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Excellent, well done. Looking forward to hearing a discussion about this on your podcast! Might you go chase some other startup ideas? Does this "validate" the career model of crea…

This is almost exactly how I think about it too - a good repeatable mental model is "infinite upside / near-zero downside". These massively asymmetric choices occur elsewhere in li…

The LinkedIn preview text made me laugh, thank you :)

> At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the best they'd ever heard. Ron Conway…

> The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rating system focuses on occupant safety, not the safety of other road users, and tax policies subsidize heavier vehicles. So…

Interesting! That article I linked had lingered in my memory for a while, so good to hear a response to it!

Unfortunately this very application, Gov.uk Notify, is currently being used by Councils to send emails to residents directing them to an outsourced company's website, https://www.h…

Did this app have anything to do with the huge QR codes which encoded far too much information? https://www.revk.uk/2020/09/how-not-to-qr-nhs-c19-app.html

Oh no, a really sad Far Side cartoon! Which is very closely related to a shaggy dog joke you can spin out for ages, "$5 talking dog for sale", which ends with the setup / punchline…

I highly recommend some of the best content on Youtube, Ed Pratt's series [0] where he unicycles around the world. [0] https://www.youtube.com/@EdPratt

> choosing to pick the negatives Yes of course there are positives. Don't worry, we have never let negative consequences hold back progress before. But the blind optimism is stagge…

Oof. If we defeat aging, we'll have to contend with: * unbounded population increase * wealth and power directly proportional to age * dictators and other bad people not dying Not …

> You mean freely as in for no compensation? I do. The BL is a national institution, and, like the NHS, would attract masses of free labour if they asked for it. There are voluntee…

Can anyone explain why this happens? Why would they pay ransomware hackers when they would obviously have backups. Sucks to have data compromised, but presumably it's not lost. And…

Burnout is a thing which should be taken more seriously by more people. Go on holiday. At least two months. The first week you'll think you're still at work. The second week you mi…

I hope to encourage those motivated by reading this to come to the next NHS Hack Day! https://nhshackday.com/

> missing the context of what's actually happening in the UK such as ULEZ making travel more expensive I'm more than 95% sure that you, a Hacker News commenter, do not have a non-c…

Why blame Vision Zero for the metrics getting worse? Unless you're aware of places where all its recommendations are implemented in full, and enforced?

This is such a poor use of numbers to prove a point. Any unsafe car - one - could potentially end multiple lives. Therefore, one unsafe car is unacceptable. Look up "Vision Zero". …

> one of the main issues with VanMoof’s bikes is that they are custom designed from the ground up The frame, certainly - it has integrated lights and I presume other electronics. I…

Very well done. It would be good if the video pop-overs were a bit larger by default (even double the size) as on my resolution screen they're pretty small. One of the videos was f…

In my experience they're useless because they're trained / limited to the FAQ and website you've already read to try to resolve your issue. The same with calling a helpline. Yes, I…

I wonder whether they'll continue using their in-house Phrabricator or choose to support Phorge ( https://we.phorge.it/ ) now that open-source Phabricator is no longer supported.

This interview with Cameron has more information than most I've seen, thanks for the link.

This is great, thanks. For anyone who might take a recommendation, the 1993 "Much Ado" is, indeed, excellent. It's a play filled with joie de vivre and the movie reflects that. Fea…