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Perhaps there is no experience outside of consciousness (depending on exactly what you mean by that). I take it to mean that consciousness is the only thing that we (directly) experience. Fine. But that doesn't mean that "studying consciousness" is the only explanation that is consistent with "no experience outside of consciousness". It's the only explanation that's limited to that.

A real external world is perfectly consistent with us not experiencing anything outside of consciousness, that is, that our consciousness is how we experience what we experience. There's still something out there - an external world - that we experience, though.

The alternative way of taking your words - that there is no external world at all, that all we are is consciousness, that we aren't actually experiencing a real world - is the total death of science, because there's nothing actually there to study.
> You can make a SF salary and pay $1600/month for a micro-apartment. Or you can take a 50% pay cut, to pay $800/month for ~200sqft micro-apartment. They are equally ridiculous and equally unaffordable, once you account for the currency/wage differences, despite the fact that we have no zoning restrictions in this town.

They’re not equal. You almost certainly end up with significantly more disposable income in SF.
This has to be fake. With their reputation for killing off products this is asking for companies to drop their services.
If you had good backups, you didn't had to pay until now.

But to make the data public, they have to download all the data first. This might be detected.

I know from several companys who did set up the complete network again.

The most prominent company I know at moment is Pilz (pilz.com). There website was almost down for a month. Now after 2 months it possible to download datasheets and manuals again.
> $1M or $2M in inflation-adjusted savings is probably a realistic goal for a middle class American to have for retirement after a long career and prudent investing.

I wonder what fraction of the population reaches $1M in retirement fund by the time they retire. If 401(k) median balances by age are at all accurate, then the answer seems to be "very few."
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As a level 3 software engineer, the latter (with oversight, which it would appear was in place here. A change like this one doesn't hit the live codebase without at least one other engineer signing off on it).
but the population in the US and the world as a whole is still growing.

"World population projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, and 11.2 billion in 2100"

https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/world...
The current societal standard seems to be "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences". I don't think it's possible to give a principled reason why "Peter Thiel funding a lawsuit" (which he won) is bad, but "advocating for someone to be fired for having a wrong/bad opinion" is good.
Sorry for the trouble.

We had a greater need for the 1Password.com support in the Windows client. So when we started our rewrite efforts it focused on that.

In general, we'd agree that it took longer than we wanted, and I'm sorry if that caused you to leave. In the end we were really doing the best we could given the demands we had and the time/resources available to do it. It sounds like in this case it wasn't enough.

Kyle

1Password Security Team
Facebook actively facilitated suppressing black voters in 2016. They were literally tricked, yes.

https://nypost.com/2019/10/10/report-finds-black-voters-were...
Regulatory capture is the name for the phenomenon where some governing/regulatory body, charged with regulating/governing some industry for the public good, instead begins serving that same industry to the detriment of the public good.

In this case, ICANN is the body governing all domain names. There are individuals who have moved from employment at ICANN to those organizations involved in the sale of the .ORG tld. Link contains dramatis personae[0].

The movement of individuals between regulator entities and regulated entities (both directions), is often considered a sign of regulatory capture.

There is a common tension, perhaps inevitable, in regulation: Those most familiar with an industry, and therefore with the best knowledge to regulate it, are those who work in that industry. Thus, the best people for a regulator to hire are those who have worked in the industry.

Similarly, those most qualified to advise on matters associated with regulation are those who have crafted the regulation. Thus, the best people for an entity in industry to hire to manage regulatory compliance are those who have worked for the regulatory body.

This wicket becomes sticky quickly.

[0] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/11/isoc-pir-...
The thing that scares me the most, is some automated system deciding that I did something wrong without telling me and banning not only my Google Cloud account but also all of my personal google accounts.
Yes, it's directly asked on it's own page during the sign up processs, with lots of details. At least when I signed up.
CS is a fantastic undergrad path of study because it is fundamentally a degree in systematic thinking and problem solving. So, regardless of where you go in life, you'll have acquired useful ways to categorize and approach problems.

Otherwise, rather than worrying about whether you are in the right major, think in terms of "what kind of problems do I want to work on in life?" If you can answer that, you'll be on the right path. And, if you think the kinds of problems you want to work on don't involve technology or aren't solved by technology, then either switch majors or add a second major that augments the skills you need for the problems you want to work on.
Oh my god. How is Google so clueless to let this leak?

Now that we know they're not invested in a Google cloud beyond 2023, what reason does anyone in their right might have to use their services?

I was previously considering GCP. And now I'm not.

