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New comment by petegrif in "Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer"

petegrif — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:31:01 +0000

How can we be confident that some of us on this forum are not trolls working to discredit the story?

We can't be.

New comment by petegrif in "Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer"

petegrif — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:27:13 +0000

You are absolutely correct. People make mistakes. Even very well trained professionals make mistakes. Incredibly experienced skydivers die. Industrial safety is tough despite well designed processes and constant training. Tradecraft slipups happen. etc etc The weak link is the human being.

New comment by petegrif in "How to interview a technical co-founder"

petegrif — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 20:37:43 +0000

Skipping over what others have pointed out - you don't interview a co-founder.

a) ensure this is someone you are going to get along with b) get someone else to assess their technical competence - you can't assess it and the guidelines you provide won't work reliably.

New comment by petegrif in "Galapagos finches caught in act of becoming new species"

petegrif — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:16:46 +0000

My sense of the available evidence of the behavior of social groups with blatantly mistaken beliefs is that many don't 'see the error of their ways.'

New comment by petegrif in "Polari: the dead language of gay British men"

petegrif — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:09:20 +0000

Kenneth Williams used it when a popular comic and nobody straight had the first idea of the gay subtext.

New comment by petegrif in "Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems (2015)"

petegrif — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:35:19 +0000

This sort of application is wildly out of bounds of the true scope of the theory. The relationship between physics (unified or otherwise) can't be resolved with reference to Godel's theorems.

New comment by petegrif in "Differences between San Francisco and London (2014)"

petegrif — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 06:20:37 +0000

Very true. London is an incredibly diverse international city. San Francisco is, by comparison, a village.

New comment by petegrif in "Differences between San Francisco and London (2014)"

petegrif — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 06:19:04 +0000

Generalizations are not equal to stereotypes.

New comment by petegrif in "Differences between San Francisco and London (2014)"

petegrif — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 06:18:12 +0000

There is a difference between generalizations, which may have value if shrewdly observed, and shallow stereotypical characterizations. This post was shallow. Pointing that out is every bit as value as snide remarks about Reddit and an equally snide uninformed reading of the piece. Perhaps more so.

New comment by petegrif in "Differences between San Francisco and London (2014)"

petegrif — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 06:15:24 +0000

I have lived in both for years. IMHO this is a shallow comparison indeed. Not to be relied upon.

New comment by petegrif in "How Much Should Expectation Drive Science?"

petegrif — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 20:12:34 +0000

This is a well understood phenomenon in the history of science. Nothing new here.

New comment by petegrif in "Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?"

petegrif — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:16:14 +0000

Introduce channels to reduce noise and focus content.

New comment by petegrif in "Affordable Care"

petegrif — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:08:09 +0000

The health system in the US is a total mess. Single payer is the only sane way to go. That too will be imperfect and ragged but it is provenly absurdly cheaper - practically all advanced industrial countries are single payer and all spend far less as a percentage of their GNP - as in half to a third - whilst covering everybody. The admin savings are staggering, the drug costs are lower etc etc.

New comment by petegrif in "No, Palantir. Your internships are not worth 5 months, 8 interviews,..."

petegrif — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:00:49 +0000

IMHO they have a process problem. To my certain knowledge they haven't followed up and asked why when very very talented people have gotten so sick of the recruitment process that they have opted out. But if you don't take the trouble to figure out what is putting off such candidates your HR is messed up. It's a huge fail.

New comment by petegrif in "The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)"

petegrif — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 02:35:17 +0000

What BS. This guy can't talk to a plumber and it's the fault of elite colleges? Pleeese!

New comment by petegrif in "Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away?"

petegrif — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:17:23 +0000

Sounds vulgar.

New comment by petegrif in "American Children Are Drowning in Self-Esteem"

petegrif — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:55:34 +0000

IMHO it's an issue.

New comment by petegrif in "A Meta-Analysis of Blood Glucose Effects on Human Decision Making (2015) [pdf]"

petegrif — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 23:07:29 +0000

The paper makes no mention of subjects in ketosis. Would have been interesting.

New comment by petegrif in "My best employee quit because I wouldn’t let her go to college graduation"

petegrif — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 08:30:25 +0000

If true, this boss is a staggering douchebag who deserves the toxic work environment he/she has been supporting.

New comment by petegrif in "Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (2014)"

petegrif — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 01:55:53 +0000

Srinivasa Ramanujan