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Was rhetoric always like that, or are people stretching their points harder nowadays?

For example: Monday "can be confiscated at whim, frozen by any banker at any point in time". Oh really? Any banker can confiscate any customer's money on a whim?

There's more. I find it very annoying.

"How many Greeks do you think had insurance on their bank accounts? All of them. What happened to that? Poof, in one afternoon. Vanished. 20% haircut." He makes it sound as if deposit insurance is supposed to insure against a tax claim by the state (in this case a rather sudden, surprising tax).

It's admirable, in a way, how some people manage to make weird things sound reasonable.
> In future, at the minimum, you should have 3 accounts.

Or have no account at all and pay cash.
Which is not very convenient with physical money.
But becomes fairly workable with something like Bitcoin.
Photon_lines,

Thanks a lot for your helpful suggestions and words of encouragement. I will keep this in mind when trying to improve my skill level.

Regards,
The claim is so big that I think without those files he would have looked and treated as just another conspiracy theorist.
I used to despise systemd, it was OpenRC for me all the way, then I started using it frequently, and while there is things from OpenRC I miss, systemd is way better and I would not go back to OpenRC.
This highlights few more details on SHUT_RD: https://books.google.com/books?id=ptSC4LpwGA0C&pg=PA173&lpg=...

That is not discussed in POSIX at all, I believe, so basically platform-unaware SHUT_RD is vaguely defined and I wouldn’t even rely on recv() returning zero in particular.

Edit: changed books domain to .com
> What if there's a natural/alien occurring culling of some kind and we somehow slipped through and now we are alone ?

You are referring to what is known as "The Great Filter". The more troubling question is, What if we are alone because all the more advanced civilizations have been culled?
>but it seems that by the 1800s that spark had gone

I'd say the spark is doing just fine, but it ignited a blaze that swept much of the rest of Europe, and the New World. The innovations that Holland rode to success just aren't uniquely Dutch anymore, so now they're back to competing on an even playing field.

The same happened to England after the industrial revolution. Once the new techniques spread to Germany, the US and elsewhere their special utility to the UK wasn't so special anymore.
> it is illegal for the bank to inform you of any AML investigation

Is this an actual law that was voted by congress, or just some regulation that the FBI pulled out of their ear one bright Monday morning ?

> i suggest you take it up to your congressmen.

That'd assume the answer to my first question is yes. Citation needed.
What Andreas gets wrong is that he thinks that money being a system of control is a new thing. Emperors have long understood how to use money as a system of control. They would take slaves and have them mine gold or silver. They would then stamp their face on coins and hand them to soldiers. The soldiers would conquer people and institute a tax requiring the conquered people to return those same coins back to the empire. Why make this game? Now the local populations start doing things for the soldiers and the empire. Markets form. And suddenly, people who were free are now under the control of the empire. Money has always been a system of control. Money is a carrot, taxes are the stick.
As an American transplant to Amsterdam, here's my take:

The Dutch have embedded innovation/entrepreneurship so deeply into their society, it looks very different from American-style innovation. There are so many little innovative things here that startups would never get to. It is continuous, but not relentless -- as in, it occurs within the paradigm of working hours. Further, it tends to reflect the systemic intelligence of organizations, at a large and small scale.

Example Domains:

Transportation (all aspects), payment (online and off), festivals (incredibly innovative!), road construction, garbage pickup (yes! It's so futuristic!), child care & education, psychology, medicine...

In any of these areas, I can readily think of smart innovations that would impress Americans. The innovations are not of the "Uber for X", digital startup-based type. So, seeing the lack of Dutch statups in VC portfolios might suggest a less innovative culture. Here, entrepreneurship often occurs within the context of existing systems and organizations. It's a different, complementary way to think about things -- I rather like it.

Also, there are only 17 million people in the Netherlands. It's a much smaller market and startups that successfully capture this market don't necessarily transfer to external markets.

Further, when things are working really well, there isn't always a need for disruption... Nevertheless, things in the Netherlands never seem "done". Sure, there is great transportation, healthcare and education -- but that's because they are always ripping it up and building the future of it. Sometimes in the States, things can seem like we are just trying to keep the status quo from falling apart too badly.
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Yes, ALB would have been a much better fit for us. We used API Gateway because that's what the serverless framework sets up (at least by default) and I didn't know you could use ALB in front of Lambda.
These are not the only two options.

