TIL: AWS will send a *single* domain verification email, and if you don’t click the link, will send zero reminders and then suspend your domain without warning – at which point the email address you must verify now can’t receive email.
Recovered now, but this was insane.
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Zack Kanter
@zackkanter
Founder/CEO (EDI for developers) & previously Proforged (acquired by Huron Capital), serverless enthusiast, occasional blogger, all-around nerd.
zackkanter.comJoined January 2012
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no capitalism-caused traumas, pure vibes latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-
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You can live like this right now if you want to.
Just walk on outside and go for it.
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I'd be remiss if I didn't thanks – came to us via Susa's Venture Fellows program.
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(2/2) Full paper: stedi.com/documents/pape
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(1/2) New on our blog: a paper detailing how we use automated reasoning to verify IAM policies that restrict access to customer data, written by – a U Chicago math student who set an exceptionally high bar as our first summer intern.
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You can only write with ONE of these six pens for the rest of your life, which one are you picking? muji.us/products/gel-i
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OK, you can only write with ONE type of pen for the rest of your life, which one are you picking? (ignoring the ink color)
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Azure being down is the biggest security improvement that Azure has shipped in years.
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Updated #azure problems with network outages now in status portal affecting network infrastructure in all regions
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Interesting revival!
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Another unwinding of one of the many strange side effects of ZIRP.
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(Note that the life coaching phase seldom follows a successful outcome)
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"When an individual goes through [difficultly]: under pressure, people retreat to their area of highest perceived historical impact, even if it isn’t very relevant to today’s problems" ()
Arc: low stress pre-tech, high stress tech failure, retreat to preaching low stress
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genuinely curious: why do you think so many tech people leave tech to be life coaches/new age spiritual practitioners?
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Two of my favorite blog posts on the subject:
- danluu.com/nothing-works/
- johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/real
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It's really striking how much of the world and most objects around us suck — not because people are *unable* to do good work, but because they're *unwilling* to
Simply *deciding* to do outstanding work is 90% of the way there
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We've found that most EDI sample files – even those provided by Amazon Retail – don't conform to the implementation guides that accompany them. With this launch, users of Stedi Guides – our in-browser implementation guide product – can ensure that their samples always pass.
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Asking for a friend (actually): are there any great courses/bootcamps for learning SQL – i.e. very practical data science, without all of the theory?
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Canned peaches (with a score of 97): 22 grams of sugar per 100 calories.
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we've told kids that Lucky Charms are healthier than whole milk, more than twice as healthy as beef, and better for you than a baked potato or cooked green peas.
and when that leads to obesity, we pump them full of expensive drugs and invasive surgeries.
this is diseased twitter.com/AP/status/1612…
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Incidentally, it does take about $50m to figure this out.
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Free $50,000,000 agency idea:
An agency that knows how EDI works.
That’s it.
You just get hired to implement this secret knowledge.
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Burnout comes from friction, not speed.
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The cure to burnout isn't rest, it's momentum.
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TIL that not all kosher salt (which is what chefs recommend cooking with) is created equal. Morton's (which I've been using) is effectively table salt. food52.com/blog/16824-you
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Journalists don't seem to understand that neither +$240m nor -$83m moves the needle for a firm of Sequoia's size, nor that if growth stage firms made a habit of selling investments after a 2x gain, it would break the entire model.
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sequoia could have turned a $240 million profit on robinhood had it exited shares in december
instead it's down $83 million
another instance of how holding public stocks has backfired for VCs
wsj.com/articles/ventu
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"Think of it as though there are two yous – you as the designer and overseer of the plan to achieve your goals and you as one of the participants in pursuing that mission. You(2) are a resource that you(1) have to get what you(1) want, but by no means your only resource." – Dalio
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As we approach 2023, a question to think about:
If you fired yourself today and took over your life from scratch, what would you stop doing?
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“There are big schools of reading and mathematics methods, and so forth, but if you notice, you'll see the reading scores keep going down in spite of the fact that we continually use these same people to improve the methods.” – Richard Feynman
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"For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most massive experiment ever run...they called it peer review.”
experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and
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As far as I can tell, a set of earbuds with an exceptional microphone for voice calls in noisy environments doesn’t exist. Everything seems optimized for listening.
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The only sane multi-cloud implementation I can ever recall reading about. If you have to do it, this is the way.
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Just wait until the AI is in charge of making itself, and us, stupid.
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AI development teams consist of two groups. One group makes the AI smart, the other group makes it stupid.
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It's funny that people are writing all of this stuff off as conspiracy theory when the Army is putting out ads like this. youtube.com/watch?v=VA4e0N
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1. TWITTER FILES PART 8
*How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign*
Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations.
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It gets worse! “Efforts to remove parasitic Systems-people by means of screening committees, competency examinations, or review boards merely generate new job slots for them to occupy.” (The Systems Bible)
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some bad news about humanity's destiny is that over time, as more complex systems emerge, the constituents of the emerged system tend to develop an existence based on supporting the complex system that initially supported them
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As the administration swoops in to save us from CFLs, you may recall that CFLs were “phased in” to begin with by the same party in 2007, shortly before the market provided vastly superior LED lightbulbs on its own accord.
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Compact fluorescent light bulbs would effectively be phased out under a new Biden administration proposal (via @climate) trib.al/ap7MfLb
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Is this the best consumer option these days? Haven't seen anything better.
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Wealthfront now at 3.8% and $2m FDIC instead of 250k. Quite the offer. Free money. twitter.com/Wealthfront/st…
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When human action triggers an incident in a software system, engineers conduct a root cause analysis to determine it depended on best effort/intention. When the same thing happens in political systems, the same engineers conclude the root cause is the wrong person in charge.
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Elon's unaccountable suspending of accounts should serve as a lesson to those who supported Twitter’s opaque censorship under the previous regime.
Any system of controlling speech will not be yours forever, so create the system as if it could be inherited by your worst enemy.
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For a journalist, giving back stolen money is a complicated ethics question.
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Read @dylanmatt on FTX, SBF, and EA.
vox.com/future-perfect
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I would love to see a presidential candidate set tangible goals such as topping this list within a decade.
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Time in port as a measure of port management efficacy - US below average: unctad.org/rmt2022
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More that shipped today: end-to-end reference implementations for building an EDI system from scratch.
If you have a use case, we'll help you adapt it to your needs – just drop us a note.
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Feynman on scientific integrity:
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Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness & many contributions to public health
Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling public hate & divisions.
You may have money, but you have no class. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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