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by mactavish88 4y ago
So this is exactly the perspective I’m looking for from HN. If my post (which clearly wasn’t for or against the linked material) was not immediately flagged and killed then it would’ve been possible to actually solicit this kind of perspect
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by mactavish88 4y ago
This is not the default mode of browsing facilitated by HN, so the system inherently lends itself to killing contrarian perspectives long before there can be any meaningful discussion about them. To me, there’s nothing more powerful than so
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by mactavish88 4y ago
I think this is the key problem. It seems you assume I have a particular position on climate change, as opposed to my actual intention of making people aware of this declaration. Those are very different positions. Also, my second submissio
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by mactavish88 4y ago
How does that help if the post’s not alive for long enough for more than a handful of people to see it?
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Ask HN: Is there a better model than flagging?
10 points by mactavish88 4y ago|43 comments
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by mactavish88 4y ago
From the site: > Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. In particular, scientists should emphasize that their modeling output is not the result of magic: computer models are human-made
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by mactavish88 4y ago
From this page[1] on the site: > Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. In particular, scientists should emphasize that their modeling output is not the result of magic: computer model
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by mactavish88 4y ago
I don’t have the exact statistics on hand, but from various reports it seems as though there’s a substantial (and increasing) proportion of Canadians retiring and Canadians are having fewer children. Once retirees exit the work force, there
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by mactavish88 4y ago
It’s the telling the team how to do their job I find disrespectful. If all they were asking for was more information on the estimates, it’d be a different story. The presumption in their attitude and approach is that our team doesn’t know w
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by mactavish88 4y ago
Part of the problem I pick up here is that, in general, engineers who haven't done the hard work of the actual scoping themselves tend to be wildly optimistic in their estimates. I'm not sure if this applies to more seasoned engin
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by mactavish88 4y ago
In previous jobs where we were negotiating with non-technical people, they'd actually negotiate at the business requirement level: "if we take out features B and C, how much would that reduce the cost?" That to me seems like
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Ask HN: How do you deal with managers/customers questioning your estimates?
102 points by mactavish88 4y ago|101 comments
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by mactavish88 4y ago
Neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome is pretty difficult to diagnose if you don’t clearly have an extra rib. I have it, and it comes on when my neck muscles are tight - my scalenes are unfortunately just structured such that they “scissor” m
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by mactavish88 4y ago
They can’t build them fast enough.
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by mactavish88 5y ago
I’d consider your history to be rather successful, and while I wouldn’t consider myself nearly as successful I do feel like I can relate on many levels. What got me through the depression that ensues in what I think was also a “mid-life cri
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Call me cynical but there’s got to be a profit motive in here. There are far too many people (bots?) online baying for blood. I’m sure that drives clicks.
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by mactavish88 5y ago
> Further work is required to demonstrate whether the techniques presented here are indeed effective in the context of particular CRDT algorithms, to prove their correctness in the face of Byzantine nodes, and to measure the performance
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by mactavish88 5y ago
How do people then communicate with the Russian people to tell them the truth of what’s going on in Ukraine?
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by mactavish88 5y ago
I’d imagine it’d be incredibly unlikely that critical software systems in jets or tanks would be internet-connected. From past experience with military-spec software development, it’s usually highly redundant and isolated. The operating sys
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by mactavish88 5y ago
At this point, pretty much a desire for survival. Working remotely, almost perpetually stuck in COVID lockdowns/restrictions in Canada for the past 2 years, not having many friends/family and not being able to visit them (they’re
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Ask HN: Best practices for synchronous meetings in distributed/remote teams?
1 points by mactavish88 5y ago|0 comments
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Something that genuinely adds value to people’s lives. So nothing in ad-tech, cryptocurrency, marketing, or finance.
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Within the original article, there's a reference to this paper: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/704991 (the author seems well-credentialed in the physics realm: https://en.w
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by mactavish88 5y ago
The way this piece is written gives me the sense that this is a benign phenomenon, yet they still don’t understand the mechanism - is that not contradictory? If they don’t know why it happens, then surely they can’t make pronouncements as t
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Who said anything about being confident in our ability to adapt? I’m totally fine with the worst case possibility that we’re facing an extinction-level event here with the looming climate disasters. If that’s what nature is going to give us
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by mactavish88 5y ago
The difference, as always, lies in action. Talk is cheap (and even cheaper than ever in the age of social media).
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Climate panic isn’t constructive (at best it causes anxiety and depression and energy directed in ways that aren’t constructive, at worst apathy), so I’ve made peace with the prospect of a highly turbulent future. Some of my personal goals
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by mactavish88 5y ago
Yes there’ll need to be some way of catering for the reality of untreatable conditions (a kind of force majeure ).
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by mactavish88 5y ago
I was about to suggest the same solution. The same approach can be applied to any service that requires regular intervention to avoid service interruption. If you pay someone every time the service is interrupted, then they’ll be incentiviz
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by mactavish88 5y ago
I think study (1) is something that companies could implement internally (hopefully in a somewhat unbiased way). That'll at least help address localized bias in the hiring process. As for (2), I'm aware of the fact that many peopl

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