Great job, Google. You're so short-sighted you'll remain in adtech forever. Not even your founders could keep interest.

This leak was a billion dollar mistake. And I'm grateful for it. It's saved me a whole lot of headache.
I was a kid programmer and it sounded crazy to spend college learning to code. I studied anything and everything else. More interesting, but not a good resume-building strategy.
Great story of how automating one's own job led to more meaningful productivity, rather than being made redundant.

> a DevOps style team where we managed ourselves and were told to just attach ourselves to whatever projects we want and just add value somehow

Sounds wonderful - and surprising too, since businesses typically seem afraid to trust their own teams this way.

What's striking is the autonomy given to the team, after the boring stuff got automated. This kind of higher-level decision making is exactly what cannot be automated (at least for now) - to diagnose areas that need improvement, and to plan and self-organize to implement it.

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In my work, I've also been putting much effort into automating parts of my job, i.e., build/deployment and remote management of applications.

Far from making myself redundant, I'm trusted by the company with more (and higher) responsibilities, and more autonomy to manage my own work and its direction.

Also, with the increase in efficiency and productivity, we're able to hire more people.
Only way Google perhaps can take a lead in Cloud is if they invent a new paradigm - quantum cloud or something (just to illustrate the point). That is, change the game and not change themselves for the current game.

Google just can't compete with hustlers like Amazon, Alibaba and to some extent Microsoft (ex-Oracle leader not withstanding). Cloud business is commodity operational business.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC421770/

Yeah GSK is definitely where the resources are. To circumvent regulations and laws.

Fuck actual research right?
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CS is probably one of the best fields to be in if you like doing it and you don't want to shackle yourself to the law/medicine/finance treadmills, with the expensive extra years of schooling and insane hours for the first years.

There's probably not a better path to a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Just stay out of the Bay area; there's tons of jobs in second and third tier cities with reasonable cost-of-living that will pay you a hundred grand after a few years.
Right? It's such a braindead thing to ask. Imagine having a package on your porch, and seeing someone walk up your driveway and grab it. That's a good way to get punched before you have time to explain.
I knew they would do something like this when I used 23andMe. I have no problem with it at all. If my DNA helps people well after my death, I'm totally fine with it.
Agreed. And that kind of makes the whole situation worse.
"That timeline was devised early last year, after an intense monthslong debate among senior leaders at Google and its parent company Alphabet over the future of the cloud business, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told The Information."

Can't imagine a leak like that happening. This leak could very well have been planted by MS or Oracle to help them sell their own cloud to clients.
All tech stocks dropped then, see FB for example
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Deliberately destroyed and returned to make a competitors product get bad review scores or banned from amazon entirely.
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Makes me very reluctant to build something in Google's cloud. Can they not see value in being third as long as it is profitable?
Commutes to SF via BART train are fine from the denser, inner-ring suburbs. Commutes from the sprawl area in Contra Costa County are horrendous.
> No one is forcing jobs to be where they are now.

The Federal government has played an outsized role in how our geography and economy have developed. They've favored urban coastal areas by explicitly allowing manufacturing centers in the rust belt to be dismantled and shipped overseas without penalty. They've flooded the heartland with millions of illegal and visa workers to do jobs Americans used to do, and would continue to do at acceptable wages. The House just approved millions more this past week.

They've encouraged housing in various areas to far outstrip supply via subsidized mortgages, bailing out lenders, tax deductions for high tax and high home price states.

Do you think Google and Amazon might consider building out smaller regional offices in St Louis, Omaha, Cleveland if they weren't able to scam off thousands of workers on of H1B, L1, etc. visas each year to come work in SV and Seattle, instead of being forced to search for talented citizens outside of their areas? How bout if they were severely punished for colluding to hold down wages in SV?

This isn't the 'Invisible Hand of the Free Market' at work. It's government policy which creates the system we have. And it can be government policy to change things.

https://www.numbersusa.com/news/house-approves-amnesty-inden...

https://insights.dice.com/2019/08/27/h-1b-visa-use-state/

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/mortgage-interest...

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-tech-jo...
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Having taken courses in both finance and comp sci while attending one of them elite schools they are two very different group of people. Even if they start at the same line their career path will probably divulge down the road.

I would focus more on what specialization you want to pursue rather than worry about CS being viable. After a few years your degree begins to matter a whole lot less.

You have a leg up.
Hi Nathan!

Thanks for the kind words. I'll make sure to pass this along to our team. It's always great when we hear positives. Sometimes the negatives can overwhelm the positive in terms of feedback.