This is a common criticism of systemd-detractors, but it is built on a false premise.
Of course productivity is important, but it isn't an end in itself. Neither are high incomes or appearences of success. If you are lonely and have to sacrifice your health you really have to start thinking about what it is all for.
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This is all true, but serverless is wonderful for light tasks that aren't run very often (it's basically like cron jobs for your cloud setup, without having to bother with machines) or for moderately used APIs. Spending cents instead of having a dedicated server for such stuff is very nice. So it has a niche where it excels.
Pretty certain parent commenter is fully aware of what they're doing. :) It's a masterpiece

(at least, I hope they're fully aware!)
> China built an alternative to SWIFT

Competition is a good thing.

The day the US dollar loses its reserve currency status will be a very bright day for the world.
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Well, reaching that point is the definition of insolvency.

But having future commitments that you don't currently have the cash for is both normal and expected. The economy is held together by invoice credit.

(Wait until the people who get upset about banks "creating money" realise how commercial credit works and discover "shadow banking"...)
seems like OP forgot link

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/china-is-harve...
> This feels very "Serverless is cool, everyone is saving money on it, lets do the same

More like "seems like there's an easy way for me to try this new thing out, lets give it a shot". It took a couple of hours to switch over to this, and I learnt something in the process. Also, our API is very simple, pretty much all the actions are a single database call, so I don't think in this case we would have gained anything by splitting things up into more pieces. But I can see how it would make sense for a larger, more complicated app.
It's an outrageous story, and I'm sure it was bank incompetence, but what triggered it? Law enforcement wouldn't order their account frozen for no reason -- it was probably a stupid reason, but still there's some reason.
The cherry on top doesn't make a difference between 2 otherwise identical pieces of crap (or shouldn't, at least...). But it will make a difference between 2 otherwise identical cakes.

Chit chat is also a form of self promotion or publicity. People are more likely to notice you delivered instead of "it was delivered" if they know you. Don't rely exclusively on your immediate manager to promote you to everyone else. They may not have the time for that and it's unlikely they'll say "John/Jane delivered" if nobody around knows who those people are.
>We should accept that most famous CTOs, engineers and other "thought leaders" are not geniuses (also, they're often corrupted by financial interests)

That goes without saying!

That said, serverless might be 2x slower and 8x more expensive, but all that would be irrelevant if it's e.g. 10x easier, so that e.g. 1 programmer/ops guy can do what it took 10 before.

I don't think anybody uses things like AWS or serveless services because they're faster or cheaper...
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It's not just in Europe, even here in West Africa OTPs (and hardware tokens) have been standard practice for years. I always feel weirdly unsafe interacting with US-based companies/payment processors.
So I guess that means one thing that is little-endian is a joke.

FTFY :)
Counterpoint to that though: "Serverless" isn't all that much "easier" to setup compared to traditional server setup. You still need to know how to wireup your request gateway to the correct service, you need to write your app for a serverless setup, setup security groups, etc. None of that is particularly "accessible" for someone trying to get running ASAP.

I agree tech is getting democratised, but when talking about products that allows it, I'm thinking of products like Firebase or the recent darklang, not AWS Lambda. From all the Lambda usage that I've encountered so far, they are still very much in the domain of a "sysadmin".
On the other hand, the tourists aren't being paradropped over hostile territory. Unless Thomas Cook had really gone downhill..
I just checked my travel insurance and they son't seem to cover bankruptcy of airlines in any way. That's good to know.
You are right, I should do it. It’s very important to participate in office politics and decision making process. I think, other companies have separate meetings for this. But I am not going to stay here for 5 years.
What do they mean by "sort function"?
I'd be concerned that the DB is going to contain some pretty nasty stuff that might be hard to explain in front of a judge.
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Is there a path between taking the hit fully and alone and not divulging ?

A way to store information outside, and maybe think about it and how to use it to have an effect on policies without causing the source to suffer. Stealth hack in a way.
From my memories of reading the Trek Technical Manual:

1. The transporter blows you apart at the atomic level.

2. It then encodes all your atomic information into the transporter buffer. The buffer is a massive storage array (even for trek tech) but only has a limited lifespan (see: Relics, TNG).

3. The data in the buffer is then streamed over an 'energy beam' carrier to the destination location.

4. At the destination the atomic information is rebuilt into a new 'you'. Right down to what your synapses were doing at the time of step #1.

...

In the way that a jigsaw is still the same jigsaw no matter how many times you take it apart and rebuild it, the theory is that it's not a clone of you, as the original never exists at the same time the 'clone' does.

