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Agreed. ProtoBufs slows code iteration velocity tremendously. Saving 100 milliseconds on page load while reducing developer efficiency by 30% = a net worse product for end users.

By your logic an unqualified person could attain the CEO job. The CEO is picked by the shareholders to maximize shareholder value. The top boss is extremely well vetted to make sure they make good decisions to protect shareholders' money. The CEO's #1 job is to hire & fire managers that let him keep his job by increasing sales. And so on down the chain.

How could people at the bottom be more "accountable for customer disgruntlement"? They have less skin in the game than people up the hierarchy.

The higher up the hierarchy, the more accountable they are to the customer. If management doesn't increase sales by providing an offering at a competitive price, sales will slump and someone will get fired. This is the opposite of union shops where the manager to employee ratio is much higher because nobody gets fired for being a burden on the customer's wallet.

"No longer can management kick the can down the road on things that many of us wanted to directly address."

so you choose to prioritize your desires over customer needs? what if end users preferred to keep their cash instead of pay for your code refactor of a feature nobody uses?

My bet is HN will downvote this post because HN fights hard to "conserve" against alternate viewpoints such as those of the author

Bitcoin is the real stable coin. Everything else is fluctuating in price discovery until hyperbitcoinization completes.

Can you expand on "Lightning seems like a joke compared to the types of efforts happening on Ethereum" ? I was just in El Salvador and Lightning was a faster and more convenient experience than credit cards...

Coffee increases heart rate. Heart failure is a leading cause of death and caffeine could be a contributor at scale.

Hubble was funded in the 1970s with a proposed launch in 1983, but the project was beset by technical delays, budget problems, and the 1986 Challenger disaster. It was finally launched by Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990, but its main mirror had been ground incorrectly, resulting in spherical aberration that compromised the telescope's capabilities. The optics were corrected to their intended quality by a servicing mission in 1993.

Meh.

When doing a home remodel and the contractor breaks something they either return the money or fix it. Blame the CDC for not vetting the work and enforcing contracts.

The last time the US government made something to be proud of was 50 years ago with the Apollo program. Counter examples welcome!

Can you be more creative than having one single entity make the decision for every single person? How about we leverage multiple brains from many walks of life come up with ideas, you know, like in this forum

What do you trust then? Asset inflation is -25% YTD

https://sneezemap.com Crowdsourced COVID-19 symptoms map

React Native seems to be quickly becoming the standard for fast development coupled with native integration

Your thoughts on this @dang?

This is the first honest explanation I've received - thank you. SneezeMap has had hundreds of upvotes on reddit, been praised by industry leaders like Balaji Srinivasan, received free sponsorship from Facebook, and been approached by 2 Y-Combinator companies for parternship opportunities. In my experience it takes a few tries to get relevant content to enter forum discussion.

I built https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOlszNi4zODU5MTI3NzI4.... - a crowdsourced Covid-19 symptoms tracker & forecasting system with over 15000 participants. 100% anonymous from day 1.

Thanks for the feedback. While there are likely be a few people behind VPNs and people who misreport symptoms, statistically they are insignificant. For location, you would expect multiple reports in a central hub's location - there are not. Why is there is an extremely high correlation with the CDC confirmed cases map, which is available by hitting the right arrow on the legend?

I built https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOlszNi4zODU5MTI3NzI4... - a crowdsourced Covid-19 symptoms tracker & forecasting system with over 15000 participants. 100% anonymous from day 1.

Have a look at SneezeMap.com - a crowdsourced Covid-19 symptoms map with more than 15000 volunteers and growing. I am the dev & happy to answer questions.

It's likely more people will die from economic hardship than the virus

Here's the links that didn't turn out in the description:

https://SneezeMap.com/

US: https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOlszOC41ODI1MjYxNTkz...

Europe: https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOls0Ny42NjUzODczNTYz...

I built Sneezemaps.com to correlate symptoms & confirmed cases

US: https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOls0MC4yNzk1MjU2Njg4...

Europe: https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOls0Ny42NjUzODczNTYz...

It’s not just for hospitals. Regular people practice social distancing with up to date infection data. See South Korea’s data transparency. Exponential growth means 10x change from one day to the next, making live reporting crucial for saving lives.

How about updating it when the data comes in? How about calling all hospitals? How about setting up a website for doctors to log in to? It is life-or-death data, isn't it?

Awesome!

Show me another website that is this incompetent when lives are on the line

I built https://sneezemap.com to help track local infection levels

[Edit] US cities screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/Vzm9wN5

thanks! very helpful feedback