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davros | 4 years ago | on: Signal is experiencing technical difficulties

Moved to Signal from whatsapp, for me (and very happy to acknowledge others have different needs and likes) signal is way better than whatsapp. Yes, I've a modern smartphone but one of my family group is on an iphone 6 is perfectly happy.

davros | 4 years ago | on: Signal is experiencing technical difficulties

Counterpoint - I'm completely happy with signal. The useability, contrary to some comments here, is wonderful. In particular I love the desktop app, it was easy to get family to use and does everything I need smoothly and with good privacy.

davros | 5 years ago | on: Templating for Lawyers

I watched a project where the starting idea was to make and IDE for lawyers, applying the many learnings from modern IDEs including autocompletion, structure the document like code, etc. The main challenge was to get lawyers to adopt and move away from MS word. It ended up applying that approach to tools and document management for lawyers: https://tryprose.com/home

davros | 5 years ago | on: The spat between Google and Australia, as reported on HN

“The principle of unrestricted linking between websites is fundamental to search and coupled with the unmanageable financial and operational risk if this version of the code were to become law, it would give us no real choice but to stop making Google Search available in Australia,” That's a big threat, but pretty risky if their bluff is called because I think that might reveal that other companies could fill the search need if google vacates the space.

edit: quote source https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/22/google-threate...

davros | 5 years ago | on: WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash

Too late. When there is a mandatory requirement to share data with Facebook that is a hard no regardless of the details. I'd be happy to pay or get ads within reason, but to monetize my privacy, no way.

My user experience on Signal has been excellent so far, family switched without difficulty.

davros | 5 years ago | on: 'Exercised' Explains Why It Can Be Hard to Commit to Working Out

Great advice. The goal I set myself is consistency of doing any exercise, this builds, eventually, habits and over time you can gradually increase the quality/amount/whatever.

There is a huge variation in people's physical capacity as well as 'motivation' - find out what works for your body by trying different things and finding out what you can do consistently. Consistency as a focus helps avoid a big limiter which is injury, which often comes from doing too much too soon. Be prepared that this process might take a long time.

davros | 5 years ago | on: Lessons for Early Stage Founders

Definitely. Get advice from a variety of people with different styles/backgrounds then process that to make your own decisions. Even the most amazing investor will give advice that is wrong for you at times. Great investors respect that.

My other additional advice for founders is get support from other entrepreneurs at a similar stage - that peer support is super helpful especially on bad days!

davros | 5 years ago | on: De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer

From afar, it seems to me like the big problem in US policing is a lack of calm professionalism. The de-escalation approach in the article would to me but just one aspect of taking a professional approach where safety and following rules and best practices is paramount (and prioritised over 'winning' against criminals).

davros | 5 years ago | on: Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government's contact tracing app

The Australian governments track record is bad and we should be critical of that. But I have yet to see important problems with this particular app identified. Lets stick with the facts here rather than 'it must be bad'. People have decompiled the kotlin code and so far I haven't seen anyone report anything bad. Am I missing something?

davros | 6 years ago | on: It's the Effect Size, Stupid: What effect size is and why it is important (2002)

Yes! My two top peeves with the majority of soft-science research are underpowered studies (and associated false conclusions) and a seemingly total neglect of effect size. The binary question 'is an intervention better?' is not the right question. To discuss any medical, social, policy, etc intervention you need to know how much benefit it delivers. This can then be assessed compared to costs and difficulties of the intervention.

Of course, effect size isn't enough either. You still need a good understanding of the range of outcomes, if there are significant fraction of participants who had poor/negative outcomes, etc. This can be hidden a bit inside a single metric like effect size.

davros | 8 years ago | on: IPv10

And migrating is all cost no benefit. And the problems ipv6 was intended to solve have long since been addressed better by other means (eg NAT).

davros | 9 years ago | on: Uncertain Propulsion Breakthroughs?

Actually, reading the article as a whole, I would say an even stronger conclusion is warranted - almost certainly bad science but we should keep investigating just in case.

davros | 9 years ago | on: Uncertain Propulsion Breakthroughs?

It would be cool. But I've done similar measurements and this bears all the hallmarks of bad experiments. There are plenty of other ways the experiment might have gone wrong than those mentioned in the article - one that leaps to mind is RF interference (if that doesn't sound plausible to you you've never worked with lab RF).

davros | 10 years ago | on: Cruise

So depressing this is the top comment. If as you say Jeremy didn't sign an agreement with vesting in it, did he get a share certificate or a written contract to issue shares? I doubt it. So the legal situation is entirely in cruise's favour. Ethically cruise should and did make Jeremy some fair offer. But he is making an opportunistic raid, rolling the dice on a huge potential profit using the GM deal as leverage. Do people here really think that Jeremy is simply claiming a fair outcome for his one month of involvement?
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