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Re:23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @06:48PM (#38715199)
You have to give a reason?
How about this: you construct a society that obsesses about race, I build a society that obsesses about property rights and we’ll see who wants to live where?
>human review is always necessary

Then why have AI?

Shitty* values but yes, try to keep up.
>Timnit Gebru

How are your academic standards this low?

As opposed to the alternative?
So that’s why everything is expensive
Why is jingoism normalized when it is in defense of labor?
Re:23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration on Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:51AM (#38555388)
Only 14 days? You don’t get the gift card after the return in your country?
Re:The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People on Saturday October 28, 2023 @03:50PM (#38052811)
CCP bad, capitalism good
Re:South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices on Saturday December 03, 2022 @10:32AM (#33844190)
Alternative hypothesis: US is a developed country, China is a developing country ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
'Because it's a very practical issue that can't be magicked away into the cloud.'

Maybe I'm not focusing on the 'into the cloud' part enough but is the first part of that statement true? Filesystems seem like a very practical issue: writing 1s and 0s in a (sometimes not even sequential) stream to a block device...my first glance at the issue it doesn't seem nearly a daunting challenge as CPU interoperability (multiple vendors, multiple instruction sets, somewhat overlapping, somewhat not) or networking, etc

I've thought about the idea of re-implementing the AWS console, especially for the ends of a 'focused'/gated experience in the data science field; my reasoning was every service has an API and there is a JavaScript SDK, why not just reimplement the console to my tastes/goals? I'm curious what your architecture/design looks like and whether you ran into any sharp edges: ie is Web UI for a cloud platform really as simple as writing JS to call rest APIs?

Also, I'm wondering if the community has any other open source alternatives I could toy around with and peek under the hood.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2018) on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:37AM (#18600969)
SEEKING WORK - Freelancer/Remote

Experience in the AWS Cloud for 5 years; proficient in Python scripting.

LOCATION - Northern Virginia, USA