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Oh, I see. Any shit you don't agree with is "Trump's propaganda" Fuck off.

They are extremely afraid, freaked out, or paranoid that people are going to use Parler to somehow overthrow the government. But, they were not afraid that people were going to use unverified mail in ballots and ballot stuffing to overthrow the government. In reality we all know their fear is a ruse and this is a power grab.

Its fascinating how these companies think they are fighting against some radical revolutionaries. All the Trump supporters they are scared to death of are ordinary people all over the country. There are not hundreds, or thousands, or tens of thousands. There are tens of millions. Right now this looks like a very small set of scared shitless tech companies and politicians that are overreacting when they finally had to meet people outside their bubble. This will hurt these company's businesses unimaginably. Their uptime whent from 5 nines to no nines.

What about calls for imprisoning people? That off limits? Because there are thousands and thousands of posts out there on leftists boards where leftists with delusions of grandeur are talking about who they are going to imprison on the right. That constitutes violence.

Exactly, Centurylink demonstrated a couple months ago they alone could take down and disrupt IPV4 traffic worldwide. I'm starting to wonder if that was a simple configuration mistake or a pre-run.

They can do it, it is not hard to replace, for instance RDS with equivalent databases, SQS with something else. The hard part is they will have to find a sane ISP or non far-left marxist company to host or come up with capital for physical hardware and set up colocation or a data center.

I'm sure they are going through the same calculus. Leftists at all tech companies have been stacking their management with left authoritarian sympathizers for years, most from overseas. However, LPOD is probably heavily right leaning, so who knows what faction they will be on. (LPOD = larry ellison, prince of darkness)

AWS is screwing itself. No one will every trust AWS ever again. Why would any legitimate business use AWS ever again? Amazon doesn't like your product, they will shut off your site.

This is the fucking end of cloud computing.

Leftist as in leftist political elites. Leftists fucking hate working people.

Like the 4000 Amazon employees who get food stamps? I think she is probably plowing that money into leftist political organizations.

Amazon employees only get 5% RSU's the first year, and will be pipped before they reach year 2 vesting.

In my opinion she should give some of that to the Amazon employees on the backs of which the vast fortune was made. Jeff and Mackenzie really fucked over the vast majority of people that work(ed) there usually through lies about RSU's, firing people before 90 days who were expecting health insurance, timing their pee breaks, etc.

The leftists are saying because Trump challenged the legitimacy of the election results, they feel sanctimonious that instead of investigating claims they have the right to attack Trump voting US citizens (75 million) as a group whether politically or in unamerican ways such as in attempting to block free speech, arresting them, burning and destroying their businesses, attempting to get them fired from their jobs, etc.

Leftists live in cities around people that have similar values to themselves, whether LGBTQ, pro legal prostitution, free drug use, anti-white hate. When they confront Trump supporters, their mental model is that there are a few hundred people in that group who deserve "consequences" and that they personally are legitimate in effecting those consequences. They frequently don't leave the inner city and cannot really conceptualize tens of millions of people.

Haha, when you lose an argument, readers just flag a post? Hilarious.

"Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value"

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/reddit-300-million/

"CCP-Controlled Tencent Inserts Tentacles Into Reddit"

https://visiontimes.com/2019/02/22/ccp-controlled-tencent-in...

Has anyone seen Jack Ma?

So presidential succession was stopped and congress was killed? No? I think you are making shit up.

Que all the managers that will immediately list off 5 manager activities as software engineering "mastery."

You have a very noob view of software engineering. You make a lot of generalizations about coders to support the theory that coding is low impact because coders fuck up a lot. Noob coders fuck up a lot.

When I saved my company's ass those times, no non-technical people were present and it was wholly technical knowledge that solved it. I could have and probably should have ignored the problems and let the talkers try to fix it and take the blame for millions in losses. So it is very apropos to the original comment.

Well, as someone who has saved my company's ass multiple times to the tune of millions of dollars I think technical solutions are orders of magnitude more impactful and foofoo talk bullshit is incredibly limited. So I guess we will have to agree to disagree. Maybe noob coders "produce a day's worth of code" and that's all they can do, that's your perspective.

