criley2

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by criley2 7y ago
Not just hacker news, it's pervasive in any community where people who value intelligence meet. It's because cynicism is a lazy shortcut to a 'smart opinion'. How do we sound smart with zero effort? Well we don't wa
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by criley2 7y ago
>I would say far more people have a lightning device than a USB-C device right now. This seems funny since Android outsells Apple 4 to 1 and Windows outsells Apple 5 to 1, (and Android and Windows use USB-C for phones and laptops respect
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by criley2 7y ago
>You're defining "bad things" to suit you. I Excuse me? 64GB standard storage for a "PRO" labeled $1000 phone that extensively advertises its professional video capacity is not an arbitrary or personal definition
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by criley2 7y ago
Yes, that's fine. Boo that too. Why are you against booing bad things? Are you an APPL investor making a lot of money on these choices? If not, I really can't understand your position here.
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by criley2 7y ago
Why would people boo for a bad thing? I don't know. There's no excuse for under-speccing a $1000 phone and charging $150 to add a $40 NAND chip to it. ( Looks at Apple's profit margins and revenue ) Oh that's why.
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by criley2 7y ago
Consider that wearing an Apple watch makes you a billboard for Apple. The Apple Watch and the distinct white ear pods are about as well-lit of an advertisement you can get! Is what it is, but people treat the Apple logo and product as far m
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by criley2 7y ago
Firefox is successfully funded by Google through selling default search options. Unless Firefox's revenue were to suddenly and dramatically drop I don't see why they'd need to increase new product prices to fund an already fu
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by criley2 7y ago
If average temps go up 5°C (the current fear is that 2°C is the deadline, and at 3°C we're experiencing CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE including major loss of breadbasket regions, mass famine leading to mass revolt (think Arab Spring x 100)) then
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by criley2 7y ago
All of my legacy interfaces for an EHR vendor are HL7v2 based. It's pretty simple to work with but our lack of external libraries leaves me tinkering with opening ports and reading data manually too much. The beginning of a HL7 (2.4) m
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by criley2 7y ago
Oh, if you're not talking about medical data, then yes, personal identifying information is everywhere in America society. Counties have public lists of property owners, states have public lists of business owners, almost all court pro
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by criley2 7y ago
That isn't PII in the sense that it's protected at that point. It's not PII when a police officer says your name and address. It's only protected health information when someone who is governed by medical privacy laws do
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by criley2 7y ago
HL7 is just text, if you're not sending it over SSL then it's arguably easier to decipher than a simple webpage when looking through the packets! The current thing is called FHIR though and instead of sending text HL7v2 messages d
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by criley2 7y ago
I've gone from very rural, to suburban, to very urban and I'm the opposite. When you're freed from the commute grind, life becomes much more quiet and laid back. I do have a little less space, but I also have an endless varie
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by criley2 7y ago
2008 was not a surprise, and it didn't come out of nowhere. Predicting the specific time the crash would happen was a bit like fortune telling but from 2006 on a growing number of economists and analysts began flashing an ever increasi
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by criley2 7y ago
IMO just because it's open source doesn't mean it's safe. I would trust a closed source project that has been thoroughly and extensively vetted by a third-party auditor I trust far more than an open source project that has no
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by criley2 7y ago
Americans: Basically invent the modern internet including just about every major service and store. Non-Americans: AMERICANS ARE ONLY GOOD AT COLLECTING RENT, AMIRITE? Oof owie I forgot Silicon Valley was in Europe.
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by criley2 7y ago
>"Remember when they were "unintentionally" scanning and saving wifi data? Broke the law." I don't want to be a broken record of "this opinion sounds lazy and under-researched and I'm calling you out&qu
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by criley2 7y ago
And I'm explicitly rejecting the theoretical discussion of "contracts not preventing things", a somewhat useful model of legal thinking for first year law students to understand one aspect, but an absolutely atrocious model f
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by criley2 7y ago
>No law can prevent a thing, no written agreement can prevent cheating. Law can only set out that such cheating might be illegal in the sense that it can be argued in court that penalties should apply. This is asinine stuff. Contract law
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by criley2 7y ago
"Great if you trust Google, not so much if you don't. Too bad Mozilla made that choice for us, and imho, the wrong one. Google has proved itself time and time again that they cannot be trusted with privacy." I believe this to
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by criley2 7y ago
His quality is a feature, not a bug. He is doing an absolutely perfect A+ job from the perspective of those who put him there.
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by criley2 7y ago
> it's not like I can bake fries by typing some code. I mean, you'd need hardware, but cooking based on software is obviously a very real thing. If you can code a bartender, why not a baker? https://www.youtube.com&#
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by criley2 7y ago
This is pointless semantics. 1) Without the billions NASA has awarded Space X prior to Falcon, there is no SpaceX. 2) Without the billions NASA awarded them during Falcon development for other projects, SpaceX would have not gotten enough m
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by criley2 7y ago
I've been in enough bad companies and more than one well run government agency to know that this is a lazy comparison IMO. I've never been in a private business without its fair share of lazy layabouts and corrupt executives excep
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by criley2 7y ago
Falcony Heavy only exists because NASA and the taxpayer have given billions to Tesla to develop it and fly it. To consider SpaceX as anything more than a small government contractor attached firmly to the side of the NASA budget is disingen
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by criley2 7y ago
>We wasted 50 years not going after space like we should have been. Let's get at it. NASA alone spends some 10X-20X every year what Bezos does, but some how a dinky danky 1 billion is now "going after space like we should have
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by criley2 7y ago
Another word of advice: The standards of the FDA and the IRS are very different, and the FDA is used to corporations acting maliciously while limiting liability for those involved. The IRS on the other hand with these kinds of notices is no
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by criley2 7y ago
While I don't have knowledge of Italy or Kiwi, here in my US state of Georgia this year our watermelon has been extremely good. Very sweet and big melons. Much better than any year in recent memory. I was listening to some journalism o
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by criley2 7y ago
If you create a report button I would be happy to report it and move on. Without the ability to report comments for moderation, users feel empowered to handle it themselves. This is a design problem creating a UX problem.
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by criley2 7y ago
I think it is less about wanting to social engineer, as it is becoming indebted to early investors who invest not in a small, simple and useful service but in the vision of this service being a huge profitable thing. I'd wager that man

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