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Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by saagarjha »

shroompasta wrote: post #440
saagarjha wrote: post #427

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> We’ve actually implemented our core chat view natively because lists don’t perform well for many dynamic rows.

That was their initial problem. Upon further reading, you will find that they found a solution in dealing with Lists with React Native. My initial comment had the answer - they brought in a component that visualizes lists from their web platform, and it worked seamlessly in React Native. So no, while they initially implemented their core chat view natively, they are using full blown react native as of right now.

No, they aren’t. I would know, as I have a debugger attached to the process right now.

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by chalst »

native_samples wrote: post #439
chalst wrote: post #432

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> Substack is great because at least there are some voices out there getting heard. Alex Berenson and Glen Greenwald among the best. I've mixed feelings about Greenwald, but he is smart and occasionally makes good observations. What good things can be said about Alex Berenson, who The Atlantic memorably called The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man [1]? He seems to depend on basic scientific illiteracy in his readers. Where Gre…

Berenson responds to that laughable description all the time. He loves nothing more than to call himself that when he gets proven right - again - often at the expense of writers in the Atlantic; I'd guess a quarter of his posts consist of "ha ha" type responses where he juxtaposes a tweet he made early in the pandemic alongside a government announcement or newly released scientific paper saying the same thing. https:…

I don't read his blog.

Neither of the two links you provide to his blog take any of the claims from the Atlantic piece and refute it. He mocks the title of the Atlantic piece but does not respond to its content. As far as I can see, it's bluster, pure rhetoric

Do you have any instances of Berenson actually attempting to refute specific claims made in the Atlantic piece?

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by gadders »

chalst wrote: post #435
gadders wrote: post #337

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Voting machines are bad. Their use makes it easier to commit fraud. However, those claiming fraud in the 2020 elections claimed "absolute proof" of fraud (Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy's, words) when they were demonstrably bluffing. It is both the case that voting machines can be compromised and that we know the most well-advertised claims of election fraud in the 2020 election are themselves fraudulent. https://blo…

>> However, those claiming fraud in the 2020 elections claimed "absolute proof" of fraud (Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy's, words)

And the other side claimed absolute proof of no fraud?

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by shroompasta »

saagarjha wrote: post #441
shroompasta wrote: post #440

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was their initial problem. Upon further reading, you will find that they found a solution in dealing with Lists with React Native. My initial comment had the answer - they brought in a component that visualizes lists from their web platform, and it worked seamlessly in React Native. So no, while they initially implemented their core chat view natively, they are using full blown react native as of right now.

No, they aren’t. I would know, as I have a debugger attached to the process right now.

>The result was a new component we called . The team intends to merge these together for cross-platform use and open source it for the community. With that we removed a lot of memory allocations and were down another 70-90ms of render time. We could now scroll the channel members list as fast as we wanted and it kept up admirably.

https://gist.github.com/vishnevskiy/f4ba74adf5cf1d269b860fab...

This is FastList Code. it's 100% javascript, and only imports are lodash, react, and react-native

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by chalst »

gadders wrote: post #443
chalst wrote: post #435

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Voting machines are bad. Their use makes it easier to commit fraud. However, those claiming fraud in the 2020 elections claimed "absolute proof" of fraud (Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy's, words) when they were demonstrably bluffing. It is both the case that voting machines can be compromised and that we know the most well-advertised claims of election fraud in the 2020 election are themselves fraudulent. https://blo…

>> However, those claiming fraud in the 2020 elections claimed "absolute proof" of fraud (Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy's, words) And the other side claimed absolute proof of no fraud?

If you're talking about experts in voting systems, no they didn't. Trump's CISA appointee to oversee election security, Chris Krebs, claimed the election was highly secure, which in a sense it was, because Trump had long been advertising concerns about the election which stimulated election security efforts. But in security you can never be completely sure the attacker doesn't have some trick you haven't thought of, so nobody competent claimed absolute proof of no fraud.

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by Talanes »

native_samples wrote: post #438
Talanes wrote: post #437

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You have to actually prove someone is an extremist beyond Communist Party membership. This isn't the 80's, the accepted argument isn't that one proceeds from the other anymore. It's rare that the same organization retains extremist character for generations, I'd expect modern extreme leftists to found new organizations, not join stodgy old Communist Parties.

This is ridiculous. It's like saying membership of a Nazi party wouldn't imply extremism. Of course being a card-carrying communist is an extreme position. Communists around the world have repeatedly established horrific dictatorships that murdered their own people in vast numbers, usually accompanied with mass manipulation of the population through propaganda. If a behavioural psychologist of all people thinks that'…

Believe whatever you want, but that's just not where the shared cultural assumption is anymore. It carries the same weight to someone born after the fall of the USSR as asserting someone must be royalty because of their purple jacket.

Convincing people requires that you work forward from the assumptions they hold toward your views. I'm not sure what asserting that other people actually do hold your assumptions when they keep telling you they don't accomplishes.

