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mkempe commented on Time to break up Google and Facebook, says New York attorney general candidate washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Jerry2

dang · 8 years ago

Your substantive comments to this site are fine, but your political/ideological battle comments and personal attacks are absolutely not. We've given you a ton of warnings and you've ignored them, so I've banned this account until you indicate that you will use HN as intended in the future. Feel free to email hn@ycombinator.com if you want to provide that.

mkempe · 8 years ago

Natch.

mkempe commented on Site Reliability Engineering landing.google.com/sre/bo... · Posted by u/cube2222

collinf · 8 years ago

This book is pretty well known in the HN space, are you referring to "The Site Reliability Workbook"? That looks like it hasn't even been released yet in print, which is very cool that they are offering free downloads.

If so, thanks for the link! Can't wait to pour through this bad boy.

mkempe · 8 years ago

nit: "pore over"

mkempe commented on Time to break up Google and Facebook, says New York attorney general candidate washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Jerry2

jstewartmobile · 8 years ago

Sounds like you have turned engineering into a religion, where no result--under any circumstance whatsoever--should be subjected to the critical faculty.

I don't want to "smash capitalism." I just want to run a Dawkins on your religion.

mkempe · 8 years ago

What a sad spectacle: the delirious lashing out at modern machines, the sarcastic capitals, the unhinged cries of "religion". Next time I chat with Richard we'll have a laugh as I mention how his name is invoked as a shibboleth by rabid Luddites.

mkempe commented on Time to break up Google and Facebook, says New York attorney general candidate washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Jerry2

mkempe · 8 years ago

Sounds like you want to smash capitalism! more than you want to destroy Google and Facebook.

I did notice you're not explicitly opposed to reusable rockets; although you seem to have a special place in hell reserved for Elon Musk. Oversight?

mkempe commented on 15 Years of SparkFun sparkfun.com/news/2571... · Posted by u/kartikkumar

mkempe · 8 years ago

Kudos!

If you have a chance to visit their building [edit: in Colorado, near Boulder], and even to take a class with them, it's impressive and great fun.

mkempe commented on Time to break up Google and Facebook, says New York attorney general candidate washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Jerry2

aphextron · 8 years ago

>Your diatribe is a complete distortion of economic history and facts, best crystallized by your use of "concentrated wealth" when what we have witnessed is an enormous creation of wealth

Yes, created and concentrated. It used to be that economic activity led to the improvement of everyone's lives. Think the model that worked great for us from post WWII, until the financial deregulation and tax cuts of the 70s/80s. Now it leads to record corporate profits which enrich a select class of wealthy shareholders.

The average American has been absolutely forgotten and left behind, as evidenced by our current political climate.

mkempe · 8 years ago

Please get a grip on reality. The average American has access to vastly better products, services, and health care than past kings couldn't even have dreamt of. Even the amazingly wealthy Rockefeller did not have access to the modern bounty that the average American can easily buy and use today, the bounty that is being created by entrepreneurs and people in the corporations you apparently envy so much.

mkempe commented on Time to break up Google and Facebook, says New York attorney general candidate washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Jerry2

aphextron · 8 years ago

It's time. A solid 100% of the gains in wealth we've seen over the past decade have gone straight to this new aristocracy 10% of the population that has been fortunate enough to latch on to these gigantic companies that have concentrated wealth in a way never possible before in history.

And this will be a good thing for everyone. Look at what happened to Standard Oil. Rockefeller was forced by the DOJ to break things up at the height of our first gilded age, and the subsequent companies went on to be hundreds of times more valuable than Standard Oil alone, while creating thousands of jobs and spreading the wealth to more Americans.

mkempe · 8 years ago

Your diatribe is a complete distortion of economic history and facts, best crystallized by your use of "concentrated wealth" when what we have witnessed is an enormous creation of wealth.

Search engines, social networks, mobile phones, high-speed Internet, same- and next-day e-commerce, interactive maps, video streaming, 24/7 access to world-wide news and commentary, electric cars, cloud services, solar panels, wind farms, fracking, online banking, fitness monitors, 4K tvs, retina displays, tablets, e-book readers, voice-activated assistants, cleaning robots, advanced medical devices, tailored drugs, reusable rockets, etc. etc. are all created and those who create and finance the creation of these products and services deserve a) our accolades and admiration and b) reaping the rewards of their actions.

mkempe commented on Mueller Examining Trump’s Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry nytimes.com/2018/07/26/us... · Posted by u/jbegley

mkempe · 8 years ago

Mueller appears to be a modern Torquemada. Should every politician be hounded by a nemesis of their own?

In the spirit of "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" -- politicians should be under constant surveillance and at risk of removal and punishment lest they always behave like angels. Isn't this the new standard in Western countries? In China, I have been told Confucian legal scholars recommended the threat of capital punishment for corrupt administrators.