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killbrad··on Teen Becomes First Hacker to Earn $1M Through Bug Bounties
This is hyperbolic nonsense. Having worked at AWS, I've never encountered a business that is more serious about their security position.
killbrad··on The Curse of the Honeycrisp Apple
Unfortunately, while I agree with you on the monoculture angle, I'm not sure this article covered it in any meaningful way.

It's really sad to grow food and know what it looks like, and then go into a grocery where everything looks like an identical twin. A forked carrot? Must have been mutated by nuclear waste! A strawberry that isn't the size of a Snickers bar? Can't possibly be good!

It's consumer attitudes and opinions that need to change to make this better. It's interesting in America especially where one of the foundational attributes of the culture is "individuality" that the consumers expect the opposite of their produce.

killbrad··on Amazon’s consumer business has turned off its Oracle data warehouse
You know MySQL, MariaDB, and Postgres don't have licensing costs, right?
killbrad··on Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial
What is better for society: a warning that says something is toxic, or pretending that a poison is perfectly harmless?
killbrad··on Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial
A toxic company
killbrad··on Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial
I'm confused, are you arguing that cellular changes cannot impact a larger organism because they have too many cells?
killbrad··on Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial
And the case was not for, against, or anything other than casually adjacent to GMOs.
killbrad··on Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial
Well corrected on his affiliation. Great quote too... Drink RoundUp? "I'm not an idiot".
killbrad··on Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial
This case and this verdict had nothing to do with GMOs, but ok.
killbrad··on Startup Had ‘Masturbation’ Zone, Exec Who Took Off Pants in Meeting: Lawsuit
Everyone that enabled this behavior should be blacklisted by any and all respectable companies and investors.
killbrad··on Monsanto ordered to pay $289M damages in Roundup cancer trial
I vaguely remember watching an interview with an exec from Monsanto saying RoundUp was perfectly safe, safe enough to drink. Then immediately refusing to drink it when offered, because of course it's poison.
killbrad··on You Cannot Serve Two Masters: The Harms of Dual Affiliation
Our government, and moreso, our society through cultural and government apathy has devalued anything academic that does not produce material gains - capital, wealth, patents, etc.

I fear that the total commercialisation of academia means that we are unlikely to see meaningful material gains for society in terms of new cures to disease or technology advances outside of those that can be monetised for recurring revenue in the next decade.

It's really an unfortunate but self inflicted American problem.

killbrad··on Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices
The"new" Gmail is the slowest website I use. I'm trying to give it a go but honestly I'm gonna have to switch soon. It's nearly unusable.
killbrad··on GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL
Child-side foreign keys? Does that mean constraints in app logic instead of the database?
killbrad··on GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL
I'm probably really ignorant asking this, but how do you "pause" schema migrations period. And even if you did, how do you ensure a consistent experience for your users if your db is broken? Some sort of application logic to deal with inconsistencies? That seems really expensive (from a development work perspective).
killbrad··on Amazon and the Unwisdom of the Populist Crowd
Whose definition says that?
killbrad··on Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore
I will never use this service and think Uber is a negative for society. It's unfortunate that people don't see it.
killbrad··on The narcissism epidemic is dead?
It only takes a couple weeks working in any company that has young employees to know that 90+% of those employees under 30 think they're the greatest thing since sliced bread and that all of their amazingness is simply unused and underpaid.

It's really sad actually because it means in 10 years we are gonna have significant work depression levels due to children being raised to believe their reality would be much different than it will turn out.

killbrad··on FCC approves ATSC 3.0, a TV technology with better pictures but less privacy
Cut the cord works
killbrad··on Amazon seller lost $400K in sales after being attacked by 'virus of Amazon'
Classic crap
killbrad··on A pub in North Yorkshire has won TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Awards
The first few paragraphs of this article put me off of the entire thing.
killbrad··on The great thaw of America’s north is coming
You are using an internet troll forum as your source of data??!
killbrad··on Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
Nexus 5X owner. I won't buy one of these due to lack of aux output, and I'm not in "the industry".
killbrad··on Drowning in grain: historically high supplies and low prices
Yes, I encourage you to write to your reps about it.
killbrad··on S3 was down
What is EZ and GP?
killbrad··on The ethereum “hacker” didn't hack anything
Computers don't lie, code doesn't lie. The idea of smart contacts is literally that code is law. If the code is flawed, that flaw is law. As soon as you try to wrap intent, disposition, and other legalities into the equation, how is a "smart contract" anything unique?
killbrad··on How far you can get if you leave the largest U.S. cities at rush hour
Why not just bike it?
killbrad··on How far you can get if you leave the largest U.S. cities at rush hour
I have a feeling that Chicago will switch to a distance based tap on/off system at some point. It just makes more sense to understand where people are actually using the system, and also prevents train dwellers riding nonstop all day.
killbrad··on How far you can get if you leave the largest U.S. cities at rush hour
Clybourn
killbrad··on How far you can get if you leave the largest U.S. cities at rush hour
The El, not the Metra. Chicago is lucky with transit options. On Amtrak you could get from Chicago to Grand Rapids, MI in 4 hours.
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