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I completely agree with your ranking/preference and your logic here, but I don't think listing a bunch of models nor even listing your ranking is beyond the com
by ENOTTY 10y ago
I completely agree with your ranking/preference and your logic here, but I don't think listing a bunch of models nor even listing your ranking is beyond the comprehension or ability of journalists, lawyers, or activists. I think we differ in how much faith we have in the abilities of those groups of people.
In my experience, people, especially people with budgets like most mainstream journalists and lawyers, want a list of specific things, best of all SKUs, they can buy that will give them the most security.
- tptacek 10y agoI don't think they're incapable of following advice; I think they have a lot of competing demands on their time. Any bullet on this list needs to earn its place, and the list itself needs to work without requiring constant updates, because most people who use the list will only see a single snapshot of it in time.
- hackuser 10y ago> I don't think listing a bunch of models nor even listing your ranking is beyond the comprehension or ability of journalists, lawyers, or activists. IME this greatly overestimates how hard this is for typical end users. Imagine if you were asked to understand and implement a technical legal function. Maybe you could do it, but it would not be trivial, you'd have to figure out what the heck it meant and what was going on, and then try to implement it. You would need to hope you received good advice, because you have no way of discerning good from bad, and that the instructions were accurate, clear and complete. At HN we are inside a bubble where these thing are trivial. As another analogy, appendectomies may be trivial for surgeons but incredibly difficult for me.