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by peterwwillis 7y ago
The internet will not stop being decentralized just because there are some consumer product monopolies. When Amazon starts running its own dark fiber, and you can only use that fiber to buy shoes that are only sold on Amazon, then part of
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> I reached out to the Linux Foundation, multiple times, for clarification or statement. After 5 days, I had not received any response. > Likewise, I contacted Charles Wood, who declined to comment with the following statement: &quot
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
I applaud the author for sharing their notes. But also, this is why HN (and general upvote-anything-that-looks-interesting forums) sucks. If you are actually defining architecture, you should not be reading these kind of blog posts. I get t
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I love that this is just factual information about businesses that deal with health records, and it's still downvoted to hell. HN: where politeness and irrationality go hand in hand
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
I know everyone these days likes to run around like chickens with their heads cut off when they see an article about Google or Facebook and data, but please try and calm down. First of all, Google has already been involved in health, and wi
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Google Health is finally opening up about its plans and they're all about search(cnbc.com)
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I'm no great programmer, so my stupid question of the day is: why do people depend on GC so much? Garbage collection is one of those weird things that everyone seems to accept must be necessary in higher level languages, and end up bei
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Yes, you can pay managed hosting providers different amounts of money for different levels of support. Managed support will usually only monitor and fix basic infrastructure and respond to support requests from you. They often won't mo
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Complicit implies a negative moral or ethical slant, but we are directly responsible, sure. We live in a representative democracy, so we can just ask for a bill to redistribute wealth and vote on it. The reason people don't is the same
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There's been hundreds of years of writing on this subject from political and economic theory, but the article doesn't touch on it at all; it's just a weird mathematical model. Then there's this: You might, of course,
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If you're wondering "why don't they just close-source the whole thing, and then they don't have to worry about competitors?", there's two reasons. One, open source is a good marketing tool to acquire trend-foll
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
The "math" can be quite complex, because estimates range anywhere from 1/4 acre to feed a family of four to 1 acre to feed 1 person. It depends on how intensely the land is managed, climate zone, caloric requirements, etc. I
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
This article makes zero sense. It's about hydroponics - growing plants in water, without soil. But it's complaining about spraying the ground that a greenhouse is built on top of. Am I missing something, or is glyphosate going int
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
During WWII, the government urged urban citizens to plant Victory Gardens so that farmed produce could go to the troops. Home and community plots resulted in an estimated 10 million tons of harvested produce, equal to the commercial product
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
Therein lies a problem: there are no facts of nature. The only things that could be said to be a fact in nature is to describe how you observe something to work. The observations may change, how it works may change, and neither of these thi
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
We don't actually know how to do those things. If we try to, we cause unintended side effects. Complex problems do not have simple solutions.
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So they're taking one thing they can measure and then kind of hand-wavey suggesting agriculture is the problem, and that's it. In the past, we have been overly eager to right the wrongs in nature, arrogant enough to believe we kne
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
Similarly, you can still get falsely validated HTTPS certs via spoofing (not to mention older, easier validation exploits), and so it's possible all the newly encrypted traffic may result in most people having a significant false sen
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
> but both are not completely free and seem proprietary I don't mean to be "that guy", but unless your whole business's "thing" is no-proprietary-software, please try to pay for commercial licenses of good s
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
I think calling this 'paranoid' is a bit misleading. Paranoia suggests you are deluded or irrational, and that nobody's out to get you. In reality, people might be out to get you, just like walking a city street, someone m
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
This is different. Tech debt is a factor of letting things get slowly worse. Those things can be improved if you just work on your tech debt. What I'm talking about can't be improved or fixed, or higher-ups refuse to improve or fi
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
Mainly they were economically and politically important. They were incredibly rich and had alliances with all neighboring city-states, using each alliance as leverage for more alliances. They didn't even need to send many of their own
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
There has to be a term for when the business builds something with one tech stack, and then later, as if it was totally by surprise, realizes it needs to replace the whole thing, for basically no added business-value, and this happens every
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
Hey bro, do you lift, bro? What are you at? Oh me, my 1rm dead is 375, bench 275, no belt, no gloves. Hey bro, do you do intermittent fasting? Yeah I do keto too, I use a 24-48 cleanse, I'm in ketosis for twice as long now. Hey bro, do
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
If that were its only job, the only change would have been 128 bits instead of 32 for the address. There's like a bazillion other changes, unfortunately :(
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If a computer's host name is "giggidy", then when it requests a DHCP lease, it sends that name to the DHCP server. If your DHCP server is hooked up to a mini DNS server, then the DNS server will resolve "giggidy" or
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
Send a GDPR request anyway. Many companies do not track what region their users live in, or what parts of it came from what regions, etc. They get a GDPR request and they just file it in the queue for processing. All they know initially is
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
Basically, any given health record is covered by HIPAA if it 1) includes personal health information, 2) includes personally identifiable information, and 3) is used by a Covered Entity or Business Associate for some health care purpose. Ju
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
Health data is not that scary. You create a contract between each business associate, and you can have 20 different orgs in a chain of trust going back to a single care provider. A lot of the modern security best practices of tech companies
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by peterwwillis 7y ago
> Alphabet in bid to shut down Fitbit in two years FTFY

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