If Boeing goes under, then Airbus becomes a monopoly.

Or more likely some other American aerospace buys the assets for cheap and the business merrily continues on.

People act like corporate death is similar to the death of a person. It’s not. The body parts just get shuffled around into other companies.

> the new capacity had caused all of the servers in the fleet to exceed the maximum number of threads allowed by an operating system configuration. [...] We didn’t want to increase the operating system limit without further testing

Is it because operating system configuration is managed by a different team within the organization?

Nope. It's just a case of "stop the bleeding before starting the surgery."

More likely they need to understand what effect changing the thread limit would have - for example it could increase kernel memory usage or increase scheduler latency. It’s not something you want to mess with in an outage.

I’ve heard AWS follows a you build it, you run it policy, so that seems unlikely. Just seems prudent to not mess with OS settings in a hurry.

If you start haphazardly changing things while firefighting without testing, you might make things even worse. And there's worse things than downtime, for instance if the system appears to work but you're actually silently corrupting customer data.

You can convert between financial loss and loss of human life using implied cost of averting a fatality [1], which is about $10 million.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life

That is not a bidirectional transform. A financial loss in an investment fund just means that other traders made more profit.

Yet somehow the 1st or 5th Amendment are applied across all states uniformly, unlike the 2nd.

States still have their own laws regarding legal procedure and speech rights, and they do vary by state. Those overarching rights are still a patchwork between states. Many states give protections that go beyond the requirements in the US Constitution -- this is completely legal and not uncommon. The Bill of Rights mainly defines which laws are illegal -- it does not prescribe what is legal.

This is currently what is the case with shall-issue vs may-issue, at least until SCOTUS clarifies otherwise.

> the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed

Seems like denying some people the right to bear arms would pretty plainly constitute an infringement, no?

SCOTUS has not ruled on this issue, so it is technically undetermined. SCOTUS has ruled in other cases that there are some situations where people can be denied those rights legally, so determining the outcome is not as simple as reading the text. SCOTUS generally evaluates the law in a broader context than just the written text.

How Grand Juries work is up to the states. They vary a lot. Even how regular juries work is up to the states eg: Oregon doesn't require unanimous verdict. I am sure you can dig into 1st amendment and find differences across the states. I am sure states have laws on how and where you can petition.

Oregon and Lousiana didn't. They do now, thanks to a recent SCOTUS case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apodaca_v._Oregon

To incorporate, or not incorporate - that is the question.

I'm using quasi-random generators where I can, and MCG 128 where I can't.

> disarm the police

> they can exercise their right to carry a personal firearm at their own expense

That's not disarming the police, just making them pay $500 out of pocket.

I guess "disarm the police department" would be more accurate

Snowden is against government surveillance. It's hard to argue he can be used to justify SORM.

He can’t, but his findings can. That’s a common doublethink technique: «you say X is bad, but Americans do X, so shut up».

To be fair, by going after Snowden the US painted itself anti-free speech and pro-surveillance.

Yep, keeping Snowden safe from the government that wants to hang him from the tallest tree just keeps the wound open and bleeding.

No capital letters, though. It is important to follow all security rules. Weakest link and such. If only his password was Maga2020!, it would be impossible to hack.

MAGA2020! has 4 capital letters. 4x more secure.

2020! alone is 5,802 digits long.

Let's see:

* Letters - check

* Numbers - check

* Special symbols - check

So the new, secure, password should be Maga2020!