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ecp9 commented on The Web We Have to Save   medium.com/matter/the-web... · Posted by u/theBashShell
ecp9 · 7 years ago
Everything on the web is converging to the same bland, middle of the distribution curve, unoffensive mean. Everyone has A/B tested to the exact same product, and it's a bad experience.

The technology industry has become more about marginalization, to the point of nonexistence, those who don't fit in the middle of the curve. Might as well not exist if you're outside the 90% intervals nowadays.

ecp9 commented on Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App   atrium.co/blog/founders-s... · Posted by u/jenthoven
vesak · 7 years ago
> I don't have time to research whether or not they are going to abuse my privacy or have some horrendous TOS.

Do you think that web apps are better in that regard?

ecp9 · 7 years ago
On the web I can install ublock origin, privacybadger, and a vpn. Even if you ignore the phone's personal data aspect that's a 99% improvement over mobile.
ecp9 commented on Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App   atrium.co/blog/founders-s... · Posted by u/jenthoven
ecp9 · 7 years ago
I don't even bother installing apps anymore, I don't have time to research whether or not they are going to abuse my privacy or have some horrendous TOS. I got my core 10 apps and haven't bought a new one in a year.

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ecp9 commented on CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets   twitter.com/GossiTheDog/s... · Posted by u/EamonnMR
drcross · 7 years ago
I don't think that's fair to say. Billions of people unlock their phone or log in to their computers every morning and everything works, pretty much all of the time.
ecp9 · 7 years ago
If you're a hipster in a major city near fiber, sure, it all works great. For the rest of us, no, daily failures are the reality.
ecp9 commented on The Elements of UI Engineering   overreacted.io/the-elemen... · Posted by u/danabramov
ecp9 · 7 years ago
The points are nice, it would be amazing if the 90% of the web wasn't dumpster fire of inconsistent slow and hard to use sites.
ecp9 commented on CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets   twitter.com/GossiTheDog/s... · Posted by u/EamonnMR
Someone1234 · 7 years ago
Makes you wonder how secure their backhaul really is?

If the whole thing is a single flat logical network (one that could allow bad packets to propagate as we witnessed) that would suggest it is also quite vulnerable to malicious actions.

It is all well and good applying a filter, but that seems like a bandaid fix. Why is equipment even able to talk that has no reason to do so? Seems like they've put convenience over good network governance.

ecp9 · 7 years ago
Much networking equipment is not designed to handle malicious or bizarre traffic. TCP/IP is amazingly brittle, and often fails on me in surprising ways that the standards say should never ever happen.
ecp9 commented on Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record   wsj.com/articles/teachers... · Posted by u/dpflan
jseliger · 7 years ago
I believe we see this article every time we have a strong economy. When the economy is strong, teaching is unappealing. When the economy is weak, many people cannot find other gigs and so flood into the relative security of teaching.

Teaching may also be less pleasant in the social media and smartphone age, for reasons enumerated in The Coddling of the American Mind (a highly recommended book). There may also be a gender dynamic at work; today, it would be hard for me to recommend that guys go into teaching: https://jakeseliger.com/2014/09/08/why-dont-more-men-go-into....

ecp9 · 7 years ago
This article is one of the most stupid things I've ever read, pretending there is some crisis of students seducing their poor, persecuted male teachers because of a reddit thread is not merely intellectually dishonest, it's just bizarre.
ecp9 commented on US Coast Guard won't see paychecks due to government shutdown   militarytimes.com/news/pe... · Posted by u/mariuolo
max76 · 7 years ago
The partial goverment shutdown is caused by the president's unwillingness to sign a bill as well as Congress's inability to pass a bill the president is willing to sign.

The defused blame sets the game matrix to a state where the delta value between the bill congress agrees on and the bill the president will sign is significantly larger than the defecting penalty any oneside side will suffer. Removing a paycheck from all actors won't provide a significant adjustment to the game matrix, because the reputation deduction portion of the the defector penalty is significantly more valuable than salary. Some actors actually see a reputation increase for fighting this fight.

While increasing the defector penalty is a good idea, reduction of salary doesn't increase it much.

ecp9 · 7 years ago
You're pretending people are rational automata who make decisions in their own self interest, which is rarely true in life. Very rarely true among political actors.

I hope we can stop treating politics as a silly statistics game theory simulation for every actor and decision, because two decades of thinking like that has clearly not worked out for us. New ways of thinking, including consequences for bad actors, are a way to move the needle forward a bit even if it's not Spock's ideal solution.

u/ecp9

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