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However if a rockstar were to protest peacefully and shout “Black Lives Matters” then throw a rock through a police car window..

…I’d assume that would be judged differently than an attempted murder and trashing a hotel room.

The question is what would be the judgement for all three?


I'm genuinely confused what the question is.

Shouting "black lives matter" at a protest is a fairly minor virtuous action. Throwing a rock at a police car is a pretty minor sin.

Attempted murder is generally a pretty major sin, modulo quibbles about legal vs moral definitions of murder.


The funny thing is…

You’re stating the problem with that whole sector.

I really wish product owners, researchers and tool creators had more actual real world experience on the remediation side. I think that’s the reason we have so many crappy tools.

- We need a better way of addressing business logic issues and sensitive data leakage which starts at the data model and flows from there.

- Within large organizations we need better risk data about vulns to aid with prioritization and remediation which is always the larger problem (sifting through noise)

- We need automated threat modeling tools that reduce a teams need to start from zero

Fundamentally a tool is a waste of time if it can’t tell you there’s “x% possibility of downtime or sensitive data leakage.”

Addressing the risk equation (r=il) where the impact and likelihood variables are baked into every tool and based in real world data is where we should be.

Until then, vulnerability scanning and management will continue to suck.


I also wish that I had more real world experience. It would help me a ton if I had 25 years of software testing experience.

It sounds like you do have experience, and I would love to learn from you. It would be awesome if you could help us build a tool that is truly useful for you and your work.


So what’s…

been the impact of OpenAI and meta glasses / headsets on the blind community at large?

Based on your statements it seems that the real value of AI is increasing the participation rate of visually impaired people in the global workforce.

If Elon or Sam can convince governments and insurance companies to pay for AI-powered glasses as a healthcare necessity maybe there’s a pathway forward for AI and VC class after all.

…maybe that’s the real game plan for Marc Andreesen, Kanye, Elon and the others.

They’re not really Nazi’s just early adopters choosing the “innovative freedom” promised by Emperor Palpatine and the Sith over the slow march of the Senators of the Republic.

Sorry, I’ve been watching too much Andor.


I’m not sure it matters.

Many will say Bill is attempting to reshape his legacy and narrative post-Epstein.

The most important thing is that money is being returned to society on an accelerated timeline.

Without this redistribution of wealth from billionaires back to especially the middle and lower classes we are headed for violent revolution on a massive scale.

Hopefully other billionaires redistribute during their lifetimes to address housing, education and health issues as well.


Yeah.

The ignorance comes from lack of experience and it happens often on both sides.

Engineers think they deserve a big equity package for writing CRUD apps.

“Businesspeople” with no startup experience, never raised money and never worked in sales think they have value.

If both co-founders have no prior startup experience then they both need to put in the same amount of money and split equity 51/49 or 60/40 (while considering dilution).

No once can build a meaningful company alone so you need to have a team and that team must have a servant leader willing to break ties.

It’s only inexperienced people that don’t know / understand this.


I agree.

The story of Anwar Al-Awlaki and his American US-born son who was killed in the attack authorized by the Obama administration must not be forgotten.

The issue of presidential powers and conduct must be a non-partisan issue. Trump merely walked through the cracks created under Obama.

Being well-intentioned (“protecting Americans against terrorism”) is not sufficient excuse for murdering an American minor due to the sins of his father no matter how much the Obama administration DOJ attempted to make it legally permissible to do so.


<Trump merely walked through the cracks created under Obama.>

Which were dependent on the GWB administration (forced renditions, torture prisons), the Reagan administration (Iran-Contra etc), the Nixon Administration (Watergate etc), FDR's admin (concentration camps), on and on and on.

The expansion of Presidential power is non-partisan. Congress would be the logical counterbalance but other than in fits and starts has generally abdicated this role to the SCOTUS which has now been captured by believers in the unitary Presidency.


In the past, you had to practically be on a Wheaties box or major magazine cover to be considered a celebrity.

Now everyone is a “celebrity”and hubris is at an all time high.

I’ve been in tech for 25+ years and never heard of this person until now but it’s not the first time I’ve heard similar talk.

These maxims strike me more as bitter senior neck beard developer complains about the rest of his team in a passive aggressive way at the work lunch table before COVID.

If you’re a celebrity, we don’t need your snarky complaints. We need you using your “celebrity” to make things better.


You've been in tech for 25+ years and never heard of Redis?


Living is serverless world.


Agreed.

Upper and middle class white women have benefitted richly from these policies for far too long.

There’s too many of them in college and corporate America.

Fairness is the goal but…

…there’s been no real uptick in positive outcomes for ethnic minorities or even impoverished white people.

It’s time to dismantle DEI and “diversity-based targets” because it’s a shield that protects disingenuous rich people from having to actually achieve equity and inclusion for the rest of society.

Source:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/06/29/affirmative-...

#satire


Maybe I’m missing something…

I get it that Oracle is in the wrong but I’m still not sure why get in this trademark fight anyhow.

I would personally leave it to someone with much larger pockets like Microsoft to deal with.


Oracle will fight like hell if there is a slightest chance to earn royalty from that trademark.

edit: Microsoft or other companies have no financial benefit on that fight. Even Deno itself has no financial benefit as well. This fight is for goodwill but not justifiable for financial terms (unless you can be the next owner of JavaScript trademark)


Well, it appears nobody else has taken the lead on this since 1997 so…


Again another example of billion dollar firms taking advantage of small businesses and consumers.


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