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lloydgrossman

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lloydgrossman··on Gambler’s Fallacy and the Regression to the Mean
Funner fact, many even have a green double zero as well to tip it even further.
lloydgrossman··on Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends?
>Taxes are robbery.

You're anti fire department?

lloydgrossman··on A record 4.5M workers quit their jobs in November
>Tell me why should technological change benefit workers?

Technological benefits make individual workers more productive, allowing them to be exploited for more profit. If you don't understand the economics or incentive of the situation, there's no reasoning you out of a box you didn't reason yourself into.

lloydgrossman··on Why Linux is now my primary OS going into 2022
> Why would I artificially limit myself, both for existing and future releases? > But unless you are willing to be limited in what you can play, a PC gamer will continue to pick Windows.

A lot more people are willing to be limited in what they can play. 10 years ago, it wasn't anywhere near 6/10 -- and in my case, all of the major titles I play (20k~ steam hours) except for one have worked perfectly fine on Arch; no longer a Windows user after 20+ years.

lloydgrossman··on I built a web app inspired by the 4 Disciplines of Execution for goal completion
im going to walk 365 pullups in 30 days
lloydgrossman··on Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
You didn't really give any legal perspective. Either Facebook owns the content and the liability as a publisher, or it's a platform and shouldn't fixing content towards what they want to show.
lloydgrossman··on Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution
those bits on the net will sure come in handy when it goes to trial in "global court".
lloydgrossman··on Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
>The blockchain data will never be "optimized" or "disappear" This is a really bold assumption - you do understand that core dev is still ongoing, yes?

You do understand that "infinite data on a disk" doesn't exist, yes? And as the chain goes on longer, more space is going to be needed, and centralization of the miners will continue to increase, yes?

Please take the time to learn how Bitcoin works before pontificating

lloydgrossman··on Satellite IoT dreams are crashing into reality
Last time I used NHS, it was free. Is everything free in the UK?
lloydgrossman··on Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
and there's the 3rd response: the enlightened centrist.
lloydgrossman··on Problems with relying on billionaires to save us
I'm glad someone here is thinking about the lives of the billionaires.
lloydgrossman··on Farm equipment security at DEF CON 29
> If you look between the lines you'll find that the "security industry" is largely in favour of corporate-authoritarianism.

If you're looking for some unreasonably secure device, obviously you have to bake an apple pie from scratch in order to ensure no steps in your supply line are tampered with. Current system has plenty of problems with which that's being used as a defense though, and the fact that those systems are so closed is what allows zerodium to exist in the first place.

lloydgrossman··on A lesser known mechanism for alcohol tolerance
I guess everything is a generality if you believe hard enough.
lloydgrossman··on Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity
50/50 shot that you aren't aware of the adverse effects it is having.
lloydgrossman··on Captain Kirk: Bezos' Blue Origin to Send William Shatner into Space
I'm not sure he's quite understood the economics of the 24th century.
lloydgrossman··on New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvaccinated workers
...? The vaccine isn't a panacea that eradicates the virus. Vaccine means your viral load is going to be lower than the alternative and less likely to spread. You can be vaccinated and still spread the virus, but getting the hogs to stop running around so we can try and achieve herd immunity for those that aren't able to get the vaccine is a pretty obvious goal.
lloydgrossman··on Android and iOS data collection
> There is almost no point in buying an ecosystem-dependant device and then trying to cut off the ecosystem dependency.

...the only alternative right now is throwing cash at a librem5 and there's still plenty of work until it's feasible for a linux phone as a daily driver.

lloydgrossman··on My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit
that's pretty non-sequitur to the situation at hand to the point of wondering why it's being mentioned.
lloydgrossman··on Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)
Made on mac and doom music. You're an incredible human
lloydgrossman··on Renting a car will be a pain until at least 2022
>So in your argument, even smart well intentioned people who disagree with these public policies are spreading misinformation? You are asserting that everybody who disagrees is wrong and harmful to society, correct?

Whereas you're asserting that it's impossible for smart people to spread disinformation?

lloydgrossman··on "Secret" Agent Exposes Azure Customers to Unauthorized Code Execution
> Now, it’s much more interesting when you take into account that Wiz was founded by the guys who sold a cyber security company

security people sell security company and create a security company. color me shocked.

lloydgrossman··on Ask HN: Where can you apply for a programming job when you are a Class A asshole
> So you'll end up with team players but with nobody who will actually get the job done.

There are plenty of developers that are capable of writing code and explaining how and why they've done it. Your difficulty communicating ideas doesn't directly translate to being a better developer.

>The better way is as the interviewer to do your homework and to engage on the level of the interviewee

I'm not sure you've ever reviewed resumes, but they pretty frequently absolutely suck, targeted or not targeted, or otherwise not accurately representing skills. It can go from completely clueless "buzzword bingo" to "obviously I'm skilled enough to not need to mention the silly stuff like TCP"

>Realize that your company is as much in the hot-seat as the candidate is.

...and for those companies that do understand that?

Where is the substance to this comment? What stance are you taking or solutions you proposing?