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Comment · 2 months ago
Accidentally?
Comment · 2 months ago
Wondering why it's not renamed AI news, yet.
Comment · 3 months ago
Oh this one is so easy: nobody cares, especially investors.
Comment · 6 months ago
"What is not a question is that a criminal investigation is now open." Good. These companies deserve each and every stone thrown at them, and much more.
Comment · 8 months ago
And a little thought to Aaron. We still miss you.
Comment · 11 months ago
Instead of focusing on sabotaging his employees life outside work for the sake of "prototypes", he should focus on fixing bugs in his apps.
Comment · 1 year ago
1) Non-automated reporting (e.g., timesheets) 2) Incompetent sales team 3) CEO who doesn't understand the business
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, I can agree with you, did not think of that and it seems to be a perfectly valid motive.

Still, I wonder: who would fall in the "highly susceptible" category? Wouldn't these people need to be tested prior to actually knowing they should be tested? (what would push someone to be tested for susceptibility of birthing malformed children before being tested?)

Comment · 1 year ago
Okay. Let's assume your top priority is to test for genetic health issues, I will also assume that you either plan on reducing the risk of future complications or you are factoring this information into account when deciding to get children (otherwise, why would you want this information?).

In the first case (reducing risk factors), chances that you will at least check positive for one thing are almost 1 (certain) and you don't need a test to know that. In almost all cases, limiting the risk will involve a) eating well b) stopping alcohol / smoking c) regular physical activity d) taking some Aspirin for the remainder of your life. You don't need the test results to start doing this. Either you sincerely want to live longer and shouldn't wait for genetic screening to take your matters into your own hands, or you think that test results will suddenly turn you into a monk. News flash: won't happen.

In the second case (whether or not to procreate): any decision you make on the hypothesis that your children will inherit it and that science will not have solved it in the next 50 years will very likely be a bad reason to not have children (there are many good reasons to not have children, though, but having a rare genetic conditions is not a good reason).

The only people who should not have kids are bad parents and people who don't want kids. Guess what? These two groups that probably have the highest amount of kids on Earth.

Comment · 1 year ago
Why not start with your threat model? What are you actually worried about, then let us look into the options.
Comment · 1 year ago
The mental cost of going there is just too high. For the first time in twenty+ years, I won't be attending any of the regular conferences in the US this year. Funny note: we just hired two Americans (unrelated) back to back, they will be moving here with their family. Reason given: "had to go live somewhere else".
Comment · 1 year ago
Having a foreign and hostile both economic and military adversary fully controlling an app that is installed on 18 million smartphones in UK is a national security issue. Not cat videos. Too bad this concept has become too difficult to understand for most European "leaders" (and journalists...).
Comment · 2 years ago
Lesson 4: mediocrity has become the most effective path to fame in a modern (and mediocre) world.

What's next? An article that explains why the bill stacks up when you log all denied fw packets?

Comment · 2 years ago
Funny. As I started reading your comment, I reacted with a big "wow, Facebook would actually offer that option?"

Then I reached your "but it doesn't work".

Happy everything became normal again :)

Comment · 2 years ago
TLDR: serverless is interesting to whoever won't pull out an Excel spreadsheet and compare costs.

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