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Debt. City of Oakland has has a budget deficit of around $100-200m a year for the past 10 years at least.

A lot of organizations also don't have the money or processes in place to manage backups. It's a huge cost outlay and in cash strapped SLGs, it simply ain't happening - especially when …

They already have for at least 15 years.

Microsoft is an MSSP as well. And they are one of the multiple vendors the City of Oakland uses. But vendors can only do so much for organizations like Oakland as the final decision and implementation…

All good mate! There are some specifics I don't (and don't think I can) get into, but big picture, a lot of the core best practices in configuration management and security do work, the issu…

You don't need professional services all the time, assuming you make sure to hire a large enough team of SMEs of your own, but a lot organization simply view tech as a cost center and try to spen…

It's generally professional services that set up these deployments at scale. MS's PS team is extremely competent and does push best practices in my experience. The issue is organizations tha…

When an extremely high profile attack like this happens, CISA ends up taking over the organization and revamping the entire organization's IT team. This happened to Atlanta back in 2018-19. It do…

So I work in this space and I am honestly quite surprised by the users here who think a Linux deployment would do any better. They won't. This isn't a Windows vs Linux vs Solaris vs BSD issu…

The same amount as would be if they were using MacOS or Windows 11. This isn't an OS issue, this is a "I didn't manage and configure my ACLs and RBAC correctly to minimize lateral movem…

Same way a large number of European and Islamic empires continued to use some variation of Caesar to mean King or Emperor (eg. Tsar in Slavic cultures, Kaiser in Germanic cultures, Geysar/Qeysar&…

I never implied the Fed is targeting tech. I said rates hikes are used to minimize asset inflation caused by speculation driven by the top 10% of Americans. Tech is just overrepresented in that top 10…

Home prices rose a blistering 18.8 percent in 2021, and rent has climbed 17.6 percent nationwide over the last year, industry data shows. But those prices, the result of a severe supply shortage fuele…

But a significant portion of the top 10% of Americans economically. The top 10% of Americans by combined household income is any household (not income, household) earning ~170k or above. [0] Layoffs a…

To combat inflation in the housing market. A subset of White collar professionals (such as those in Tech, Real Estate, Finance) ended up earning so much that housing became unaffordable as a small but…

I don't see anything that's triggering. It's just a summary of a World Bank report (which btw is HEAVILY staffed with Indian and Pakistani nationals - big reason there are so many South…

It's a farming issue like everything else. As I've mentioned before in a couple previous HN comments, most farmers in North India and Pakistan know stubble burning is bad, but no government …

Libya does not due to sanctions and diplomacy in 2003 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmament_of_Libya Syria does not due to Israeli airstrikes in 2007 and sanctions until t…

Libya and Syria both contracted with Khan Labs before the whistle was blown in 2003. Iran is almost one.

Let's let Desi old money families like the Goenkas (Zee), Adanis (NDTV), Badals (PTC), Ambanis (News18, Firstpost), etc. write stories instead. They've never fanned flames. /s

Depends on the media. If you read general mass media like OpIndia, Zee, or NDTV that's true, but if you read media aimed at policymakers (ThePrint, ORF, or Himal for example) it's 70-30 Chi…

yep! pretty much, but selling the supply chain and specs themselves is almost as bad. It took PK almost 30 years with PRC information transfer to build the Islamic bomb, but 10 for NK thanks to Khan L…

* was selling. This isn't happening anymore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan#Proliferatio... …

Neither subreddits are realistic snapshots of South Asian social media. Most South Asians use FB+Whatsapp with a smattering of Twitter.

Ideally a US-Canada or a France-Germany kind of coexistence, but realistically probably more like Nepal, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka (close but tense relations due to local level political populism).

Ehn, it is what it is. Everything atrophies, some faster than others. Who cares about HN commentators when as a PM I am essentially judged on P/L and I want a good stock refresh. And that's …

A lot of the allstar PMs and Engs who helped actually GTM a lot of great Google products like Maps, Docs, Ads, etc left in the 2010s to start their own startups (eg. Jens Rasmussen - founded Google Ma…

Companies pay top dollar to show an ad when someone searches their name, otherwise a competitor could make a paid ad slamming the product. We dealt with this first hand a year ago in my company.

Why is he resurrecting something that happened over 5 years ago? Not to condone the "Chusti" mentality but this tweet just seems unnecessarily vindictive. Also, adding the const qualifier to…

Well, in Iran and South Asia, gender correction is supported due to homophobia (if I am sexually attracted to a man, maybe I should become a woman instead). Hijras/Transgender are still relegated…