> Rolling out updates on a Friday afternoon is still practiced in various industries.
By people with unreliable systems and a lot of myhts behind.
In a well engineered organization, you can deploy whenever you want. Sure, it will not work 100% of the time, but you figure out why, fix the problem and you will be one step closer to the mythical 100%. And so on. Deploying less frequently is what creates more problems.
When you start to get closer to the hardware or even working the security the side. A lot of the basics carries forward or may be explained by an author in a way that just clicks. For example one awesome list recommended the book Practical Malware Analysis which even over 10 years later is a fantastic ground bed for people looking to get into reverse engineering or working with malware. From there a person can spring forward into modern tools and carry on from there.
> Are we at a point where former presidents are immune to prosecution for actual crimes?
Name the last time a president was prosecuted and you'll have your answer. Trumps lawsuit over presidential acts just forced into the open what was before a gentlemen's agreement about presidential power. Outside of office, I don't think any of the former presidents had a huge drive to commit anything above financial crimes and using their status.
Biden I can not think of anything scaling beyond putting his ego over country when he went for a second term. He clashed with the legal system but challenges in court is typical for the role. And even in that, he choose to comply (example loan repayment) over Trump who rushes to complete his goal before legal can step in (golf course, ballroom, etc).
We already live in a future where trying to get a job offline, not using cell phones, or doing business outside approved tech giants makes you a hermit in all but name.
Mandatory AI for society participation is just the next step.
China social credit score is a government policy which comes with government punishments.
This incident is about Google enforcing contract terms on a Google account.
What we should learn from the story is that consolidation of all services into a single account with a single company means increased harm if any contract violations are enforced.
If you get banned from an airline for violating a company policy, your life isn't over. Flying is a little less easy or maybe a little more expensive / friction. But that's different from the government banning you from flying on any aircraft.
This is why I don’t ever voluntarily use my Google account for anything. Ever.
Well, other than YouTube. Because I can get banned from YouTube and then that’s all my account was ever used for. And maybe I would just sign up with a different account then.
We saw in the US early 1900s how that worked out. You literally had homes burning down because people didn't pay into the right fire fighter service to put out their homes. And how do you handle medical services like 911? Should we just leave the poor to die? How do you deal with people who don't believe they need X service and then they suddenly need it?
Libertarianism sounds great on paper and always falls apart in reality the moment a community grows in size and the individual can't match the good provided by the collective.
You can help them personally, not just the somebody else's money.
>You literally had homes burning down because people didn't pay into the right fire fighter service to put out their homes.
You left out many details. For example many people actually used fires to cook. And then there are accounts of fire departments starting fires off on purpose to justify their existence. And why shouldn't people be held responsible for their own fire safety, just like everything else? [For the records - I have lived in places with no fire department and 911 service]
Real question for you: what cumulative[*] tax rate on your income would you be comfortable with for the services that you are currently getting?
* cumulative = income tax + property tax+ sales tax + all other taxes
Tax the rich to solve all problems only works for so long. Eventually everyone has to be hit with the tax stick to support pensions, healthcare, a drive for a more US independent military, etc.
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