Thriptic

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Ask HN: What resource do you recommend for learning to type properly?
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by Thriptic 5y ago
You are of course allowed to employ SOME obfuscation in research process, but you aren't allowed to shield your product and claims from scrutiny behind them. At the end of the day you have to validate that your product can do what you
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by Thriptic 5y ago
I can't speak about any specific company, but there are several VCs that specialize in life sciences and medicine and have people with the requisite expertise to evaluate claims on their team (or know the people to talk to in order to
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by Thriptic 5y ago
Similarly, if the company won't validate their tech in peer reviewed journals, they are full of shit. I strongly suspected fraud years before it was acknowledged because Theranos was citing "trade secrets" for why they couldn
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by Thriptic 6y ago
Preach. Boston is damn near overly hostile towards young people. They hyper regulate all activities and services that young people want to participate in or use as you point out, do nothing to reign in housing prices, and then are shocked w
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by Thriptic 6y ago
It's largely arguing that most of the cybercrime jobs basically are desk jobs. It principally says two things. First, that most jobs in cybercrime involve selling services to end users and whenever you sell services you not only have t
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by Thriptic 6y ago
Well, first I can almost guarantee that the surveillance tech being employed on a predator drone is substantially more advanced and wide ranging than a simple human operated video camera, but I also don't think it's a good idea to
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by Thriptic 6y ago
Under your logic, any time the government breaks a law and harms me, I am automatically entitled to disregard the law as well and retaliate. If government can't follow the law, why should the people? It's pretty easy to see why we
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by Thriptic 6y ago
The issue is there is no transparency about what is happening with the data that is being collected.
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by Thriptic 6y ago
Exactly this and I'm surprised that I had to scroll this far down to find this comment. Extract this scenario out into meat space. Imagine if a town was running a bulletin board where anyone could post town news and a citizen posted a
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I would argue that Google has an obligation to be transparent, they do not have an obligation to be neutral. As you state, they are a private entity and can do whatever they want. If news providers and other knowledge providers are allowed
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I always wondered what was going on when I saw localhost show up in the connections listing for a site in uMatrix, TIL.
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by Thriptic 6y ago
It's also possible to run a web browser in a docker container which can be interacted with on the host OS. This avoids the permissions issues with solutions like firejail: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-cont
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by Thriptic 6y ago
It doesn't seem like fraud when they are still delivering an actual pizza; that's basically just leveraging a sale. It becomes more dubious when they aren't delivering the finished good.
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I'm confused. Doordash is knowingly reselling an item for 75% off and someone bought many of the items. No one was defrauded; everyone in the transaction was paid what they wanted to charge, and everyone got what they paid for. What is
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by Thriptic 6y ago
A plausible plan for actually solving the root problem, namely a realistic strategy for mass testing, contact tracing, and non-voluntary quarantine; or a functional vaccine. Right now we have neither, so getting people back out simply puts
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by Thriptic 6y ago
Not unless they are going to send people home if they are positive or forcibly quarantine them and perform contact tracing and further testing. Thus far most western governments have strongly resisted enacting such measures. You can't
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by Thriptic 6y ago
They wait until a vaccine is available. That is obviously what they are shooting for using this tactic. It's actually very smart. You can try to achieve herd immunity if vaccination proves nearly impossible, but why not wait and see wh
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by Thriptic 6y ago
They presumably mean until coronavirus disappears or a vaccine appears and everyone is innoculated, so indefinitely.
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I agree with you and would add loss of high level mission. When it becomes unclear to people what the broader goal of the company is and how they fit into it, or if they are only rewarded for achieving a local goal (eg hitting some artifici
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by Thriptic 6y ago
Assuming that we remain bogged down by COVID for many more months / get a second spike of infections due to premature reopening, can we expect manufacturers to release new models and put dealers under additional new pressure to liquida
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I grow tired of the narrative that companies should have seen this coming and hoarded cash. Investors are never going to allow companies to sit on massive war chests of cash in perpetuity because ROI is then zero and that's not what in
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I would say performance is so contingent on wiring quality that it cannot be reasonably assured. I tried out a TPLink system that claimed to be able to deliver 300 mb/sec and only managed 10. The fundamental problem is that you tend to
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by Thriptic 6y ago
They look stuff up all the time. Most physicians try to stay on top of developments in their field by reading scientific journals. Most also have access to subscription services which will provide background and lay out current best practic
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by Thriptic 6y ago
The name for what you and the parent described is a review paper. I can't speak for Math or CS, but in life sciences the following techniques would work: 1. Search X and sort by citation count. High quality review papers get cited A LO
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by Thriptic 6y ago
Not a site per say but a big piece of infrastructure. Before there was Steam there was Sierra's website which hosted half life updates, and World Opponent Network, a matchmaking service from Sierra who eventually got acquired by Valve.
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I agree that people didn't really understand what they were getting into fully when they initially agitated for it, but it's definitely the case that there was broad initial public support which is what allowed the companies to ge
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by Thriptic 6y ago
Exactly. It's hard to have collective reform without there being a collective.
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by Thriptic 6y ago
Thing is, good regulation is extremely tough. A good regulator needs to deeply, deeply understand the industry, where it has been, where it is going, and what the problems are; they need to deeply understand the spirit of existing laws rath
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by Thriptic 6y ago
Key to their strategy was actually providing the public with something most people actually wanted, regardless of legality. Very few lawmakers want to aggressively go against public sentiment just because the law says they should.

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