But they made half a million.
And there are literally hundreds of similar companies raking in billions in investments that magically vanish while the founders live a luxury live and move on.
The real question is: why do VCs shit so much money into obvious frauds? Are they this stupid or do they just hope to pass it on to the greater fool?
Collision is obviously a risk here, but a jet pilot almost by accident firing a missile is just absolutely absurd. These incidents are a dance that happens almost daily. Pilots are trained no to be trigger happy in these situations.
I’ve done the horrible deed of updating Debian, for example.
Distros like Arch get a pass, but Debian screwed me over several times. For example a few years ago, some driver decided to make itself clinge onto old kernel versions. So the boot partition got full and left me in a weird start where I had to manually remove old kernels and track down the driver at fault.
Recoverable, but annoying, and on a system I use for work it would be really really expensive.
Fedora used to nuke itself sometimes if you upgraded an install from version n to n+1, n+2, … Like a config not being migrated properly, a package conflict because of renamed packages and versions, yada yada yada.
If you didn’t experience that, you either were very lucky, only used enterprise distros, or simply reinstalled often enough for it not to be an issue.
I don’t know how exactly it’s set up in the US, but in Germany the best before date means essentially “we guarantee no substantial change”. That means, if the liquids in a yoghurt start to separate after a week, the date is one week after production, even though the complex refurbishment of “stirring” might make the product perfectly edible for weeks after. I’m involved in a local food sharing community and I’ve eaten yoghurts literally months after the official shelf life, they were fine.
Two separate dates would already do the trick. Like “best before” and “not after”. Both are relevant, but they mean very different things.
Which makes you wonder, how Hezbollah manages to shoot rockets into northern Israel for so long? One could speculate that someone intentionally left their capacity to maintain low level attacks untouched.
I feel really bad for these scientists. The decision is perfectly reasonable, but being punished for something completely out of your control must suck.
That’s not the argument. The argument is rather that good employees can easily find new and better jobs. So the remaining people are on average worse.
It’s also called Dead Sea Effect. The good ones evaporate, only salt remains.
Especially in sales and finance: every call is potentially on the record, and that’s a problem.
A lot of internal communication in these departments is, to put it mildly, legally not without interest. A quick chat after a meeting is completely off the record, an email is not.
Wow, whataboutism and unfounded ad hominem in a single argument.
Bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off!
Wouldn’t that break the necks of everyone over 50?
First of all the nitpicky stuff: Mac OS never used anything FreeBSD in the kernel. The kernel is XNU/mach, FreeBSD only supplies the user land. Pedantic, but we have a cliche to defend.
Anyway, I think you got the update part backwards. Apple doesn’t update its side of the deal. MacOS ships with old bsd apps, simply because apple doesn’t care all that much about it.
Yet, some landlords refused it. There have been talks about a new regulation, but currently a landlord can more or less arbitrarily deny solar panels.
My “landlord” is a company owned 100% by the city I live in, they claim to embrace solar, but in order to get the permit to install a panel I need a structural review of the balcony, which a) costs a ton of money and b) I need some documentation (blueprints/plan) from my landlord. So far that sounds kind of reasonable, buuuut they refuse to give out any information about their buildings, so even if I would pay someone to prove the balcony won’t collapse, this guy can’t finish the report without knowing what the wall is made of.
So effectively, they managed to pull ye olde Kafka not-really-denial.
No, and if you would actually read the sources or dare to think for a few seconds you’d see that.
Human waste is not spent uranium that kills for millions of years with no way to mitigate that. If that would be the case, we would literally be drowning in shit right now.
Human feces contain some bacteria that can be dangerous, but that can be dealt with - again, this is exactly what every water treatment plant is doing. What do you think happens with all our shit? Do you think we fling it into space?
No. Large organizations suck at managing IT, simply because it’s not crucial for them to keep it managed and they usually have enough institutional insulation to mitigate the impacts. Whether that insulation is money or disregard of the public doesn’t matter all that much.
So your argument against treated waste is, that it has to be treated first?
Of course it is. Or do you really think, cow and pig manure is fundamentally different from our shit?
The only difference are some germs, but that can be handled - otherwise water treatment plants would cause epidemics downstream.
I mean, an urban environment flushes tons of fertilizer down the drain every day…
Facebook is huge and has very diverse teams/departments. It’s absolutely possible the guys who know what security is, and the guys who build app xyz are in different departments, countries, continents.
The capitalists want us to believe otherwise, but large corporations are just as convoluted and inefficient as a planned economy.
Of course you can.