Eridrus

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721.
by Eridrus 8y ago
People are. But it doesn't address all the issues if CO2 production, like ocean acidification and will have it's own unintended consequences. Moving to carbon-free sources of energy is still the best option, and we should still be
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by Eridrus 8y ago
There's a real difference between taking out a loan to buy consumables/non-revenue generating depreciating assets and corporate debt that is taken out on the expectation that there will be a higher return on them. In a sense risin
723.
by Eridrus 8y ago
They'll pay that in income taxes alone in 2 years.
724.
by Eridrus 8y ago
This seems like an attempt to rewrite history. I was an avowed Firefox user, but Firefox was slow. I bought a EEE PC and Firefox was just too heavy to run, whereas Chrome ran fine. Eventually all my computers ran Chrome because Firefox wasn
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Gary isn't a technologist, but he wants to set the stage with critique so that when/if a fusion of the ideas does better he can claim to have been important to that, regardless of the fact that the idea is obvious, and the impleme
726.
by Eridrus 8y ago
One theory exists that teenagers sleep cycle is offset from parents so that they can more easily socialise with each other without parental interference. There could be plenty of reasons our hormones have evolved to make us act in ways that
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Flash still exists as an authoring tool that exports JS/HTML5, does it not work well for animation?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I had a Windows Phone, it had a lot of good things about it, but I have no desire for anyone to resurrect it. There was just not enough developer interest/market share to sustain it. I still miss having my next appointment on my lock s
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It seems like Duo is working out. It has more than 500m installs, and isn't installed by default, so it's numbers aren't padded the same way Hangouts' are. Allo, despite being shut down got to about the same size as Sign
730.
by Eridrus 8y ago
What you see as throwing shit at the wall, looks like testing market hypothesis to me. Google isn't going to win the messaging space by building a kitchen sink messaging app that is compatible with everything, so they need to look for
731.
by Eridrus 8y ago
Why do people ever switch chat apps? Besides shutdowns, it's because the new app does something the old one doesn't. Signal's pitch was easy encrypted messaging, but now there are apps that fill that slot, even Facebook Messe
732.
by Eridrus 8y ago
Duo has at least 10x more installs on the Play store, it's pretty clear that Duo has succeeded, while Allo has failed.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Signal and Allo actually have a similar number of installs, they're both in the 10-50m installs bucket in the Play store. I use Signal, but it's fine at best, but it's not really going to break out of it's niche.
734.
by Eridrus 8y ago
You're right, thanks, I had thought it was the other way around. That's a slightly different narrative to what I had in my head, but I'm not sure it matters a lot, since it's basically Apple & Google not being able t
735.
by Eridrus 8y ago
Everyone who is old enough appreciates what Firefox did for the web. But I'm not convinced that a Chromium monoculture is the same as an IE6/Trident monoculture. Largely because Chromium is open source. Apple has successfully fork
736.
by Eridrus 8y ago
Android already has Instant Apps. It's a bit of work, but it doesn't seem super popular, and definitely less work than a Flutter rewrite.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Oh cool, I had assumed that since Mr Steven had not caught the faring, it was toast, seems like it's waterproof now! As happy as I am that SpaceX has moved the industry forward and given it a kick in the pants, I hope Blue Origin manag
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This isn't really predatory pricing though. This is structuring your costs, such that you are profitable over the lifetime value of the customer, even if you are not necessarily making a profit right away. And this has benefits to cons
739.
by Eridrus 8y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that console hardware is usually sold below cost to get people into the ecosystem and make that back as people buy games. So forcing console makers to allow other stores would probably h
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by Eridrus 8y ago
HN's reaction is snarky and amusing, but based on a biased sample of snarky anecdotes. Verizon probably has actual data on the amount of content they are planning to ban, and the amount of traffic they get. Not to say they've thou
741.
by Eridrus 8y ago
I'm not sure about algorithmic trading, or what the self-driving car class contains, but there is tonnes of content on object detection and other recent AI breakthroughs.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Is any of this work coming to Mobile? I agree with the GP that this is where Firefox has the biggest opening, but it seems like there's very little investment in Firefox on Android.
743.
by Eridrus 8y ago
The more "sophisticated" a textual analysis tool is, the less interpretable it is, and the more difficult it will be to get people to believe the output. And yes, I think the people involved in this will take that risk.
744.
by Eridrus 8y ago
Because providing debit cards to the poor costs money, and may not even help if they're getting paid in cash. Whereas this approach keeps the cost of handling cash on the restaurants.
745.
by Eridrus 8y ago
There has been one paper recently that showed a rowhammer exploit over the network against a key-value server: https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc18/presentation/tatar I haven't read the paper, so I do
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I disagree. Text analysis only really works when someone attempting to publish anonymously is unaware that someone will do that analysis. At the point where there are simple tools, you can use them to put together a report on what is most i
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think Greg Brockman from OpenAI has given talks where he argues that we may be able to get AGI by just scaling up existing algorithms. Their work on DoTA 2 is basically on this track of just scaling up well known algos.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Marcus has been arguing against straw men without actually helping at all for decades now, it's entirely uninteresting to keep listening to him.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Huh, if this existed and I had known about this 3 years ago, it would have been a trivial purchase at the startup I was at. We ended up moving everyone to headset mics and doing all our meetings with remote people on computers, despite a lo
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The Google Shopping case is very interesting atm. Google have given other companies the opportunity to bid on that slot, and have separated out Google Shopping Ads as as it's own profitable entity that has to bid on that slot alongside

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