not to disagree, but imo it is the main purpose of a corporation to shield individuals from consequences hence increasing the level of acceptable risk and with it the velocity of business developement. (all for the greater good)
The liability shield may have made better sense when corporations were actually given charters because they were expected to serve a public good. it doesn't seem to be the case where that is true any more. If it ever was? Now it seems that corporations only exist to make money. Public good be damned.
I agree in principle. But on a device this small, cramming another row onto an already tiny keyboard would be much worse ergonomically than having to deal with the Fn key, IMO.
Also the blame. On prem outage? IT management is in the hot seat for a fix. AWS outage? Well, major us-east-1 outages make the news so the blame is more diffuse. And even outside of that, it's much harder for anyone internally to blame IT management for the outsourcing, so long as they were smart and got the CFO to take credit for the cost savings of going cloud or something.
HN often underestimates how much of enterprise IT, and large business generally, is about making sure that upsides are concentrated enough your management chain can take responsibility, and downsides are either diffuse enough or deflectable enough that your management chain can avoid responsibility.
ime correct: individual downloaders will not be prosecuted unless somewhat high-profile, intitutional/commercial users (vps) will only get a cease and desist. uploaders are fair game.
It also helps that it’s pretty hard to figure out who downloads. With torrents, you’ll always upload as well (outside using specific clients), with websites they have no data.
you seem to have misread the parent commment in regards to his childs media consumption.
that said, we found that putting up a short video to capture the attention of small children is very effective at calming them down while changing diapers for example.
You seem to have misread my comment. There is research claiming that videos are bad for babies. (!) Then it makes no difference if they're calmed down during diaper change. Valium is also calming, but most people are recommended to stay off it.
i'm sure there is such research, haven't read into it thou. ime no problem if you limit the exposure to video to a few minutes a day. it's basically the modern version of a sockpuppet.
Fortunately we have a friendly neighbor with plenty of nuclear power which renders germany's anti-nuclear stance into a political play with a side dish of market consolidation.
It has no military value because it's unthinkable to use them. Unlike strategic weapons of deterrence which are exactly meant to prevent unthinkable scenarios. We have them so the other side won't use theirs.
Tactical weapons are not deterrence but actually meant to be used. Nobody will use a tactical nuke for the can of worms it represents. Whatever target can be found for a tactical weapon, it's not important enough to justify a nuke and basically start WW3.. They're a leftover of 50/60s doctrine.
