Eridrus

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by Eridrus 6y ago
It should be, and we should push for it to be. For anu given level of spending, we can either spend it well or poorly, and we should push politicians and agencies to ensure it gets spent well.
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by Eridrus 6y ago
> There is an alternative model that many artists are pushing for which is a the "user centric' distribution model. In that model the calculation of payments is based on the listening habits of each individual user. A simplifie
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by Eridrus 6y ago
None. Spotify doesn't use any of the platform mechanisms for monetization that take fractions of revenue. This is why you have to sign up on the web for Spotify.
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by Eridrus 6y ago
I feel like you should take Spotify's audited financial statements about how much they make and how much they return to rights holders (~75% of revenue) more seriously than your back of the envelope estimates: https://invest
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by Eridrus 6y ago
So I wanted to try put this into perspective since "a penny per stream" is intentionally meant to sound insignificant. This seems like it would roughly double Spotify's costs: https://www.republicworld.com/tec
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by Eridrus 6y ago
Sure, to a point. But the right costs and trade-offs aren't the same if you're protecting your spotify account vs millions of dollars in cash.
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by Eridrus 6y ago
But what is an appropriate level of liability here? Phone companies never signed up to be the guardians of our digital lives, and the tech industry at large has just built a castle on shakey foundations. And there are obvious trade-offs her
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by Eridrus 6y ago
Yeah, the firing of Timnit Gebru strongly reminded me of the Michael Lynn saga: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/cisco_harasse... I think the analogy breaks down a little since hackers were
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by Eridrus 6y ago
Fulfilling/prestigious jobs will also generally get paid less because people will take extra pay cuts to have them.
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by Eridrus 6y ago
There is a difference between needing a car (i.e. I cannot live without it) and public transport being so good that you do not want one and the density being too great to support cars. My experience living in the Lower Haight a few years ba
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by Eridrus 6y ago
I basically agree that cities of a certain density are too dense for cars, but SF isn't really there. Though I would love for SF to remove the zoning thay causes it to be this way. I think it's also worth considering that self-dri
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by Eridrus 6y ago
It's both true and not. It's certainly a lot harder to fire people than at a startup. You need multiple review cycles with poor ratings, a Performance Improvement Plan, more review cycles of bad ratings, etc. But most people don&#
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by Eridrus 6y ago
This reminds me of what a coworker of mine said who moved from working on software for medicine to consumer tech, that the gains in medicine were so hard won and so niche he felt like he was having a much greater impact making our bit of co
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by Eridrus 6y ago
How close do you think the user has to be to the DC? It seems like you're dismissing the hardware sharing out of hand. From my perspective, I probably average 8 hours of gaming a month, so there is plenty of opportunity to pack my usag
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by Eridrus 6y ago
It's a lot cheaper. You can imagine the cost getting down to basically the cost of the controller if users already have a streaming device (eg Chromecast) capable of running the streaming client. Putting aside Cyberpunk's overall
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by Eridrus 6y ago
This seems a bit weird to me. You're accumulating statistics in an order dependent way without updating the parameters. You're also doing k updates of the statistics with noisier estimates of the gradient. I'm not really a st
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by Eridrus 6y ago
Poverty metrics were improving.
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by Eridrus 6y ago
We live in an imperfect world with many constraints and trade-offs. Why did you have to emigrate, while others were already born into lucky countries? Why are some people denied the right to emigrate? Life is various shades of unfair and we
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by Eridrus 6y ago
Not to say the general approach is bad, but I think the cost side is overplayed. It depends a lot on what the cost/structure of your existing response is, and critically, whether you can actually realize any savings after the shift. Bo
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by Eridrus 6y ago
I see where you're coming from, but given the (usual) flexibility and generality of neural neys, it's often very tempting to assume that you can just keep adding data, and I think these are good reminders that being able to do com
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by Eridrus 6y ago
And to be clear, this largely makes sense: humans are not good at preventing long tail failures that require constant vigilance and are not responsive to unlikely punishments, no matter how severe. The thing we have to do is improve the sys
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by Eridrus 6y ago
Drivers often do not face any consequences for killing people as it is. Unless the driver was intoxicated, it is generally written off as an accident. If only the people who get outraged about self-driving cars were as outraged by this fact
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by Eridrus 6y ago
Hours are interlinked across society. If you drive your kid to school, you need that to roughly line up with when you go to work. Maybe you don't have this constraint, but your coworker does, so if they were to keep the existing hours,
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by Eridrus 6y ago
The modern web is nothing at all like the original one, so I don't really feel like it makes sense to say nothing better has come along: many new things have come along and replaced what was originally created. But the bigger problem w
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by Eridrus 6y ago
Yeah, what he needs is a liquid market for his stock, but startups are very high risk investments with very uneven returns and time helps provide information on which ones are winners. My early stage startup stock grew 50x by the time the s
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by Eridrus 6y ago
There are a fair amount of people who think the LHC was not a wise use of resources since it did not give any clues to a new theory beyond the existing "Standard Model" https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-no-new-pa
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by Eridrus 6y ago
I hope they make this work, TikTok's search is absolutely useless. Making TikTok search work would be better since I'm usually trying to find a video I've already seen, but I'm still hoping Google can do something useful
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by Eridrus 6y ago
This already exists for Uber drivers in California: https://uber.com/blog/set-your-fares/ I don't think it will have much impact since small undifferentiated suppliers are largely price takers in a competitiv
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by Eridrus 6y ago
They are just rebranding Chinese hardware and it's great. Doing quality control + localization and delivering a product that just ridiculously undercuts the competition. I have a lot of admiration that they can make these prices work a
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by Eridrus 6y ago
I'm somewhat skeptical of this explanation since I went to a private secondary school in Australia where these pressures did not apply, and had the exact same experience with Biology where what we were taught was to memorize taxonomies

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