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by native_samples »

Talanes wrote: post #446
native_samples wrote: post #438

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is ridiculous. It's like saying membership of a Nazi party wouldn't imply extremism. Of course being a card-carrying communist is an extreme position. Communists around the world have repeatedly established horrific dictatorships that murdered their own people in vast numbers, usually accompanied with mass manipulation of the population through propaganda. If a behavioural psychologist of all people thinks that'…

Believe whatever you want, but that's just not where the shared cultural assumption is anymore. It carries the same weight to someone born after the fall of the USSR as asserting someone must be royalty because of their purple jacket. Convincing people requires that you work forward from the assumptions they hold toward your views. I'm not sure what asserting that other people actually do hold your assumptions when t…

You're asserting that the "shared cultural assumptions" have changed, and I'm asserting:

1. No they haven't. Lots of people found Michie's associations unacceptable and astonishing.

2. Anyone who does think that communism is not any longer an extreme position, is simply not well informed. Communism itself hasn't changed. Go look at the state of Xinjiang to see this. It's supposedly full of concentration camps.

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by native_samples »

chalst wrote: post #442
native_samples wrote: post #439

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Berenson responds to that laughable description all the time. He loves nothing more than to call himself that when he gets proven right - again - often at the expense of writers in the Atlantic; I'd guess a quarter of his posts consist of "ha ha" type responses where he juxtaposes a tweet he made early in the pandemic alongside a government announcement or newly released scientific paper saying the same thing. https:…

I don't read his blog. Neither of the two links you provide to his blog take any of the claims from the Atlantic piece and refute it. He mocks the title of the Atlantic piece but does not respond to its content. As far as I can see, it's bluster, pure rhetoric Do you have any instances of Berenson actually attempting to refute specific claims made in the Atlantic piece?

If you don't read his blog then you probably shouldn't make claims about what he does or doesn't say in it, nor about the scientific literacy of his readers (much higher than average - they will happily peer review studies he posts and highlight in the comments when he's misinterpreted them or when the study is bad). So sure, he has responded to the Atlantic directly, many times.

The Atlantic on why Berenson was wrong: "[he is] arguing that cloth and surgical masks can’t protect against the coronavirus (yes, they can)."

The last three words are links to junk studies or articles of the sort that suddenly became fashionable after April 2020, after many years of studies saying there was no such evidence. But Berenson was and is correct. Mask mandates don't stop transmission or protect against COVID and this has been proven over and over again. Here's Berenson responding to this point by refuting it with another study, but this one is actually high powered and has a reasonable methodology (it isn't a dumb modelling study or lab experiment):

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/school-mask-mandates-use...

"On Laura Ingraham’s show, he downplayed the vaccines, suggesting that Israel’s experience proved they were considerably less effective than initially claimed"

They were claimed to be 95% effective at stopping infection after two doses. Nobody has believed this for a long time, not even governments, which is why Israel is now up to 4 doses and it still isn't working. This claim was a correct reading of Israel's data.

Now, Berenson shoots from the hip. He likes to treat Substack as if it's Twitter and sometimes publishes stuff that turns out to be wrong. But he doesn't have to be right 100% of the time or even 50% of the time to beat the media outlets criticizing him. The Atlantic should especially pipe down because it's probably the Pandemic's Wrongest Publication:

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-atlantic-oh-my/comme...

They've served up some great headlines in recent times. October: "Four measures that are helping Germany beat COVID" (Germany is currently one of the most restrictive countries in Europe). December: "We know enough about Omicron to know we're in trouble" followed by in February: "Open everything: the time to end the pandemic is now".

Anyone reading Berenson has been consistently about 6-12 months ahead of the "mainstream" journalism curve. Anyone reading the Atlantic would have been exposed to a whiplashing of overwrought nonsense that bears no reality to what actually happened.

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by Talanes »

native_samples wrote: post #447
Talanes wrote: post #446

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Believe whatever you want, but that's just not where the shared cultural assumption is anymore. It carries the same weight to someone born after the fall of the USSR as asserting someone must be royalty because of their purple jacket. Convincing people requires that you work forward from the assumptions they hold toward your views. I'm not sure what asserting that other people actually do hold your assumptions when t…

You're asserting that the "shared cultural assumptions" have changed, and I'm asserting: 1. No they haven't. Lots of people found Michie's associations unacceptable and astonishing. 2. Anyone who does think that communism is not any longer an extreme position, is simply not well informed. Communism itself hasn't changed. Go look at the state of Xinjiang to see this. It's supposedly full of concentration camps.

>1. No they haven't. Lots of people found Michie's associations unacceptable and astonishing.

Okay, and if you continue to communicate the way you are, those are the only people who will be interested in your ideas. You have to play the same game as your audience if you want to win.

Re: We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA

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Post by jeffmich »

Greetings and Salutations:

I am looking for an overlay on your code to enable respondents (think contributors) to find each other within multiple threads , by their pseudonym / "handle" , or pen name if you will , including a by date listing of any contributor , such that search for a contributor will produce all of his / her remarks which I call contributions.

Is anyone there now, to whom I may speak ? time is important.

Your platform and business model superb. That said, if newsletter members do not have to search multiple threads , to find an historical contribution, sub-nets may be formed , to reduce time and increase focus.

My name is Jeffrey Sweet.

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