I can see utility in something like this where someone sent you a screenshot of code and you wish to compile/execute the code in the screenshot. Anything else is a bonus. I dig the project, keep it up!
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the point is:
- the government would be knocking down the door of a CEO who may not necessarily have the type of data they're looking for.
- the government would have to go through a ton of effort to get anything they needed, rather than having it all up front to begin with.
- no data should be given up freely without direct, fair consent (no matter who demands it)
That's true, but why does that mean they need to shut down her account just because she visited Cuba? Would that mean a grocery store would then have to refuse to sell you their goods because you visited the country once?
The guy's wife didn't do anything wrong. Slack broke the law by providing an embargoed service to someone in Cuba. I'll bet money that when this was discussed with their compliance officer, the lawyers and engineers and everyone else agreed to use certain metrics (like source IP) to determine whether someone fell under the embargo. Otherwise, Slack would have to spend a lot of time and money validating people's identity, etc., in order to comply. I don't really fault them for taking this path because their exposure is huge and compliance is hard.
Your analogy about grocery stores doesn't really work because logging into Slack isn't the same thing as walking into a grocery store, because buying from a grocery store isn't the same thing as exporting food across a national boarder, and because neither food nor medicine is embargoed.
They didn't shut down their account because she visited Cuba, but because her account was created _from_ Cuba. It's unfortunate but I guess it's the only way Slack has to "know" where an account is from.
They should never have allowed the account to be created from Cuba in the first place. Slack when it was younger, didn't have good policies in place to actually follow US law. As such, now that they are reviewing their old records they realized they committed illegal actions that they need to clean up.
Yes, it harms their customers, but that harm and the resulting damages to Slack' reputation (and maybe legal costs), is what they must pay for being negligent in the past.
I disagree. The article concludes "Tesla's Autopilot is a great technology, perhaps the most advanced ADS on the market". What they are "trashing" seems to be the hyperbolic marketing of Tesla, which I feel at this point has been discussed ad nauseum and has gotten so much press that this just feels like a rehashing of "Tesla greatly oversold this!" that tons of people (myself included) have already commented.
It is not only marketing the criticize, also the general handling:
"In the small obstacle ‘pot hole’ scenario, all the cars tested allowed the driver to cooperatively steer and manage the situation apart from the Tesla. The Tesla system does not allow the driver to deviate from the lane centering path and will disengage when a driver inputs steering torque."
This sounds a lot like Walmart's codebase for their POS registers. Except, the kicker is that there are zero unit tests, zero test frameworks, etc. You just have to run it through the shitty IBM debugger and hope that you don't step on anyone else's work. Up until 2016, they didn't even have a place to store documentation. Each register has ~1000 flags, some of which can be bit switched further into testing hell.
I don't understand this either. It's not up to companies to "be the change they want to see in the world". To me, this behavior is nothing but a ploy. No successful company invests money to get the second, third, fourth, etc best return possible.
If anything, it's an insult to the minorities; they only hire them because they are a minority and they fill the minority quota, not necessarily because of their ability.
