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Most of the government employees I know feel it's an honor to serve their country and do so with loyalty and pride. In past shutdowns, they've all gotten paid retroactivly. It's not always about money.
I used to think that until I went on a multi week trip where I had lost my ID. I went through TSA without any ID about 7 times and developed a strong respect for the agents I encountered along the way. I was a difficult case and they treated me with respect and worked hard to get me through the process. I've never been a big fan of the government, and the TSA has flaws no doubt (I hate security theatre) but I think the vast majority of the agents are good apples. They chose to serve in an "essential" service, so that was a choice. Government shutdown's aren't a new thing anymore and they still choose to serve with honor and dignity to their role. I'm happy to agree to disagree.
I believe they technically have to let you fly domestically, even without an ID. I’m not saying they weren’t nice people, but it’s not like they bent the rules. My brother has flown this way several times and you just need additional screening.
> Most of the government employees I know feel it's an honor to serve their country and do so with loyalty and pride.
It's not really up to them, though.
Folks deemed "essential" like security screeners, the Coast Guard, etc. are expected to still come to work. Non-essential employees are furloughed, and it's actually illegal for them to volunteer their time.
> Natter noted that the Anti-Deficiency Act, the 129-year-old law that forces the government to shut down without an appropriation from Congress, also makes it illegal for furloughed workers to volunteer — even though many end up getting paid whether they work for not. "It really ought to be rewritten to be more relevant for the 21st century," he said.
Maybe. This shutdown though seems extraordinarily petty. I can definitely see how agents could be especially upset that their livelihoods are being jeopardized based on Trump's temper tantrums.
As someone who has avidly fished for salmon in the NW for the last 30 years (~75 days per year), I can at least give my opinion that this is mostly BS.
Pervasive, non-selective, commercial and tribal gill-netting that is optimized to remove the largest specimens from the gene-pool is a big part of where I point my finger. Throw in the dams and massive increases in non-native, invasive California sea lions in the lower Columbia and you have a mess in the making. Lots of factors but I believe most of the problems are in-river, not in-ocean.
Also disclaimer, my opinions mostly come from experience on the Columbia (The largest Chinook runs in the world), not the Sound or further north.
I wish I could find the selective breeding paper I read years ago. It is as you say. The human practice of keeping the largest fish in both sport and commercial catches is to blame. A 75 year king salmon derby here shows progressively smaller fish winning every year. Its not really hard to reason that if you kill the big fish before they breed the fish are going to get smaller.
We even see short unnaturally fat fish that are just under the minimum length that has been the same for 30+ years. The gene pool is being pressured to shorter fish for survival.
I have a hobby that I read 3-4 print magazines for (fishing in the northwest, not that it matters) and after numerous times talking to the publishers, I still, in 2018, cannot get them to distribute an electronic version. I would pay big money for a digital archive of one of them all the way back to the 60's. They all fear piracy so strongly they won't innovate. Boggles my mind.
Almost certainly not because there's usually _something_ inside the corporation and so you then get the need for unified authentication management (e.g. Okta) and some way to access the internal app.
Depends how you define richest while saying "in history"
From Forbes... By the time Rockefeller died in 1937, his assets equaled 1.5% of America's total economic output. To control an equivalent share today would require a net worth of about $340 billion dollars.
Better get very very good at configuration management, provisioning, patching, monitoring, and all the other things that go along with running large quantities of infra (even if virtual). I don't know anything about your app, but I do know many shops that deeply regret going down this path rather than building multi-tenant in the first place.
For what its worth, and some may disagree, but production SaaS apps don't belong on Linode/DigitalOcean... but that's a whole other topic.
What's your reasoning for that last comment? Why don't you think prod apps should be running on Linode or DO? I have experience with both and really enjoy using DO. Their infra seems solid, so just curious as to why you made that comment.
I have used both extensively and love them for dev and non production environments.
Perhaps I have some old biases, but I have gotten caught up in noisy neighbor hell more times than I can count. Being impacted by DDOS attacks on your neighbors is no fun.
Add in privacy/security compliance where they attempt to leverage their facilities SOC2 reports rather than operate their own business to this standard and it just doesn't work for me or my customers.
EDIT: FWIW, my concerns tend to come from a place much further along in the game that might not be relevant to you right now. If you're still proving your business model and this is the fastest way to get there then by all means.
