CyanLite4

Are you saying the auditors are the bureaucracy or the FIPS standards approvers are the bureaucracy? All the auditors are saying is that you have to use a FIPS approved algorithm. The FIPS people have real cryptography experts who research this stuff on a daily basis that also help set the security standards for the entire U.S. government. The author is coming along here saying they are using something else that’s not approved by FIPS (for good reason I might add) and they’re mad the auditors won’t let them simply because “everyone else is using bcrypt”.

Gotta call BS on OP here. Anything time sensitive like self-driving cars absolutely has to be built on a real-time operating system. If you’re in the U.S. there are Dept of Transportation requirements to even be allowed to test drive the thing on any road surface other than your own driveway.

I empathize with the author, but definitely they are missing the Big Picture. Just because everyone’s using SolarWinds, does that make it safe to use? No. Now replace “SolarWinds” in that previous sentence with “bcrypt”. Author’s sole argument for security is that ‘everyone’s doing it’.

Auditors also can’t just allow any Tom, Dick, or Harry to write their own cryptography hashing algorithm and call it secure.

They’re (poorly) trying to emulate Blazor Server.

Challenge trials don’t work when 40% of infected are asymptomatic. And challenge trials especially don’t work when 15% of cases require hospitalization and ICU beds are already maxed out.

I’m hesitant to blame anyone before we understand the full scope. “Breached into Microsoft” could mean they hacked into a guest public WiFi access point.

That’s the problem. Black lives mattering is a political issue only to those of privilege. I can’t believe we’re actually having political debate if certain people’s lives should matter or not.

I’m not a fan of cancel culture, but I’ve seen enough to know that I want to move my Bitcoin trading elsewhere. Their prebuttal seemed odd, and now this article confirms the worst of my suspicions.

I’m not saying they’re racist, but they’re clearly not anti-racist.

I presume a lot of the perf gains of hypervisors are using Intel vt-x to hardware accelerate.

The other issue with ARM is that there are several dozen chip varieties whereas x86 only has Intel and AMD. This could hopefully accelerate mini-CPU companies springing up with their own ARM64 chips producing their own hardware running Windows ARM64. Google is rumored to be designing their own CPUs for future high-powered Chromebooks and Pixel phones. Qualcomm has an ARM64 chip powering the Microsoft Surface ProX but it’s nowhere near the performance levels of M1. Microsoft is starting to experiment with CPUs with the Pluton chip, maybe they will design an “M1” flagship chip going forward for their own Surface product line.

It’s frowned upon in the public relations community because now the NYT can make changes to their story based on CB’s prebuttal. Which will be even more damaging.

TBH, this blog post from CB sounded like something you’d hear from the Trump campaign. Everything’s fine, we’re making lotsa money, it’s all fake news...

TLDR: We’re not racist, we’re just not anti-racist.

Saying something to the effect of “we’re not racist, we have ONE black person that works here” isn’t a good idea. Especially if you’re the premier cryptocurrency exchange and still rely heavily on outside funding.

Pfizer and Moderna each are lined up to produce 100 million doses each by end of the year. Pfizer’s CEO thinks we can get approval by October. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/washington-post-live/wp...

AstraZenica also to provide 300 million doses starting in October. https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/05/21/trump-administrati...

Many of those like OC43 and NL63 are extremely deadly to the elderly and have been known to have around 5-8% mortality in nursing homes.

For everyone else, we should have a vaccine in the next 2-3 months.

Trump seems intent on this because of the Tulsa Rally fiasco. But at what point does it backfire on him? Tens of millions of pissed off 18yr olds could easily sway the election.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has quietly avoided the anti-trust spotlight recently yet has acquired github, LinkedIn, and now a social network that could rival Facebook. Satya Nadella is a genius.

Thus the need for cheaper, quicker tests, even if the accuracy is t that great. TWIV Podcast episode #640 covers this. $1 per day test that quickly gives a result, but perhaps is only 50% accurate.

The Pfizer/Biontech mRNA vaccine did quite well on stimulating T-cell responses. https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/pfizer-reports-strong-...

I think you missed the whole reason to “flatten the curve”. The hospitalization rate is the problem, not mortality rate. 20-30% of people who get the virus end up in the hospital since there are no known treatments available. For now, if we have hospital capacity you’re very likely to survive COVID-19. If we run out of supplies and overwhelm the limited medical staff the mortality rate is going to skyrocket and we will run out of places to store the dead bodies.

Management overvalues complex systems and undervalues more elegant approaches. Architects are often more than willing to oblige mostly to live out their fantasies.

Thus, we have every company it seems these days running around trying to implement microservices because “our architecture is like Netflix’s”. No, that LOB CRUD application isn’t like Netflix and you don’t need polyglot storage, Kubernetes, and microservices to capture input from a web form. However, one of the managers between the architect and the CEO (see: Peter Principle) is extremely impressed by this idea and can use it to advance their personal career.

I don’t know about you guys, but .NET Core (c#) and Visual Studio along with Blazor on the front end and deploying on Linux is pretty darn cool and highly productive. I haven’t had much success getting as productive on Python, Golang, or Node. Blazor eats TypeScript for lunch. Sometimes people confuse complexity for productivity. You can’t tell me installing 60,000 NPM packages just to have one dependency break is your idea of fun.

HIV, Lassa virus, and Ebola hasn’t mutated in something milder. If anything, NextStrain has shown that the mutation rate for SARS-CoV2 is about 5x slower than seasonal influenza.

At the end of the day there’s a pay band in HR and while COL may be 3x in SF than Oklahoma, but either it’s 600k in San Fran or 250k in Oklahoma, which is nearing physician’s pay in many smaller states. Pay will go up in smaller states and pay will come down in SF/SV areas. People in LCOL areas will make top end salaries in their respective geographic areas and will see the best quality of life improvement. $250k in Oklahoma is going to be much better quality of life than $600k in San Jose for some people who have a spouse and 2 kids. And then over time they can hire a lot more people at 200-250k rather than 600k.

Not exactly true. Moderna, and several others who are leading the vaccine race right now are out front because they had viable SARS and MERS vaccines but no where to test it other than in animal models.

Coronaviruses are easy to vaccinate against. They mutate very slowly. There’s just not a viable business model for them when the symptoms are so mild and treatments are available cheaply over-the-counter.

“This Week in Virology” podcast addressed this mutation issue just last week. Basically 20 out of 30,000+ genes have mutated. This is one of the slowest viral mutations, 5x slower than seasonal influenza. While most viruses tend to become milder as mutations and transmission happens, SARS-CoV-2 mutates so slow that the mortality will be high for quite some time. The good news is that a vaccine should provide long-lasting protection more like the measles shot rather than an annual flu vaccine that is hit or miss.

Congress has a 20% approval rating, polled weekly for over the past decade. Yet we vote every two years for the same folks who give us the same results. The problem isn’t them. It’s us.

1. These large 20%+ rallies are always common in bear markets.

2. The Fed has committed all told nearly 10 trillion dollars, maybe more.

3. Very little macro data has been released. Market is pricing in a V-shaped recovery which isn’t out of the question if we can open up in May.

Having said all of this, I think we head lower as the health crisis turns into a really bad recession. There may not be jobs for these workers to go back to.

Most situations—another bank buys them. Sometimes with a deal sweetener from the FDIC (U.S. taxpayer). Extreme cases such as in 2007-2010 the Fed can offer financing deals for another bank to buy those distressed banks.

Agile, remote friendly companies are still thriving. The ones who are having trouble are older less nimble companies struggling to get their workforce online and being productive.