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A few: The core reasoning (WMD) was the CIA misinterpreting Saddam grandstanding to his generals as a serious WMD program. This was due to the CIA having an insufficient grasp of the local situation, largely due to the fact that we had only infiltrated isolated parts of the regime and couldn't corroborate.
Slightly before Obama's election, the US forces were effectively ordered to stop patrolling and attempting to take and hold territory in order to reduce the American bodycount for political reasons - this allowed forces outside the green zone to maintain continuity of operations and simply wait for us to get bored and leave.
Similarly, lack of a clear set of objectives, and lack of frank expectations setting with the US population lowered the ability of the DoD to prosecute the war in a winnable fashion.
These aren't small nitpicks, these are core reasons why the GWOT didn't go so well - and almost none of them have anything to do with defense procurement or military mismanagement.
VC is like that because many of them missed many boats of very profitable startups in 2001 thru 2010, where "stupid business trick, now with software!" was almost always an OK bet.
AI is the new dot com, which means we are at least one more bubble away from mass usefulness
That is difficult to square with Nixonian plot to use the carceral apparatus to keep Black people from gaining power.
I guess it does track with revisionism to make anything we currently disagree with to be a product of original sin.
The congressional black caucus were ardent supporters of the war on drugs https://www.wnyc.org/story/312823-black-leaders-once-champio...
So I'm pretty sure that whatever motivation Nixon had, the Black community in the United States wasn't a big fan of drugs and wanted them gone.
It's fun to declare it "things the state doesn't like", but I legitimately don't see anyone legalizing meth or heroin anytime soon.
Software engineering is so well paid due to these dynamics.
Corporate raiding is nothing new, and financialization does let it happen at a pace that it couldn't previously - but just saying "but that's capitalism!" is quitting
Worker owned collectives have the same problems, people want to acquire power and then use it to be ahead when strategies fail and someone has to take responsibility.
How do you prevent that looks different in a market economy than a planned one (planned ones having more widespread but also more small scale corruption issues like these) - but you still do need to do the work to prevent it.
But an important part of the early internet was "its Just Text".
And in fact, the reason why JSON is so great is that if you want to use it as Just Text it works just the same!
It's a translation layer between systems that really demand highly structured data and flexible systems where as long as you can thunk about it, you can get from anywhere to anywhere else with a few simple programs that are on every machine in tbe known universe.
This model was sustainable when the internet was adding millions of users per year, but as internet access reaches saturation - Google must do something.
I'd prefer if it was "pay for your email" - but internet users have been openly hostile to paying for anything for 39 years
This problem exists at big tech and startup, in companies that spend fractional multipliers of the average salary on engineers as well as those who pay poorly.
In this environment, if your solution is "hire better people', you can't- there isn't any
Robber Baron Capitalist comes in and says "hey wait a minute, there's money to be made!"
He starts buying goods in A, then selling them in B.
This is a very, very stupid idea, your 5 year old could have it. So that means as soon as Business A figures it out, B , D, E, and F aren't far behind.
The net for people in Market B is that now they don't pay the previous scarce price, but something closer to Market As, and more people can afford the good. This means that someone does all the work of building out all that logistics for us, simply to exploit the price differential.
Something does need to be done about this, this is something - whether it's the right something or not is debatable, but I find the idea that this is just smug news orgs getting their justified comeuppance silly.
Scams are high, but not so high that you won't usually get what you asked for.
We talk a ton about unrealistic beauty standards, "men talking, women listening", etc - but I have to wonder, maybe the world where women marry people one income decide above them is almost guaranteed to be a world where men are just more competitive in the workplace, even at the expense of running over their female colleagues. The incentives curve says that to expect anything at all of women, you have to be successful, ideally wealthy. So, you get the behavior the incentives curve tells people to enact.
An incentives curve that is set, ironically, by women
People look down on bootcampers, but it always feels to me that 99% of what is taught in university programs is similarly only useful in specialized situations. The actual good thing is having had to sit down and write a lot of code before anyone lets you touch anything.
What does such a program look like for Web?
This is generally unpopular among liberal and left leaning spaces, and is only marginally popular in right leaning ones.
You need transit to be safe and clean so you get ridership from people who are middle class and up, and urban living to be a safe, clean, desirable experience.
This is very challenging, because the combination of increased policing and social programs needed to get there would not be plausible under either Democrat or Republican administrations.
It's really cool, but Singapore isn't exactly a model for the world.
Similarly - you should consider that Copenhagens all bike infrastructure both supports and is supported by the society around it, and a lot more would have to change than just the surface level things that you find good to make it happen.
Slightly raised car like vehicles with a full fold down back row, I can and have moved regular sheet ply in one.
As long as you can select a p99 for timeouts that's sane, lambda does a really good job handling highly heterogeneous workflows in general.
So if a request could take 10ms or multiple minutes depending on Reasons(TM) - lambda makes a lot of sense because you don't have to overprovision for theoretical peak demand, and a swamp of expensive requests is isolated from your cheap requests.
Verifying that the call patterns between the functions are correct is challenging sometimes - but it helps there to have the architecture mapped out visually.
I kind of want to take a Crack at what Prime Video did except serverless from a green field perspective, and I'm willing to bet I wind up provisioning a RedPanda cluster or similar and having them feed detector lambdas. The bottleneck and cost here appeared to be storing intermediate results and the orchestration. Orchestration is solved by using something like SQS or what have you. Intermediate results are somewhat harder depending on size - but I think you could get there and it'd be an interesting exercise.
Edge is pretty OK, good even compared to Firefox's speed issues and Chrome being Chrome.
"Limiting children" in that case is "human race should die because the climate" and like, no.
Please stop repackaging anti human doomerism as climate action.