I'm not sure how I'm supposed to take this, it's like looking up how much Maine legislature is influenced by US national legislature prior to secession and trying to use that metric to somehow rationalize the clearly disadvantaged state it would be in after seceding from the US.

We can over fish the fuck out of lobsters now, so much freedumbs! Fuck you Canada! Camera pans to Maine when Canada sits down on the same side of the trade bargaining table it's on. Maine makes surprised Pikachu face.

That race to the bottom mentality and sad attempt to rationalize can only be explained by eating paint chips in your youth. DeplorableVibeCodeMonkey.

Bank doesn't mean retail banking services, jackass, it's a regulatory thing. Are you going to have your paycheck deposited in your Coinbase checking account? Financing your home or auto loan with them? Then in what way are they competing with ... Independent Community Bankers ...

Mainly this is happening because there aren't enough Banks willing to partner with and take on risk of all the various schemes going around. The regulatory environment for scams and schemers is hot right now.

How much more would you make by tripling down on an irrational market? Hell, go all in. We can't ALL ignore fundamental value all the time, you understand how catastrophically stupid that is?

"This time is different" "It always goes up"

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This is accepted practice in the devops world unfortunately. It always sets off my spider senses when I see it, but with an authoritative enough looking source and informed timing as the article suggests, you could dupe a bunch of "modern" developers. For non-technical people, forget about it, why would most people doubt sketchy hotel WiFi setup instructions given the mess they're already used to.

... was how to disable it.

Then why the fuck did you bring it up yourself? Are you paid to write propaganda or just do it for fun?

Where do you get that from, Macs integrate with AD better than Linux systems do.

That isn't something nobody talks about, it's widely known everything is worth whatever someone else is willing to pay for it, and a share price is decoupled from a company's value. It breaks down when you buy someone's $1 for $10. You don't raise the value of a dollar, you gave someone your money.

I'm sorry dude but this isn't like assessing the value a piece of art. You can slap a banana on a wall and sell it for a million dollars. We can debate the value of bragging rights and publicity stunts all day. But if you have a lemonade stand that nets $100 a week with no liabilities, no cash, no holdings. That's dollars to dollars. We can speculate on the future value, like the demand for lemonade or population growth or hostile takeover and replace the management, whatever, but there's some math there that's hard to ignore. It's not worth more than this, it's not worth more than that.

Yes you can entirely ignore the math, you could bid the share price up to a market cap of a million dollars for a $100 a week, with no reasonable expectation of revenue ever changing. It doesn't change the fundamental fact that dollars to dollars, it has a real value of $100*X+Y. That total divided by shares equals a fair price, and we can debate X ALLL day, but it's not the same as assessing a banana on a wall, or the even more worthless bitcoin.

This is one of the things that scales with the growth of their business. Power costs are a _signifigant_ chunk of computing costs. Their datacenter opex is probably not as insignificant as people are assuming here.

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"In its second quarter earnings, Google reported that cloud revenues increased by 32% to $13.6 billion in the period. The demand is so high for Google’s cloud services that it now amounts to a $106 billion backlog, Alphabet finance chief Anat Ashkenazi said during the company’s post-earnings conference call."

Google is in the business of .. computing. Google needs to squeeze more from less and do it faster, to increase profits like anyone else. There's no scale that makes it go away, because it scales with everything they do.

Power is the biggest cost in a datacenter. They're measured in megawatts. It doesn't matter who builds them, they aren't cheap and they don't get cheaper at scale.
I'm not sure what the argument is, Google has lots of money, therefore they should be running everything on a pack of mainframes? A flock of big iron UNIX boxes? I guess you could be forgiven after years of all the AI power demand pearl-clutching and crypto waste in the news, but what do you think a square meter of plain old boring servers in any datacenter did? They suck power and produce heat which sucks more power, it's their whole thing and we do that as densely as practical so we don't have to build more datacenter.

You're talking about a company that famously built their own custom distributed servers and switches. You can head canon that as Google alien science voodoo custom special sauce magic super servers or... lots of rough edges and they did it to save a buck, lots of bucks at scale. This is more of the same.

So the same way some mainframe bro was cheering when x86 killed SPARC and Power servers, well, this crusty Solaris admin is not, NOT cheering about ARM taking your lunch money. Suck it Intel. For a lot of you this is probably a wakeup call, enjoy the race to the bottom. I hope your out of band management blows, your firmware sucks, and you enjoy all the reliability of the cheap consumer grade junk you paid for. I welcome our new ARM overlords. /s but we do get what we pay for.

What the fuck does economics have to do with people being dicks to each other. Nothing.

And being a dick is entirely rational if you reject the golden rule and go with what feels good. That's just evil. Not helping someone being attacked by a dick is also entirely rational, and evil, and not having fuck-all to do with capitalism either way.

Do you want a longer lesson on what evil looks like? Yes it's man-made, you moron.

That's bullshit, I drink mine black, but coffee also tastes great when diluted in something else. It's why a faint whiff of it in the air smells so AMAZING. You can get that beautiful coffee aroma in other stuff. Instead of rinsing out your coffee cup, fill it with some cold milk. Or coke. A little coffee flavor goes a long ways in cheese cake, anything chocolate too.

I'm sorry RobinH, you're saying TED has lost it because of some behind the scenes inside ball hand wringing over a controversial speaker and topic? THAT is how TED lost it? It's not all the shitty speakers like this guy...

This is just like conservatives complaining about being censored very loudly on all fucking channels constantly. In fact that's _exactly_ what this is. You point to a published TED talk and complain that people didn't like it. It's published. I'm reading/listening to it.

And... That guy is plainly full of shit. Color blindness isn't real. Unconscious bias is very real.

Color blindness is like a man saying he sees a woman for who she truly is on the inside, just another person. What a great line, and it lets you set aside empathy! I think I know why this is popular with some people. No need to walk a day in her shoes, or admit that her experience with life may vary wildly from yours. What difference could boobs make anyway, I don't see those! What's gender normative household roles.. you need to leave now to pick up the kids from school because your husband doesn't, I don't see that bleep bloop just person woman boobs we're all the same bleep blop. How convenient.

Hi homeless person, I do not see what could possibly be evidence of a very differently lived life, why are you living on park bench, silly human, stop that. It's so clean and simple, I see why the anti-empathy crowd loves it!

The answer to unconscious bias is awareness, introspection, and empathy. Not fucking ignorance, not color blindness. Last example: a customer with no arms walks up to you, what do you do. Well, I'd think about it. What would I expect if I were him. Am I making an inappropriate assumption? Touch him on the shoulder? Fuck Coleman Hughes and the horse he rode in on, he'd probably just stick his hand out for a shake. It's not that's he wrong, it's just so stupid and intellectually lazy and wrong.

Whoa kid, it's a nonprofit, not a charity.

A nonprofit is just a business that spends profits on its mission, operations, salaries etc. If you don't like what reasonable compensation for executives looks like in the New York market, I don't know what to say... but they're absolutely not volunteers, and it's not a charity.

All modern software has a shellacked turd at the center. Wrapped in more crap and more varnish. I'm not sure where we're trying to go with this, no software is trustworthy if you didn't write it, and if you did, that just means you know where to find some peanuts. Hasn't stopped us from getting by with what we have because I don't want to make all that crap myself. Security isn't black and white, it never was, it's about risk.

"Compromised" sounds an awful lot like how "unfree" is thrown around. Some kind of purity test for other people's crap. Sorry, but I'm not putting any shiny turd up on a pedestal, free or not. I'm using what works while taking a measured, risk based approach to security.