Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343353

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"What was deluxe is now debris..."

And then I moved to the bay area and noticed there was a road called Page Mill Rd. in Palo Alto and sort of laughed for a bit. Surprised Adobe didn't release a tool called Sandhill.

[*] to be fair, most WYSIWYG page builder tools of the era spat out some sort of crappy subset of HTML, so not trying to say pagemill was the only offender.

My recommendation for bad guys is to not attack the part of the system where it is strong. Just sniff around a bit until you find the weak part and attack that.

Also remember most devs couldn't use a static analysis tool to save their lives (which is why mythos is relevant.) I suspect that a 15 year old copy of Fortify or CoVerity could find bugs mythos missed.

And if that doesn't work, just start scanning github repos for entropy. That's where the credentials that were accidentally published live.

As Paul Virillo once quipped, "the invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck." And we appear to have shot the ensign who was looking out for icebergs.

"They Live" was a documentary. "Idiocracy" is far too optimistic to be accurate. Reflexive modernity has made Ballard's "High Rise" into a love story.

Every billionaire is a policy failure.

(not snarky. I'm feeling pretty revolutionary after that last comment.)

[EDIT: Added after that one person upvoted this comment.]

Slavery was big in the south because there wasn't enough low-skill labor to feel threatened. The north didn't care for it as much because a higher percentage of labor was what we would call semi-skilled or skilled today. That labor was FREAKED OUT about the idea of slaves taking over their jobs and they were able to organize before being eaten by the capitalist leviathan.

I'm pretty sure there were more abolitionists in the north than the south, I don't think your average northerner cared about the plight of southern slaves other than the institution being a threat to their livelihood if it moved north.

If you were making the assertion moral concerns or ethical behaviour eventually influenced american capitalism, I disagree. The capitalist monster acts "moral" or "ethical" because at the current time, to do otherwise is invite political dissolution. I fear the shadowy cabal of capitalist masters will move to reinstate chattel slavery. We did not respond with outrage when red-lining disenfranchised large portions of the populous or when usury was slipped back in with high credit card APRs and payday lending. We are asleep.