The above steps totally ignore the implausibility of being able to rebuild the subject at the other end, without any infrastructure. Transporter-pad to transporter-pad transfers make logical sense, but transporter-pad to anywhere-on-a-planet... not so much.
The alternative to serverless isn't "single instance". With Elastic Beanstalk you can have multiple instances, autoscaling etc.
Money is a system of control in a more generic way - it allows you to make people do things for you and give you resources.

It can make a plane come for you to take you to a different city where a room will be waiting for you, people will give you food etc.

It's downright magic if you ask me. Without the magic of money, nobody would lift their finger to help you unless they're a friend or a relative
It's not as clear cut as the article describes though. For low usage stuff serverless is cheaper. For "spiky" traffic - particularly when those spikes are unpredictable - serverless is often cheaper and sometimes faster too (eg if your spikes ramp up quicker than the spin up times of virtual machines).

Also AOT compiled languages like C# will run slower on lambda than pre-compiled on an EC2. You shouldn't need benchmarks to work that much out - it's software development 101. However you then went on to compare JIT compiled languages on lambda vs EC2 you'd notice the performance is much closer to each other.

You say tech should be about the results rather than religion and while I do agree there is a lot of cult-like behaviours in IT (and there always has been - emacs/vi, GNOME/KDE/etc, Windows/Linux/MacOS, etc) organisations that really depend on their services genuinely do load test their stuff to hell and back to ensure they are getting the best price, performance, scalability (where required) and resilience too.

That last point is also important when looking at infrastructure. Serverless often (though not always - you need to look at it on a case by case basis) offer you better resilience than rolling your own with EC2 instances. I mean sure, you can span multiple AZs yadda yadda yadda - it's all doable. But again you have to factor in spin up times and spare capacity (eg if you lose an AZ and then have 100% of your traffic over 2/3s of your existing hosts, are they going to have enough spare capacity to survive the spin up time of additional hosts or are you going to lose everything like toppling dominoes?)

Ultimately though, if you predictable traffic and don't have a requirements for redundancy then you could just host it yourself for a fraction of the cost of running stuff in the cloud. The real technical challenge isn't hosting though, it's all the edge cases around what needs to happen when your typical hosting plan isn't enough.
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Sean Carroll argues that all physics, which could matter to us, has been discovered. See for example his talk "From Particles to People" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Fel1VKEN8
>If this were the reason to use Serverless, it doesn't buy you much. Ports? You set that up once and you're done forever. OS patching? You already have to manage patches for your app and its libraries, so OS (really container) patching is just another part of your patching strategy.

This is "you'll always have to do X, so might as well do 10x" argument...
You're negating your own point. The "claim by the state" was the justification used to confiscate the money. The confiscation was demanded by bankers, and the state was acting as their enforcer.

There are other examples. Such as the foreclosure mills set up around 2008 which literally stole some people's houses - even if they didn't have a mortgage.

And in the UK the banks make a lot of their profits from excessive "overdraft fees", which they claim - on a whim, just because they can - unless legislation is passed to prevent them.

And in times of financial stress, banks have the option to prevent withdrawals of customer funds. That's not a permanent confiscation, but it's a very bad thing if you need to buy food and have no idea why your card isn't working.

These can all be fought through the courts, but most individuals have neither the time nor the resources to fight them.

The bottom line is that banks like an unofficial branch of government. From the Fed down, they control the money supply - and since there is no such thing as "money" in any tangible sense that isn't symbolic of political power, that's identical to being able to exercise immense power over people's lives with no political accountability.
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You are right. That's why it's an educational project and not a public search engine
Perhaps a less loaded way is to say GP uses it because a distribution they find value in finds value in it. It’s not “forcing”, but neither is it entirely their choice. It’s possible replacing systemd would be a net gain for them.
Oysters are incredibly important.

You know that millions that was spent on the plastic cleanup effort for the pacific gArbage. Gyre?

It would have been much better spent on oyseter farms (and to the pacific garbage gyre cleanup just a little later)

You know the biggest obstacle to pollution is ignorance and poor education.

I was just pinging bill gates on this earlier today.

You can treat the symptom, but the cause is human stupidity due to lack of education.

A world standard of how to treat the health of the planet needs to be set, and by comparison to many other things, is actually affordable.

