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by mprev 7y ago
I can see benefits to getting input from outside your of area of expertise but what you’re describing feels like the attitude that led to Theranos. How do you avoid ending up in a Dunning Kruger situation?
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by mprev 7y ago
The Scott Trust, The Guardian’s owner, will remain a non-profit.
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Ask HN: When have you taken a decision in code outside your domain of expertise?
145 points by mprev 7y ago|99 comments
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by mprev 7y ago
There are other circumstances in which you might not have had the vaccination, such as when undergoing chemotherapy. In those cases, herd immunity would provide protection for those who can't be get the vaccination themselves.
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by mprev 7y ago
To the people downvoting my comment above: your frustration at the system doesn't make my comment any less true. There isn't a natural right to consume content produced by companies who seem hell bent on making it difficult to acc
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Anti-vaxxer leaflet found inserted in book sold by Amazon(theguardian.com)
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by mprev 7y ago
Then, under the system we have today, you still don’t have a right to view it. Whether that’s right or wrong, it’s disingenuous to say there’s no option other than going through unlicensed channels.
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by mprev 7y ago
I’m not making a judgement on either side but you have the option of not watching the content.
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by mprev 7y ago
Hello :) thanks. I’m excited by the project and I think transparency is important.
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by mprev 7y ago
Cool! But I can’t see anything on the site about who is behind this. Did I just miss it or is it missing? Especially when a service is free, I want to know a little about who I’m getting involved with. Edit: what’s the deal with the downvot
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Tesla Model 3 Available for Order in UK from May(theguardian.com)
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by mprev 7y ago
They're doing TV ads on national networks in the UK, which doesn't come cheap.
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Newsguard in talks with British ISPs to bundle service(theguardian.com)
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by mprev 7y ago
Adam Curry came up with the name but people were embedding media in RSS feeds before that.
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State of Developer Relations 2019(devrel.net)
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by mprev 8y ago
Citation needed! Renewables are not free of externalities. Hydro damages environments. Wasting renewable energy on crypto mining prevents that energy being used for something productive and so drives the need for more renewable capacity or
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by mprev 8y ago
Aluminium smelting results in aluminium. You can make stuff with aluminium. Bitcoin mining results in heat, both literal and metaphorical.
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by mprev 8y ago
There’s a lot of appeal in a product that lets you signal that you’re taking a different path.
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by mprev 8y ago
€80k subsidy? Surely there’d be a national outcry.
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by mprev 8y ago
In the UK, and I think the EU generally, anyone including the manufacturer can sell to the public. When Daewoo entered the UK market they made a big deal about not having franchise dealerships or commissioned salespeople. After a few years,
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Kofola, the Cold War Drink of Czechoslovakia(bbc.com)
130 points by mprev 8y ago|45 comments
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by mprev 8y ago
Happy birthday! I wonder what the economics of a publication like this are. Are reader numbers and ad prices still good enough? I guess we’ll never get back to the days of Amiga Format’s crazy high reader numbers but I’m hopeful that there’
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by mprev 8y ago
How did you deal with the Darien Gap?
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Do developer champion programmes harm motivation?(devrel.net)
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The Vision Fund needs more governance(economist.com)
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by mprev 8y ago
That is not what is happening here. People are rightly skeptical of the claims. As Theranos showed, you can't "fake it till you make it" when people's lives are involved.
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by mprev 8y ago
Not at all. It says that car accidents are a problem. It does not say that the answer is to pretend your driver assistance tech is actually self-driving tech.
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by mprev 8y ago
That sounds more like a guild, which became effectively a system of maintaining price levels and scarcity of a particular skill.
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by mprev 8y ago
The story here is about something mayor of Barcelona is doing, rather than the national government of Spain. Also, what does subsidising renewable energy jobs have to do with leaving residential buildings empty?
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by mprev 8y ago
How about because your company's valuation demands that it become more than a niche player?

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