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Yes, to be honest at this stage I'm not looking for feedback from people who won't invest a bit more time in it than you have as I'm sharing a lot of ideas in little space and they probably take a bit to digest depending on your expertises, but thanks for trying. I guess anything being exposed in that document is fair game, including the soundness of the ideas exposed (however limited their current exposure), their applicability, how to improve visual & textual communication are areas where I would more than welcome feedback.
We're talking about very large businesses. Risk analysts should have been anticipating a pandemic given the several near-misses (Ebola, SARS, MERS, H1N1, ...) that we've had recently. If you're a large business that risk is going to be significant enough to consider.

When I took family holiday insurance in early January, I had to check that pandemics were covered, and they were specifically mentioned. So I'd expect them to be a general part of risk analysis.

A pandemic that's covered by insurance is a massive risk for an insurance company, so it's always going to be a paragraph in business insurance, I'd expect. Which should raise the question, "as this can't be insured against, for us, what's our contingency".
My biggest one is that Apple seems to have let the privacy ship sail away in current versions of macOS: even with Siri, Location Services, iCloud, FaceTime, iMessage, App Analytics/reporting, Software Updates, ntp, and the App Store, all disabled, the thing still phones back home to Apple like mad. Little Snitch (with the disablement of built in Apple service whitelisting rules) is essential for basic operation of a private/secure blank macOS install (which is sad and frustrating after spending most of $6000 on a laptop).

I will probably remain on Apple hardware as long as their boot security can be disabled to boot other OSes (and Linux hackers continue to put in the work to support their weird T2-mediated NVMe flash) simply due to build quality, but should they go too far off the “can still boot and use normal, open source, auditable crypto software” track I’ll be forced to switch to something of lower quality like something from Purism.
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I feel bad for anyone who disagrees with this. Their bias prevents them from seeing the world as it truly exists.
This is just fear mongering. Life will return to normal. Lots of people swore they'd never fly after 9/11 and yet things did recover.
> His memo included a section which stated that women are biologically inferior to men.

Just reread his memo and couldn't find this. Where did he say this?
There's a weird mix of regulation and Youtube action that mean no-one (parents, youtubers, regulators) are happy with the current result.

We want to protect children from predatory data harvesting, so we have laws like COPPA (in the US). YouTube's answer to COPPA was to just forbid children under 13 having their own account and launching Youtube Kids.

Children under 13 want to watch youtube, and the content they want isn't always on YTKids, so they watch using a parent's account. They do this because they also want the like and subscribe buttons. But because YT doesn't know if it's a child or adult watching they serve ads for horror films or gambling or alcohol. But they also try to guess if it's a child watching the video and they'll serve ads for toys.

Regulators were unhappy.

Youtube tried to say to the regulators "we comply with coppa and we definitely do not target children for ads", but they were going to the potential advertisers and saying "we have the largest child audience and we know how you can reach them".

Faced with further regulation Youtube bunted this onto the creators, and (weirdly, IMO) the regulators agreed and said that the creators (not Youtube) were responsible for ads placed against their content.

Now you have content that is clearly, unambiguously, aimed at children where the Youtuber has to say the word "fuck" three times a video so they can tick the "not for kids" box to get decent ad revenue. There's a bunch of content that was fine for kids that now has to include tediously edgy shit just to avoid that "aimed at kids" classification. Youtube has no idea who is watching videos so the ad serving is awful. The regulators don't talk to each other but are clearly unhappy that unsuitable ads are pushed at kids.

And parents are left not knowing if this content aimed at children actually is aimed at children or if it's going to include jokes about anal rape[1].

[1] On the off-chance that anyone from YouTube is reading this this is a real fucking example, but there's no way to tell you.
"You mean consequences for your behavior?"

Outrage mobs are by definition 'consequences for some behavior'.

But the implication that someone should be vilified globally for having an earnest and not entirely unreasonable intellectual opinion makes his responders an 'outrage mob'.

Damore had no malice, ill will, his opinion was made ostensibly for some positive will, among a relatively private group.

If he was beating his wife, then there'd be a legit consequence for his behavior right? And some outrage would be justified.

But that's obviously not the case.

The response is the most 'outrage mob imaginable', with people still 'outraging' themselves on HN years later.
Just say it's your <instance name> channel instead of saying it's your Peertube channel. You don't necessarily need to explain what Peertube is each time.

Also, searching for your account on any Peertube instance should work fine.
So pointing out a mathematical fact about the hiring practices of your company is wrong? Google decided to implement the policy that minorities who almost passed the bar(but didn't) get special treatment.
It is a touchy subject, so I would not talk about her actions "you do X, please stop". At all.