If I can do anything to help you with the consulting side please reach out via our support team and you're welcome to ask for me. If I can't help you then I'll get you in touch with someone that is able to do so.

Kyle

1Password Security Team
They got lucky with positive press before they were discovered. The article you link to notes:

> If this went at all wrong, a number of us would surely be fired.
I don't get it. Who is that "someone else"?
There does not have to be a trade-off between trees and new construction; see the new transbay terminal in San Francisco as an example, or the Changi airport in Singapore.

The poop in SF is from growing rates of homelessness, not from density. SF ranks low on density compared to NYC and Hong Kong, yet only SF has a poop problem.

NIMBYism crops up in every place where there is growth, and it seems to create a system that rewards luck of being born in the right time and place over contributions to society.
I think that depends on who you ask. People in their 20s still think people in their 50s are old.
The review hijacking as covered in a recent consumer reports article [0] really makes me doubt any item with a significant number of reviews. I have seen similar myself and Amazon's excuse for it happening should not be accepted and probably requires intervention, they are in effect support false advertising and while I have not seen it myself I have seen people claim it occurs on amazon branded products too.

it is just not acceptable a shopping site has so little product integrity that they cannot guarantee a review belongs to the product it is attached too. Amazon could fix a lot of this by assigning each product a unique number that can never be reused; as in ever. Let the retailer point back to the previous version if review history is important but never let it appear as review of the viewed product

[0] https://www.consumerreports.org/customer-reviews-ratings/hij...
> I’ll also point out that silicones are much better products for most lubricant and plastic/rubber uses. Oil is cheap and usually inferior, except for most engineering plastics.

Oh? What industry are you in and do you have a source for that statement?

Because you see car oil synthetics are preferred over mineral maybe?

Because 20 years in automotive and composites says that’s full fantasy.

Just ONE example off the top of my head, carbon fiber, is almost entirely oil. It’s a oil derived plastic that’s burnt and spun and burnt again while being treated with more oil. It’s non-recyclable and pretty damn dirty, I’ve yet to see a carbon that was oil free, but please let me know when you have found one!
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Agglomeration dynamics, a great higher education system, 300M+ people who share the same language, and a common market go a long way. Cheap finance and government support (defense spending) also help.

If you want to attribute America's economic advantage to hours worked or labor regulations (and yes, they do matter to an extent), you have to be ready to explain why Russia, Mexico, Greece, and Chile aren't also economic powerhouses.

Source: https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm
Even libertarians don't often expand free speech to include doxing.
Drag people from one place to another its not governments role here.

Sorry to say this (as an outsider) but not all areas of the US are the same and are not as desirable to live in, also for those planning a family you may be limiting their career choices in 20 years.

One of my friends has move back near London from one of the cheaper (more depressed regions of the UK) because her v bright daughter through the only job for her was working on the tills.
These are stiff consequences for the violation in question for Google.

Individual employees publicly embarrassing the company (https://mobile.twitter.com/jweise/status/491788092710199297?...) or accidentally disrupting the network fabric and costing the company $X in missed revenue don't get fired for first offense. The way this was handled seems unusual, suggesting either there's a piece of the puzzle we internet pundits aren't holding or Google has changed its tolerance policy for honest mistakes.
Dealing with certificates is more critical than "general server maintenance", things people often neglect doing suddenly become required. It might take from a few months to even a couple of years to get from neglected infrastructure to infrastructure ready for reliable automated issuance of certificates.

I actually evaluated a bunch of acme clients, wasn't satisfied with the code of any of them and wrote my own. But even from those I looked at certbot was always the worst choice, it's ridiculous letsencrypt is promoting it, better choices were POSIX shell clients or statically linked clients, like those written in Go and other compiled languages.
It’s partly about working in a professional environment. You can get a 4 year degree and never use git, never work on a single codebase that has existed long before you came and will exist long after you leave. There is so much experience from just working in a professional setting that can greatly boost your resume. We take caution hiring people without this experience as it can be impossible to teach this to someone when teaching them tech skills is easier.
That which has no source, takes no source to dismiss.
The "Dark money in the republican party" claim was not substantiated. I can say there is a unicorn on the moon that shoots candy out of it's butt, how would you dispute it?
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This article finally captured the truth about Amazon - that it’s just eBay, and should be used for the same purchases: things you can’t get anywhere else and things that are impossible to screw up.
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The frustrating thing is that it seems like a trivial problem to solve. Changing too many attributes of a product should either be disallowed, or automatically wipe old reviews.
I live in a part of the US where 2 miles down the road the top speed is 15Mbps DSL. I'm right on the boarder of a small town. just close enough to get Comcast at 25Mbps for ~$100/month.

