formalsystems

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COVID-19 vaccine wastage data from the CDC(anonymousdata.medium.com)
52 points by formalsystems 5y ago|20 comments
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Show HN: Visualize the distribution of Paycheck Protection Program loans(pppwatch.com)
2 points by formalsystems 5y ago|0 comments
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Adding to zamadatix's excellent points - it falls under the HIPAA Conduit Exception, which includes encrypted email and the US Postal Service, through which a healthcare provider can send PII with a reasonable expectation that the mess
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Thank you! Agree 100% on bittorrent - in all honesty I am new to these kinds of projects, and the wonderful people of the Internet like yourself have been really helpful in showing me the standard way to go about things. Should be a torrent
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Show HN: Search over 100M archived posts and comments scraped from Parler(parler.adatascienti.st)
16 points by formalsystems 6y ago|4 comments
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Thank you for this feedback. I didn't realize I was taking the same tone as all the partisan journalism I read on a daily basis until I actually tried my hand at writing something myself. Your succinct criticism is greatly appreciated
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Hey, author here - thank you so much for this pointed criticism. I honestly realized I had not researched or taken as open of a viewpoint as I had previously thought. I appreciate you taking the time to read what I wrote and write this clea
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by formalsystems 6y ago
I believe HN is unique in this regard. I myself have been both scolded and graciously questioned by HN users on my writing, and it is always done in such a concise and well-written way. I am honestly completely new to writing anything onlin
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by formalsystems 6y ago
This is valuable insight which anecdotally I agree with completely. Plenty of people got onto Parler from time-to-time and tried to throw in some reason and facts. They were silenced/ignored as quickly as those trying to throw lies&#x2
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Thank you for your insight on this. The tremendous collective insight of the HN community has led me to realize I need to do far more research before inserting my opinions into these writings (or simply not insert them at all), and I am rew
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by formalsystems 6y ago
I appreciate what you are saying here. What started as concern for my personal safety morphed into a realization that an Internet mob is looking to lynch any Parler user who said anything even remotely questionable. I also believe these peo
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Thank you for this valuable feedback. I have added a disclaimer as I believe I have not answered the questions you listed well enough, and I need to ensure whatever statements I make can be reproduced by others. The truth is I have never wr
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Hello, after further research and contacting an academic source about this, I believe I made a mistake in making a definitive statement about the gallows- it was pointed out to me that gallows as a protest symbol are not tied to any specifi
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Thank you for your valuable insight as I rewrite this to be less incendiary and better researched. I feel I have been too careless with my pseudonymous writing (see rubyist5eva’s valid criticism). I am taking a step back to read deeper and
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Thank you for this insight. I am re-writing the article and taking a step back in my writing to assume a more neutral tone.
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Hey Daniel - really sorry for breaking the rules. I'm going to take a step back from posting on HN as some other commenters made excellent points about my partisan tone. I need to spend more time researching and get more critical eyes
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by formalsystems 6y ago
This is a very good point. I will be rewriting this entire thing and I appreciate the specific feedback.
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Thank you so much for providing this honest feedback. I am realizing now that I am trying to write these way too fast, and I'm not doing my research well enough or taking my personal opinions out of it. I'm going to take a step ba
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Hey author here - I mean it sincerely when I say thank you for the feedback, I agree with you completely that by making partisan jokes like that I am alienating my audience. I also meant the "dark cave" as more a metaphor to bats&
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by formalsystems 6y ago
I just started posting on the Internet this year after many years of lurking, and I truly don't understand why a handful of people take such a negative tone without even reading what I wrote. Is there something specific you don't
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The sources of misinformation that thrived in Parler(anonymousdata.medium.com)
21 points by formalsystems 6y ago|36 comments
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QAnon Congresswoman's campaign spent $200k on Parler in the month after she won(anonymousdata.medium.com)
6 points by formalsystems 6y ago|1 comments
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Hey lawyers of HN - would greatly appreciate if you could fact check this and tell me if there is a campaign finance violation here.
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A single political campaign spent $211k advertising on Parler after the election(anonymousdata.medium.com)
4 points by formalsystems 6y ago|1 comments
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by formalsystems 6y ago
They would display numbers less than 1000 as-is, and only start adding the "k" and "m" prefix after the 4-digit and 7-digit threshold was crossed.
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by formalsystems 6y ago
Nice that makes sense. I was unaware and found it strange when I plugged it into JavaScript's Date constructor and got an "Invalid Date" error.
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by formalsystems 6y ago
I got the sense while crawling data from their API that the engineering quality is poor at Parler. Dates were represented as strings in "YYYYMMDD" format (so today would be "20210113053923") instead of UNIX timestamps, c
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by formalsystems 6y ago
I personally spent many hours on Parler reading the discourse. The Turner Diaries were openly discussed and gave rise to various gallow-related hashtags which proliferated on it. I don't presume to predict anything as was correctly poi
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I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler(anonymousdata.medium.com)
81 points by formalsystems 6y ago|93 comments
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by formalsystems 6y ago
I was searching crunchbase for a Pakistani company named OBL founded in Peshawar, when I finally caught the bin Laden reference.

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