Amazon already publishes transparency reports indicating which country requested data[1]. It's not clear in the article what kinds of data requests are communicated by the alleged payments (subpoena, warrant, court order?), but the whole thing seems so unbelievable as to be.... made up
> €1.4 an hour for the CPU/GPU alone, plus a couple more Euro for hard disk usage and long-term storage (usage was pretty high during setup, which accounts at least for half the amount)
The Azure solution sounds much more expensive than the prices quoted in the article
Default bucket encryption would require you to misconfigure two controls instead of one. S3 only automatically decrypts if you are an authorized principal on the KMS key, having S3 permission is not enough.
The grid in Costa Rica is also highly unreliable and many communities will run off oil & gas generators for extended periods of time (in addition to the comments that a majority trucks, busses, cars still run off of non-renewable sources.
The concept of a strategic supply chain is not new, as semiconductors play an increasingly strategic role in the US' defense and industrial policies - treating them as strategic is becoming less and less controversial. In fact China has recognized the importance of semiconductors and taken measures to boost their domestic capabilities in this space[1]
I used to work for a company that did model risk management consulting for large banks and source code reviews were a standard part of what we did. What sounds different from the OPs situation is that it is the customer who would be conducting the review and not a third party. Take everything you read here with a grain of salt but it would be best to consult a lawyer. Even if you hold the patents for what your software is doing under the hood it may difficult and expensive to sue in the event that your customer does simply copy your secret sauce
Good point. If the OP company is doing something they can't then how are they going to know its fit for purpose? From my experience the big guys don't really have those skills in house OR the ability to organise said skills in a timely fashion.
The boomers inherited the only advanced country in the world that hadn't had its industrial capacity reduced to rubble over the course of two world wars. The US was the only manufacturing supplier left, so naturally every working age adult had a wealth of employment opportunities. Another way to look at the plight of the millennials (full disclosure, I'm a millennial) is "hurray, society hasn't faced a major setback in the form of a catastrophic global war in 80 years!"
The situation is not just unique to the US though: Many countries which had their industrial capacity reduced to rubble are still in the exact same boat: People that started working in the 50s 60s and 70s did a lot better comparatively than those that started after 2000. The 50s were far less happy in Europe than in the US, but there was just so much progress to be made that hit everyone. A big part of it was also population growth.
There's plenty of progress to be made in this decade, but a much smaller percentage of the population is part of this boom: Even for those of us that saw the dot com boom, tech is a picnic.
I look at the outcomes of people that went into science, for instance, and I see them against a wall of tenured professors that will not retire, and an industry that has less demand than there's supply. Those that just picked the wrong major in college are struggling, and those that didn't even go to college, even more so. The only ones ahead of their parents went to tech or got a career by using their connections as a stepping ladder: It's easy to do well in law when daddy makes you partner, stays a few more years and then retires.
As a society, we have to do our best to avoid becoming Brazil, and find ways to improve total outcomes. Having a small group of people that make a whole lot of money, and who give their advantage to the next generation, while a lot of people have worse outcomes than their parents is not exactly a recipe for a happy, peaceful society.
I like how you've identified what the key difference is.
Demand-limited. Not supply limited like we have been for the past 60 years.
I think it applies to more than just academic jobs though. Oil. Cars. Fridges. Laptops. Computers. Dolls. For all of it demand limits seem to be the problem.
This is a fantastic point I've never heard raised on discussions of this topic. However, I think this would address the total wealth/income of the nation, but wealth disparity wouldn't be caused by this, would it?
In the US the 8 hour work day was established by FDR with one feature being that it would tighten the labor market (and reduce unemployment) by forcing employers to hire more people.
The lower hours also reduced workplace injuries and provided longer term economic gains [1]. This study is probably too short measure the arguably more important gains that would take a long time to show up.
1: The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by Robert Gordon.
[1] https://d1.awsstatic.com/Security/pdfs/Amazon_AWS_Informatio...