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New comment by hpoe in "New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers"

hpoe — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 15:54:40 +0000

As a slight point of contention one of the big differences between German data centers in the US vs in the rebellious state of west Taiwan, is that Germany is part of NATO so at the end of the day when all of the project management reports hit the fan German land and citizens are guaranteed protection by US guns, in the China case they are a foreign directly hostile power. So although many Euro countries might not love they way the US is data harvesting, and with good reason, and the US does have some human rights abuses ultimately US military might stands as a protection against other foreign powers. An apt analogy is, "you aren't allowed to pick on my little brother that's my job." type situation.

New comment by hpoe in "Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)"

hpoe — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 16:46:44 +0000

World war 2

New comment by hpoe in "Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)"

hpoe — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 16:10:18 +0000

So I've seen this a couple of times and to me it make sense, but it also seems such a perfect indictment of organizational culture that I could see it being fabricated for laughs. Can anyone vouch for the authenticity of this?

New comment by hpoe in "Don't use Digital Ocean (DO) for production"

hpoe — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 16:03:14 +0000

No but I am a single individual. If I was a company that produced widgets I would use FedEx or UPS rather than maintaining my own fleet of trucks, drivers, maintenance staff, etc.

New comment by hpoe in "20 Reasons America Is No Longer the Greatest Country in the World"

hpoe — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:40:39 +0000

John Locke was the architect with the PowerPoint the Founding Fathers put into code.

New comment by hpoe in "Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg"

hpoe — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:22:09 +0000

Under that system a young German scientist who wrote about the photovoltaic effect would be ignored and classified as non-reputable. Just saying being part of the institutions doesn't make on right it makes one prominent.

New comment by hpoe in "Don't use Digital Ocean (DO) for production"

hpoe — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:16:25 +0000

In the same way that Uber is just someone else's car.

New comment by hpoe in "CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University"

hpoe — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:13:29 +0000

Well I hope the bill for legal services is as well received by Teixeira as he claims the unknowing participants are receiving his "research"

New comment by hpoe in "Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows"

hpoe — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:51:21 +0000

Looks like I am too late to edit my comment but I will acknowledge I was wrong about that those indicators seem to be reasonable and I could see myself possibly being in support of something like that not in the SAT itself but as a factor in admissions.

New comment by hpoe in "Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows"

hpoe — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:40:42 +0000

I disagree with the experts part, after all under meritocracy Einstein is the greatest scientific mind of the 20th century however he wasn't even able to get a job in academia until after he produced ground breaking results.

New comment by hpoe in "Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors"

hpoe — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:47:11 +0000

If you get caught stealing $700,000 you've got a problem.

If you get caught stealing $700,000,000 the criminal justice system has a problem.

New comment by hpoe in "Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows"

hpoe — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:38:29 +0000

Ah yes the. We are going to modify your score based on the color of your skin. I think that is a good way of doing it. I am sure no one would lie about that just to get a few extra points on the SAT, besides treating people different based on their race is totally a good idea an never results in unintended consequences. I like the idea basically we are making sure each side is equal but slightly separate from each other.

New comment by hpoe in "Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows"

hpoe — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:33:01 +0000

The alternative is to make it completely subjective and based on the whims of the committee. I can't see that going wrong at all, like because there are no committee members who might be racist or sexist or have a bias against religious people or anything like that. No the college acceptance committee stands as paragons of virtues moral giants in this land of ethical pygmys they alone are incorruptible unswayable and perfectly and completely fair in all things.

So standardized merit based metrics serve only as a barrier to their ineffable judgement and pure deductions let it be them alone and their powerful "algorithm" that is too pure and holy for mortal eyes to sully with their gaze be the new standard by which we determine if a student can go to Harvard, for clearly this is the one true way forward and will never be manipulated by self serving or short sighted beauracrats to manipulate and politic in.

New comment by hpoe in "The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)"

hpoe — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 14:39:03 +0000

You sure you've been reading the same strip because the PHB and Dogbert have both been deliberately mean on multiple occasions.

EDIT: Also catbert whose whole character is about being cruel.

New comment by hpoe in "Covid-19: Runny nose, headache, and fatigue are commonest symptoms of omicron"

hpoe — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 14:21:33 +0000

Well I'd love a source on that but even if true the population of the IS during that time was only 103 million so %-wise that still is still only 1/3

Sauce: https://alltrendsonline.com/what-was-the-population-of-the-u...

New comment by hpoe in "Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?"

hpoe — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:56:14 +0000

I think this is a big one, there comes a certain point where the bureaucracy simply squeezes the ambition and desire out of you. I hit that at some points, I just didn't want to work anymore excelling at my job made no difference to me or anyone else because even if I stood out and did excellently it wouldn't matter because I had to go to other teams or get other approvals to actually acomplish something.

I found myself spending time on leetcode, or learning emacs because I could justify those as improving my abilities. To quote Office Space "I have 4 different bosses, my only motivation is to not get hassled, that and fear of losing my job. But you know what Bob, that gets someone to work just hard enough to not get fired."

New comment by hpoe in "What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?"

hpoe — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:49:24 +0000

When it gets to questions like these I feel that we transcend discussions of technology and end up on questions of philosiphy which aren't going to be going anywhere anytime quick.

I also feel that AI should be used to augment not replace human decision making, it seems that where AI shines is problems that are well defined with well defined solutions, and because the AI doesn't get tired, hungry or distracted it can do that really well, but it fails in novel situations[0]. As such it seems to me our best bet is to have the AI provide suggestions rather than have complete control.

0. What is meant by that is a read an article, can't find it now, about using AI to diagnose breast cancer, what they found is that about 90% of the time the AI could accurately check for breast cancer, but the other 10% of the time was an unusual mammogram or something relatively rare, and in those situations the AI would often misdiagnoise.

New comment by hpoe in "National Park Typeface (2019)"

hpoe — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 07:29:04 +0000

Took me several moments and a visit to the article to realize that this was not talking about a font that was somehow more efficient to be routed around network paths but was instead about a router tool and the bit on a router that makes impressions in wood.

New comment by hpoe in "Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study"

hpoe — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:55:23 +0000

Well I got COVID before the vaccine came out and am not in a high risk group, so I'm not really that worried about me.

But you say it is being a decent human being, but I am confused if we both agree the vaccine doesn't reduce infectivity then why would me getting it change anything for anyone else, since we know it doesn't protect others?

New comment by hpoe in "Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study"

hpoe — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:31:02 +0000

I've heard that but then why do people say we need to get vaccinated to protect the most vulnerable members of society if the vaccine isn't actually slowing the spread and doesn't prevent infection?

EDIT:

To be clear I already had COVID and didn't have any serious symptoms so the argument about a hospital bed doesn't necessarily apply to me. Beyond that I actually got vaccinated, my question centers around the disparity of treatment we are giving individuals who are vaxxed and those who are not if both are capable of spreading. Further it brings in the question of vaccine mandates if they are much less effective then we were led to believe.