johndhi

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by johndhi 3y ago
In my experience (which is about as relevant to this topic as one can imagine), regulatory-required features in software always get built in really shitty ways. These are some of the reasons I've seen for why: -the regulation isn'
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by johndhi 3y ago
Great post.
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by johndhi 3y ago
Some interesting responses here but imo these sound like "worse" but not "far far far worse" conditions to me. A war where lots of people are being killed exploded maimed raped generationally ruined or traumatized - is r
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by johndhi 3y ago
Why is Russia's imperialism far far far worse? What about the us invasion of Iraq is "better" than the Russia invasion of Ukraine?
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by johndhi 3y ago
Leased solar systems sounds like a great sci-fi premise. Rent a few planets out...
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by johndhi 3y ago
Saas vendors typically can use customer data both to "provide" their services but also to "improve" their services. It's not entirely clear what is and isn't okay under "improve."
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by johndhi 3y ago
Point d is not true. If you hire Salesforce you generally disclose to your users that you use Salesforce. But you don't tell them all of Salesforce's processors, and all of their professors, and so on down the infinite loop. Edit:
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by johndhi 3y ago
Kind of a nightmare for cloud computing. What if for example I'm a small business who stores my customer's email in Salesforce. And uses another cloud provider to port data in and out of Salesforce. And then uses splunk for error
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by johndhi 3y ago
Along these lines, I hate trying to upvote on hacker news. My finger usually almost clicks downvote and often does.
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by johndhi 3y ago
Congrats! It's a wild ride. 2 months was some of the hardest times ime. Fyi we did long parental leaves followed by home nannies followed by nanny share where we went to other house half of the time to eventually day care, then changed
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by johndhi 3y ago
Hmm my reaction to that is "good marketing." People who have some kind of shtick tend to get more media coverage. Like, was Steve Jobs (turtleneck) covering something up? Zuck (t shirts)? Newsom with his Bruce Wayne hair?
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by johndhi 3y ago
Wild. The slots thing - seems so easy for someone to rat on them and then so easy for the cops to break it up. The Manhattan one was poker only. Steel door with a camera, get buzzed into a second door where you talk to somebody and they onl
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by johndhi 3y ago
Fair enough. I guess media cycles get caught up. And for me personally, I will say every time the economy booms for a few years I start to ask: gosh is this ever going to stop? For example with real estate, I haven't bought any because
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by johndhi 3y ago
Personally I've always found "risks" in product roadmap tend to not be great. There's often no risks for 80 percent of the project then at the end we'll discover blockers and risks from teams who weren't (or we
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by johndhi 3y ago
This is my sense too. What's kind of funny is we weirdly get caught up and excited by the hype... every single time
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by johndhi 3y ago
I've played one of those spots by union square. Was fun to feel like a gangster for an evening but ultimately not a crowd I want to spend a lot of time around.
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by johndhi 3y ago
I think we're forcing them to manage the data in their stewardship inefficiently. I'd actually love a law that says if my data gets stolen from a company and a hacker uses that stolen data to harm me, the company must pay for (som
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by johndhi 3y ago
I've now read it. But my question to the person saying it's problematic to defend vaccine studies and attack food results is: isn't it possible that you feel the research procedures used in one are superior to those used in a
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by johndhi 3y ago
Hmm -- in usual fashion I haven't read the original post here, but I'm guessing it didn't find that RCT trials that big pharma do are quite as useless as most 'medical studies' generally. Do you think well-funded RC
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by johndhi 3y ago
I like where this thread is going.
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by johndhi 3y ago
why are the developers' salaries so low? $60k a year??
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by johndhi 3y ago
I completely disagree that the benefits are huge. I like laws that say we can opt out of and must consent to email marketing. It leaves companies freedom to implement however they want. CCPA requires complete deletion, which isn't easy
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by johndhi 3y ago
Translation of your comment: you believe legal requirements around data deletion will reduce the risk of data breach and therefore are good. My pov: maybe, but the cost isn't worth the benefit of doing it this way.
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by johndhi 3y ago
Hi - good questions. In general I think some privacy concerns are valid and others are not. Specifically I believe government surveillance is problematic and I wish there were more visibility and restrictions on it. I do believe many compan
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by johndhi 3y ago
This hasn't been my experience. Do you work in a large company? My experience has been that there are heaps and piles of data including (or potentially including, unstructured) personal information. And lots of reasons why complete del
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by johndhi 3y ago
Hmm I guess the idea is you have a db of training data that you need to flow deletes into. That db contains personal information so you need to keep it up to date. The model itself, once trained, doesn't contain personal information he
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by johndhi 3y ago
No untraining. But it can't go into the next round of training.
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Couldn't disagree more as someone who works in tech and guides companies in complying with laws like this. So expensive for so little real gain. We're spending more on making companies who don't use your data for anything nef
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by johndhi 3y ago
Not really. Research almost entirely paused until the last few years.
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by johndhi 3y ago
Rick Doblin has some talking points on this that I found fairly compelling... but now I can't find them. Basically that their trial is as good as you can do given that.

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