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by thinkharderdev 7y ago
This is absolutely true in practice, but there are degrees. Approximately 0 people are going to go full tinfoil hat and setup their own self-hosted FOSS solution, but we absolutely should care if a product like Zoom does something like, say
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I tend to agree, I still have libertarian instincts on a lot of issues, but in situations such as a pandemic where we have a large collective action problem and no time to evolve the sorts of cultural technologies and norms that generally e
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I am not a die hard libertarian but went through my libertarian phase and read a lot of "die hard" literature. My guess would be that the die hards are people who are libertarian on moral grounds rather than utilitarian grounds. T
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I don't think he's saying that you should blindly deploy this stuff. But you don't have to create a solution from scratch. There are existing templates out there that you can leverage to build your own solution
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by thinkharderdev 7y ago
I think the idea is that they do help you. They provide alerts and and APIs that can be used to programmatically control all of your infrastructure. So in a sense having a Lambda listen for billing events and respond in a way appropriate to
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by thinkharderdev 7y ago
So would sensitivity be the percentage of infected people who test positive and specificity be the percentage of non-infected who test negative (i.e. sensitivity = (1 - false negative probability) and specificity = (1 - false positive proba
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Right, and in my experience at least a lot of remote workers are not people who are hired for a remote job but a senior(ish) person who negotiated with their employer to transition to being full-time remote, even if the company doesn't
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by thinkharderdev 7y ago
They were losing ~$500m a year (and growing) doing one thing and doing it well.