For the Ethereum attack that's similar to the CREAM attack, are you referring to the DAO attack, or something else? Can you please share some links on that incident?
Are there any incentives for corporations to reduce waste? Designed obsolescence is the main business model of smartphones. If anything disrupts the profits in this business model, there has to be an incentive (either reward or punishment) that is enforceable and actually enforced. If a law is made and corporations end up circumventing it, that doesn't count. I kind of expect corporations to continue successfully circumventing/overcoming the efforts against designed obsolescence. Convincing consumers it's OK not to get a new phone every year is another issue.
Curious. Let's say the Swiss military has been studying other conflicts and strategizing accordingly, but has not actually experienced any warfare in 200 years. Does the lack of actual experience in warfare put a force at a disadvantage to the forces that had experienced actual warfare?
To use a sports analogy, while game-time experience is valuable, it’s practice that wins games. Much of America’s military advantage is rooted in extensive, ongoing, and realistic training and exercises. Any country can train and practice, but to do so at operational scales and in a way that accurately portrays your adversary’s capabilities requires lots of money and accurate intelligence.
Yes, that is why Chinese military for example has a lot of catching up to do to us, cause whatever your idea is about the efficiency of the military, they have been constantly involved in many conflicts after the Second World War
This is the core of my own development: seeing the world and life in this world (or even beyond) as an unbounded game rather than a zero-sum game. A lot of times it's the perspective that matters. Maybe at times when we are overly focused on the "how" of optimization and lose sight of the "why," the human mind/body/soul becomes unable to metabolize it, and flips out.
>when we are overly focused on the "how" of optimization and lose sight of the "why,"
I have full agreement with you except the quoted statement above. I would actually rephrase this to say: when we are overly focused on our own solution then we lose sight of other coherent variables/solutions that we didn't take into account. Some call this myopic, among many other terms. All our decisions don't exist in a vacuum, no matter how convincingly the perspective is.
Microservices is for scaling applications that need to handle a high volume of transactions (millions+) with the expectation of high growth in transaction volume. It became a solution for Uber and Netflix when the exploding user requests caused their monoliths to become difficult to manage/modify/deploy. An application that handles hundreds to thousands of transactions doesn't necessarily have the problem that requires the microservices solution. The main tradeoff of microservices is that it increases the complexity of software, and has a lot of moving parts that need to be done right to achieve the advantage. The hype of encourage every to-do app creator to use microservices may be an overkill. The writer of the post does have the incentive to encourage the use of microservices and the utilization of their services.
I agree with your statement, and the post explains the pros, but also the challenges of microservices.
Our service does not depend on the project architecture, it can run with microservices, monoliths and hybrid systems just the same. It’s in our best interest to support all variates :)
I remember using Lotus at home. My uncle was a programmer and he taught me how to use the command line and Lotus. Also remember using Logo, drawing some shapes with the turtle.
Agreed! Fear and despair are strong motivators for me. The trick is that fear sits in only when time becomes scarce. "How to start noticing something should be done before it's too late" is a good thing to have.
That sounds like a good strategy: form an inner circle of peers that don't have conflict of interest (preferably not sharing the same supervisor, etc.) and being vulnerable with selective people should be helpful for fine-tuning strategy, and if not, at least generate a little social power. Previously, I had the tendency to isolate and not open up to anybody, to my own detriment.
I am torn between the zero-sum and "abundance" concepts. It seems like some people like to promote the "abundance" concept (where one person's gain adds to everyone else) as an ideal but in reality I have only ever seen zero-sum results in terms of job acquisition and career advancement. There is a fixed number of slots and you need to eliminate others in order to obtain it.
