badconvincer
Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time
on Sunday December 13, 2020 @04:40PM (#25410574)
Pfizer’s phase 1 was a 100% white according to a commentor above.
Re:Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen'...
on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:59PM (#25400098)
At some point, even though all of this is subjective, it’s common sense and we can go back and forth on this endlessly but it’s wholly apparent that false conspiracies that threaten the stability of the best society the world has seen should not be encouraged. So most of us, and the people in power make that decision especially given that the company is private and they can do what they want.
Re:Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen'...
on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:32AM (#25399351)
Nonsense. Targeted censorship has the exact effect of taking the steam out of nonsensical conspiracy theories because you stop the spread of incorrect ideas.
Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved
on Saturday December 12, 2020 @10:17AM (#25398707)
But biased police judgement doesn’t...
Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved
on Saturday December 12, 2020 @10:16AM (#25398695)
Yes. The police have had a long history of chalking up death in impoverished black neighborhoods to “gang violence” and closing investigations. Topically, Chapelle had a famous stand up bit about it.
Re:The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved
on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:19PM (#25395486)
Fights were more common, bullying was rampant but people seemed lighter and happier like nothing was pent up. Probably just rose colored glasses though.
Re:Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run ...
on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:01PM (#25392771)
It’s not enough to exist. You actually have to perform at least comparably, which DDG doesn’t unfortunately.
Re:Adobe has released the last Flash update ever
on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:09PM (#25377184)
I was an Adobe Flex developer years ago. There still isn’t a similar replacement right? Last I checked when I was still developing you had to do insane things with CSS for even the most basic animations. Is there something better now?
Re:Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investi...
on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:16PM (#25369632)
Not more than some totalitarian surveillance law.
Re:Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investi...
on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:59PM (#25369514)
Yeah whack a mole is the way to go. The alternative is total surveillance which is completely unacceptable no matter how bad the crime.
Re:Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investi...
on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:59PM (#25363818)
I hate this. I feel like segments of the population that dislike porn will use this as a wedge to demonize the entire experience over time. There is nothing wrong with taking down illegal content as it’s reported especially if the parent company is highly receptive to doing so which pornhub almost certainly is.
Re:An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft
on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:55PM (#25363741)
I feel like a gatekeeper provided experience will have a moderating influence that will bring people back to a shared narrative over time. Possibly a very long time.
Re:An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft
on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:35PM (#25362120)
I don’t know. I’m feeling the need for large gatekeepers especially in the media space. I have lost faith in the public’s ability to make reasoned decisions for themselves.
Re:Show HN: Over 2M cooking recipes ready for text generation
on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:32PM (#25361147)
>disgusting
I’ll be the judge of that. Recipe please :)
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:35AM (#25359576)
“Virtue signaling”
Being a good person? No one needs to tell you anything again, you got it right the first time.
Re:Evolution of my role as a founder CTO
on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:31PM (#25350173)
~60 people overall. Around $15 million in annual net revenue. 12 people in the technology department.
Re:Etsy was a twee culture punchline, now it’s a Wall Street darling
on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:22PM (#25350062)
You had me till the end. Now I feel dirty. Fetishization of the virgin, are we at the behavioral sink already? I hate it, makes me want to convert to Islam.
Re:Evolution of my role as a founder CTO
on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:48PM (#25348767)
Well a big reason I took the CTO promotion at my company was because I wanted to get out of programming and overhaul our stack and overly expensive implementation (which we were hugely successful at, dropping costs by more than 60%). Is a CTO required to code?
Re:Evolution of my role as a founder CTO
on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:38PM (#25348619)
I was a CTO for a little more than two years. When I joined we had 3 people as direct reports which grew to around 12 when I left. Besides hiring people, all I felt like I was doing was product manager work with talking to clients about their requirements and putting those into stories, tasks etc. Additionally I would pull together discussions on the evolution of our stack and handle the finances around the cloud implementations of our technology (on Azure). What else does a CTO do? I deeply disliked it because I was working for 14 hours a day most of which was dead time but communication was frequent enough that I couldn’t do anything else.
Re:Xenu, Leader of the Galactic Federation
on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:33PM (#25348542)
This isn’t good science fiction. I was at least hoping all of this was based on good, well thought out science fiction. Why even define the ships as being like DC-8s? There was absolutely no need to date something like that.
Re:Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zealand report...
on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:21AM (#25346316)
No comparison for a variety of reasons least of which being that a lot of this propaganda reaches a lot of the older folks as well.
Re:Christchurch shooter was radicalized on YouTube, New Zealand report...
on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:12AM (#25346188)
Why would it be mental health? It’s a idealistic terrorist plain and simple. The very fact that you would suggest mental health issues is deeply disturbing.
Re:Peter Thiel Says Covid Marks 21st Century’s True Start
on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:34PM (#25336147)
I agree, I’m all for separating a person from his work but in Peter Thiel’s case they are so intertwined it does not make sense to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Re:Peter Thiel Says Covid Marks 21st Century’s True Start
on Monday December 07, 2020 @02:32PM (#25336110)
I doubt anyone is going to talk about covid too much past 2022, based on the efficacy of the vaccine trials.
Re:WMF Board considering the removal of Jimmy Wales' trustee position
on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:17PM (#25335115)
Chick-fil-a, Elon Musk inc. immediately come to mind. Just keep it in private hands, the grubby profit minded masses don’t belong in some enterprises, non-profit or not.
Re:The Death of Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Beh...
on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:59AM (#25332697)
Yes, it’s a fleeting rush. I’ve probably done nitrous 5-6 times over a couple of decades but I can see the allure.
Re:How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant
on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:28AM (#25332387)
I would love to get into the porn business, how do I go about this? To clarify, not as a performer or cameraman but I’m not sure what other roles are available.
Re:WW1 trench fever identified in former homeless man in Canada
on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:23AM (#25332348)
If I remember correctly the government pays you to house the tenants. But yes, they trash the premises and speaking to someone that does this, the only way the margins work is if you do all the fixes yourself.
Re:WW1 trench fever identified in former homeless man in Canada
on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:18AM (#25332301)
Please keep cheap political gimmicks off this site.
Re:WMF Board considering the removal of Jimmy Wales' trustee position
on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:16AM (#25332273)
I like Wikipedia as it is now. I presume Jimmy is responsible for this. I feel it’s going to be 5 years before Wikipedia is plastered in ads with selective editing rights going to paid sponsors if he’s gone.