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You’re very sure because you’ve built one at scale? This is such peak HN. And you have plenty of other people who have never built a billing system at scale to agree with you. The OP is right, this is in fact very very hard for the reasons they say.

The idea that most people who are doing professional public speaking are reliable narrators is a bit quaint. There is a lot of room for framing that you have to allow for story telling. If you think that all story telling is about reliable narration, you're going to have a tough time being successful at it or interacting with others who are.

I ask a lot of questions on code reviews as it's usually less easily perceived as conformational and I have come to assume that I'm missing context when something is really off. Assume that coworkers are competent but may either have or lack context. If your coworkers are genuinely incompetent, then a new position might be better than fighting though PRs.

Wasn't aware that Canada had moved to 1940s Europe...

Saying this seriously a few decades after computers were room sized is I think a bit short sighted. Betting against technical progress especially in density / materials / weight is not a good bet.

You don't think the US government requires information sharing?

Seemed even a bit longer before that on the peninsula coastside. The whole thing felt magical, to even know that much beforehand.

See regulatory capture.

That was designed as a fundamentally subversive set of lessons. I doubt we even have the will to make an accurately subversive movie version of Diamond Age (look at what happened to Altered Carbon), much less create that sort of "book".

Being on call aligns incentives. If it's someone else's problem when what you just design and build then it will operate less well.

Really exceptional response. A surprising number of people aren't aware of moral constitution, practically, even though this was a core topic for at least the last few hundred years. Interesting times we live in.

I don't think big bounties are capital gains.

What kind of firewall work didn't have default drop? Once you take that off the table you really do have a problem but I've only seen that one in 20 years of professional work.

It's plenty for people who already have a pile of cash. That seems a bit problematic right?

Thank you for your straightforward appraisal. Makes me take Matrix a lot more seriously.

You don't have health checks?

How can you look at rate and range of mutation and make blithe comments on how many will die based on original covid rates?

"Remain obsessed" with transmission of a highly contagious virus that has shown significant ability to mutate at scale? That sure seems worth being obsessed about. When it mutates to spread past all current defenses then consistently kill because we failed to stop current spread it will indeed be "depressing".

Yes, exactly. That OP needs to know the time is the problem being solved.

Yes, and a few orders of magnitude more expensive.

Have you looked at something like fly.io to do physical placement near players globally while still supporting consistency?

This seems the most like case to me. Google loves their query PBs.

You have to pass difficult standardized tests to qualify for these spots though. It's not like 50,000 people can just decide they want to be doctors. It depends on ability as measured by testing ability which generally still relates to economic ability in aggregate.

There is no general case. The idea of the general case is fundamentally a tool of oppression. Human moral encounters and decisions are personal.

The major downside of having an “always syncable” data structure is that it gets really big, really quick

Perhaps it would be prudent to read the actual article before tossing off this sort of comment since it's indeed the whole point?

Do you know of any good writeups for this particular kind of process? I too did fuzzing of network devices before it was called fuzzing and am interested in trying it again with modern tooling.

$60 + $6 per day after 5 days. It adds up, examples at bottom: https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/pricing/

There are what, 15000+ engineers competing for that many fewer jobs? Getting fired for looking for new work looks much more possible now than it did 3 months ago.

Latency even over a few feet can matter.

Physical based attacks were the majority of the risk, and that was, practically, pretty minimal. If you want to watch from inside a VM, great, but mass attacks against watchers? I'm not seeing it. (Been going since DEFCON 9)