jeffdavis

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by jeffdavis 6y ago
All of this content control will be an interesting social experiment. I would like to see a clear hypothesis though, and ways we can judge whether this is a success or failure. (I'm using the term "content control" to mean so
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Does the quantity and quality of training play a role? I don't just mean telling recruits to behave well over and over, although maybe that helps, too. I suspect that training in general makes people behave a little better. If you are
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Sometimes I imagine a secret meeting that happened some decades ago between Republicans and Democrats, dividing up the Bill of Rights. "Well, we have to at least look like we're fighting for them. If we all just agree to protect
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
"If passed, the act would require tech companies to help investigators access encrypted data if that assistance would help carry out a warrant." Isn't that already required? If someone shows up with a warrant (presumably sign
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
How many of these sophisticated and non-lazy criminals are there? If you have a lot of sophisticated and non-lazy criminals, my guess is that there is something very wrong. I'd like to know more about these characters and what kinds of
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
The original "warrant proof" evidence was just saying something. Whoever was within 30 feet heard you, but otherwise, it was just gone.
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Sometimes I wonder if politicians are trying to get us to not vote for them. Like, what problem is this solving? Are there tons of criminals that are running wild, and if only we had their secret correspondence we could catch them? And is s
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
"Sure, large companies may comply and average joes may get less E2E encryption, but anyone who knows anything about tech will be able to get access to E2E encrypted messengers." We are all lazy. I can use gpg, but how often am I g
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
"using multiple, vertical inert metal-alloy anodes and ceramic cathodes" What is the process? Why was it hard before, and why does it work now? I'm not expecting a thorough analysis, but the article was very light on what t
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
"Software is Terrible and Getting Worse" I wonder if increasing bloat is a permanent thing? Will software ever transition to a cycle of simplification? Has it ever gone through a simplification cycle in the past? Physical engineer
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
As a database person, I think if more haskell people took an interest in database languages, the world would be a better place.
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
FWIW I did not downvote anyone in this thread. I feel like the worst motivations are being assigned to me throughout this thread. If anyone cares, no, I do not have bad intentions. I saw some claims that were hard to reconcile with the data
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Is there any sign that summer in the northern hemisphere will help us out? UV, heat, outdoors, or other factors?
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
But it seems like a decline in deaths marks the end of a "wave", which is a good thing. We could face another wave, which of course would be bad. Lockdown fatigue and protests could easily bring it back. But if we've brought
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
From a pandemic standpoint, it seems confusing to group together all of California. The article seems to be saying most of the outbreak is in LA and Riverside counties.
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Is there any evidence that the virus is evolving to change its deadliness?
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Maybe you are right, but there is just not any evidence presented for any of that. You are right that aggregated data is not the only thing that matters. It tends to represent only easily-quantifiable concepts. But you do have to do a sanit
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
How many times do you believe that happens in a year, and what evidence do you have for that belief?
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
If you don't trust numbers from the washington post and the FBI, I'm not sure how we can expect to have a productive conversation. That isn't to say that coverups don't happen, and numbers aren't occasionally wrong
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
But the point is about whether you are afraid to go outside or not, and if so, is it because of criminals or police. Before you leave, you don't know how many criminals or police you are going to encounter. Even if tigers are really sc
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
"but are killed by police at more than twice the rate of white Americans" That's a slightly confusing wording. More whites are killed by police than blacks, but due to the difference in the general population, the proportion
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Do you have aggregate numbers on how that compares to getting similar treatment from criminals?
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
I have quite a bit of faith in numbers related to deaths. There is a lot of paperwork involved, a body (with bullet holes), perhaps a 911 call, often a medical examiner or coroner's report, potentially lawsuits, funerals, etc. And now
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Going to the beach increases your chance of getting eaten by a shark by 1000X. My point is just that 2-3X of a small number is still a small number. It shouldn't affect your decision about whether to go outside or not when there are mu
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
By "disproportionate" I was comparing to the general population as a baseline. You are right that it doesn't imply bias. See this other topic for a breakdown: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23578103 Reg
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
We would have to try to come up with numbers around how often beatings happen by police versus by criminals, to compare. That might be interesting, but the numbers around those things are much less reliable. Numbers about deaths are usually
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
"Society is disquietingly tolerant of murder when the murderer is wearing a badge" I agree. But the original post seemed to be saying that it was rational for blacks to be carefree about criminals and afraid of police, which just
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
Right, a more clear number would have been total murders. The race of the murderer was irrelevant to my point, and the difference between police killing versus getting murdered would have been even more pronounced had I included all murders
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
It's relevent because you need to compare the costs of police (e.g. police violence) to the scale of problem that is supposedly being solved (e.g. murders). You can choose to fear who you want to fear, I guess. But the numbers seem to
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by jeffdavis 6y ago
FWIW, I had almost the opposite reaction. I favored this contrarian, also without context. I was not terribly surprised that I felt this way, but I did try to suppress the feeling, because without context, it's not very rational. The

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