Maybe say that you met her son, he is a nice kid, you have some experience teaching kids and would like to help him get through the class Y. What does she think?

One step at a time, and start with a small one. My 2c.
My sister, sister in law, and elderly parent all want new laptops this year. They are somewhat tech literate but not that interested in tech or computers. They asked me for advice on what to purchase and the only thing they cared about was which apple product was cheapest but still fast enough to use the programs they needed. Other platforms never even entered into the conversation.
This is how free speech dies. I despise Trump and the right, but the outrage mob and the left is just as bad (and probably more effective) with their ability to destroy peoples' livelihoods for expressing any opinion or questioning the left's dogma.
In order to do what you’re suggesting you have to jailbreak a device, which I mentioned in my comment and is discussed in many blog posts such as [0], which links to others.

Without a jailbreak, which isn’t a sure thing and even if available is not nearly as feasible as sideloading, it in fact is an impossible mystery to decrypt an iOS app store build to inspect it.

[0]: https://ivrodriguez.com/reverse-engineer-ios-apps-ios-11-edi...
Wow, this would change how animation is done completely! If there existed an easy way to create animated character cartoons. It would launch a thousand southpark/rick and morty type of shows. A team with 10k can launch a show.
Similar experience here. About 6 months ago I inherited a team of 30 that had spent 4 years building some monstrous microservice "thing" that didn't work and never seemed to build reliably and barely worked even if it could be deployed. Lots and lots of late nights trying to "deploy to testing" and wasted weekends restarting things.

I stopped the work, broke the team up (and let a few of them go), re-assigned the goals of the project to 3 people who, working half-time, from scratch, and in Python, rebuilt the entire thing in 3 months, delivered it and it worked (and continues to work). "Builds" are now an scp to a VM, and a restart of a flask application.

My wife recalls a similar experience where a complex application she worked on (and ran reliably on very little infrastructure and with an entire team of 4), and serviced thousands of simultaneous users, was replaced (when a new CTO came in) by a giant, consultant driven Java project that required approximately 6x the infrastructure, 3x the staff to keep it going, and at launch could only serve 9 to 12 users at once. It was a debacle. But sunk cost fallacy forced her company to throw millions of dollars of consultants at it until it achieved some minimal level of barely available service. She and her boss left around that time.

She heard that a couple years later the CTO was let go, the consultants fired and it was all replaced by a team of 5 rewriting it all again from scratch (in Java) but like you also without all the architecture barf dropped in from orbit, and immediately went back to servicing the thousands of users again.

I'm convinced that this is the fault of some kind of consultant industry that seems to infest enterprise software circles that is really only good at inventing ways of designing systems that require more of their services, but never seem to actually deliver working systems.
I have the same sentiment, but I think using other appropriately-named providers has the same effect. Nobody bats an eye when you say @fastmail.com or @mailbox.org for example.
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It’s essentially base64 and some misdirection.

I ran into something similar on a tool a client uses that we needed to patch. Took maybe a couple of hours to write a reliable automated deobfuscator (ie we get new versions and run two scripts to deobfuscate and then apply our patches)

I’ve spent much more time fixing their broken (and copy-pasted-everywhere) code than I ever did deobfuscating it.
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Im only posting the memo at hand. I know I didn't read it initially.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
The president of the United States has claimed the virus was a hoax, that people might cure themselves by injecting disinfectant, and I've forgotten what else. How does that fit in?
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> and it happens in the Democratic Party too, maybe not in as obvious or extreme a way

Democrats is just as extreme. You have the science part of Democrats who vote for them since Republicans largely rejects science for religious reasons (see evolution etc). Then you have the identity politics part of the Democrats. I am 100% certain that a majority of software engineers doesn't agree with the identity politics parts of the Democrats platform, yet they still vote Democrats since they at least doesn't have the religious fanatics on their side which are even worse.

In countries where you can vote right wing without voting for science denial software engineers tend to vote right wing since it gets them lower taxes. Left wing parties are mostly for people with less money.
> I'm at least passingly familiar with all those things (except JWS), but I still can't connect the dots. What do Git refs have to do with websockets?

It is my intimate belief that they compose well to build powerful platforms. If they had a lot to do with each other I'd probably use one or the other.

> What does "Think and share components over entire apps" even mean?

I'd suggest finding legos and a friend and learning of ways to compose scenes together. Not trying to infantilize you and sorry if I sound condescending, but I think it's the experience closest to what I'm trying to achieve that many can relate to.

> This reads a little bit like someone got high, had some major epiphanies, and is trying to communicate them with the world with a lot of hand-waving.

Thanks? Hopefully my hands can slowly calm down.

> Hopefully there's some good ideas under there, they need much more refining and distilling before announcing them in this fashion though.

