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TIL all it takes to be a reputable "industry insider" is an anonymous reddit account.
by humaniania 5y ago
TIL all it takes to be a reputable "industry insider" is an anonymous reddit account.
- okareaman 5y agoSays 'humaniania'
- hyperman1 5y agoThe scary thing is, I don't know if I can trust him less than any 'reputable newspaper'. At least if this he says dumb things, someone on HN will call him out. The reputable source has only one voice, it will say anything that brings in extra money, and lots of invisible third parties will try to influence it.
- humaniania 5y ago"The scary thing is, I don't know if I can trust him less than any 'reputable newspaper'." Do you not know how professional journalism functions? You can verify decades of history with very limited retractions. There's good reason why people trust the New York Times.
- hyperman1 5y agoCan't comment on the NYTimed, as I am not from the USA. But there is a huge rift between usefull and not wrong. There is the whole Gell-Mann amnesia thing. There is the basic selection of which news is important and which facts are relevant for it. There is the bias in reporting. Each of these can make an article untrustworthy without needing any retraction.
- wnevets 5y agoDo you really need to be an "industry insider" to make any of their observations? Nothing they said seems to require they be actual "industry insider".
- jessriedel 5y agoExactly. These are all check-able facts (not, e.g., allegations of secret dealings or something). The fact that he works in the industry is what allows him to write this compactly; it's not proof of correctness.
- ericbarrett 5y agoI was in the storage industry (demand side) for many years and nothing the Reddit poster said is wrong. S/he correctly described the allocation process with regard to retail channels and large direct customers, as well as the non-fungibility of read/write heads. Their speculation about whether there will be a shortage is just that—speculation.