People also tend underestimate how much compute these dedicated servers got, compared to cloud offerings, and what that feels like without 100 layers of management abstraction in-between. You are likely not going to ever choke a plenty-cored, funny-RAMed root server at a fraction of your cloud costs. This overkill resource estate can be the answer to a lot of scalability worries. It's always there, no sharing shit all.
Resizing the context window seems like a very good idea to me. I noticed a decline of productivity when the 1M context window was released and I'd like to bring it back to 200k, because it was totally fine for the things I was working on.
'Blowback' is handled by the Marketing department. 'Death threat' is handled by the Police department.
Technically, I can claim that every comment on Hacker News is a blog post, since it has a permalink and shows (threaded!) replies beneath it — supported by both posts and comments being the same /item?id= — but to make such a claim would be inappropriate in the site's context, both because certain 'items' get special treatment as 'posts' (e.g. cannot be downvoted), and because their underlying equivalence is invalid in the site's context. In the context of political pressure, 'blowback' describes press and public opinion drama; 'death threat' describes a criminal act. That some blowback contains death threats does not permit them to be lumped under the non-criminal heading of 'blowback'.
Well does it? If I would be able to break SHA2 and make myself rich with it, I would need to be sure that nobody would find out, that Bitcoin can be manipulated. The second anyone is aware, I wouldn't be rich anymore.
Wouldn't that be the play, though? Get a buttload of bitcoin, turn it into real money, then destroy bitcoin. If you found a break in bitcoin you wouldn't rely on keeping your wealth in bitcoin and then hoping nobody else discovers it.
So stop calling the Google people out for being evil. They are officially evil since 2015.