I don't think "sharing a link on HN" requires much anything, but thanks for sharing your opinion. It helps me to see the elements take place in some context to iterate on them, this is early work.
> I did a google search for "games shipped in 2008" (to be charitable and check the oldest games)

In 2008, I was playing (typical example among others) Warcraft 3, which shipped in 2004 (and FWIW supports LAN play, without any server at all, as the third item on the main menu). I suspect this may explain some of your confusion (ie, at any given point in time, most software in use shipped before that point in time). No comment on the object-level argument though; I don't like online play in the first place.
That’s not how the REA works. It provides loans to rural electric cooperatives at reasonable interest rates.
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> but isn't their trademark to speak openly regardless of what their opponents would label them as?

That's not clear to me, no. To be frank it's not clear to me the 'IDW' categorization has much worth at all if it includes people as diametrically opposed as fervent zionists and antisemitic neonazis. It's a very loose categorization at best.
It would be cool privacy-wise to have some sort of virtual webcam that could share such an animation rather than what the webcam actually sees.
Feedback is insulting to English as a Second Language speaker, calls it a landing page when the first lines explicitly describe it as not (and answer some of your questions), and spent a lot of time pouring unactionable vitriol. I won't grade it as we're not in school. Maybe consider this is me cobbling together my message rather than building a finished product and we'll be on better footing. Thanks anyway!
When this is all said and done... I'd really like to get a bottle of two of antiseptic topical solutions. https://newschannel9.com/news/local/chattanooga-whiskey-part... -- there's just something about the bottle as a memento.

https://www.distilledspirits.org/distillers-responding-to-co... for the list of all of them.
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well there are some who do believe "biological differences" between the sexes IS the reason for disparities in workforce representation. to them these are the "facts" and people who disagree are those ones politicizing facts and ignoring "truth"
In addition to other comments about the car seat actually being used on the flight:

Checking (at bag drop) a car seat risks invisibly compromising the protection it affords. Gate checking is likely better.
Damore's action was explicitly political. Its whole point was that Google was just too darned left, and foolish for being so.

One can't reasonably try to reach a large audience with something intentionally upsetting and then be surprised that those people are in fact upset. Freedom of speech cannot mean freedom from other people's speech.
> I believe that gmail won email not because of security and good user experience. I think they won because it removed the complexity of this problem.

I can’t agree with that because Gmail was far from the first to provide this. Growing up all my friends and I had Hotmail addresses.

Gmail won because of unlimited storage and to a lesser extent a far superior UI. The invitation system also gave it a “cool” factor others never had.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean that it makes sense to, or that it's idiomatic to do it. The use case of bringing in a single 3rd party React component into an Angular app is far into edge case territory. Realistically, you would never consider doing it unless there was absolutely no Angular-only alternative in any way, shape or form.

FWIW, it _is_ also possible to render Angular code inside of React [1] (but again, this falls well into non-idiomatic territory for both Angular and React)

Idiomatically, React is the only thing dealing w/ DOM in an app, and the way it's used is rather frameworky ("don't call us, we'll call you"). And when it's used that way - which is the vast majority of the time - the used idioms do vary heavily depending on when the code was written.

Tying this back to what I mentioned about postgres: _within_ a React codebase, you need to be aware of the _semantics_ of the system: performance is achieved through reasoning about the semantics of things like shouldComponentUpdate/memo and even object identity, one needs to understand the semantics of stale closures and useCallback, etc. This is similar to having to understand the semantics of how various ORM idioms translate to underlying SQL queries. By comparison, the cost of any given jQuery idiom tends to correlate more directly with the underlying semantics, just as the cost of a raw SQL query does - i.e. it's pretty obvious without context how expensive `$('html').html(html)` is, just as it's more obvious what is the performance profile of a CTE vs a subquery, in comparison to whatever the high-level ORM idiom is (assuming, of course, that you know SQL)

[1] https://medium.com/@balramchavan/integrate-import-angular-v6...
The memo was undoubtedly political; it claimed that Google has an inherent left-leaning bias and that this blinds it to the facts.
> Damore might have been granted some more understanding if he had presented his memo to some scientists. Even then, there would have been a high probability that he would have been told to hush-hush or be asked to leave.

FYI, here are responses to Damore's memo from a few different scientists with relevant expertise: https://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists...
Since all of GCP is available with an API, I'm surprised there aren't third party dashboards. I'd happily pay a percent or two of my bill for an intuitive dashboard at a glance. Especially one that kinda fills the gap between monitoring, alerting, debugging, and manipulating resources.
I feel bad for anyone who believes that their political opinions just happen to represent "the world as it truly exists".
This is super interesting but hurting my brain.
A person in 3D can see 3D, 2D and 1D. But a person in 2D can only see 1D.
How can a person living in 2D world see 2D things like Circles.
Your last line invalidates everything you just said.