If I'm not on the outskirts of this small town, I have to move 45 minutes away for equivalent service
I really hate the word "coder"
But in general the internet in the bay area kind of sucks? I am in Oakland at the moment and stuck with Comcast. Before in SF I was in a part of town again stuck with Comcast. Sure there are some providers rolling out fiber but its pretty slow. Yeah I could use monkey brains/webpass but I have never had a landlord willing to set it up.
Who's number 3? Who am I missing?
You can still make backups on all platforms. So it would be a matter of restoring a backup. Typically someone with local vaults also syncs (to either iCloud or Dropbox) so in theory as long as they still have access to that account they can sign in and access their 1Password data. I'd still suggest backups in addition to that, a sync file is constantly changing, and is not an actual backup.

Hope that helps though!

Kyle

1Password Security Team
They report to CSO ? Would be pretty unusual again not a googler but normally that would not be part of security team
The problem with that argument is that the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 clearly gives consumers the right to repair their own devices, and prevents manufacturers from denying warranty claims unless they can prove that 3rd-party parts of service caused the specific problem.

These arguments have been used before with cars, and they've been shot down.
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The management is giving each other high fives now. As they no doubt strategize their plan from the comfort of their boardroom, they know this activist's personality will become the face of effort to collectively bargain.

Despite news articles mentioning walkouts themed on identity politics and out of court sexual assault allegations - those are narrow and not representative of the collective: a small, but vocal clique demanding VIP treatment at the expense of everything else. As for the feelings of those not fitting those characteristics? Do they not have their own personal and professional struggles, ambitions to cooperate and rise in the organization and live a happy life with a family?

It's a perfect distraction from the worker's struggle for union representation.

In order to form a union, you need votes. Google's management knows enduring the most radical and loud is a small price compared to having a union to ensure everyone is treated fair.

Cater to the whims of radicals rather than focusing on common ground == no plurality. Union busted, mission accomplished. https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employees/i...
If you need 2 approvals at Google, then usually 1 is for readability in a specific language. I.e. one of the reviewers is understood to mostly be looking at code style and not domain logic.

In my experience, you more often get the other phenomena where all reviewers (and some other people who get automatically CC'd) dogpile the review and you potentially have too many comments. Or someone ignores the review and it never gets approved. Cursory reviews were basically never a problem.
This happens even within the Bay Area. After going from Comcast Business cable to Sonic gigabit fiber in San Francisco I can never go back. It’s like going from an HDD to an SSD for the first time. They both technically do the same thing, people argue online if the speed difference really matters, but it’s the _latency_ difference that makes it so amazing. I get 2ms pings now. It makes the network mentally invisible in a way that’s hard to describe without experiencing.
Most things would benefit from encryption. Even if you don't need integrity protection, and you don't have any need of privacy, and you don't care about authenticating your peers you still want encryption because otherwise middleboxes ossify everything.

If the middlebox can't see inside your flow because it's encrypted it can't object to whatever new thing it's scared of this time whether that's HD video or a new HTML tag.
w3m, nice! forgot I had it installed
How are you supposed to trust someone to follow the rules in the future if they won’t even acknowledge they broke them?
It's a bit out of date but this book is really interesting on American social class: https://smile.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-Syste...

> though I wouldn't recommend taking a Facebook test that offers to tell you where you lay

hahah, indeed....
See my comment above where I contributed my DNA to Harvard’s genome project. I approve all requests to use it in partner studies. Not sure what else you’re expecting, but my opinion is that your expectations are unrealistic.

If you don’t like the law, fix the law. If you have evidence a drug company or data provider violated the law, report them to your attorney general.
Most end users have no idea what HTTPS is. They've just been (incorrectly) taught that the padlock means it's secure. Disable the padlock for self-signed HTTPS, and disable the CA-signed HTTPS-only features, and it becomes strictly better than HTTP.
Welcome to life though, the best way to do this is to have a partner that can help you when times are rough.
You have no idea how many ways there are to adhere to the letter of that law while ignoring the intent. There are entire multinational businesses built specifically to facilitate these kinds of data exchanges while keeping it technically legal.

The health insurer doesn't need the genome. It just needs a number from 1 to 10 from a 'de-identified' source to multiply their scores by.
>anyone connected to the domain and the hosting asn and the ISP is going to have good opsec

Why would the hosting company/ISP be at risk? Just run it from a non-US extradition friendly country, and say that you won't take any action unless there's a court order from your local court.