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by jefftk 4y ago
> If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. And yet, actual shipbuilding operations look, and have historically looke
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by jefftk 4y ago
One way to handle this is combine those two mechanics: the quorum gets lower the more time has passed. When I was playing GitHub Nomic [1] we decided you needed one fewer player to vote for each day that had passed since the proposal was i
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by jefftk 4y ago
Only after the facility was built did the port authority realize that widebody aircraft like the Airbus A330, Boeing 777 and 787 Dreamliner, which are regularly used on long-haul international flights, couldn’t fit into four of the gates a
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by jefftk 4y ago
Have you looked at GiveWell's reviews? They're really thorough and do try to evaluate effectiveness: https://www.givewell.org/charities/amf The main issue with local charity is that wealth is distributed ver
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by jefftk 4y ago
The article argues that charity can be counterproductive, but we don't have to give to random charities where no one is paying attention to whether they're making things better. Instead of "never give money to charity"
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by jefftk 4y ago
This goes a lot farther than disabling CORS checking: it turns off all same origin policy enforcement. So, ex, if site A opens a tab on site B (and so gets a reference to it), site A can read and modify anything on that page. Or, ads loaded
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by jefftk 4y ago
That's right. These demos are, as they should be, using requestAnimationFrame [1]. The docs have "Warning: Be sure to always use the first argument (or some other method for getting the current time) to calculate how much the an
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by jefftk 4y ago
> the US prosecutes about 300 people each year for fraud That's way too low. [checks link...] That's just cases handled by the DOJ Health Care Fraud Unit, not all fraud.
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by jefftk 4y ago
Note that this is a very large group of people, with 1230 additions annually: https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/directory/ "The American lists recognize 600 business and industry figures, with 30 selected in
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by jefftk 4y ago
This blog does have RSS, linked at the bottom of the page ("Follow me on Twitter or subscribe to my free newsletter or RSS feed for future posts.") https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/feed.xml
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by jefftk 4y ago
If you're trying to understand what Google's doing here and what their incentives are, it's important to distinguish between tracking in general and specifically using fingerprinting to track. They're very interested in
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by jefftk 4y ago
Google Ads, 2020-07-31: What is not acceptable is the use of opaque or hidden techniques that transfer data about individual users and allow them to be tracked in a covert manner, such as fingerprinting. We believe that any attempts to tra
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by jefftk 4y ago
All of my worries in your scenario come from cases where the premises of your hypothetical are violated: they break my stuff, they don't leave, they take things, etc. (The more a hypothetical requires you to assume things operating ver
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And an AI that had watched every episode of TV, every movie, and every popular commerical would have a huge advantage in finding the right material to draw from.
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Riding position is the big one: recumbents can be much faster. Even with upright bikes, though, there have been a bunch of iterations. I especially like the saga of Obree developing two new positions and having them both banned for being to
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by jefftk 4y ago
What matters is the ROI, not what fraction of active chains use what tech, no?
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Google doesn't benefit because Google has committed not to fingerprint for ad targeting, but their competitors do.
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The school couldn't tell from looking at him that he was closer to Kindergarten-aged (5) than 4th grade (9) !?
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We're talking about an optional feature for developers who want it, that you have to go and turn on. (And it should have very clear warnings before you turn it on so you don't accidentally make things public that shouldn't be
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by jefftk 4y ago
I was going to speculate more about how GitHub could handle this, but it turns out they already have a system where you name a successor and they get control of your public repos 7d after GitHub receives a death certificate or 21d after an
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Why not make it trigger on not logging in for N months, and after ignoring multiple attempts to notify you? This is what Google's inactive account manager does.
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by jefftk 4y ago
In both of your examples they're not saying they "cannot hide it behind a flag because people are already using it": * With adoptedStyleSheets they're objecting to making backwards incompatible changes, which is reasonab
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by jefftk 4y ago
That wasn't the part of your comment I was replying to. You said they sometimes "complain that that they cannot hide it behind a flag because people are already using it", and I was (a) explaining why that's not suppose
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What should you do instead? The alternative is UA-sniffing, and that's worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35425549
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> It doesn't matter if it's been available for 10 years on Chrome—if it's not reliable on other platforms, don't use it. As an author you have two main options: 1. Feature detection: check to see if the API exists i
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> sometimes complain that that they cannot hide it behind a flag because people are already using it The way this is supposed to work is an origin trial: you ship something behind a flag, and then allow sites to flip the flag for testi
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When I was working on open source at Google this was also something we had to be very careful with: you don't want to make promises you can't keep. But this wasn't as strict as what Apple does, and vague estimates were allow
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I saw several people say they were seeing his tweets despite having him blocked during that incident
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Is this the earlier post you were thinking of? https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/HTTP3AndOu... I think that post is much less reasonable, but it's also almost 2 years old and they ma
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by jefftk 4y ago
> A personal website made of .html and other files in the past would last, literally forever. Web serving has always had moving parts, and there has always been some maintenance required to keep sites up. I agree that HTTPS increases t

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