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rayvd··on Amazon Workers’ Union Drive Reaches Far Beyond Alabama
What anti-trust can't achieve, unions can. Good news for Amazon's potential competitors.
rayvd··on My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
Tell that to MySpace, Friendster, etc. There is room for prove product disruption if the iteration adds significant value, or if the quality of service of the current leader drops off.
rayvd··on U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
This seems an unfair leap. The most common cause of a checksum mis-match is going to be a partial download or something similar.

It's also not relevant to the current attack since the code was legitimately included in the official release and, as such, baked into the valid checksum results.

rayvd··on Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
No need to move along, but likely no need to spend time exploring exotic and highly unlikely root cause scenarios.
rayvd··on The Atlantic lays off almost 20% of staff
Except where revenue pipelines are influenced by readership reaction to content quality or political leanings informing that content?

Don't think you can make a statement like "100% not related".

rayvd··on Zoom admits some calls were routed through China by mistake
Did you try on a non-standard port too?
rayvd··on Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws
I mean, this is incredibly common. Is there a large software company that doesn't do this? Labor competition is a real thing.
rayvd··on ‘War Dialing’ tool exposes Zoom’s password problems
Why?
rayvd··on 99% of Those Who Died from Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Same as with influenza.
rayvd··on Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand
Amazon is hiring 100,000 in the US to meet the demand and increasing wages to help with retention.

Last I checked, employment and OT was voluntary.

This is all good stuff.

rayvd··on Saturn's largest moon may be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live
Just need a whole bunch of monoliths to up its mass...
rayvd··on People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report
Hence GP's comment about solving at the regulatory level. Housing is artificially supply constrained.
rayvd··on How to Work During a Pandemic
Now there's a helluva leap.
rayvd··on How to Work During a Pandemic
Masks, as most people wear them, don't do much. They'd need to be custom fitted to ensure no "leakage". The surgical masks do even less.
rayvd··on Should Facebook, Google be liable for user posts? asks U.S. Attorney General
Obviously, whoever has money lawyers can go after should be liable...
rayvd··on Coronavirus outbreak likely now ‘gathering steam’
Sorry about the jobs report messing things up for you.

I hope there is a dip as I want to put more in.

I don't think this Coronavirus thing will be the trigger though. Flu still far worse.

rayvd··on Five Years of Btrfs
I think ZFS was just ahead. We considered btrfs many years ago to serve up VM's for ESX via NFS, but it just wasn't as performant unless you ran in async mode which jeopardized data integrity. ZFS let you introduce SSD-based ZIL and L2ARC caching which made performance totally fine in sync mode.

We're mostly NetApp AFF these days, but early on had close to a petabyte of ZFS-based storage power VM's on SuperMicro or Dell gear. Definitely was higher touch than NetApp but far less expensive.

rayvd··on Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It
Oh, jeez. No it's not. Skiing is doing just fine.
rayvd··on San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident
Darn that Takings Clause...
rayvd··on The falling price of a TV set
What does THX certified actually do for you on such a small screen?
rayvd··on Four fired workers file charges against Google
The only way that's possible is if the employee agreed to it.
rayvd··on Court says FCC’s net neutrality repeal can’t stop state laws
Will be overturned. Commerce Clause.
rayvd··on European Court limits right to be forgotten to E.U.
People care far more about companies that provide the best price.
rayvd··on European Court limits right to be forgotten to E.U.
It doesn't seem like their "economic might" would last too long if they tried this tactic.

It also doesn't help that the country they'd be targeting provides for their military defense.

rayvd··on European Court limits right to be forgotten to E.U.
Some countries define rights on paper and then fight wars to preserve them.

Where there are differences between political bodies, the options are:

  * Negotiate to resolve them via treaties, etc.
  * Coerce via other means - usually loops back to the first bullet once sufficient force has been applied
rayvd··on 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
True, but even at low unemployment levels, 3% of a vast workforce is many millions of people. :)

(Yeah, I know you were being sarcastic, but the economy IS in good shape)

rayvd··on The Strange Blissfulness of Storms
Placebos can be extremely effective.
rayvd··on Productivity and the Workweek (2000)
What about those of us who want to work more than four days?
rayvd··on LA getting serious about lifting parking requirements in downtown
This would eliminate too many middlemen and bureaucrats. We need the government to mandate what's optimal based on what lobbyists from parking construction firms advocate for. We also need to ensure the requirements are sufficiently high enough so that only a select few companies can effectively bid, ensuring minimal competition and maximum profitability, and maximum political donations.

This is a critical cycle that must be preserved!

rayvd··on Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off
Several million dollars[1].

[1] https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/

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