Eridrus

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by Eridrus 8y ago
Facebook has about a thousand people in NYC afaik?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Google has almost all of that building, plus most of the two city blocks west of there. There was also some story about them building up the pier west of those blocks?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
There is little evidence that homeless people move for better services, and this article doesn't cite any. But regardless of that: saying something is a Federal Issue, is basically washing your hands of it. What are the chances of the
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't have a strong opinion on what the market share of various browsers should be, but I don't think "we're a competing implementation that exists to keep Google/Apple/Microsoft honest" is really enough
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The only reason Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox got a foothold was that IE6 was basically abandoned and there was so much low hanging fruit (Tabs! Ad blockers!). But then Firefox got complacent with their performance, giving Chrome an in
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by Eridrus 8y ago
According to the stats in this article, you save more battery just setting your brightness to 50% than using a dark theme. More than a 60% reduction in power usage for the screen.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Do people often have their screen set to 100% brightness? I never set my screen above 40% brightness on my Nexus 5X, and often turn it lower at night. I ask since the numbers seem to indicate that dark themes have a much smaller impact at 5
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I was a pretty heavy Yelp user when I lived in SF, but I found the ratings not really that helpful elsewhere, even in NYC. I mostly use Google Maps these days, and while I don't necessarily trust the user ratings or it's personali
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> One of the obnoxious things about Google's NY campus is that it's on the west side of Manhattan, meaning to get a cheapish rent for a 40-60 minute commute I don't think this is true. 60 minutes on the A/C/E lin
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Cremation puts 540 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere; the average human breathing puts out 2.3 pounds of CO2, so it's basically the same as breathing for an extra 234 days. Or being an American for ~3 days. We have far larger fish to f
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Unlike other waste, we position cemeteries (relatively) close to where people live because they want to visit, so it has a larger impact on people. Not sure why this article shits on cremation though, the greenhouse gases emitted seem truly
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by Eridrus 8y ago
As long as you don't remove it, you haven't made performance worse, but you may not have made it better either, and you have probably done damage to intrinsic motivation. For sales, this may be fine, to the extent that no one has
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think there is a relatively easy calculus here: calculate the amount of government spending required to get to "make everyone whole", subtract any new tax revenue/decreased benefits spending. If you're losing money, th
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It's not clear that data location matters when courts are determining whether they have jurisdiction.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Anecdotally, compensation is much more of an issue for new hires than existing employees. I've also just seen far more internal movement, both to and from our team, than I have people leaving to other companies, though our team has bee
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Being down X% after a pretty serious bull run isn't really a big issue. I'm not relying on stock sales to fund general living expenses, rather the stock tends to be more about savings, since the base is pretty generous as well. So
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by Eridrus 8y ago
A rational company optimizes profits, rather than just revenue, when your costs go up, you may be interested in raising your prices, even if it reduces the number of items you sell, because part of the revenue has to be paid to someone else
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by Eridrus 8y ago
If this is a tax on sales, rather than impressions, they could prefer international sales by 2%. If this is a tax on views, then this is harder. Facebook could also raise the reserve price for auctions for UK ads.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This is false, exporters usually pay taxes on their profits "at home", rather than in the jurisdictions they sell their goods, with the exception of thing like sales taxes.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
#3 provides little comfort, given we're not showing any signs of reducing it and rates will likely rise due to, e.g. #2. #1 doesn't seem like a compelling argument, there were probably far better investment opportunities than +2%
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by Eridrus 8y ago
And yet, most of the centralised places have shut down. I'm thinking of Maple and others, which I enjoyed using in NYC, and yet they are gone now.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Medicine is a market for lemons, so reputation/brand is important. Many good doctors are full up on patients, but if they can convince you that an unknown doctor in their practice is just as good/under their supervision, they can
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It seems like there are a tonne of smart plant watering things... https://www.postscapes.com/wireless-plant-sensors/
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So, you've basically outsourced your spam detection to Google, and you're here complaining that you have to do a few small things on your end?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
What is the justification for treating tech companies differently to other exporters? Tech companies add VAT to their prices already.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Optimization as a tool is important and widely used, but... almost everything grabbing headlines uses some form of SGD + Momentum. Very little of the actual progress comes from better optimization.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This is probably true for the IRS. I'm less sure this is true for th SEC. From the admittedly limited amount I have read about insider trading cases, it seems like the courts have interpreted the law extremely narrowly, and this has ba
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The top 10% individually was 108k in 2017. The median software engineer was making 107.6k in 2017. So, on a technicality you are wrong - most software engineers are not in the top 10%. But even if you were right, there is a wide range of pa
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by Eridrus 8y ago
One consideration, though not the only one, is that writing a technical book is never a good financial proposition. If it's not a good financial proposition already, why write a book at all, vs making a website or a series of blog post
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I agree that there are trade-offs, but I don't find this argument persuasive. Why is setting a high bail amount better than not releasing people? They're meant to be functionally equivalent except when someone can somehow manage t

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