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To save time, I guess. They deleted the inactive code, so, why not, they thought. But then they forgot to deploy that change (to one server).

Bugs and configuration errors will happen from time to time, and might look silly in retrospect. But the real problem was, I think, that there was no kill switch (managers and tech leads should have decided to add long ago)

A way to add limits when being clueless:

Estimate what a real human can do in a day, and use that as the limits. Verify that the system behaves ok for some time, then scale up the desired trading volume and limits, observe, scale, repeat.

But you don't do it by making a (bad) guess up front and then just leaving it at that.

Yes definitely, one has to assume that from time to time, bugs will reach the prod servers, no amount of tests and code review can completely prevent that.

Hopefully the kill switch system is reasonably easy to code review and test :-)

And not many seem to care or remember. Was so far away, to another group of people, won't happen here, what does it matter

Except that to some extent, similar things are happening here -- Putin was, from what I've read, using FB to do psyops, to prepare his 2014 takeover of parts of Ukraine: making up and spreading stories about Russians getting abducted etc, ... Which helped him with the 2014 annexations, and leading up to his invasion and war today. More people dead than in Myanmar.

A bit surprising that the current US gov doesn't seem to look at FB as a psyops threat against itself?

I'd like to know, too:-)

Good description of what awaits.

> Small wars eventually break out

I wonder if that isn't happening already here and there.

Bigger ones? What'll happen when areas large as a country, becomes mostly uninhabitable.

One more thing: There might be more authoritarian regimes in countries not affected that badly by the climate changes -- because the migrants will want to go there. And then the voters in those places, choose more brutal and authoritarian governments who build borders and use violence to keep the migrants away.

So, more war and dictatorships in the future, is one scenario?

No there was no such claim.

They aren't primarily motivated by money. But the oil companies are.

It's also about politicians and people in power, staying in power by keeping conflicts alive. For example, Netanyahu regularly bombing some important Hamas person in Gaza and Hamas then firing rockets, was good for Netanyahu's and the Hamas leaders' popularity (as far as I've understood).

> only about land by default

Hmm, I think to a somewhat large part, the conflicts are ways for the people in power to stay in power.

What do you mean with "by default"?

Have a look at The Dictators Handbok btw and try to see the world from the perspective of someone like Netanyahu or the Hamas leaders. How can they increase/keep their power and wealth, using the conflicts as tools.

It's also tribalism ... Many things at the same time going on?

Regardless of how much the hardware and services already cost, the company can always make more by showing ads too? Meaning, no profits or prices are high enough.

(Unless they show far too many so people start leaving ... That threshold might be high though; Linux is too cumbersome for almost everyone?)

What did LinkedIn do a few years back?

How long does it take to build a West to east pipeline

Plus the Scandinavian countries.

What about the Baltic countries

Either end? But the gas flows in one direction only?

Yes, imaging shutting down 40% of the roads in France, and saying: "We have a reliable road network because we announced this a year in advance"