throwwwaway's comments

throwwwaway | 2 years ago | on: Yishan Wong: "Google's Gemini issue is not about woke/DEI"

Here's a definition that should be acceptable to both sides.

Wokeness is the belief in three axioms: 1. Disparity is undesirable 2. Disparity is caused by discrimination 3. Applying different discrimination will reduce disparity

Those on the "for" side will agree with these axioms. Those on the "against" side will disagree with these axioms.

throwwwaway | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it possible to cut Russia off the internet?

Is it possible to punish everyone in group X because of the bad behaviour of some people in group X? That's called guilt by association.

throwwwaway | 5 years ago | on: Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world

This non-american finds it amusing that the only two categories of people in Portland are liberals and white supremacists.

throwwwaway | 5 years ago | on: UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs [resolved]

Trying to gain trust against something you have no control over is the very definition of security theatre.

throwwwaway | 5 years ago | on: UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs [resolved]

> I only wish these services did 1 thing differently - and that is, release a live video stream of their server farm's rack

This is security theatre. Anyone wanting to surreptitiously access the server farm only has to stream an alternate video to defeat this.

throwwwaway | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks?

If you develop software, Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" is an excellent journeyman level book.

throwwwaway | 5 years ago | on: Workman Keyboard Layout (2010)

I second this. I had to stop programming full time due to right pinky strain. Programmer dvorak let me resume full time keyboard use with no pain.

throwwwaway | 5 years ago | on: How much do we need the police?

Once one side starts speculating on things like this, the other side starts speculating on things like what was an intoxicated man doing in the driver's seat on a car.

It's not helpful to the issue, which is that he was murdered by police, and that something needs to change to prevent something similar from happening again.

throwwwaway | 5 years ago | on: Mapping Police Violence

It doesn't make sense to compare absolute number of deaths across different cities. You need to normalise against number of police interactions with the public (approximated by population size * crime rate).