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by fossuser 5y ago
Thanks for the details - given that, they could have written a real response to the allegations rather than this blog post they posted and it would have come across better. This blog post comes across very defensive somewhat clueless, doesn
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I don't think you're missing anything - the sense I get is that it's primarily a knee-jerk political response. I suspect people like to take cynical negative views of things because it's both easy and a common method of
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by fossuser 5y ago
Their response in this post suggests they don't view this targeting as related to them or their responsibility. > "The list is not a list of targets or potential targets of Pegasus. > "The numbers in the list are not re
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by fossuser 5y ago
> "NSO is a technology company. We do not operate the system, nor do we have access to the data of our customers, yet they are obligated to provide us with such information under investigations." This is an abdication of respon
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Yeah - that’s largely been my experience as well, and I agree.
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> "A lot of Buddhist or meditative practices also have close student-teacher relationships. You should have an active human coach guiding you through the process" This seems to also open the door to a lot of fraudster con-man t
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by fossuser 5y ago
There's decent empirical evidence of an effect. It's not a huge surprise when you think about it - therapy works because of helping people change how they think. The reason it's often dismissed by skeptics is because it'
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by fossuser 5y ago
This would be funny for remote dev. I’d gotten used to the fan spinning up when building on my MacBook Pro (Intel), and after switching to building code on remote servers I realized I used the fan sound as an indicator that stuff was workin
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by fossuser 5y ago
Thanks for being one of the good guys.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I couldn’t get through it. Deeply partisan in an almost comical way. Bad on the science regarding the effects from what I tried to learn about it. The written social situations were also ridiculous, the protagonist was righteously executing
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think Urbit’s first principles approach to this is really interesting. They’re the only ones I’ve seen that seem to have hit on a reasonable trade off to fix the common issues around federated services (simple administration, keeping vers
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think you’re being unfairly downvoted and your point is valid. It’s the strongest argument in favor of targeting and I think it’s also true - it gives big advantages to smaller players so I concede all of that. I think on net the problems
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by fossuser 5y ago
FB's move to e2e encryption explicitly discusses how they still will have reporting of content so users can report CSAM and send the plaintext back to FB. Your framing of their motives here is both cynical and wrong. Novel CSAM gets ca
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by fossuser 5y ago
A complete collapse of the viability of targeted advertising would be totally fine with me. The business models that would become viable in that reality would be a better equilibrium and the incentives would be better aligned between softwa
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Trailers were originally at the end of the movie (hence the name). They got converted to pre-views pretty early on though because at the end of the movie people didn't stick around to watch them.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Maybe a culture clash? Academia is all about status and prestige - more often scientific outcomes seem to be a means to get the former (why journals don't publish negative results, why studies fail to replicate, why stuff isn't op
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by fossuser 5y ago
Does anyone on HN work in bio or drug discovery? Could you give an overview of how people can leverage this (or how you might?). From reading around about it, it sounds like there's often a need to find a certain type of molecule to ac
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You're getting downvoted because you're not arguing in good faith.
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> "These people, most of whom would speak only anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss internal conversations, said Facebook’s executives were more worried about fixing the perception that Facebook was amplifying har
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by fossuser 5y ago
For people that are genuinely interested in this - I'd highly recommend Steven Levy's book: Facebook The Inside Story. It's a fair account without a political bent (really hard to find on this topic) and he had a lot of acces
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by fossuser 5y ago
And also no value? I'm guessing this is primarily snark, but there are a lot of tweets that are pretty good signal of bad behavior. I'm not talking about some nuanced difference in opinion. For the tweets I'm talking about kn
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by fossuser 5y ago
Being able to set retention would make me feel better about tweeting. You can do some of this with third party tools, but it'd be nice to have it built in. I stopped liking Tweets though because it's actually impossible to remove
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Two Americans and an Australian carried it out? This seems like a wild newsworthy story.
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A Man Who Saves You from Yourself(harpers.org)
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It sounded like she changed her mind on the kids thing - or at least they didn't discuss it as much as they should have. The sense I got was that it was status related and he was pretty close to right. She didn't like being with s
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think people need purpose to feel fulfilled. Work serves as a default purpose for lots of people. Family and children are a pretty good built-in biological one. Learning things, building a company, making things can all serve that need. W
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I think we agree more than we disagree and you're being more hostile than necessary. > "it seems pretty clear that not doing anything to fix XYZ - in this case working again and living more luxuriously - is being a bad partner.
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It doesn't seem like a huge surprise: https://samharris.org/podcasts/254-mating-strategies-earthli... It can come out in different ways, but I suspect it's not that divorced from the above. It's not very
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There are some drugs that target the underlying mechanism, herceptin is a particularly famous one. For those interested in this kind of thing I’d highly recommend the book The Emperor of All Maladies. For Herceptin specifically, there was a
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Core idea is how can you design a software system that avoids the pitfalls of spinning plate on a stick that requires constant maintenance as the world shifts around it, 'the big ball of mud'. One way to do this is to design a sys

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