seagullriffic

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by seagullriffic 2y ago
Excellent, well done. Looking forward to hearing a discussion about this on your podcast! Might you go chase some other startup ideas? Does this "validate" the career model of creating something new, for you? Or would you not do i
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by seagullriffic 2y ago
This is almost exactly how I think about it too - a good repeatable mental model is "infinite upside / near-zero downside". These massively asymmetric choices occur elsewhere in life, e.g. "asking them out on a date&quot
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by seagullriffic 2y ago
The LinkedIn preview text made me laugh, thank you :)
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by seagullriffic 2y ago
> At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the best they'd ever heard. Ron Conway, for the first time in his life, forgot to take not
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by seagullriffic 2y ago
> The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rating system focuses on occupant safety, not the safety of other road users, and tax policies subsidize heavier vehicles. Sociopathic. Regulations and safety standards should b
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by seagullriffic 2y ago
Interesting! That article I linked had lingered in my memory for a while, so good to hear a response to it!
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by seagullriffic 2y ago
Unfortunately this very application, Gov.uk Notify, is currently being used by Councils to send emails to residents directing them to an outsourced company's website, https://www.householdresponse.com , to input sensitive de
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by seagullriffic 2y ago
Did this app have anything to do with the huge QR codes which encoded far too much information? https://www.revk.uk/2020/09/how-not-to-qr-nhs-c19-app.html
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
Oh no, a really sad Far Side cartoon! Which is very closely related to a shaggy dog joke you can spin out for ages, "$5 talking dog for sale", which ends with the setup / punchline, "why so cheap?" / "beca
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
I highly recommend some of the best content on Youtube, Ed Pratt's series [0] where he unicycles around the world. [0] https://www.youtube.com/@EdPratt
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
> choosing to pick the negatives Yes of course there are positives. Don't worry, we have never let negative consequences hold back progress before. But the blind optimism is staggering, and let's get philosophical: what's
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
Oof. If we defeat aging, we'll have to contend with: * unbounded population increase * wealth and power directly proportional to age * dictators and other bad people not dying Not insurmountable but all of those big problems would requ
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
> You mean freely as in for no compensation? I do. The BL is a national institution, and, like the NHS, would attract masses of free labour if they asked for it. There are volunteer developers and data scientists who work for charities i
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
Can anyone explain why this happens? Why would they pay ransomware hackers when they would obviously have backups. Sucks to have data compromised, but presumably it's not lost. And what part of the system was designed to bad practices
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
Burnout is a thing which should be taken more seriously by more people. Go on holiday. At least two months. The first week you'll think you're still at work. The second week you might have some time to collect your thoughts, and p
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
I hope to encourage those motivated by reading this to come to the next NHS Hack Day! https://nhshackday.com/
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
> missing the context of what's actually happening in the UK such as ULEZ making travel more expensive I'm more than 95% sure that you, a Hacker News commenter, do not have a non-compliant vehicle in the UK which you "need
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
Why blame Vision Zero for the metrics getting worse? Unless you're aware of places where all its recommendations are implemented in full, and enforced?
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
This is such a poor use of numbers to prove a point. Any unsafe car - one - could potentially end multiple lives. Therefore, one unsafe car is unacceptable. Look up "Vision Zero". It's possible, and should be expected from ou
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
> one of the main issues with VanMoof’s bikes is that they are custom designed from the ground up The frame, certainly - it has integrated lights and I presume other electronics. I wonder though (and doubt that) about the other component
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
Very well done. It would be good if the video pop-overs were a bit larger by default (even double the size) as on my resolution screen they're pretty small. One of the videos was face-on (mountain climber) so I couldn't see really
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
In my experience they're useless because they're trained / limited to the FAQ and website you've already read to try to resolve your issue. The same with calling a helpline. Yes, I'm aware I can check your website f
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
I wonder whether they'll continue using their in-house Phrabricator or choose to support Phorge ( https://we.phorge.it/ ) now that open-source Phabricator is no longer supported.
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
This interview with Cameron has more information than most I've seen, thanks for the link.
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by seagullriffic 3y ago
This is great, thanks. For anyone who might take a recommendation, the 1993 "Much Ado" is, indeed, excellent. It's a play filled with joie de vivre and the movie reflects that. Featuring an unexpected Don John. Then the 2012
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by seagullriffic 4y ago
I hope this is meant ironically. Cars regularly mount pavements/sidewalks as well, and kill pedestrians who are not even in the road. The correct response to "cars make cities unsafe for everyone" is of course to ban all but
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by seagullriffic 4y ago
I don't want to be mean, but this seems like the famous Dropbox/rsync comment. The value here is how easy it is, and the fact that a generalised model can take the place of a (well-engineered) specialised tool.
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by seagullriffic 4y ago
While I agree with you, I'm fairly sure the average UK household's veg requirements are larger than the average UK household garden. I'd love to see some affordable vertical farms small enough to keep at home.