Because all youre doing is setting a standard of basic knolewdge that every single child on the planet should learn - spreading that knowledge is easier (once formulated) thAn say, vaccinating every child from polio, or developing and deploying water purification plants everywhere.

What if we educate children, AND WE DEPLOY as many oysters as we can around the globe everywhere.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=saAy7GfLq4w <— the most important one. We should spend a billion dollars on Oysters.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2015/06/01/a-billion-oysters-te...

https://www.thrillist.com/amphtml/eat/nation/oyster-facts-ne...

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/06/01/history-half-shell-inte...
Whistle blowing is a social service. Assange tried to do something that stepped outside nearly every social rule we have and challenged our bedrock assumptions about journalism and free speech... He did that irresponsibly and may have harmed people, but I admire the effort. He's the closest thing to a real life Bond villain there is.
The community is to blame for this.

If "serverless heros" are running around promoting Lambda, newcomers will use it without thinking twice...
Agree but the current fashion is unstructured, non hierarchical UI. Amazon Music and iTunes on Windows are the poster children, where is it always unclear to me how I got to a screen and how to get back there if I want.
Repairing car is comparable to debugging/writing software. You should know how to operate car, park on hill, know what all controls and indicators do, etc. a power user should know how to check fluid levels, tire pressure, be able to comprehend maint schedule and have it performed.

Most Americans are as knowledgeable about how to operate their automobil e as they are about software. That is, not very.
For AWS it was november 2018 when it was annanced. Still a pretty new thing if you ask me. Many Cloud Architects still dont understand all pros and cons of this solution.
Watch out for a scaling fallacy.

If the Dutch are just as entrepreneurial as Americans, then there will be way more successful Americans and American companies because the USA is so much bigger. Ditto for China. You'd really need to calculate "successful entrepreneur per 100,000 people" or something like that.

Also, selection bias. You're on a tech website. Switching to Denmark for a second, the Danes are incredibly ahead and successful in the wind power industry. How many people think of Denmark as a tech centre? Probably not many. We focus on software and there, one or two regions of America have done extremely well so we give it more attention.

That said, I do believe Europe and the EU in particular is discouraging innovation and entrepreneurialism at a pretty staggering rate. The Vestager rulings send a loud message that the EU considers hurting competitors to be anti-competitive behaviour (vs harm to consumers). That's a pretty big disincentive to work hard to get big.
Ving Norge cancelled all their flights even though they haven't actually filed for bankruptcy, so don't be surprised if the other subsidiaries end up with similar happenings.
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It'd be interesting to see how much this same workload would cost with e.g. OpenFaaS on k8s with autoscaling to zero; but there also you'd need to include maintenance costs like OS and FaaS stack upgrades.
https://docs.openfaas.com/architecture/autoscaling/
Interesting!

Anecdotally I'm an Israeli who moved to Europe (first Austria then Germany) and at least from my layman's perspective both of these countries seem both a lot less entrepreneurial than Israel and a lot less corrupt...

So I wonder if something unusual is going on or if one or more of my perceptions are wrong.
The Igbo are an example of a merchant minority, like both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, Armenians, Parsis and the Chinese in Southeast Asia, Lebanese in West Africa, Latin America and elsewhere and Yankees in the US South. There’s always hostility to merchant minorities from the majority population but the degree of difference modulates the hostility. No Yankee enclave was ever burned in a pogrom in the South whereas Jews everywhere in the Old World, various Christians in the Ottoman Empire and the Chinese in SE Asia all dealt with those regularly enough. The Igbo tried to secede from Nigeria after independence and it was an utter bloodbath.

We know this is at least partly cultural because genetically Turks in Turkey are over 90% Greek or Armenian with some additional Balkan and Caucasus contribution and after mutual ethnic cleansing rid Turkey of Christians and the rest of the Balkans of Muslims Turks eventually filled those socioeconomic niches. Until Erdogan it looked like Turney would be richer than Greece pretty soon.

Any Chua wrote a great book on merchant minorites, World On Fire.
The site of this software looks like it is up since early 1990s... :D
> Also AOT compiled languages like C# will run slower on lambda than pre-compiled on an EC2. You shouldn't need benchmarks to work that much out - it's software development 101.

This isn't true. The overhead from the article comes from API Gateway, and has nothing to do with running faster/slow via a Lambda or EC2 instance. The real performance hit in Lambda comes from cold-starts. But if you're willing to accept minor cold starts for not running infrastructure 24/7 then it can be a huge benefit.
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