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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 one of my family group is on an iphone 6 is perfectly happy.

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 use and does everything I need smoothly and with good privacy.

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, etc. The main challenge was to get lawyers to adopt and move away from MS word. It ended up applying that approach to tools and document management for lawyers: https://tryprose.com/home

“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 to become law, it would give us no real choice but to stop making Google Search available in Australia,” That's a big threat, but pretty risky if their bluff is called because I think that might reveal that other companies could fill the search need if google vacates the space.

edit: quote source https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/22/google-threate...

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 monetize my privacy, no way.

My user experience on Signal has been excellent so far, family switched without difficulty.

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.

There is a huge variation in people's physical capacity as well as 'motivation' - find out what works for your body by trying different things and finding out what you can do consistently. Consistency as a focus helps avoid a big limiter which is injury, which often comes from doing too much too soon. Be prepared that this process might take a long time.

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: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.194... now I just need to find time to read it.

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 is wrong for you at times. Great investors respect that.

My other additional advice for founders is get support from other entrepreneurs at a similar stage - that peer support is super helpful especially on bad days!

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 professional approach where safety and following rules and best practices is paramount (and prioritised over 'winning' against criminals).

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_explosion)

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 facts here rather than 'it must be bad'. People have decompiled the kotlin code and so far I haven't seen anyone report anything bad. Am I missing something?

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 binary question 'is an intervention better?' is not the right question. To discuss any medical, social, policy, etc intervention you need to know how much benefit it delivers. This can then be assessed compared to costs and difficulties of the intervention.

Of course, effect size isn't enough either. You still need a good understanding of the range of outcomes, if there are significant fraction of participants who had poor/negative outcomes, etc. This can be hidden a bit inside a single metric like effect size.

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 those mentioned in the article - one that leaps to mind is RF interference (if that doesn't sound plausible to you you've never worked with lab RF).

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 doubt it. So the legal situation is entirely in cruise's favour. Ethically cruise should and did make Jeremy some fair offer. But he is making an opportunistic raid, rolling the dice on a huge potential profit using the GM deal as leverage. Do people here really think that Jeremy is simply claiming a fair outcome for his one month of involvement?

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 times and splits (which I find convincing).

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-heeled (and those who are don't advertise it).

For those down-thread wondering if this is a witch-hunt, I've followed it in detail and if you know the sport the evidence of cheating is very clear. She has been singled out in the sense there are other cheats out there (I've seen it myself) but her high profile fairly reflects the callibre of events she's won (ITU long course).

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 problematic as they encourage follow-on investment which is usually desirable. The downside to rights like this is a minor increase in the complexity of completing investment rounds.

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 addition to the chart - if investor asks for a longer timeframe, respect that - and chase other investors!

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 case where something does feel like work - does this imply you should not pursue it? Or are there cases where sticking with it and over time you find the vocation? For example I hated people management at first, but its a huge component of the 'doesn't seem like work' vocation I'm following now. Are there signals to look for that would indicate there is the prospect for this transition?

The article says 'hence the best solution to fix this temporaily is to disable 2FA on Google via texts or phone calls, and enable Google Authenticator based 2FA, if you think your telco may be vulnerable.' I suppose you would also need to remove any 'backup' ohone numbers or the attacker could request a 2F code to them?

One solution would be that if you click any part of the url and you get fully editable text so you can change the domain or any part of the path.

This is an interesting variation on the sidecar concept. It makes sense to look for ways to leverage the efforts of skilled angel/pre-seed investors.

These high-skill investors often add significant value through mentoring, introductions, and so on. Anything that encourages that and gives them more ability to do that is a very good thing in my view.

Interesting idea. I prefer to work with people in my local area, is there a way to filter on that? I'm thinking of ways to foster more cooperation in the local startup scene and a sub-set of something like this might be an interesting option. Just a thought.

Whoah there - that's a huge leap from investors finding out that the entrepreneur is lying to them to the investors colluding on price. One is fine, the other is not.