drtillberg (u/drtillberg)

drtillberg commented on Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power cjr.org/public_editor/was... · Posted by u/apsec112

axguscbklp · 5 years ago

Start acting more like investigators of truth rather than as promoters of ideology, start acting more like free thinkers and less like thought police, start speaking truth to power more and being in bed with power less, and maybe more people will trust you.

drtillberg · 5 years ago

That doesn't work. Now and always an independent investigator of truth will be a lone voice in a wilderness targeted by all warring dogmatic factions. Witness NYT seeking to draw HN to the fray with Saturday's piece about SSC.

drtillberg commented on SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president reuters.com/article/us-cy... · Posted by u/andrewinardeer

hoka · 5 years ago

yes, but also with 100+ years of engineering, for far fewer companies/nations, and with trillions (more?) thrown at the discipline. Software engineering is, what, 50 years old, tops?

drtillberg · 5 years ago

Unfortunately, sophisticated threat actors are still very hard to defend against in aviation like in software.

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drtillberg commented on Statement on New York Times Article astralcodexten.substack.c... · Posted by u/jger15

drtillberg · 5 years ago

Maybe the NYT is jealous that Scott is so obviously a better and more thoughtful writer?

drtillberg commented on IMF researchers: digital footprint yields better credit assessment blogs.imf.org/2020/12/17/... · Posted by u/da_big_ghey

hn_throwaway_99 · 5 years ago

I hope that regulatory agencies start cracking down on these "alternative sources" for credit-worthiness data. Researchers have shown how it's very easy to attribute things like political party, race, sexuality, etc., things that are often illegal to take into consideration when determining credit, to other things like where you live, TV shows you like, apps you have on your phone, etc.

And strangely (or not) this blog post from the IMF barely touches on the huge privacy concerns with this stuff.

drtillberg · 5 years ago

This. Slippery slope to denying credit based on a consumer's decision to avoid using Facebook or to search using DuckDuckGo.

drtillberg commented on Don't Believe the Hype About Hypersonic Missiles spectrum.ieee.org/tech-ta... · Posted by u/samizdis

alex_young · 5 years ago

Isn’t the real issue the Russian’s nuclear propelled version though? If we shoot it down it still leaves a huge fallout problem right?

drtillberg · 5 years ago

Eh, not sure how the word "Russian" ended up in that comment. It was an American design before it was a Russian one.[1] Plus, there was an added feature in some American plans I've read about (but can't immediately locate) of long-term loitering over adversarial territory and discharge of radioactive material.

What would it matter if it were hypersonic?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

unyttigfjelltol commented on UK banks given six months to prepare for negative interest rates theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/SpaceNinja

unyttigfjelltol · 5 years ago

If chartered banks charge for ... holding cash ... don't people next create a new industry of unchartered financial institutions to hold money without charging so much? Like, safe deposit? Or insurance?

This seems like an ivory tower exercise that has not yet met the messy realities of the world.

drtillberg commented on “WSB veterans know that they're making a suicide charge for the memes” old.reddit.com/r/AskReddi... · Posted by u/throwaway5752

drtillberg · 5 years ago

WSB is a game ppl lose simply by playing, IMO. When I read these stories I think of Jesse Livermore-- arguably the greatest trader of all times -- who went bankrupt 3 times on the way (including the end)[1]. The only way to win is not to play.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Lauriston_Livermore

drtillberg commented on I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms for a research study twitter.com/JimmyBernot/s... · Posted by u/zdw

drtillberg · 5 years ago

Strange the study might have used a placebo group of people infected with parasites. I guess they needed to test if their process actually was effective in generating hookworm infections?

drtillberg commented on Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews reddit.com/r/wallstreetbe... · Posted by u/JacKTrocinskI

rplnt · 5 years ago

I hate Google with passion, for the things they do, but this is what they did for every brigade-rating that I can remember. And it makes sense. It's not anyone reviewing the app, it's people mass 1-starring the app because they decided to do so as a hive-mind. It's essentially fake reviews and I wouldn't be surprised if it's automated.

Also, as far as I gather, people who wrote a human-like text review to go with their rating didn't get their review removed.

drtillberg · 5 years ago

So when does censorship of or manipulating user ratings make an app store responsible to its users for failing to prevent harm to them (or wasted time) from bad apps, mismanaged services, scams and frauds? Ppl see the 4 stars, download the app, wire RH a part of their nest egg, RH predictably fails to honor commitments in ways explained by the deleted app reviews, and RH damages app users. At what point is Google responsible for that mess? Never?

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