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Initial thoughts on internal design of server-less Redshift (announced today)

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I wonder if the Tor people know about this?

Firefox to my eye jumped the shark a long, long time ago, when they took to using deliberate deception during the install process to get people to sign up to a Mozilla account.

Pretty much everything they've introduced for years I've not wanted or disliked.

The saving grace has been that pretty much everything can be turned off in about::config.

I may be wrong, but I think Moz has become a typical larger company, wholly divorced from its users, unable to know what users want, let alone respond.

What Moz as a large company wants is really completely different to what users want, and a unique tracking ID is a shining example of this.

I'll be using Tor, but I my secondary browser now has to change, as this is intolerable.
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> He saw the interests of large capitalists as conflicting with those of the public: capitalists seek high profits, which corrupt and impoverish society.

This is rubbish.

WoN is one of my very favourate books.

Smith is absolutely - astoundingly in fact - neutral in his writing. He says what happens, and what happens because of it.

To write as quoted here, to put opinions into what Smith writes, is to be doing exactly what the article begins with, which is arguing that Smith did not say what he is often made to say.

To my recollection, there is in the entire book exactly one time when Smith offers an opinion; he is discussing bounties paid by the English State on exportation of a particular good, then notes that once a particular level is reached, the bounty ceases and is replaced by a penalty, and he opines that it seams improper to encourage people by the bounty to export and so be encouraged to get to the point where they will then be penalized.
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That list of books is interesting - I'd not heard of most of them before.

Note I'm pretty sure about half of them are admin-type guides, not developer guides; they'll be superficial, and do things like walking you through the screens to start a cluster.

One note : in my view, the official docs are harmful, because they are so poorly written, and so are misleading. I am absolutely certain, from what I have seen documented and then what I have found Redshift is actually doing, that no one technical reviews the official docs. By all means read them, but have your paranoia turned up to 11.

I maintain a web-site where I research Redshift internals and publish white papers. High on the to-do list is a "Introduction to the Fundamentals" paper, which will be exactly what you need. In the meantime, the existing white papers may be of use to you.

https://www.amazonredshiftresearchproject.org