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This type of article confuses me because it ignores China and India. Specific case. Alibaba copied Amazon's business model. But then it successfully spins off Alipay (later Ant Financial and Ant Group). And before the government crackdown/policy changes at the end of 2020 Ant almost successfully IPO'd at a valuation of $314 billion.

Ant's business model involved payments, insurance and lending and was fantastically profitable because Ant leveraged its data about user payments to make efficient risk decisions. If the CCP hadn't decided Ant was too big (and violating data rules) then it would probably be continuing to grow.

I don't think any of this is obscure so I don't understand why the article doesn't point out that Amazon and Walmart aren't trying something that hasn't been done before.

Not 100% sure but I believe the word confidential implies that the review should only have been read by the editor(s) and not passed on to the authors.

From the features page: "As of August 2012, this feature has not been implemented yet."

I think you raise a very good point. It's only logical to minimise long term risk

And any company that has done this might see it coming back and biting them even though they would never admit that they brought it on themselves

So just to be clear if a company is not paying an employee the money they should be it is called wage theft.

So if Norway were having the same issues with employee shortages you could add the reason that maybe the employees are tired of having the company steal from them.

And maybe that's a factor common to other countries

" Burrito shells for instance. "

What are your Burrito shells made of??

Reminds me of a funny story where I was informed that transgendered[0] isn't a word. And in fact you can see a definition on Urban dictionary where someone has said it is "a word that doesn't exist". It turns out that while the word was once used widely it has recently become forbidden for grammatical reasons.

It's not surprising this debate is so broken when basic terms aren't even constant.

[0] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgendered

So has Gender critical been defined as a group in such a way that no-one will admit to being in it? Is it similar to TERF?

I think you're correct in your second statement. This whole area seems very polarising. The edge case of women's sports is the obvious situation where a principle of 'Live and let live' doesn't work.

I did almost the same action and unplugged and replugged a Sun keyboard while rearranging cables. But in my case the machine just suspended to the boot mode. 10 minutes later my team lead came and found me, figured out the situation and typed 'go'.

The server restarted and just continued happily doing its job.

How much oil does the US buy from Iran? I think actual embargoes make a difference.

Also the title is clickbait of the worst type.

Can you give examples. I'm not clear on what you mean

The, often corrupt, sell off of community assets feels like a constant in human society.

From government kickbacks from oil companies down to community sporting clubs there is a tragic phenomena where if you have corrupt individuals in charge at a single point in time then there is a chance for an irreversible loss of a public good.

Here's a link about a community club in Australia where one of the directors ended up owning the clubs assets after some bad decision [0].

[0] - https://www.michaelwest.com.au/a-barilaro-affair-how-the-bar...

Good solid actionable items. Number 5 is something to bear in mind, sometimes you need to look externally.

Was there a private individual a few years ago who was doing a similar thing? Cleaning up backdoored servers?

You mean that you aren't provided the positive benefit of credit until you prove your "credit worthiness"?

I don't know you. Why would I lend you money.

You chose to use societal infrastructure to make money through the finance system (backed up by the legal system) and then complain because you hadn't researched that it came at the cost of your privacy.

I'm not sure why this comment has been downvoted. It seems like an accurate description of KYC requirements in western countries.

The benefits that society provides (roads, money, safety) come at the cost of not being anonymous (car registration, passports, KYC).

I guess System #1 isn't properly integrated into System #2 because the development is being undertaken by off-shored teams who don't understand the business domain.

Official report and link to PDF here: https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aaib-investigation-to-boeing...

The PDF isn't long and is worth a read if you're interested in learning from other peoples mistakes. Of note is that the issue was known and there was a manual workaround that was not used for that flight because the team doing it didn't work on a weekend.

Reading the document it looks like the manual workaround was then implemented into software. This hack just masks the underlying problem rather than providing a robust solution.

I'm amused that these web pages are from 2008 which feels like the middle ages of the internet.

Different terms and conditions on the contract will lead to different fees and discounts, etc.

Even in a scenario where the transfer specified "with recourse" there is no guarantee that the seller will still be solvent so there is a risk to the purchaser.

There is a big difference between drug addicts breaking windows to steal change and cars being stolen,

But I think we can agree that the passengers on the plane would not have known that information and would understandably and reasonably have been very worried and/or terrified.

I was not on the plane so I don't know but if I was sitting on a plane and there was odd turbulence and then people at the window in front started exclaiming that the plane was on fire then I would be worried.

In addition disintegrating jet engines sometimes cause problems by shooting fragments of turbine into the body of the plane. There are very valid reasons to be worried even if you know you have one working engine.

You have contradicted yourself by saying, "someone with very little knowledge about planes (such as myself)" and also saying, "It's a failure that happens all the time." Knowing that the engine failures happen all the time is not something that someone with very little knowledge would know.

In short your comment was not well thought out.

I agree with the sentiment of your comment. But I do get the impression that creativity often comes from bad experiences, trauma and pain.

I am not speaking from experience here.

It's above senior but before principal. It's not rocket science!

(Maybe if you work for SpaceX ....)

Pity there's no definition of Staff-Plus or even a definition of Staff Engineer.

Obviously I'm not in the bubble that uses those titles but an author who has an entire domain called staffeng.com should have a good definition.

I'm going to disagree with you there. Have civil rights in China improved or worsened? Could they be even worse if Google hadn't left.

You're right that this is beyond the scope of Google in the same way that it's beyond the scope of any individual. But together humans can slowly influence other humans and doing the right thing might be a tiny influence but eventually these might add up.