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Yeah, progressive rollout would have dramatically reduced the impact, I think that should be mandatory for any of these systems.

My all-time favourite slashdot post, worth a re-read a long time later.

Moved to Signal from whatsapp, for me (and very happy to acknowledge others have different needs and likes) signal is way better than whatsapp. Yes, I've a modern smartphone but one of my family group is on an iphone 6 is perfectly happy.

Counterpoint - I'm completely happy with signal. The useability, contrary to some comments here, is wonderful. In particular I love the desktop app, it was easy to get family to use and does everything I need smoothly and with good privacy.

Too late. When there is a mandatory requirement to share data with Facebook that is a hard no regardless of the details. I'd be happy to pay or get ads within reason, but to monetize my privacy, no way.

My user experience on Signal has been excellent so far, family switched without difficulty.

Great advice. The goal I set myself is consistency of doing any exercise, this builds, eventually, habits and over time you can gradually increase the quality/amount/whatever.

There is a huge variation in people's physical capacity as well as 'motivation' - find out what works for your body by trying different things and finding out what you can do consistently. Consistency as a focus helps avoid a big limiter which is injury, which often comes from doing too much too soon. Be prepared that this process might take a long time.

Definitely. Get advice from a variety of people with different styles/backgrounds then process that to make your own decisions. Even the most amazing investor will give advice that is wrong for you at times. Great investors respect that.

My other additional advice for founders is get support from other entrepreneurs at a similar stage - that peer support is super helpful especially on bad days!

From afar, it seems to me like the big problem in US policing is a lack of calm professionalism. The de-escalation approach in the article would to me but just one aspect of taking a professional approach where safety and following rules and best practices is paramount (and prioritised over 'winning' against criminals).

The Australian governments track record is bad and we should be critical of that. But I have yet to see important problems with this particular app identified. Lets stick with the facts here rather than 'it must be bad'. People have decompiled the kotlin code and so far I haven't seen anyone report anything bad. Am I missing something?

Yes! My two top peeves with the majority of soft-science research are underpowered studies (and associated false conclusions) and a seemingly total neglect of effect size. The binary question 'is an intervention better?' is not the right question. To discuss any medical, social, policy, etc intervention you need to know how much benefit it delivers. This can then be assessed compared to costs and difficulties of the intervention.

Of course, effect size isn't enough either. You still need a good understanding of the range of outcomes, if there are significant fraction of participants who had poor/negative outcomes, etc. This can be hidden a bit inside a single metric like effect size.

Ahhh - bad memories of humiliation and bullying. Took me 2 decades to realise I can actually love sport, sad to see that happening to the current generation.