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Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction (coldwaters.substack.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 220 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it is the right moment for everyone who builds systems of control to reflect. It’s the right moment to pierce those layers of abstraction that allow you to get through each day, and question why it’s so financially lucrative for the system you’re building to exist.

Because there is no abstraction as leaky as a man waiting outside your hotel at 6:45 in the morning with a gun and murderous intent

Amazingly written article, last line giving me chills

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 155 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This one also a bit chilling:

A data scientist can tell most of someone’s life story given their zip code, and we try not to think too hard about why that’s always the most predictive feature in the model.

[–] General_Effort 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Elvis Presley is able to answer that one, and he's been dead for almost 50 years. Makes you understand why his fame is so lasting, unlike the teen heartthrobs of later decades.

[–] dogslayeggs 24 points 1 week ago

Some credit should go to the person who actually wrote that song, Mac Davis.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Someone please make a bot that posts articles from this author.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://substack.com/@davidcoleman717969

[–] essteeyou 8 points 1 week ago

Most of his stuff is about product/project management, so this was quite a break from the norm.