deeper for illustrative purposes:

Your dynamodb solution isn't foolproof. It has throughput limited to the partition granularity -> in your case the lambda name. It's also relatively expensive and fairly slow to query in bulk (DDB is designed for OLTP).

I don't have direct experience here, but I expect slapping grafana on top of any disk basked source is likely to be cheaper, faster, and have better ergonomics. Once your logging is too much for a disk to handle (this will be later than you would've outgrown ddb, but before you would've outgrown cloudwatch) then you can bring something fancy in.

Yup. Just wanted to say that as someone who worked in the space for 5 years and attempted to integrate with google ad tech products:

1. I could never fully understand how all the google products integrated with each other.

2. The guys we talked to at google were often unable to recommend which product was correct for our use case (it seemed like there were multiple entry points but they all funneled back to one or two common sources)

3. Many of the integrations we wanted to do had no clear criteria for whether google would accept you or not. This led to us wasting lots of time.

4. Our whole company focused on an integration with google for 6-9months. When we were validating our implementation google pulled out, citing antitrust concerns. A few months later they announced a product that competed with us. As google is a big org I'm not really sure if this was coordinated on their side.

A decent portion of the Australian population think the realpolitik of our situation means we should adopt a neutral approach towards China, even if it means a weakening of our relationship with the US.

The need to act as world police (re uyghurs, taiwan) can be a game for the major powers.

> Keating said the “great sin” China had committed in the eyes of the west was developing its economy to equal the size of the US

This is somewhat supported by some of the wikileaks releases, but it's a little hard to disentangle if the economy is the sin or just an intensifier.

> At the lunch, Mrs Clinton confided in Mr Rudd about America's fears about China's rapid economic rise and Beijing's multibillion-dollar store of US debt, asking Mr Rudd: ''How do you deal toughly with your banker?''

https://www.smh.com.au/national/explosive-wiki-rudd-cable-20...

One of our former prime ministers, Paul Keating, came out strongly against the submarine deal. IIRC two important dimensions are that Australia has shallow waters which are not a good fit for the chosen submarine technology and that tactically it makes limited sense for Australia to focus on weapons to be used on our largest trading partner.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/15/paul-...

I am not an expert on any of the above.

Not sure if you're being intentionally cheeky by pointing out a use case one wouldn't use Go for but will answer anyway.

A language with a GC (like go) typically isn't a good fit for a 3d engine. Almost all serious engines are C++, at least for the core code, for that reason.

The wiki article you are quoting from really buries the lede. To give one example in the debates there were plants in the audience to ask prearranged questions for Clinton.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/donna-brazile-hillary...

Journalists consider Julian to be a journalist.

> WikiLeaks wins top Australian journalism prize... The Walkley Award is one of a number of journalism prizes won by WikiLeaks in recent years, including Amnesty International’s UK Media Award and the acclaimed Martha Gellhorn Prize. The latter award is given to journalists who reveal “an unpalatable truth that exposes establishment propaganda.” These prizes undermine the Obama administration’s claims that Assange is not a journalist and that the publication of thousands of secret US diplomatic and military cables is illegal.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/11/assa-n30.html

The UK have already heavily bent (broken) the extradition rules in the favor of the US. I don't think the UK will mind as long as it doesn't cause public uproar.

Most notably, the UK-US extradition treaty, which has exemptions for political offenses (e.g. espionage), has been found not to apply.

This article is decent https://theconversation.com/julian-assange-how-british-extra..., but from the middle of the trial. Craig Murray's blog is also a good source of info.

I'm trying to work this out myself. Julian's wiki page has

> He was granted asylum by Ecuador in August 2012[10] on the grounds of political persecution and fears he might be extradited to the United States.[11]

It seems to me like the Trump administration simply mainted the status quo of what came before them. One theory could be the timing of the charges was more aligned with Ecuador changing PM/kicking Assange out of the embassy. https://thegrayzone.com/2019/04/14/lenin-moreno-julian-assan...

1) The common stock that employees get via options is the last in line for the pot of gold.

2) There's plenty of bullshit that can be used to cheat an employee out of their options. One example here [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/26/skypes-worthless-employee-...

I'm not the GP but was one of the first engineering hires in a startup. In my case I got caught in the cross-fire of one of the co-founders backstabbing the other which meant that by the time we closed the series A I had been diluted by 80%. To 'make this up to me' the company gave me a new grant that would counter the dilution. The downsides were that this restarted the vesting clock and the new options would cost a year worth of savings to exercise - this was much more than the few hundred dollars my original grant cost.

Fast forward four years of toil with multiple cycles of doubling and then halving headcount as well as endless leadership changes. We are now on our fourth CTO in as many years. On the upside things are starting to look up! The newest sales team have worked out how to sell the original product we built, not the bells and whistles we pivoted to on the wisdom of the overpaid CPO. We can now celebrate as we have about a year's worth of runway and can confidently project being cash flow positive in about six months.

The new ex-FAANG CTO earning three times as much as anyone in the original team has great news! As a result of the positive development we are now able to hire an extra development team in South America! This shouldn't cost us too much and they can start on the next greenfield effort. The existing developers need not worry about being replaced as the existing team has all of the experience with the money making side of the business, and besides the new devs will be working on a parallel offering anyway.

Four weeks later and we've onboarded two offshore devs. The VCs have demanded we cut our burn rate and my position is being made redundant. I have 90 days to exercise but my options are underwater, both when compared to the funds we raised a few months ago and also the FMV. Essentially to buy them now I would be worse off than someone walking straight off the street.