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I'm about to do the same and I really like that philosophy.

Not sure we'll be able to implement that fully but at least in the spirit, because it clearly fits my worldview.

"How would run the business / team / org differently?"

Should let you know what's wrong without asking directly.

Great stuff, there's always more than meet the eyes and that's true even for sales ;)

This being said, slight nitpick on #11 and #12. Include clawbacks, especially if you're fairly dependent on sales / more geared towards high touch deals.

This obviously goes on hand in hand with reasonable targets.

Otherwise you create an incentive for sales people to make their number in any way they can to meet their ridiculous target / driven by the usual greed.

The hidden cost of that can potentially be huge, especially if your pool of potential customers is -relatively- small.

Started playing around lately with AWS.

Gosh, getting the access rights to work properly between the various types of controls in place, whether it's the groups, the access policy and whatnot is kind of mind numbing and makes you feel very stupid.

Not that it excuses anything but it is confusing and I can foresee an overworked engineer going "Ah fuck it, no time to read up on that, just go for the easiest stuff to get started on using S3".

There's actually a whole minecraft-esque game being built with sustainability / human footprint in mind.

It's much more complex than this mod I believe but still in early release.

http://www.strangeloopgames.com/how-to-save-the-environment-...

Hey that was a pretty cool read.

Interesting to see what the kids are up to.

I don't really see the issue with transparency.

As a EU citizen, I'm very much in favour of both transparency and I'd go as far as identity disclosure.

If you're willing to spend money to sway society in a specific direction, surely you wouldn't mind that people know your stance?

Goatse, much like its counterparts are to me a litmus test of your internet culture / age.

Not even 30 yet - damn it hurts to put it writing; but clearly old enough to know the old interwebz :)

You mentioned Olympics but you missed out on the original Olympics which were very much all about that international (sort of as they were city-states) competition with a truce set up to allow for a relatively safe event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games

I've seen ads for GoogleTrader (not the defunct Google Trader) on Facebook less than a year ago, which is an obvious scam operation if you spend some time to Google it - heh.

So yeah, they're terrible at that too - or they don't care, your choice.

Spill the (coffee) beans dude.

Very much interested into what you might have seen.

Plausible denEUbility?

Assuming you'd be able to replicate Coca Cola's secret recipe close enough that no one can tell them apart, why wouldn't you be able to brand it as such?

This is very much the root of the issue.

The location branding is the reason why people are willing to pay an extra markup because there's an expectation of authenticity. Whether it has any impact on the product or not is irrelevant, it's purely marketing.

Also a notable difference between the US and Europe (and plenty of other places elsewhere) is the legacy / history which have contributed to a location's specialties and their fame.

It might sound ridiculous on your side of the pond but here folks do mind it.

To that specific individual, it doesn't because they are dead.

As for what happens in the realm of death, we'll see when we get there.

Banks are in the business of risk management. They apply that to money, but ultimately, they are all about that risk.

There are services dedicated to scrapping which can take care of proxy-ing your requests so you don't have to worry about IP bans.

For example, Scrapinghub's Crawlera (the guys behind the Scrapy python lib)

>it would diminish the U.S.’s reputation as a beacon of freedom and opportunity.

That ship has long sailed - in my opinion.

> our very nature as living beings.

That might be true but another poster already debunked that apparently.

Regardless of the other living beings, you are too quick to dismiss the human side of things, specifically our complex minds and our irrationality regardless of mental fitness.

Does the primitive survival instinct kicks in when suiciding? Surely.

Can it be outweighed by every single bad instant that a person has lived and what they see coming down their way? I don't see why not, and probably more so if your mind isn't thinking rationally.

But I'd argue that none of us are completely rational and so at times even 'healthy' minds can do the unthinkable.

I believe our biggest gift - powerful brain, self awareness and other capabilities that contribute to making us unique; is also our biggest curse :

"What's my purpose?"

"Is there any meaning?"

"Why do all my relationships fail?"

"Do people really like me?"

And so on ...

-- My uneducated perspective.

Besides the less appealing stuff you mention, I don't see how it would do any good in a system which is already so shareholder-value driven.

Don't get me wrong, there's probably benefits to having it in real time but I think it'd make any top exec job a nightmare.

https://outline.com/NAAde3 There you go, GDPR bypass

You might need to provide more context here.

Depending on whether it's targeting businesses or consumers, expectations and needs are different.

Having visited Germany only a few days, their public transport was quite timely & effective. And most of it if not all is public.

It would make a killing.

Most of the devices at that price tend to be underwhelming performance wise, so here's that.

I disagree with you :

1) Unlike AdNauseam, Google can't do much to get in the way of Pi-Hole. This isn't within its ecosystem.

2) Actually, while it's not great for publishers, it's not that disruptive (at that scale) because it doesn't impact the advertiser's ad spend. No request > No charge.

Now if you wanted to create something that would be quite disruptive, you'd need to combine the 2, with a twist :

You could have a headless browser in a VM (for safety) that makes some of those calls and mimic a click + follow the redirect + stay on the landing page and browse another N pages.

Not every single ad obviously because that'd be easy to detect but at random, in an erratic way. That'd be like simulating an actual user.

Throw in there some cookie dropping / reset to mess with tracking and it could have some pretty interesting effects.

The reason why it'd more dangerous? Because it'd throw off performance of those ads and ML optimizations done by various vendors. Usually you expect a click-through rate (CTR) of 0.X % to maybe 2-3% and similarly an actual conversion rate in the single digits.

On a large scale, you'd see a a CTR that either go up or stay on par, but a conversion rate that is free falling and that would have some serious consequences for both the advertiser's marketing team and the publisher / ad network.

Take it one step further and have a TOR like network of those pi-holes taking care of that both to prevent device finger-printing and maybe coordinating a specific publisher / ad network / advertisers and you could see that advertiser looking at reducing its ad spend quite drastically when performance goes down the drain. And an ad network / publisher having to do some explaining.

Some kind of "activist" bot network to force specific advertisers to reduce ad spending or simply occur costs.

I think a company that only hires "the best of the best" and who refers to themselves with a specific word (Googlers) is bound to be quite disconnected from the average joe.

Looks really neat.

Striking a balance between ease of use / simplicity and powerful features is a tough exercise but you did well.

I can foresee the CLI being quite useful to do away with the run-of-the-mill sed / awk / grep [...] mess. Specifically for the less CLI inclined people out there.

It's an acknowledgement of the issue in itself.

Sure, I don't think it's actually effective but that paves the road to improvements, rather than flat out denial / don't ask don't tell.

So is it like S3/Object storage with a convenience layer on top?

If you're targeting IT departments, I'd look into :

-Integrating with directories (AD / LDAP / ...)

-Search feature (ELK? Algolia?)

-Integrating with mail platforms (the on premise ones for example)

-Backup solutions

As others have stated, I don't think what you provide is the best fit for your target.

So instead you should probably look at what problems those guys have and the list above is merely a guess as to what keeps this might be for your average IT team.

Also, while you're trying to get the IT teams to want your product, it's ultimately the execs which will have to sign on that, so you should make sure you convey business value to those guys. Because right now, it's not obvious.

Hope this helps.