dgrin91

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by dgrin91 7y ago
As far as I can tell, there is still no way to 'read back' the content using this system. Does it really provider much value if I cant check what I just typed?
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by dgrin91 7y ago
Trillian is still around, why don't you use it?
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by dgrin91 7y ago
I think the key phrase in that tweet was "general public". Medical professionals who are in close contact for many hours of the day, day after day, do not count as general public.
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by dgrin91 7y ago
My point is not about the effectiveness of lockdowns. Its about the effectiveness of masks. All 3 of those countries used masks, and I would guess China's use shot up to high once things started exploding. Based on infection numbers it
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by dgrin91 7y ago
Isn't this the epitome of causation vs correlation? I'm not saying masks don't help, but this site doesn't say or link to why masks are the way. For example, Japan has over double the population of SK, yet SK has ~9x mor
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by dgrin91 7y ago
I don't think there is a single definition for the health of a community. The leaders of the community define what their goals are, and based on that health can be assessed. For HN that is things like high quality, technically oriented
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by dgrin91 7y ago
Voldemort/Sauron are the main bad guys in Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings respectively. He is just saying a common viewpoint here is Google/FB are evil.
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by dgrin91 7y ago
> ... full of self-assured personalities who think themselves experts on topics ... It is also filled to the brim with groupthink ... Aren't those two clauses basically antithetical? The experts are the ones who don't group thi
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by dgrin91 7y ago
Yes, perhaps a better way to think about it is to version the set of services as a whole, and deploy them as a holistic, singular product. Then you don't run into the combinatorics problems.... Just challenges with roll backs.
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by dgrin91 7y ago
Don't monorepos solve this? Lets presume I'm not a FAANG company (though some of those have monorepos) with a bazillion services, I'm just a startup with say 10 services. At that scale I think its pretty realistic to maintain
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by dgrin91 7y ago
You can pretty much do this with haveibeenpwned.
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by dgrin91 7y ago
There is a non-profit, open source alternative being built now: Codidact [0]. Many of the people building it are former members of SO, including Monica Cellio. [0] https://codidact.org/
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by dgrin91 7y ago
This has some very interesting parallels to the current drama at Stack Overflow w/Monica Cellio. Someone is accused of breaking the CoC. The governing body expels this person in a public an explicit way. Looking into the details shows
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New Stack Overflow Code of Conduct(meta.stackexchange.com)
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by dgrin91 7y ago
If you read their academic paper linked at the bottom, they actually undermine their entire system in a laughably silly way: > For each user, a pair of private-public keys were provided ( https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr&#