georgebarnett

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by georgebarnett 6y ago
I agree, however on FBs hierarchy of needs, engagement is less important than regulation. If they have to decide between regulation that stifles their business or slightly reduced engagement, they’ll pick the latter.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
As an anecdote, those around me (here in Australia) are huge fans of Facebook without news because its the least polluted it's been in years.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
I’m reasonably convinced that Facebook would like to remove all news from their platform. I have no evidence to back this, however given that it causes them a huge amount of pain and (IMHO) newsfeeds are substantially better when there is n
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Agree this is where the law is now. It’s an interesting thought experiment to wonder if we would have got here if Google News wasn’t a giant pile of summaries.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
If Reuters lost a click because somebody wasn’t interested enough to follow the link, sucks to be them. If they lost the click because the article was summarised and you didn’t need to click through to read it then that’s on HN. This is les
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Everybody appears to be holding a foot gun here. I’m very much looking forward to seeing which one goes off first. The outcome is uncertain, but it should be fascinating to watch.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
HN doesn’t provide snippet summaries of linked articles so you don’t have to click through.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
I continue to be unsurprised at the number of people who are surprised to learn giving their contact book to a random internet app is a poor idea. Perhaps in the early days, I’d understand however by now there’s a LOT of evidence to suggest
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
As an aside, Garret Heaton is one of the co-founders of HipChat. Congrats on another exit mate!
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Every company has incidents of customer support nightmares, But only Google ends up at the top of HN on a monthly basis.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Amazon, Microsoft and Apple have similar numbers of users and there are no issues getting in touch with them. Google chooses this path, it’s not forced on them.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
I can sign up to AWS and get world class service on day one with just a credit card. That’s the bar.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Many other companies of similar size manage to provide customer service just fine. This is a solved problem - you just have to be willing to realise that magic AI sprinkles aren’t the answer. As for cost - this continual stream of screwups
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Why would I use an unlicensed app with no description whatsoever about the company other than a generic website with up and to the right charts? I don’t know what your intent is but this doesn’t fill me with any confidence whatsoever. If yo
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Weird. My 2016 12” MacBook is still almost my favourite machine. I say almost because the M1’s speed is _incredible_, but I do miss the smaller size and flatter keyboard.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
With your actions, you build the world around you. Saying you would take socialised medicine and yet prioritising actions which oppose this goal mean it’s not what you actually want and so you’ll never get it.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
The whole reason the cost is high is because there is scarcity. You’re not “getting the rich to pay” - you’re preventing the poor from accessing the drug, placing vulnerable less wealthy peoples life’s in danger because you prioritised dose
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
I find it ironic, that in a nation that complains so bitterly about its healthcare system and the associated costs of care, there are so many willing to exponentially increase the costs of an item just because people need it and some can af
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Governments have already paid for the production. Rich people paying hospitals would funds hospital coffers and not go further. If you think the states should get the money, then taxes are a better approach. Giving this to rich people does
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Why is the life of a person with money more important that somebody without? Why is this an important signal, given healthcare teams have already decided on a priority order?
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Whether or not a protocol can be achieved using a certain method is a valuable outcome. Write it up so your peers know what didn’t work.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
If you have time to do the work to get a pilot project off the ground then you absolutely have time to do a short write up on how it failed.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
That assumes that you can move off the system and that’s enough notice. Not to mention that it blows up your roadmap. What’s the point of outsourcing heavy lifting if the vendor is just going to surprise drop it back on your at an in opport
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Why should private things stay private, only for politicians?
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Big tech are installing datacenters to service users. Servers have to go somewhere - would you prefer it to be on dirty energy far away from you so it both pollutes and provides poor service? Datacenters are rediculously efficient (bigger o
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
I'm in the process of switching a lot of my work onto iPad. I don't see a conflict here - I'm still using a "compiler" api, its just somewhere else (i.e. not on my local device), its just in somebodies cloud. I can
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
The idea that governments should have a ready response for every circumstance is the height of human hubris. One would think that given there were readily available no pre-canned global responses, coupled with the fact NOBODY can predict th
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Under those conditions I'd agree theres likely a high overlap of similarity. I have a use case on my home playpen that would likely be served well by that. Thanks for describing your approach.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Why are you comparing HBase with Postgres? They are very different technologies with completely different architectural constraints?
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
There are metal bars. Why do you think the team at the tunnel would go to such lengths and expense if there was a simple solution?

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