Oh, i’m quite sure it does. In fact, it’s a central thing in so much of psychology. The only difference is how you get there. Some people can just ignore and others take more effort.

Bad business people have been blaming outside forces for their failings forever. Taxes! Regulations! China! The Algorithm! It’s a symphony out there.

Yes, and none of that matters when the money runs out and you can't convince investors that your business will bring them a worthwhile return in an environment that includes all of those outside forces.

I don’t care how this makes the world a better place, because it just does.

That’s one reason I’ve preferred .Net. Put ahead of time compilation on top and it is glorious.

Where did the mud inside come from if it was still sealed?

limestone is porous and will allow water to eventually seep through.

a condensation cycle will occur, and drip percolate the soft tissue and adipocere into a slurry [coffin liquor] that will settle to the bottom of the sarcophagus.

I honestly cannot believe that I have been listening to Death Metal my entire life, and no one has ever used the term “coffin liquor” in a song.

For what it's worth, Morpheus Descends had a song called 'Submerged in Adipocere', which is a similar kind of thing.

Just wanted to say hello to my fellow metalheads. And thanks for the song recommendation!

I think “coffin liquor” would be a great name for an absinthe.

That's more Necrophagist kinda territory.

Not trying to be sarcastic; I may be unaware of some relevant legal framework for the US, could you please elaborate which one is a right and how is it enshrined and enforced?

Not American here, but I'm aware of both privacy in mixed forms (privacy act 1974, HIPAA, COPPA, and CCPA in California); as well as anonimity in First Amendment et al since there's case law (IANAL) demonstrating the requirement of anonimity to avoid persecution of free speech.

All of these have limitations and exceptions in a complex legal system. But to issue a blanket statement like the comment above is no really correct - just trying to make a point, I guess

Also not a lawyer but anonymity case law is a mixed bag to best, and more practically speaking very narrowly targeted compared to privacy.

Arguments for both are derived from, but not explicit in, the Bill of Rights. Privacy has broad points of support while anonymity is primarily attributed to the First Amendment, but only in narrow circumstances.

The only way to have privacy in a semi public location, like the Internet, is anonymity.

Ask any celebrity how much privacy they have. They can’t even buy Starbucks without people commenting on how fat their comfy clothes make them look. Because they have no anonymity.

But privacy in public in general isn’t a thing, right?

Not to build, but to build and maintain. We never budget for maintenance (we as in companies and governments).

Given the cost of out of home childcare, three kids more than pays for a nanny. Even two can.

Not exactly a “rich” thing, just a matter of “scale” (in YC terms).

So the lesson is that IQ tests are unreliable? Weird.

Smart comes in a lot of flavors.

The article is basically making the point that deploying bits of runtime code, even something as simple as a single purpose cloud function, is unnecessary and makes work. The examples of using StepFunctions (declarative code) and “direct integrations” are given, the latter being the least effort to maintain, but in reality it also hides declarative code inside (e.g. VTL to change the shape of payloads).

The benefit is mainly removing the need to deal with runtimes.