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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Dodd-Frank does not clearly state there cannot be those contracts. Dodd-Frank grants the CFTC jurisdiction to govern those contracts. what you are saying was struck down in court in September 2024 where the judge ruled those contracts are legal but the content, fairness, and quality of such contracts are CFTC jurisdiction.

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

in what way do they violate Dodd-Frank?

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

spoken like a true go developer ha

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

foundation has an incredible cast but even among such talent he's a clear outlier

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

theyve been marketed as a serious competitor to vmware for 15 years. their sales reps mightve just not found you until recently. but we did a poc with them 10 years ago and i dont believe much has changed since

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

everything will eventually go to zero. we look at some of these things and laugh because we're pretty sure they're going to go to zero within weeks or months vs years. but by the end of all of our lifetimes, most the companies on the stock market will be replaced. the few that won't are probably investment banks like goldman sachs

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

these deals are made as part of a market so it's more like musical chairs where every time you change a chair you get a ton of money but you don't want to be the one that's stuck without a chair at the end

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I think people don't understand what this means either. the nation-state "agencies" that can and will get into your network/devices can do so because they would employ tactics like kidnapping and blackmailing a local telco field technician. or if it's your own government, they can show up with some police and tell them to do whatever and most will comply without even receiving a proper court order.

so unless you're worth all that trouble, you're really just trying to avoid being "low hanging fruit" compromised by some batch script probing known (and usually very old) vulnerabilities

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

he essentially invented the modern concept of conscription. there were press gangs and conscription-like things all through history but for the most part soldiers were professionals

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

who has discouraged "sucking it up"? what systemic policies have changed to accommodate this? as far as I can tell, someone can explain how they're the victim to anyone and everyone they come across and no one will care. I can't see how anyone emotionally or materially benefits from saying they're a victim. they may want sympathy but they will not get it.

that said, I don't live in a coastal city where there might be more accommodations for such things. where I live, people are generally on their own to find the means to survive. but, in line with the theme of the post, I'm fairly certain people here have a lower life expectancy and generally lower health than people in places where there is a more robust support network. in which case, the body must, in fact, keep the score.

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

everyone is the Magnus Carlsen of their own life, though. and humans are irreplaceable. sure, budget decisions are made that cause people to have to go find another employer. but there is no civilization without people in it.

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

100% - given the resources we have, America is far underperforming at the moment

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

why do they always say "not only" or "it isn't just x but also y and z"? I hated that disingenuous verbosity BEFORE these LLMs out and now it'll all over the place. I saw a post on linked in that was literally just like 10+ statements of "X isn't just Y, it's etc..." and thought I was having a stroke

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

i cant imagine it's related. if it is related, hello Bloomberg News or whoever will be reading this thread because that would be a catastrophic breach of customer trust that would likely never fully return

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I think the author didn't account for different types of engineering orgs at different points in their lifecycle. "just fix it" at an enterprise massive company as a junior is fine but a senior would know "if you fix it, you own it" and it could cause downstream issues with what your team does or owns at the company. whereas at a startup, if you're relying on junior devs to "just fix it"... good luck with that

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

commentary from first time staff engineers should be taken with a grain of salt because they can be silly trying to prove themselves. same as first time people managers with an engineering background. if they're not a few iterations through the engineering manager pendulum, they're still getting their bearings.

if you're at a company where leadership doesn't understand this, do your mental health a favor and leave.

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I think there's a theory out there that if something can't die, it's more of a "library" than "immortal"... because being born and dying (and the fact that you sharing resources with another living thing is possibly you sharing/shortening your one finite life with another) is so essential for any social bonding. so a machine that has obtained all the knowledge of the universe and enabled to act upon that knowledge is still just a library with controllers attached (no more sophisticated of a concept than a thermostat)

in the end, if synthetic super intelligence results in the end of mankind, it'll be because a human programmed it to do so. more of a computer virus than a malevolent synthetic alien entity. a digital nuclear bomb.

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

> isn't "we made a machine to do something that people used to do" basically the entire history of of technology?

kinda, I guess. but what has everyone on edge these days is humans always used technology to build things. to build civilization and infrastructure so that life was progressing in some way. at least in the US, people stopped building and advancing civilization decades ago. most sewage and transportation infrastructure is from 70+ years ago. decades ago, telecom infrastructure boomed for a bit then abruptly halted. so the "joke" is that technology these days is in no way "for the benefit of all" like it typically was for all human history (with obvious exceptions)

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

that's not my point - my point is it would not have gotten the adoption it has without etcd and the fact that it was resilient and scalable out of the box

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

not exactly a fair assessment since neither of those were out and/or available to the kubernetes team at the time. sure, some things at many times from now into eternity may be or become better suited for the kubernetes data plane but at the time if etcd wasn't used there would be no kubernetes today