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by harryf 5y ago
Not directly related but I have a theory that Google has shaped public opinion online - and been very good at it- in a couple of instances when there was a risk to their business. The first was net neutrality, where you found various think
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by harryf 5y ago
Aside from shifts in morality and underlying cynicism that took place online from around 2007, once the "unwashed masses" because addicted to Facebook, I think the biggest thing that killed good writing online was analytics. Once
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by harryf 5y ago
Have a similar approach. I finally gave up using these type of apps (or lists in general) when top of my list of TODOs became “Review all these TODOs”. Also the fact that most of the apps required I spend more time playing with the UI than
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by harryf 5y ago
Here’s why the prices are going up https://youtu.be/4c-QvcHeNMw - institutional buyers…
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by harryf 5y ago
I agree in principle but also this feels like retroactive justification for the current state or affairs. I think it’s safe to assume that the “actors” that created the “surveillance state” weren’t acting from some profound philosophy of ma
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by harryf 5y ago
The premise of the article... > A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it I think comfortable is the wrong word here. Perhaps "people who have no choice but accept it" is more accurate. If y
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by harryf 5y ago
Does Excel online still have row and column limits? It's always been a mystery to me why Microsoft never addressed this - they could have prevented a whole host of competitors in the "big data" space from ever existing if the
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by harryf 5y ago
> The United States had on June 30 condemned what it described as a systematic violation of human rights, fundamental freedoms and attacks on the press in Haiti, urging the government to counter a proliferation of gangs and violence. I’m
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by harryf 5y ago
Define “in the open”. Through lens of (social) media and through our own cognitive biases the idea of anything being done “in the open” seems more like self delusion.
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by harryf 5y ago
Came here hoping they’d turned Factorio into a tool of creating tests in other codebaes. Like literal gamification of work.
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by harryf 5y ago
From my own experiences with meditation and - strangely - doing stand-up comedy as a hobby, this is very true, although I don't have experience with psychedelics. I have a slightly different view of ego though. For me ego is a tool tha
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by harryf 5y ago
Wow you weren't kidding. His wife, Christine Grady, Christine is Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. She's cited in papers on "conflicts of interest" in medicine. Th
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by harryf 5y ago
> By these standards, everyone (in such a position) is always in some "conflict of interest". Yes. But not everyone becomes the leading figure in a global pandemic which has killed 3.7 million people and thrown the world into c
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by harryf 5y ago
...except Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth, took it upon himself to thank Fauci for pushing the "natural causes" narrative - https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/new-emails-reveal... More e
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by harryf 5y ago
Last year in May 5 2020 Fauci dismissed the idea that the virus came from a lab that his own organisation was providing funds to - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthony-fauci-wuhan-lab-coronav... The conflict of interes
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by harryf 5y ago
I'm not saying it's shady to provide that funding. What I'm saying is it demonstrates conflict of interest. Last year in May 5 2020 Fauci dismissed the idea that the virus came from a lab that his own organisation was providi
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by harryf 5y ago
It gets worse - gain of function research was banned under Obama until the ban was lifted in 2017 under Trump - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... I can’t find sources for this ri
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by harryf 5y ago
Will be interesting to see the impact this has on children growing up in the next 10-15 years and I'd guess it's largely positive. Parents with jobs that required business travel have found they can do their job and be present for
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by harryf 5y ago
I’ve always wondered if it’s possible to have a valid email address which is also an SQL injection attack, XSS or similar ?
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by harryf 5y ago
...although some people might argue that you could get the same value from a rubber duck ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging )
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by harryf 5y ago
Like many things in programming, we adopt it like a cargo cult ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming ) based on "some thought leader said" or "some company has amazing..." without a
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by harryf 5y ago
Might I recommend they standardize on 39.3701 inches ?
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by harryf 5y ago
I don't think the link has anything to do with people that created the website which is these guys - https://www.activistalosangeles.com/copy-of-who - there's more about them here - https://www.forbes.c
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by harryf 5y ago
Think the point of the website is implicit in the "Let's get to Mars" vision is that "Earth is an unsolvable mess and will be inevitably become uninhabitable". In other words we're failing to envision some kind
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by harryf 5y ago
Great extension to the analogy! In my experience over-engineering class are the most damaging of all and I feel like the article and general discussion of technical debt largely ignores this. I'd also add two subsets of the over-engine
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That's exactly the right perspective but if you've spent the last 20 years doing some job purely for the money, it's not an easy mental state to transition to and whether you're able will likely have a large part to do w
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by harryf 5y ago
There was a great analysis of what happens when you win the lottery on reddit some years back - https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the... > Nearly one third of multi-million doll
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by harryf 5y ago
Whoa that’s really cool! Also are you using some kind of IP to location? Was impressed you got my city right without needing location access Edit: also super impressed by how fast the “shadow layers” are calculated. I’m in Switzerland and p
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by harryf 6y ago
It's interesting to consider what the impact would be on society if Tinder had public reviews...
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by harryf 6y ago
Wow this is fascinating just for the entertainment. Especially liked this one... > I need an app that sends me a notification 90 seconds before the sun reaches the exact position in the sky where it reflects off my neighbor's window

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