I've sat through dumb two hour meetings about deciding which words in a document should be capitalized. Is that what is meant by "make sure your team/business is doing the right things?"

Bashing and shit talking software engineering profession is welcome on HN?

Found the manager. This is just more developer hate drivel. Yes, if you think managers are more valuable, then obviously you are going to say engineering work is "incredibly limited" and manager activities are "orders of magnitude more impactful" Listen, no amount of ass kissing and brown nosing is going to solve actual tech problems.

The river this time of year is under 200 cfs which is knee deep in some areas. If it wasn't a problem there would not be signs all over warning of car theft.

There is a border crossing in the park. It is basically a dirt road. If you drive your $100k car down there it could disappear over the border very quickly. You may encounter Mexicans selling geodes most likely. They might be watching for potential marks as well. There may also be Mexicans on foot that want a ride up the road. They may be pushy and mob your car, sometimes in large groups.

If you stick to camping, motel, or car camping in Chisos basin then you're probably good. There are wild havalinas which are mini-pigs that will root around at night, not dangerous.

Big Bend to me is kind of dangerous. Just don't bring an expensive car or lots of valuables or go alone.

No one is going to half the cost, and executives don't in general do any sort of cost reduction activities for two reasons. First, they would be fighting diminishing returns since there is only so much reduce-able cost. Second, they might in reality only be able to do a small cost reduction, then they are doubly screwed as they will reach diminishing returns faster. If the company mandates cost reduction executives will just fire a few hundred or thousand employees because that is deterministic, easy, and instant savings. They will just restaff when the cost reduction campaign is over.

That's a problem. People are not terrified of AGM carrying stealth drones, but they should be because they are already here and in use around the world. Nothing can stop it, no tank, aircraft, rocket, armor. Probably the only realistic defense is an iron dome type system to shoot the missile down. The US deployed a hellfire AGM with retractable swords instead of explosives they are so confident they can land it on a single person or vehicle.

Biped cyborg killer is just not a realistic weapon. The slaughterbot attack on Maduro in 2018 shows that technology is not very mature yet.

Why would anyone be afraid of these? You should be afraid of stealth drones three miles up with air to ground missiles. They are unstoppable without electronic countermeasures.

I call it socialist because managers, who otherwise support totalitarian dictatorship corporate structure, suddenly become advocates of democratic and egalitarian principles like voting, cooperation, empowerment, or group discussion when they think it suits their purposes but not a second longer.

"Winning Through Intimidation" by Robert Ringer.

Or, just quit. I've taken conflict all the way through being fired multiple times and there really isn't a way to win if you are not part of the mafia. At a very huge ecommerce company they had SDE career training, and you are told bluntly all the people deciding things are cigar smoking mobsters so basically, you are a peon and you're fucked for a career if you are not in management. You need to enter a company through personal connections not skills, or it just isn't going to work no matter how much politics you try.

There are tactics I call socialist tactics. Many people for instance being on the losing end of an argument having a dumb idea or no clue, will use their position as a management to call a large meeting, confuse all the people in it with bullshit, then get them to agree on something they don't understand. Another tactic is when challenged in a meeting, call for a instant vote (its a democracy) while pressuring people to vote for them. Third tactic is to meet for a few hours, decide everything you want, then try to force teammates into the meeting two hours later, then claim the whole team is on board with what they decided because everyone was in the meeting. Fourth tactic, is to lie continuously and whoever is around upper management the most/most face time wins with the most lies.

I don't condone any of these, but shitty managers will use all of them and they seem to be learning them somewhere because I see them repeatedly.

Perhaps the best advice for your situation is to praise publicly, criticize privately which is also what a lot of office bastards do all the time.

None of it is necessary. A 20 year old LAMP stack with a few hosts will get your business to $1 billion dollars ARR. People pushing the complexity are trying to fleece big corporations and executives that don't know better.