tallgiraffe (u/tallgiraffe)

tallgiraffe commented on LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator twitter.com/paulbiggar/st... · Posted by u/bqe

tallgiraffe · 5 years ago

Dude, you forget it is 2021 and facts don't matter. Outrage is up to 11, and nothing else matters.

Good for you. You got vaccinated, got a few people vaccinated, and the world is safer at large. Ignore the haters~!

tallgiraffe · 5 years ago

Got downvoted for this comment by a mob. How very on brand.

tallgiraffe commented on LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator twitter.com/paulbiggar/st... · Posted by u/bqe

dasickis · 5 years ago

Since most of these self-righteous comments below still have no idea what they're talking about. The site was for overflow of vaccines that were going unused & being thrown out. The Oakland Coliseum is one of these mega-sites. So many of you don't understand the on-the-ground realities of the communities you're speaking of where I live. I see my neighbors and when FEMA is running these sites they know their goals. It's not unethical to follow the guidelines and get jabbed. Also the line was most exclusively healthy adults coming in from all around California. Clearly I didn't invite 800 people myself from a deleted post on an internal forum.

Also on the Monday before the FEMA agents were telling me they had less people than vaccines, Tuesday they barely covered the people with vaccines, and Wednesday (when I got it) onwards they had slightly more demand when they asked people to tell their friends.

It's up to governments to enforce rules around their clinics instead of moral crusaders that live across the country with no on-the-ground experience to tweet an internal post to generate outrage.

Here are articles around why there was so few people getting vaccinated in our area and why FEMA requested us ask our friends to show up.

"COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy in the United States: A Rapid National Assessment " - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7778842/

"Addressing Justified Vaccine Hesitancy in the Black Community " - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009077/

tallgiraffe · 5 years ago

Dude, you forget it is 2021 and facts don't matter. Outrage is up to 11, and nothing else matters.

Good for you. You got vaccinated, got a few people vaccinated, and the world is safer at large. Ignore the haters~!

tallgiraffe commented on Clubhouse Payments joinclubhouse.com/introdu... · Posted by u/tosh

filoleg · 5 years ago

On another hand, it provides a strong incentive for Clubhouse to ban such bad actors asap without even a second thought, because Cluhbhouse doesn't make a single dime off them due to not taking a cut from payments.

No conflict of interest and no perverse incentives. Which is in stark contrast to some perverse incentives other popular platforms have, e.g., Twitter and FB being lenient on botting and fake profiles because it drives their usage metrics up (which is the main bread and butter of those two social networks).

tallgiraffe · 5 years ago

You can't really ban "them," because you cannot objectively and factually verify they are bad actors. Check out how many startup pitch groups there are on Clubhouse. Some of those folks are actual investors, and some are just social media publicity stunt gurus. But both can sound equally good. Snake oil salesmen are going make a killing on Clubhouse.

tallgiraffe commented on Clubhouse Payments joinclubhouse.com/introdu... · Posted by u/tosh

minimaxir · 5 years ago

This provides a very strong incentive for bad actors on Clubhouse to create rooms to ask for money under false/scammy pretenses, and Clubhouse has an unclear moderation policy for that.

tallgiraffe · 5 years ago

True, although it is not exclusive to Clubhouse. These actors are everywhere on the internet: newsletters, videos, tweets ... This just gives them an easy option to take money directly, instead of first funneling those funds through other products.

tallgiraffe commented on My 15 Years Striving for Search Engine Independence. AMA blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/t... · Posted by u/ColinHayhurst

tallgiraffe · 5 years ago

Could you help me understand two fundamental issues? (1) Why would I use Mojeek over Google and (2) how do you make money?

Key constraint: you cannot answer "because privacy" for #1, unless you can explain what that means.

Fundamentally, I don't understand why privacy matters.

Google finds stuff that I want , when I want it. How it does it doesn't concern me, as long as it can. It seems (based on using say Duck vs Google) that Google wins by a landslide in quality of search results.

Can you deliver better results with less tracking, and how would I know those are in fact better results?

And of course, if I am to trust all my search to you tool, how do I know you'd be around in 10 years?

Thanks!

tallgiraffe commented on Ask HN: Is startup PTSD real and possible? · Posted by u/howtowin

tallgiraffe · 5 years ago

"Most people who haven't experienced that kind of failure can't appreciate how much it hurts." - tld. Yeah, most people who are not in startups think you just got a bad quarter or launched an underwhelming project. They have no idea. Talking to other founders helps a lot though. You think you are alone, but then turns out your mind wasn't all that f--up at all, comparing to some others. Cheer up, you will eventually put it behind you, maybe.

tallgiraffe commented on Ask HN: How would you convince your friends and family to switch from WhatsApp? · Posted by u/millibar

giantg2 · 5 years ago

I'd just stop using it. I don't feel compelled to use something to be part of a group, but that's just me.

tallgiraffe · 5 years ago

Same. I just said I was no longer using WhatsApp. Sure, it puts the pressure on them to switch, and makes you the bad guy for a while, but it works.

I mean, they are not going to stop using it for other people, but at least your communication will be somewhat private. At least until WhatsApp finds a way to siphon data from other apps that is.

tallgiraffe commented on Why Learn Prolog in 2021? dstrohmaier.com/why-learn... · Posted by u/triska

tallgiraffe · 5 years ago

Prolog is a wonderful language to dabble into, if for nothing else but to learn how to think more logically.