The point is not whether he is deemed unpopular or takes a risk....the idea is that the ability to have that conversation should be honored. It is a debate and if there is an argument to be made, let it be made.

If the majority disagree that is their right but respecting the fact someone has a differing opinion is the point.

"Great minds think alike....lesser minds seldom differ".

Let's take your statement and apply it to something else. Are you indicating the early women of the #MeToo movement got what they deserved for speaking up about the disgusting acts committed against them in the early days? The ones whose careers were destroyed?

This cuts both ways and what we are looking for is balance.
> BTW, as someone else mentioned, this really should be a "Show HN."

Sorry for missing the etiquette, I'll know better next time.

> - IMO, the big problem with social networks is how they spread misinformation. I personally believe that the "credibility" problem is more important than trying to build a decentralized Facebook.

Certainly food for thoughts I've already had but haven't centered on. I do think they're something around cryptographic identities and chains of trust that X509 was trying to achieve for telcos and E-mail that we can beat for the modern web.

Many thanks for the encouraging feedback.
There’s a post by Paul Graham about haters. It says that haters are just the type of a fan in reverse.

It doesn’t mean that being a fan is any better than being a hater.

Fans are the ones who become an army of lobbyists for someone who is flawed and will never change thanks to this army of yes-(wo)men.
Have people forgot that hotspots still exist? T-Mobile still allows it.

One phone can serve multiple nearby devices.
The repeated false claims about statements in the memo and abbreviated versions shared don't count as character assassination?
Are you a lawyer by chance? In California, infliction of emotional distress in a jury trial requires things that are plausible in this case. See CACI No. 1600, especially the OR section of #2 [1]. I am very skeptical that such a case would actually be dismissed rather than go to trial. I was a juror on a trial with similar grounds a few years ago. Perhaps you've seen something in the handling of such cases that I haven't.

[1] https://www.justia.com/trials-litigation/docs/caci/1600/1600...
You can only mask outrageous things as humor if they are so utterly outrageous as to be virtually unthinkable. If they become only slightly plausible, they become no longer funny. Therefore, if jokes about murder are no longer funny, it’s because people no longer believe that murder is as likely to be unthinkable as it used to be.

This is why I think that masking outrageous things as humor is a losing strategy. Either it is funny, in which case the thing being masked with humor is so outrageous as to be completely niche, making the secret signal irrelevant, since so few people recieve it. Or, the thing is such a relatively common stance to make it no longer absolutely unthinkable, which makes it no longer funny, which removes the mask.

(Also, how do “white supremacists” fit into this? The original joke was about murdering an ex-girlfriend. This might possibly be generalized into misogyny, but I fail to see the connection to white supremacy. Please don’t fall into thinking that all people who hold opinions which you don’t like also hold all other opinions which you don’t like.)
Ahh, that's not what I was going for. I'm actually just curious. I'm willing to give emacs a try, but it just seems like it has kind of a steep learning curve, so want some strong reasons to know if it's worthwhile. This was the best I could find googling: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8h1cxa/any_long_time...
Only 2.5x? I'm surprised they aren't seeing much more than that.
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Cholecalciferol is used in over the counter supplements, not calcitriol (which is the active vitamin D form).

There also is a negative feedback for the conversion, that explain why there are so few acute vitamin D poisoning.
The thing is, they were all right. Everyone does have differences. They just weren't right about the consequences of those differences.

If you look at how we hire women today, it's clear that your quote accurately describes current reality. Men and women are attracted and hired differently today. If you disagree with this, you are choosing to ignore the biases every human possesses.
It's perfectly fine to misrepresent what he said - consider that about 50% of the commenters in this entire thread so just that with no repercussions.
I'm not sure how that makes him any more qualified on the topic of diversity issues at Google
I still do not understand why anyone is confused he got fired. He
negatively affected both the company's brand and productivity. He simply wasn't important/useful enough to keep around in light of that.

Want more rights then work in a union. Otherwise, don't forget you're employed _at will_.
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What percentage of people publicly criticizing the memo and attacking Damore do you think actually read it in full?

Worth noting the first couple outlets (Vice, Gizmodo) did not post the full memo when they dropped the story.
100% somehow labelling is always the last thing I tweak. Thanks, I've been thinking platform and slowly turning to initial "product(s)", so it's good to be reminded of the essentials. That being said if you're waiting for a landing page it's gonna take a while. The point of RDV is that every "rendezvous" is one so I don't really need mine.