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by gibba999 5y ago
No. It doesn't. We try this over and over. Racism is an even bigger example. You go from public views to closeted views. Closeted views are usually more harmful. I've been in openly racist environments and in ones with closet raci
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by gibba999 5y ago
My read of the evidence in 2021: 1. Gaiter masks will nominally reduce your odds of getting COVID-19 (viral loads down perhaps 30%), and more significantly reduce your odds of spreading it 2. Surgical masks will dramatically reduce your odd
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by gibba999 5y ago
What's really problematic is authentic, substantially N95-equivalent masks are now: - Available - Cheap - Plentiful - Comfortable Without a conversation, it's impossible to get people to wear them. As a footnote, COVID19 spreads t
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by gibba999 5y ago
This seems exceptionally problematic. I absolutely think everyone should use masks, but the science is clearly not in on the effectiveness of cloth masks. It's a valid area of discussion. My own opinion is that everyone should use N95-
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by gibba999 5y ago
Regulated logging is. Establish regulations to allow logging if a healthy forest is left behind, and the free market will fix everything else.
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by gibba999 5y ago
My question is security updates. I'm willing to invest time once to get something better working. I'm not willing to invest time on an on-going basis to keep my router secure. My normal router is a !@#$%, but the company does push
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by gibba999 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if some of this came from translation tools too. Those use very similar systems.
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by gibba999 5y ago
I agree with your assessment about how minority hires happen in practice. There are a lot of frictions, aside from pressure for social justice over profits. There are a lot of qualified minorities, but they're rarely hired into these r
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by gibba999 5y ago
I understand that. However, that's not something I find easy to explain to a someone who doesn't understand that. The analogy is a little distant. For example, "some efficiency loss" is complex and a little bit inaccurat
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by gibba999 5y ago
I actually find the limit to be somewhat less insightful. It sorta shows that it's possible, but it doesn't really show why it works in this case. 1. Air isn't solid. 2. There aren't two rollers. The analogy is a little
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by gibba999 5y ago
Perhaps I can't explain it well either, without pictures. But it's not all too complicated. With pencil and paper, I could explain to a high school student. If you've done college level mechanics, that's on me, or on the
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by gibba999 5y ago
It's not at all counterintuitive. It's just poorly explained. Energy is 1/2mv^2, and momentum (related to force) is mv. Anytime you have different speeds, you can arbitrage. If I am pushing against still air, I can generate n
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by gibba999 5y ago
America is 30% African American or Hispanic. Most boards have no idea about how to target products to those cultures. Those are blind spots and missed opportunities. If I had my druthers, a corporate board would include: * An employee * A c
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by gibba999 5y ago
My evidence is having seen boards operate. I wouldn't quite use the word "inept," but I would say the in most companies, at least 10% of the workforce would do a better job than the board members. You live in a democracy. If
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by gibba999 5y ago
My experience is that this is a good thing for shareholders. The current qualifications -- part of a network -- aren't actually very merit-based or constructive. Boards composed of rich, white, Anglo-Saxon males tend to not understand
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by gibba999 5y ago
> This thread was about their legal issues with IE. Perhaps. I view threads more like human conversations. > People complain about a lot of things, but that doesn't make them illegal. Microsoft did a lot of illegal things in the
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by gibba999 5y ago
Gosh, these sound just like Android, now that you're quoting it. My Android phone came with Chrome, gmail, Google Maps, uploads my photos to Google, and requires a Google account. But I think that's beside the point. Microsoft did
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by gibba999 5y ago
In general, I don't donate to non-profits where anyone earns more than I do. I've worked for nonprofits for most of my career, and have seen the insides of several. The most effective ones tend to have a small team on shoestring s
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by gibba999 5y ago
No, Microsoft's primary offense was making non-Microsoft tools awkward. Windows without IE was awkward. Windows wasn't done until it gave odd error messages on DR DOS. Borland always seemed to have incomplete documentation, late.
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by gibba999 5y ago
My child's school uses Google Classroom. The Google experience is unusable in Firefox. Meet doesn't work (e.g. he sees nothing when the teacher screenshares). This seems really quite anti-competitive. My child cares about privacy
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by gibba999 5y ago
1 in 250,000 get blood clots after the vaccine. That's an acceptable risk. If everyone in the US were vaccinated, the number of blood clots would be around the same as the number of injuries from being struck by lightening. 1 in 5 peop
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by gibba999 5y ago
I think so, yes. 1) Vaccination efforts have been spread out over a rather long time, which is kind of a worst-case. This isn't a unique worst case (natural immunity is sometimes similar), but we kind of picked the worst-case schedule.
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by gibba999 5y ago
Most viruses evolve to be less deadly over time, since a dead host won't spread the virus as much. Vaccines change that dynamic.
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by gibba999 5y ago
Historically: Microsoft: Prioritize what users demand. This leads to massive spaghetti systems which become unmaintainable in the long term. Amazon: Talk to users, and do what users need. This seems to do okay. Google: Do what developers th
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by gibba999 5y ago
With bleeding inflation, and an ongoing pandemic seemingly forever? I'm not sure. My estimate was that 50% inflation as a one-time is about what it would take to: - Take drastic actions to bring the pandemic under control - Not drive d
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by gibba999 5y ago
I suspect inflation will catch up soon enough. I suspect that's actually the major effect. We dumped a ton of money into the economy. I'm not sure how much we can take out without tanking the economy. My general feeling is that if
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by gibba999 5y ago
* Android loses security updates after a short amount of time, with no notification to the user. Lots of people run insecure devices and have been susceptible to ransomware attacks. * Chromebooks expire likewise. It does better on notifying
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by gibba999 5y ago
What numbers? My experience is the opposite.
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by gibba999 5y ago
As a customer, I'd be okay with dev teams being blocked for their next 2 sprints if it meant security I can trust. Google Docs, Search, and Mail do little in 2021 that I need that they didn't do in 2016. There's a lot more ch
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by gibba999 5y ago
>> Can you please propose a "randomized, longitudinal, controlled trials" one might conduct to figure that out? > This is not a herculean problem. It's essentially the definition of any halfway decent medical study:

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