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AdamN
4,134karma·1,342submissions·August 27, 2009
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AWS/Amazon Q - Berlin
Formerly Seattle, Nairobi, NYC:
* AWS Reliability Services (Fault Injection Service) - Region Isolation, AZ Power Outage and other tools for Chaos Engineering * AWS Developer Tools - building software teams to build software for other developers to build software * CTO at Factr - a geo/temporal research aggregation tool for international organizations and media * Founder of Kili.io - a public OpenStack for African markets based in Nairobi. * CTO at Yipit - Built the team and was initial dev (Python, Django, Ubuntu, AWS) * Way back when, I was the CTO of Forsalebyowner.com (acquired by Tribune Interactive).
Get in touch (adam@varud.com) if you have any interest in African technology, governance, Amazon, or anything in between.
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I suppose the difference here is surveillance vs investigation.
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Isn't this already effectively the case - not just in the US but universally? If the government 'lawfully' requests access to investigate a crime, there are only a few carveouts that a…
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From article seems like there may have been known problems before they departed.
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It probably converts well and they see no reason to update it ... or the intern turned off the cron job that was written in 2015 that is supposed to update the cross-links every day ...
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They work reasonably well for today's weather and music - which is all I want them for. Not once have I gotten an ad from my HomePod which is in and of itself the killer feature.
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What's your recommendation for the CPSC to focus on as a higher priority?
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All you need to do is build an Abyss Box: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyss_Box
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High government spending doesn't mean the government is bigger necessarily. The big expenses are just getting moved right back out to the private sector for agricultural subsidies, energy subsid…
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The point s_dev is trying to make is that the designer can (and should) design things so that the mechanic "doesn't have to think". Seems like Airbus has evolved their design according…
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That's why insurance is heavily regulated and there are requirements on capital available for claims in order to operate in the jurisdiction. And of course savvy clients (like the ones managing …
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That's not really a rebuttal - the entire convoy was (incorrectly) identified as a target. If they were actually military it certainly would make sense to kill the targets one by one as it'…
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Exactly - the safest thing to do with the AI gun is not point it anybody and destroy it. Perhaps the AI gun shooting somebody wouldn't be an intentional murder but it's certainly manslaught…
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My understanding is that the insurers like these situations - it makes it obvious how important good insurance is and sales go up. The individual impact seems large to the layperson but is within the…
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Although pros do still make clear errors and even misses that may not be classed as an error (but are at the professional level) might outweigh the brilliant shots when it comes to the win. I suspect…
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The beta period is at least a month long and Xcode shows you deprecation warnings years ahead on this stuff. I get that there are corner case bugs that might happen once every few years but if this i…
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That gain is just 'resulting'. More likely odds of success to sell 100% of RSUs and invest that money in some other company (or fund).
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Self-hosting with the same availability/durability/security profile as Google would not be any cheaper (probably not more expensive either) - which is my point. His goal is to get off of Go…
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It seems like we really need to move forward to 'indefinite/active studies'. I believe some researchers are trying to get onto this pattern but of course there are major privacy/q…
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It's good that people are doing this but this quote is an impediment: "The price is OK but it keeps going up, and so do our data storage requirements, what with all the cameras in the family…
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They're still separated by floor. His cubicle farm is just for the very senior people who are already in (and anyway something very sensitive would happen in a room).
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SLAs are more of a financial construct than anything else. Once the payback cost of missing an SLA is built into the contract then it just becomes a conversation about money. I've been at plent…
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WSJ has a few high quality articles and some local insight into things like commercial real estate in the US but that editorial section is so difficult to take seriously (as well as some of the real a…
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Writing quality and critical thinking are double that of WSJ though.
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WSJ is much cheaper than FT. I pay about 4x as much for FT as WSJ.
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Editorials on WSJ are just insane. Straight reporting is often good but there definitely isn't a high wall between the two and the reporting gets impacted negatively unfortunately (not always th…
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I wonder what your review of the WSJ would be :-) It's sad to think how many people respect their editorial board articles - so low rent.
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That to me is the critical tell. By all accounts the Bloomberg office model is very well regarded but Bloomberg himself sits in a cubicle with his directs around him in their own cubicles. There are…
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I'm pretty sure car deaths are the number 1 preventable cause of death of children - doesn't seem like an exaggerated fear. Step 1 is to reduce speed limit to 45kph (25mph) anywhere a pedest…