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by afarrell 5y ago
As you scale, your probability that you will 1. Deal with bad actors 2. Misjudge an honest actor as a bad actor both approach 1. To make a general statement about Stripe, we'd need a broader statistical analysis rather than a single an
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by afarrell 5y ago
For as long as it permits companies to hire fallible humans and to write machine learning models with false positive rates.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Okay, you've successfully illustrated that it is absurd. That only shows it would be out-of-place in a work of fiction. However, we are talking about reality. Which is more realistic: 1. People twirling their moustaches and intentional
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by afarrell 5y ago
Have you ever been in a position where you had either the power or the responsibility to imprison someone?
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by afarrell 5y ago
I've had many conversations with people with anxiety. I think you're attributing more intentionality than existed here. Scared people make stupid choices.
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by afarrell 5y ago
> 300 million Add Argentina’s population of 45 million to that. And then go ask Pakistanis how they would feel about a “don’t eat beef” law imposed on them.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Long-term changes in habits and culture take a long time — if they happen at all. The effect of this decision is that we can decrease the beef-related methane production by spending mere years changing mere hundreds of supply chains instead
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by afarrell 5y ago
The US does not have contactless credit cards. Britain has a financial and national security interest in American tourists — who will need oyster cards.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Web pages which are accessible without a login are public. So are advertisements posted on the street outside your house.
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by afarrell 5y ago
> privacy doesn't work like that Except we aren't discussing private conversations. We are discussing broadcast conversations on twitter.
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by afarrell 5y ago
So without a revenue model, how would they pay someone to maintain it if the current maintainer[s] need to focus on family or paying their mortgage?
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by afarrell 5y ago
What is podman’s revenue model? I am perplexed by the conclusion that charging enterprise customers $5/user-month makes the product’s future less secure.
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by afarrell 5y ago
I bought a lantern which emits a much redder frequency of light and started turning off my lights at night. I am indeed much happier.
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by afarrell 5y ago
> I would like to use my downtime to try and make a difference Make sure that this is also restorative to yourself. All work and no play makes Johnny an anxious grumpy boy who does more harm than good.
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by afarrell 5y ago
It takes a lot of time and effort to measure those things. Presenting those measurements also requires some political skill, since bugs/outages/resource waste can also be misattributed to individuals.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Retros which don’t occasionally produce items of investment work that flow into the team’s regular cadence are anemic.
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by afarrell 5y ago
I’m not objecting to the natural evolution of language in general. I’m objecting to the specific loss of the word “literally”.
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by afarrell 5y ago
> and people understand meanings of statements just as much as they did yesterday. This is the underlying source of my distress: the fear that my ability to understand and be understood by people will remain as it is.
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by afarrell 5y ago
> I’m envious Well I’m also getting divorced, for reasons that aren’t entirely unrelated to literal communication.
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by afarrell 5y ago
It might not be the sort of thing amenable to measurement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
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by afarrell 5y ago
That is okay because you can use the phrase “deeply terrifying”. Languages change in general. I’m fine with that. This specific change literally has had me pacing back and forth in distress before.
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by afarrell 5y ago
s/literally/directly/ The word “literally” has no synonyms and if it dies it will leave a massive lexical gap.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Do people generally know the laws of the United States? There are a lot of laws.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Just-in-time, done mediocrely, still means “no buffer”. What Toyota does is not all that relevant to the discussion.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Yea, this sounds like the sort of problem described by Patrick Lencioni
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by afarrell 5y ago
> passive aggression (e.g. delaying approvals) How do you tell the difference between malice and having a high task load?
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by afarrell 5y ago
Yes, but HR is sadly considered a cost centre, so that failure of management is sadly quite common.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Perhaps the problem is that you 1. Assign yourself a reading task on a whim. 2. Call yourself a “lazy piece of shit” for not doing those carelessly-assigned tasks. 3. Avoid your reading list because opening it brings up emotions of shame.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Some things bear repeating. Some things bear translating into modern language.
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> Self-editing is not “navel-gazing” if you do it right True. But beyond a couple rounds of self-editing, it becomes extremely hard to do it right. > Do I really need to be more specific? Yep. HN is a whole bunch of people around the

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