missosoup

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by missosoup 6y ago
State actors and high tier criminal orgs will always have a way into your digital life. In a way, making code more secure is just creating an asymmetry where regular joe can't break into a device but only state actors and other major p
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by missosoup 6y ago
What exactly is 'social good', in your mind?
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But err, that's exactly what's happened. We now know that China locked down domestic flights originating from Wuhan in Jan 23. While at the same time pressuring various world governments and WHO to continue accepting internation
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by missosoup 6y ago
> Suggesting the virus was circulating in China as early as August but was being covered up? It's a well established fact that the existence of the virus was initially being covered up and local doctors trying to raise the alarm wer
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by missosoup 6y ago
Sure. Aussie cops aren't angels at all. But comparing Aussie cops to US cops in terms of use of violence, poor judgement, etc. is insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFaPooJBDSg Imagine this situation playing out i
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by missosoup 6y ago
You're comparing single-digits per decade incidents which incite national outcry, with triple-digits per year incidents which are taken as a fact of life in the US. And you're trying to set a narrative that somehow those are compa
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by missosoup 6y ago
> You are also greatly exaggerating the risk to citizens in the USA "Noor was convicted of third degree murder and second degree manslaughter for killing Ms Damond Ruszczyk just minutes after she called 911 to report a possible sexu
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by missosoup 6y ago
Yes most police in AU carry a firearm. No they don't have a 'decent rep' for brutality, whatever that means. Comparing AU police to US police is insane. Every encounter with police like a traffic stop in the US is a nonzero c
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by missosoup 6y ago
That keyboard has been 'available soon' on the sonder site for at least 4 years now. Going to go ahead and call vaporware.
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by missosoup 6y ago
> Engineering 101 teaches that when in doubt err on the safe side. Nonsense. You can't discover limits if you always stay within them. Commercial engineering, sure. But R&D is by definition the process of exploring an unknown pa
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by missosoup 6y ago
I'll reiterate a point I made deeper down: obviously the failure wasn't planned or intended. But the overall process of being failure tolerant and having a high rate of failures, was. You can spend your resources on doing careful
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by missosoup 6y ago
The whole fundamental concept of innovation is that there is no plan. If there's a clear path to get to where you want to go, then you don't need to innovate. Innovation is the act of exploring the unknown regions of the problem
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by missosoup 6y ago
You don't need to be an aerospace engineer to be aware of the spaceX R&D strategy which has been spelled out pretty clearly by Musk and others in various interviews. I'm not saying the failure was intended, I'm saying the
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by missosoup 6y ago
That's the point - they're discovering the limits. The other way to do this would be to over engineer, have more conservative testing, etc. But Musk has been clear that they've explicitly chosen a strategy of fast iteration,
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by missosoup 6y ago
Musk was pretty clear in an interview that he does want things to blow up. He wants the testing to push and exceed the limits so those limits become well defined. It sounds quite reasonable.
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by missosoup 6y ago
Free speech and its protection predates the modern concept of governments. Free speech is about ensuring that there's a broad pool of ideas in society so that it doesn't stagnate into a degenerate vertical of narrow beliefs. >
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by missosoup 6y ago
On today's modern internet, you can express just about anything you want. The issue is that if you express 'wrongthink', then the 99.9% of platforms will prevent your idea from spreading, even if it would have otherwise spr
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by missosoup 6y ago
This is where it gets tricky. Because 99.9% of the popular internet is 'non state-managed platforms'. There doesn't exist an avenue to meaningfully exercise free speech on the internet. You can make your own blog, but it will
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by missosoup 6y ago
100% of the popular internet is a 'private square'. That's the problem. There doesn't exist any platform right now where one can share an idea and have that idea go viral, unless the idea is first gated through private c
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by missosoup 6y ago
> distribute hate speech, dangerously factually incorrect information and harassment Until everyone can agree on a universal arbiter for what those things mean in a concrete way, there will always be demographics who strongly disagree. T
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by missosoup 6y ago
Oh absolutely. Eradicating this thing via vaccination any time in the next 24 months will take a completely unprecedented feat of worldwide collaboration. But I'm optimistic, the current situation has everyone focused on the issue. Exc
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by missosoup 6y ago
No, that's the first option - it will eventually infect the whole world no matter how much you improve outcomes or slow it down. Unmitigated R0 of SARS-CoV-2 is extremely high, we can't keep it contained with spreaders all over th
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by missosoup 6y ago
If it did disappear, sure. But it won't. Way too many infected all over the globe now, eradication is impossible without a vaccine. Either it will eventually infect the entire world, or we'll vaccinate against it. Those are the on
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by missosoup 6y ago
That's a bit disingenuous isn't it? You're saying that the actual beef (vanishing Ask thread about google censorship) is okay to mention, and the reason my comment was silently nuked is because I happened to address the HN te
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by missosoup 6y ago
Seems like your comment has also been detached. I'm seriously confused right now.
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by missosoup 6y ago
It seems like my comment was also vanished from the top of the thread? I don't see what guidelines I came even close to breaking. Help me out here? No one's going to see your reply, my comment is detached from the submission. But
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by missosoup 6y ago
The submission I linked is not flagged (at least as far as I can see from my account?). Either there's some non-intuitive stuff going on with the way submissions stay on the front page, or HN soft-nuked it. Either way I think we dese
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by missosoup 6y ago
There was a previous unrelated discussion about this just a few hours ago which was climbing to the top of the front page when I saw it. And then just vanished: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221264 It's not fl
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by missosoup 6y ago
Came across this recently when posting on someone else's video, the comment wasn't even critical of China but I can see how a pair of words in sequence might have come off that way. Tested on a private video of my own just now, co
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by missosoup 6y ago
I've been in the industry for 10+ years. I've worked with everything from telco metrics firehoses to bank customer event streams to deep learning. The venn intersection of conditions where spark makes sense is really rather narrow

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