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lokar··on Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
The entire social structure of the south was (and mostly still is) based on wealthy whites convincing poor whites to accept the situation because blacks are even worse off.
lokar··on Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
Everything is America is about race
lokar··on The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes
I’ve worked places that did a lot of this (not everything, but a lot) from very early on.
lokar··on The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes
It’s a hard transition, but possible. Obviously less work to do it from the start.
lokar··on The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
I assume they would say it regardless
lokar··on The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
Full zero trust internally. Both inbound and outbound proxies (different machines) to carefully limit access, and provide a place to mitigate attacks. Etc.

If your plan is to quickly apply upstream patches, your plan is bad.

lokar··on For the first time ever, Google Search is less than 50% of Alphabet's revenue
The query logs and “permission” to crawl are both advantages vs startups.
lokar··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
And putting cache nodes in residential ISPs and exchanges all over the world.
lokar··on Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents
They would need to lure them into the building. They don’t have people to send out all over the country to find and grab someone.
lokar··on New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled
Confabulation is a better term
lokar··on A $300B 'Debt Wall' Is Looming over Private-Equity Backed Companies
I think a lot is fixed, but for a fairly short term. So you have roll the debt over (at the new market rates) every 5 to 10 years.
lokar··on Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
It’s a fine line. Periodic demonstrations of arbitrary state power over your personal life can enhance the coercive effect. TSA checkpoints serve this purpose.
lokar··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
I think pushing ahead to a jury trial is a smart move. In the current climate you have a good chance of a very favorable jury pool.
lokar··on Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx
And if you need something, envoy is pretty extensible
lokar··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Sure, and I may agree. But if there was a glut of engineers that would seem simpler for them.
lokar··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
It depends on the role, not every position is fungible.

Why do recruiters keep contacting me even though I’m retired?

lokar··on Anthropic S-1
If the stock comp is dominated by early grants running their course, probably ok.

If they have to keep spending to retain and recruit, it’s a problem. I’ve seen companies do this. Years after the pre-ipo grants ran out running a GAAP loss due to employee stock comp. Unable to lower comp (need to stay competitive).

lokar··on Anthropic S-1
Are they doing the standard SV thing of pretending employee stock comp is free?
lokar··on AI didn't cause the tech jobs bust, but it explains why there's no recovery
I guess I don’t see the value in a category that includes a web/ui person at a mid sized bank, a backend Java programmer at Amazon and a kernel engineer at intel.
lokar··on Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%
He is playing games with vaccine liability rules and recommendations (which can impact insurance coverage). He is trying to undermine the business model.
lokar··on AI didn't cause the tech jobs bust, but it explains why there's no recovery
The “tech sector” is not one thing. “Developer” is not a single kind of job. Groupings like this are not very useful.
lokar··on AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework
Once you finish your classes research is all you are doing. What else are you paying for?
lokar··on AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework
My department introduced a rule requiring us to TA a certain number of times. There were too many research fellowships and they were short on TAs.
lokar··on Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement
Genocide
lokar··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
And a lot of white collar work is process based. But automating it is mostly about getting everyone to agree on a precise definition of the process.
lokar··on Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
It’s the Sony version of “buying”

But I think the lower end systems start at 1/10th that

lokar··on Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
For (5) see https://www.kaleidescape.com/
lokar··on Docker is weird
In generally build minimal images file by file with bazel. Fully hermetic.
lokar··on MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada
The US SCOTUS did not legalize gambling. They said the federal government can allow it, or ban it, but it must treat all states the same.
lokar··on MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada
Widespread gambling is negative sum.
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