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Yeah, progressive rollout would have dramatically reduced the impact, I think that should be mandatory for any of these systems.

My all-time favourite slashdot post, worth a re-read a long time later.

Moved to Signal from whatsapp, for me (and very happy to acknowledge others have different needs and likes) signal is way better than whatsapp. Yes, I've a modern smartphone but on…

Counterpoint - I'm completely happy with signal. The useability, contrary to some comments here, is wonderful. In particular I love the desktop app, it was easy to get family to us…

I watched a project where the starting idea was to make and IDE for lawyers, applying the many learnings from modern IDEs including autocompletion, structure the document like code…

“The principle of unrestricted linking between websites is fundamental to search and coupled with the unmanageable financial and operational risk if this version of the code were t…

Too late. When there is a mandatory requirement to share data with Facebook that is a hard no regardless of the details. I'd be happy to pay or get ads within reason, but to moneti…

Great advice. The goal I set myself is consistency of doing any exercise , this builds, eventually, habits and over time you can gradually increase the quality/amount/whatever. The…

I love this style of physics using simple clever experiments to get new insights into seemingly understood systems. To my delight the original paper appears not be be paywalled: ht…

Definitely. Get advice from a variety of people with different styles/backgrounds then process that to make your own decisions. Even the most amazing investor will give advice that…

From afar, it seems to me like the big problem in US policing is a lack of calm professionalism. The de-escalation approach in the article would to me but just one aspect of taking…

A 'failed' nuclear detonation known as a 'fizzle' can yield relatively small blast but still be very deadly due to radiation emitted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizzle_(nuclear_…

The Australian governments track record is bad and we should be critical of that. But I have yet to see important problems with this particular app identified. Lets stick with the …

Yes! My two top peeves with the majority of soft-science research are underpowered studies (and associated false conclusions) and a seemingly total neglect of effect size. The bina…

Ahhh - bad memories of humiliation and bullying. Took me 2 decades to realise I can actually love sport, sad to see that happening to the current generation.

And migrating is all cost no benefit. And the problems ipv6 was intended to solve have long since been addressed better by other means (eg NAT).

Actually, reading the article as a whole, I would say an even stronger conclusion is warranted - almost certainly bad science but we should keep investigating just in case.

It would be cool. But I've done similar measurements and this bears all the hallmarks of bad experiments. There are plenty of other ways the experiment might have gone wrong than t…

Thanks for the link - a nice review of 'a new kind of science'

So depressing this is the top comment. If as you say Jeremy didn't sign an agreement with vesting in it, did he get a share certificate or a written contract to issue shares? I dou…

If you'd like all those details and more its all online eg http://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Triat... which includes links to detailed analyses of the photo ti…

Counter-point from me. My triathlon club is almost entirely down to earth middle aged people looking for competition and/or challenging healthy activity. Not particularly well-heel…

Yes, this is YC acting more like an investor and less like a founder-supporter which may turn into an interesting trend. However, I don't think pro-rata or participation rights are…

Outside YC, chasing a 'yes' actively to turn it into a completed investment is even more important. Optimize for speed is closely related to optimize for outcome. One minor additio…

If you do something and get that 'doesn't seem like work' feeling - great! Like all the best heuristics it seems obvious once you say it clearly. My question, though, is about the …