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  • Your feelings and opinion are wrong in this case.

    They could mislead people into sharing your opinion/feeling and then you’d both be wrong.

    You’re getting downvoted because you’re wrong and are contributing the opposite of a benefit to a conversation around the security of signal without any facts or proof other than your “gut”.

    That is not upvote worthy. People are correct to downvote your comment to let others know that they shouldn’t take it with any degree of seriousness. That’s how this works. That’s how the whole comment voting system is supposed to work.

    Your feelings are not special when they muddy the waters of facts.






  • Yeah, exactly.

    The Billionaires are getting everything they want out of this arrangement. They’re consolidating wealth, destroying the educational institutions in the country to keep people ignorant and poor, and jacking up the prices of everything so that it ends up creating a slave labor class across the whole of the country.

    That’s in addition to successful lobbying to start “corporate cities” back up (there’s a very, very good reason and a lot of dead bodies for why we don’t do this).

    Also, keep in mind that Billionaires are notoriously greedy and short sighted. They will destroy the climate and ecosystem of the world if it’ll give them a 50 year run where they get to act like kings, then fuck anyone who comes later.








  • At some point we have to accept vehicular deaths given how car-centric our society is and how distracted and unsafe a lot of drivers have become.

    Normal taxi drivers kill people.

    Normal truck drivers kill people.

    Normal home to work drivers kill people.

    If a robotic taxi can lower the taxi category of accidents by 91% across the board, including death rates, then that’s a positive improvement to society any way you slice it. Not saying it isn’t a horrifying dystopian world we’re potentially building, but at the moment, given the numbers, it would be 91% safer in that category.

    The ultimate solution is to shift towards more public transit options in general, and away from individual vehicular transport. Not only is it a massive burden to the environment, but it’s a massive cost burden to the individuals and society as a whole.





  • Those are the only 3 that matter at the top tier/enterprise class of infrastructure. Oracle could be considered as well for nuanced/specialized deployments that are (largely) Oracle DB heavy; but AWS is so far ahead of Azure and GCP from a tooling standpoint it’s not even worth considering the other two if AWS is on the table.

    It’s so bad with other cloud providers that ones like Azure offers insane discounts on their MSSQL DB (basically “free”) licensing just to use them over AWS. Sometimes the cost savings are worth it, but you take a usability and infrastructure hit by using anything other than AWS.

    I honestly, legitimately, wish there was some other cloud provider out there that could do what AWS can do, but they don’t exist. Anyone else is a pale imitation from a devops perspective. It sucks. There should be other real competitors, especially to the US based cloud companies as the US cannot be trusted anymore, but they just don’t exist without taking a huge hit in terms of tools, APIs, and reliability options, to AWS.