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by tfha 7y ago
I think the approach of "have more self control" is doomed to fail. We have a social media addiction problem because there are literally teams of scientests using machine learning, A/B testing, and other techniques to get you
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by tfha 7y ago
There are many aspects of our business that are in the cloud today that I am confident do not have scaling challenges, would be just fine running out of a single VPS. We aren't going to suddenly have 20x employees one day, a lot of our
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by tfha 7y ago
My favorite is from Amazon, when selling Prime. "We are sorry to hear that you do not want FREE two day shipping." It really agitates me. I wish it didn't bother me so much but it cuts pretty deep sometimes.
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by tfha 7y ago
Sloppy opsec is the standard.
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by tfha 7y ago
If I could prevent NK from getting Nukes, or I could prevent NK from stealing billions from banks... seems pretty reasonable that nukes are still the focus
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by tfha 7y ago
It'll collapse after the VCs have exited though, so who cares?
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by tfha 7y ago
Meh. I remember we used to use Yelp to find the best restaurants in a city. It worked incredibly well. It doesn't anymore, but Google maps is not better. For example, I tried to use Google maps to find good buffalo wings in Brooklyn. B
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by tfha 7y ago
KeyChain is not an open standard and is not easily interoperable with other strategies or products. You shouldn't build best practice out of a single company's walled garden.
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by tfha 7y ago
I'm not sure that's the case, how are you sure?
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by tfha 7y ago
Would you say the same thing if Cloudflare and several ISPs all unilaterally decided to stop hosting democratic party websites? The line isn't as clear when you generalize the action.
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by tfha 7y ago
"I worry about the end of radical free speech on the internet precisely because I feel deeply disconnected from "mainstream morality". As internet censorship progresses, I'm sure I'll be kicked out before any of the
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by tfha 7y ago
Well, there's replicating the experiment and then there's challenging the conclusion. Those are two separate ideas, and are actually fairly independent.
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by tfha 7y ago
Ads perform better when they stand out. It's easier to stand out by being terrible in some visible and unique way than by being excellent in some visible and unique way.
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by tfha 7y ago
An acre is 40,000 square feet. So 25x20 means you get one tree every 9 feet in both directions. That's pretty dense for a large tree.
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by tfha 7y ago
Are you completely sure there isn't some culture reason they are so good at running? There are so many variables at play beyond our modern understanding. It's just a topic we really don't have a good grasp of, as is the case
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by tfha 7y ago
As a reliability engineer I disagree. It's nice to know that your code has few antipatterns in it by design. "Blunt knives" is a really bad way to think about it. You have plenty of very sharp knife, and they are easy to use
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by tfha 7y ago
The virtual piece of it would ruin the last second regret. The regret comes from the realization that you've crossed through a door with no return. Can't ever get that in VR unless somehow the subject does not realize it's fa
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by tfha 7y ago
I'm starting to struggle with this on Twitter. Got frustrated enough to uninstall it a few weeks ago, still haven't put it back (though I continue to be tempted). So many promoted tweets and the uncanny feeling that my feed is bei
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by tfha 7y ago
We wrote a program where atomicity was mission critical, and tested the hell out of power loss recovery. I can confirm experimentally that the rename trick is not good enough. It was nearly good enough on Linux. Corruption was very rare, bu
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by tfha 7y ago
Apple showed that they are capable and willing to perform silent over the air updates to operating systems to address security concerns. The specific incident I am referring to is with Zoom. If you can read your message history from an iPho
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by tfha 7y ago
You can checksum backup data. Might be more difficult with high speed data like databases, but if it's just backups a cryptographic checksum is really reasonable.
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by tfha 7y ago
Enclave defeating technology will improve over time as well. Things like scanners and lasers and emi detectors get better and better just as technologies for hiding from them do.
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by tfha 7y ago
Sure you can. Just reject any dependencies that don't pass your own linter. By switching to rust, you are doing the same thing anyway.
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by tfha 7y ago
For some languages it might possible to enforce this with just a simple linter
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by tfha 7y ago
It's not set in stone until the network is live. Everything at this point is still in the hands of Facebook. And I doubt that will change.
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by tfha 7y ago
Until it's fully live, Facebook can change the terms, contract, code, strategy, etc. however they want. Until they have an actually decentralized system humming away, it's all us trusting Facebook to do what they promise.
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by tfha 7y ago
The 28 all need licenses from Facebook, which means Facebook retains the control. It's decentralization theatre, and the ulterior motive gets Facebook much closer to being it's own soveigrn superpower than it's stated objecti
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by tfha 7y ago
Wrong. You are assuming a good selection over the whole search space of humans. If you took HN I bet you would get a different distribution. The Reddit data only applies to sampling Redditors sampled using similar strategies, the generaliza
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by tfha 7y ago
It's always amazing to me that it's MY fault when the bank gave all of my money to someone else. The reason the US has such bad fraud rates is that the banks have little accountability and therefore no incentive to actually get th
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by tfha 7y ago
AWS is different from Amazon though. AWS is a cutting edge technology in a fast moving industry that is likely to be made obsolete in the next 20 to 30 years.

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