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by thu2111 6y ago
I don't see how the group links feature can work if that's 100% correct. You can't send someone a hyperlink to a phone. Unless these group links are some special protocol that does some sort of P2P link to the creator's
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by thu2111 6y ago
Is GitLab profitable? They seem to have $120M in 2019 revenue but I'm not sure how big they are. GitHub got big but then sold to MS. I'm not sure it was ever big in terms of profits. If the argument for investing in open source co
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by thu2111 6y ago
IntelliJ is open source. It was once proprietary but these days is "open core". The Ultimate edition is the open source version of IJ with more plugins. However the rebranded non-Java versions like Goland aren't open source
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by thu2111 6y ago
Snowflake is based on FoundationDB which was proprietary for years but is now open sourced, developed by Apple. So it's maybe more like open core than totally proprietary.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Why is that unique to insurance? Taking money for a service and then not providing is just normal fraud, it's unclear why you'd need insurance-specific regulations for that beyond ordinary contract law.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Well, their target market is very poor people, which is not normally a great segment to expect to be early adopters of expensive new technoogies. Also they're competing against Starlink, which is basically the same concept but in space
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think the issue is not specific to software or engineering. The best managers are those who are good at management and business and the thing their team is doing, in the sense that they have a team and a company because it'd be too
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by thu2111 6y ago
People care about the murder statistics because they don't want to get murdered. If you're trying to use them to measure the performance of the police force, that might make a small amount of difference, but for the way most peopl
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's pretty clearly not it. The UK for example has seen no spike in murders: https://www.statista.com/statistics/283093/homicides-in-the-... The most obvious explanation is also the simplest: American citie
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by thu2111 6y ago
What's the specific difference between Oracle and IBM/RedHat in this regard? As far as I can tell Oracle has burned a lot of people because they don't do license checks in their software (no DRM of any kind), which is usua
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by thu2111 6y ago
That particular "bias" isn't actually a bias, it's an accurate learning about the distribution of genders between jobs in the real world. Very few professions have an exactly 50:50 balance of men and women. Most are tilt
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by thu2111 6y ago
But is there something specific to Chinese culture that he argued made them more corrupt? Because it seems to me like basically all poor countries are corrupt, that they tend to get less corrupt as they get richer (or rather, they get ric
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think they're likely more of an authority because physicists have been studying radio, EM energy and its effects on the atomic level for more than a century. Meanwhile, epidemiologists are not biologists . Look at Neil Ferguson, one
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by thu2111 6y ago
There are a few problems with this argument though. It's technically correct, but: 1. All mobile protocols reduce signal strength to the lowest possible to reach the device. The field strength isn't some constant quantity. 5G is a
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by thu2111 6y ago
But we do have a lot of research into the effects of radio on biological cells, though. Is the assumption here that less power but higher frequency would somehow have effects on the body that have previously never been noticed and for which
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by thu2111 6y ago
You seem to think that, because he's not a physicist, that he has no idea what he's talking about. Yes, appeals to authority aren't much use in the present climate. So, that's why he needs to offer convincing evidence.
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by thu2111 6y ago
None of those points are convincing. Firstly, lack of retraction does not imply quality. I've read papers about COVID that were not merely wrong but deliberatively deceptive, and they haven't been retracted. Public health research
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by thu2111 6y ago
I see no real fight against it, so far, which is sad In fairness, Android was specifically created to be nothing but fight against it. First the pre-smartphone carriers acting as gateways (and they were absolutely happy to do what Apple
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by thu2111 6y ago
How about ... https://twitter.com/search?q=%23KillAllMen&src=typed_query
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by thu2111 6y ago
Until Google or a backbone provider BGP announce that they own your IP ranges. And then add your site to SafeBrowsing. And then your domain provider suspends your domain. Sure. HN has been kind of absurd to watch on this topic over the past
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by thu2111 6y ago
But the standards being promoted here, Twitter and Facebook itself would clearly fail at. None of them claim to have instant perfectly precise moderation and most of them got planet-scale when they had basically no company-driven moderation
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by thu2111 6y ago
What hard evidence? I don't actually trust the US government or its appointees to reasonably handle that particular theory because, like I said, it basically ate half the US political system and most of Washington culture to a far wild
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by thu2111 6y ago
QAnon is pretty weird, but the idea that Russia was secretly manipulating every aspect of American society was also pretty bizarre, I mean looking in from the outside across the pond in Europe. There wasn't really any evidence for eith
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by thu2111 6y ago
Don't give them any ideas. At some point people will notice that the same company that considers it reasonable to wipe out entire services because of the actions of a few of its users controls a global blacklist of websites that can&#x
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by thu2111 6y ago
"These people" intend to write that history, and ensure the pendulum never swings back against their favour. Consider how few communist governments were destroyed by counter-revolutions. That (almost?) never happens. Instead once
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by thu2111 6y ago
No. The replies don't address a single scientific point whatsoever, instead distracting with irrelevancies like attacking the English of the authors (which is plenty good enough), claiming the PCR test is "fine" when it'
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by thu2111 6y ago
That seems pretty typical for a paper published in Nature. I thought it was meant to be good but basically every paper to do with disease or biology I've read in Nature over the past 12 months has been like this: it looks superficially
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by thu2111 6y ago
You don't recall Parler doing that either, because they didn't. Now if you compare apples with apples, can you recall people using Google to research how to do bad things? Sure. Plenty of people who went to prison after police fou
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's not that easy. Adding cores is not just changing "const int CORE_COUNT" somewhere in a VHDL file. Scaling up cores without hitting communication or other bottlenecks is a difficult engineering problem that has taken a lo
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by thu2111 6y ago
Note that this is just one of the ideas implemented in Slashcode, which for all its faults was and still is probably the most sophisticated discussion forum software on the internet.

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