alexandercrohde

Right. I can't blame Israel, given America's track-record of weaponizing all vulnerabilities. I also can't blame America. Without secure computing nobody can know whom to trust.

Fascinating. I'd love to see a system like that in America.

It's inaccurate because the US is not testing people with symptoms who certainly would have been tested in other countries. South Korea has performed over 100,000 tests. NYC has performed ~ 35. […

From my perspective, if (whoever is in charge) was really in the business of providing accurate numbers, they would test a statistical sample of these 2,300 people to estimate what percentage of them …

Unfortunately garbage-in -> garbage-out. That chart shows US at 233 confirmed cases. According to NYT, over 10x that number are self-quarantined in NYC alone [1]. Now it's technically true tha…

Well good for you that your SPAs work every time, and you never broke production with kubernetes. Here's a cookie. Now for the rest of us who work with engineers across all skill ranges and exper…

I kind of suspect you may be the one lacking experience. I've worked at at least 8 different tech companies, mostly startups in SF or NY. The vast majority used overcomplicated technologies that …

> Articles like this one, and even more comments on HN and similar sites, generally suffer from a perspective bias, with people overestimating the frequency of their own particular circumstances an…

Non-article. Tl; dr: Some people think corona is going to spread a lot, others don't.

One established possibility is that corona won't be contained. With 2009 H1N1 outbreak it spread quickly, eventually to an estimated 11 to 21% of the global population. H1N1 turned out to be muc…

>> forbids the creation of commercial test kits and the importation of foreign ones I was wondering about this... Very hard to justify that in my opinion.

Except docker is written in go. Guess they never got the memo to not use go for non-webservices...

Yeah, it's tough. But I think there are answers if we get creative. I'd happily donate to a homeless person who was actively cleaning the street, for example. But for some reason people seem…

> All things that people who have houses are free to do without being punished. So yeah, anybody does care if you have a house, practically speaking. I don't think so. If I go to a restaurant …

I think this post is missing the distinction. People might say they hate "homeless," but I don't think anybody cares if you have a house. People care if you are unshowered, drunk/h…

Is this comment satire? >> I can feel the morning coffee and feigned interest PG admits he rereads some of his sentences up to 100 times in his revision process in the very piece you criticize.…

Observations. This is one of my longest tl; drs, particularly for a short essay. This to me signals high content ratio (low compressibility). As somebody who tried for years to get people online to pa…

tl; dr: 1. Sets the topic of "What is a good essay?" 2. Asserts that correctness is necessary, but not sufficient condition for a good essay. 3. Illustrates 2 by pointing out that by increas…

>> I'll say it again, it's a piece of writing that wouldn't warrant any attention if it weren't for the author's status here. This is probably true. If I was the person …

Agree. Also ironic how this is the top-voted comment on an essay that, itself, spends so much time talking about the inevitability of misrepresentation. I could write an essay on that myself.

This seems kinda baity to me, for a virus that kills 1/500 people aged 30-40 who catch it.

>> When engineers and other ICs read this article, they tend to assume that these ... mechanisms aren't happening because they don't personally see them I think you're missing the…

Pyramids are the perfect analogy to disprove your point. The pyramids were useless tombs that wealthy kings wanted because of religious beliefs. As an engineer, I have spent many months building featu…

Eh, if it applies to a wide-swath of companies then that's because a wide-swath of companies don't involve engineers in feature ownership.

I don't think the article is saying engineers need to have a meeting for each of these. I think you're entirely missing the point. It's simply saying that you measure before you build a…

It's not boolean. There's a lot of options -- salmon (I personally have salmon sushi at least twice a week), omega-3 supplements, a dozen other healthy foods.

That's a great way to look at it. Until people look at tech and see it as a good top tier career and finance as a fallback, we have progress to make.

That's my point. I know nothing. All I know is what intermediaries (whom I've never met) say. The Ecuadorian judge says the American judge is lying, the American judge says the Ecuadorian ju…

This discussion is simply an illustration of a larger problem -- namely that none of us know anything. We have documents alleging person X said Y, because of Z. Without any real first-hand knowledge, …