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The newer types of reactors - gen 3 are way safer than a Chernobyl. I.e. a meltdown could not happen

My rule of thumb when working on side projects is to keep it simple:

- use tech-stacks that I know

- even simpler – use node.js / express (i.e. use only one programming language)

- Standard AWS EC2, S3, Postgres instances

- scale vertically before scaling horizontally

- use GitHub Actions as much as possible

- deploys and rollbacks are done manually

- I keep a list of useful CLI commands in Notion

If you're a small team you shouldn't need to think about kubernetes tbh.

Any recommendations for courses or books that give a 101 intro all the way to understanding these curves and why / how they are used?

I'd like to get a grasp on this from first principles. Thank you!

Another day another “stay away from bitcoin” post on HN

> how you would resolve an innocent person being misidentified by a facial recognition system

Due process, which they'll still be entitled to.

Not sure about suing. I'm sure people will try and sue.

Turns out making up "antitrust" cases against US companies is a great source of income for the European Union.

> It also seems likely that more surveillance will result in fewer innocent people convicted, not more.

+1 – my gut instinct tells me this is the case. I don't have any data to back it up though, but I have a feeling this is true.

> So instead of improving it, you suggest to automate it?

I said no such thing. Read the whole thing again, take the upset level down a few notches and get back to us.

Yea it's a weird situation for sure. I would assume that any facial recognition attempt has taken a hit with masks being so prevalent.

Rephrase please.

Yea I think: - Google and Amazon etc won’t touch it cause it is bad PR - stores won’t buy it cause it’s bad PR; fear of boycotting etc. - physical retail is already on the decline; why spend money in a dying industry - the whole project would have one big flaw - people wearing masks

The 1% there is that “the criminal won’t get caught”. Not that someone else, an innocent bystander, will get caught.

Also what you described can happen to you today as well. It’s the imperfect system we live in.

I doubt that this would happen.

Certainly possible. I don't know what the mapping would be there, and whether it is 1 to 1.

> In the pandemic, burglaries dropped significantly, presumably because people were home

I would have expected that to be the case too, but in fact in the US there's been a rise in burglaries during the pandemic.