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by Top19 6y ago
Google "System Design Github.com". There are some amazing guides there. GCP names their products pretty clearly (looking at you AWS) so mapping them to Google Cloud products should be easy.
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by Top19 6y ago
Who on here was saying front company for intelligence agency? I imagine if that is the case this is already being picked up by any number of threat intelligence solutions like Shadow Dragon [1]. Also this group looks almost cliche Cold War
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by Top19 6y ago
So Granicus posts online streaming video of every gov agency in the country basically. They have their own custom hardware to do this too that sites inside of gov datacenters it seems. Apparently they left open their main production databas
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by Top19 7y ago
Mass Organ Harvesting and Mass Killing in Xinjiang. If you are familiar with ICS security / systems, you can literally see the incinerators with dashboards of “humans per hour” and things like that. Anyone with data wrangling skills (B
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by Top19 7y ago
There is an email in the summary of the commenter profile.
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by Top19 7y ago
I get your comment for sure, but it is not true when you say those on Hacker News would downvote a comment for being off-topic when it is for a somewhat concerning moral issue. Many of the members here are better than that or at least more
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by Top19 7y ago
Yeah not surprising. Used to work for the Texas Gov Storage IT. Those guys left the single file server for all of Secretary of State (department that manages elections) up on the internet for months to make remote access / working fro
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by Top19 9y ago
For reference, they’re saying it’s worse than anything that occurred during the Cold War in terms of informants lost/killed, including more than lost via Aldrich Ames (he was eventually arrested in 1994).
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by Top19 9y ago
I won an essay contest in college that NASA set up regarding the future of supersonic and hypersonic aviation. Even back then, supersonic, let alone hypersonic, aviation was such a pipe dream for civilian aviation. Not saying it can’t be do
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by Top19 9y ago
>“One of my ambitions is to help our users put more food on the table,” says Jimmy Chen, the founder of Propel. This app has some short-term benefits, but it’s hard to see long-term benefits. What if every government aid program was supe
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by Top19 9y ago
So Kentucky has done some bad things with healthcare, but in this case, it’s a test on health habits and financial literacy to encourage people to study for them. Was thinking more back to “poll tests” Jim Crowe days at first. This was not
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by Top19 9y ago
I very much agree with your ethical justification. I used to struggle with this too, but then I realized just how much corporations steal from America. It wasn’t always like this of course, both consumers/citizens and companies can go
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by Top19 9y ago
This is actually the plot of a movie from the 90’s based on a popular play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_of_the_Golds_(fil...
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by Top19 9y ago
> French cinema icon claims recent focus on outing sexual predators is stymieing sexual freedom No one ever had sexual freedom. It was just sexual freedom for the 1% who could afford gym memberships, not working in college, organic food,
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by Top19 9y ago
Glad to see Oracle working more with Javascript. For years that was a strong claim of MongoDB, but recently Oracle has done better (although so have many other vendors).
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by Top19 9y ago
You make a good point. Sometimes trying to prepare for a crisis that might never come is the worst strategy. Supposedly, this is what makes democracies stronger than authoritarian governments. Democracies argue endlessly, never taking actio
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by Top19 9y ago
Man, remember when in the 90’s real estate values were soon to collapse because everyone would be working remote, and Class A office space was going to be useless? Funnily enough, they are saying the same thing now about AR/VR. We will
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by Top19 9y ago
Mark Twain on the main aim of the men of the Gilded Age: “To get rich. In what way? Dishonestly if they can, honestly if they must.
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by Top19 9y ago
Copyright 2009 The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767923057/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_e-6u...
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by Top19 9y ago
If you want a really retro experience, look up terms on youtube like “high school video yearbook 1997”. My class didn’t do one of these, but apparently lots did. Shows you all the trendy trends for high school that year. Weird knowing what
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by Top19 9y ago
I like RescueTime, although I think it’s good to use for a few months, get a baseline, and then move on. More to the point, and taking out my axe to grind, all of this focus on productivity and being a “success!” is helpful, but also amusin
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by Top19 9y ago
They should have filed an 8-k form, the typical SEC disclosure form for any materially significant event that cannot wait until a quarterly statement. https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersform8khtm.html “Waiting unt
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by Top19 9y ago
What this article describes is a terrible, confused, scary nightmare. From the very first picture that begins the article on-down, Elizabeth Mason advocates an absolutely frightening system that is made even more scary by how she comes thro
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by Top19 9y ago
Safe Deposit box with emergency unlock codes for 1password or Last Pass maybe? That should be pretty straight-forward. You would need to make clear that they would need your phone as well for MFA codes, so if you have a phone password (you
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by Top19 9y ago
Are you kidding me? All of those operations people should be immediately trained in cybersecurity and deployed literally anywhere in the country. If you’ve seen the latest password dumps and how bad they are, cybersecurity is getting worse
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by Top19 9y ago
John Cabot Lodge used to say “the purpose of the UN isn’t to take you to heaven, it’s to prevent us all from going to hell”. Feel the same way about capitalism. I have no idea why it works, many other thing seem like they should work 10x be
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by Top19 9y ago
Google’s hiring advice has done incredible damage to the United States. They were the ones who first widely promoted the idea / made it sexy to interview 750 candidates for 1 role and then still saying no to all of them, just so you ca
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by Top19 9y ago
Friendly reminder that China is the biggest bubble in 10,000 years of human history: https://www.crescat.net/crescat-capital-quarterly-investor-l... Imagine a country with 1,000 different Enron’s or Countrywide’s that inste
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by Top19 9y ago
Are you kidding me?
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by Top19 9y ago
The “bad boy” of Google will be missed. For those not in the know, he and his wife have had an open marriage for years and Eric keeps several apartments around SF for escorts.

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