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The Facebook group dedicated to the beach is full of surfers and others who regularly visit the beach.

San Mateo Sheriff in late 2015: no citations for trespassing will be issued at Martins Beach.

http://www.montarafog.com/2015/01/sheriff-we-wont-cite-anyon...

There's a FB group for those who might be interested in mobilizing: https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofmartinsbeach/

Same.

Vinod Khosla is clearly a despicable example of a mega-wealthy individual, but is not the problem here the existence of the ultra-rich? Anyone allowed by society to accrue that much wealth will be above the law almost by definition. If we value the rule of law, why do we think it good to produce billionaires?

This could be true, from a developer's perspective. But the OP was in the spirit of expanding one's knowledge and understanding. But even if a single-interface, fully-managed container orchestration service is available to all, the value of understanding how the underlying systems actually function will not cease to exist. Anyone building moderately complex systems will still want to know about OS, networks, storage systems, access control, and all the rest, because those areas of expertise are applicable and useful across the stack.

Every complaint I've seen on this topic is about how repulsive or unsafe it feels for someone commuting to their job in SF. No one talks about these thousands of people who are suffering from drug addiction, mental disorders, socioeconomic injustice, and all kinds of abuse. No one's complaint is: "how can we, as society, allow these conditions to persist, why aren't we helping these people in a meaningful way?" It's the apathy of the population in general that allows this kind of situation to come about and then persist despite the best efforts of "they" who are supposed to "do something about it."

This is lame. Is this site is basically trying to harvest emails for SPAM?

A billion more people who can now participate in the system that's already polluted the planet to the brink.

America is in a sad, sad state when there is no recourse for something like this. What are we, afraid of diplomatically insulting an Islamist dictatorship?

The name was already taken, guys.: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/

This doesn't really contradict the author; the army of young coders doing the "day-to-day" work are not the ones envisioning or driving the successes of the company. Any large firm is necessarily going to have a great number of less-experienced grunts than seasoned managers and executives. The implicit point here is that some tech companies seem to fill their higher ranks with kids while AMZN maybe not so much.

My first thought upon looking at the map: they're moving away from the coastline.

Overall, it's pretty amazing that the recovery was as fast as it was. Given the throughput of S3 API calls you can imagine the kind of capacity that's needed to do a full stop followed by a full start. Cold-starting a service when it has heavy traffic immediately pouring into it can be a nightmare.

It'd be very interesting to know what kind of tech they use at AWS to throttle or do circuit breaking to allow back-end services like the indexer to come up in a manageable way.

Possibly AWS status page wisely relied on a third party, which relied on a fourth party, which relied on S3.

As of 4:30PM Pacific, we're still having trouble with EC2 autoscaling API operations in US-East-1. Basically very long delays in launching new instances or terminating old ones.

I feel for them. Imagine, 40 or 50 different engineering teams all responsible for updating their statuses. At this moment on the AWS status page I see random usage of the red, yellow, and green icons, even though all the status updates are "Increased error rates." What that tells me is that there's no unified communication protocol across the teams, or they're not following it. And just imagine what it's like being on the S3 team right now.

I notice even Cloudflare is starting to have problems serving up pages now.

Our services in us-west-2 have been up the whole time.

I think the problem is globally accessible APIs are impacted. As others have noted, if you can use region/AZ-specific hostnames to connect, you can get though to S3.

CloudFront is faithfully serving up our existing files even from buckets in US-East.

> for economic understanding it's important to note that these were not the major drivers of growth.

Two hundred years of slavery was not a major driver of economic growth?

Edit: Serious question, rephrased: do economic historians really not consider slavery a major driver of growth? If so, that would be highly counterintuitive. We're talking about the free labor of ~10 million people over two centuries, in an economy that was almost entirely agricultural.

There's absolutely no visible consequence of leaving your trash in the park in a big city. The city workers will be by later that day to clean it up, or more likely in San Francisco where I live, scavengers will pick it up for recycling within minutes. Out of sight, out of mind. And why not? We certainly pay enough taxes to support those services.

If you've spent your whole life feeling victimized by society then you do whatever little things you can to give a big middle finger back. If you're a Black single mom that has to work two jobs to get by, maybe it's easy for you to justify throwing your McDonald's wrappers on the parking lot ground.

In soviet Russia...

I find this essay pretty confusing. It seems to contradict itself at some basic level.

"Maybe the smartness and the craziness were not as separate as we think."

This seems kind of obvious to me. Yes, creative and driven people are interested in lots of strange things. Yes, genius often means the ability to take ideas or discoveries from apparently widely different areas and tie them together to form new understandings.

"Newton made three bets. One of them worked."

This makes no sense. Of course his physics was a success. But how could anyone judge the theological pursuits of an individual to be a success or a failure?

And if the pursuit was a failure, then doesn't that negate the earlier implication that his studying theology ("crazy") was in some ways associated with his success in physics ("genius")?

Religious faith from certain perspectives is something like: choosing to believe despite being unable to comprehend with your rational mind. That's the basic core of the inquiry, you start from there and see what happens.

You've stumbled upon one of the most profound spiritual questions there is.

Leaving aside alchemy, (which one can assume most people are fairly uninformed about), the whole notion that theology ought to be considered a waste of time in modern day belies a pretty surprising degree of ignorance.

The study of God and religious ideas is equivalent to the study of human nature and the significance of existence itself. This is true regardless of which belief system you care to study.

Even avoiding deep concepts usually not found in this forum, religion remains at the heart of the greatest human conflicts of the present day, and is critically central to any understanding of the largest cultural forces in the world. Yeah, what a waste of time!

When the EPA fines a company (e.g., $4.3Bn for VW), where exactly does that money go?

She made over $200M in salary over four years. Her risk was zero.

I can see no analog here for anything a normal human being would recognize as a challenge despite tough odds.

> I had gotten a ticket for obstructing the intersection > I was fighting it

I hope you lost.

"I still get pissed off if people remember [it] as the event that "did not happen""

Welcome to the life of any operations engineer, my friend. If we're doing our job right, no one notices that the insanely complex and down-to-the-wire maintenance goes smoothly.

For installations of a few hundred instances or more, some of the SaaS offerings cost more than the engineering salaries it would take to maintain the OSS tools.