I can still remember, on an evening back in the 1980s, newscaster Gerrick Utley commenting on “this particularly slow news day.” Even as a dumb kid, I understood that to be a good thing. But I couldn’t have guessed how much I’d pine for another one like it the way I do now.
Part of the issue here is that the military establishment and its peripheral industries in the US are so enormous, that most people who aren’t in the military are close to someone who is, or who does business with it. We’re all already in the Army, basically.
Many comments here boil down to “if you want privacy, buy an iPhone.” While true, this is another exhibit of privacy now being only for people who can afford it.
As Apple & Samsung(an ally) falls in slow motion behind Huawei soon behind Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo - Chinese intelligence gets a strong advantage against US Intelligence in backdooring. So I think beyond the occasional bashing of Lenovo, Huawei, now Xiaomi we shall see more fight going on and same should be happening in Chinese press too.
I suspect that by AWS going first here, they can easily go for more integrations whilst also eating some of the Zapier's competitors lunch.
This depends on price and by that time its possible that Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure will start jumping in on the integrations market too, further squeezing the likes of some enterprise-only integrations such as Tray.io which still has less integrations than Zapier in general.
It's still too early to tell, but we'll see how fast Amazon adds support for more API integrations or if GCP and Azure will join in and do the same.
Amazon seem to have a disadvantage here though. This kind of tool is aimed at non-developers who want to glue stuff together. With Zapier, they register an account and get stuck in – straightforward. With AWS, they register an account and are instantly overwhelmed with a million different things. AWS is too big and unfocused for the target market. I've seen developers hit a wall once they get on board AWS because it's just too much to deal with. You think the AWS dashboard is any friendlier to non-developers?
Fundamentally, your retort to the parent’s (poorly expressed and now dead) reply is sound, though I believe they might have been circling the concept of negative vs. positive rights. It’s an interesting topic and one worthy of debate, though sadly that debate has become fraught with emotion and passion, to the point that it’s on a level with abortion - it just can’t be discussed in most circles.
Maybe, although I believe that it's not too hard to have a basic argument about negative v. positive rights. Some people debate and feel passionately about the things they believe. As long as they're making arguments, I am not sure what the problem is.
I oftentimes find that good debates are more often disrupted by the person who insists on this mythic ideal of "unemotional" & civic & rational debate than the person who feels strongly about the issue.
Agreed, SSH-based remote development could certainly be smoother. But I love the way PyCharm uses pydev to run a Remote Debugging Server - that works for most remote-development use cases I encounter. Once you get it set up and a run configuration working, it’s a joy.
I perceive the "It's okay to be white" slogan as a very moderate and constructive reaction to the propagation and even normalization of anti-white messages and memes. And I specifically mean anti-white as an ethnic hatred, not as part of an equality and justice argument. For example, see the "Karen" meme, which besides its horrible sexism, specifically focuses on white women.
Middle-class white people have increasingly witnessed a media and a left-wing political coalition that can vilify them with impunity for gain, be that entertainment value or the easy political cohesion that hate can generate. So, I'd argue it's important to make room for and accept the very tepid and nonthreatening "It's okay to be white." Because if we don't, what follows that will be less palatable.
> For example, see the "Karen" meme, which besides its horrible sexism, specifically focuses on white women.
"Angry black woman" was a trope looooooooooong before Karen hit your screen. If you only care about meanness when it's targeted at white people, then this is not a meme problem; this is a you problem.
