Eridrus

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811.
by Eridrus 8y ago
I think Google is trying to go after the premium segment and try to achieve Apple-like margins by focusing on software. If you look at the the phone specs you'll be completely unimpressed with the Pixel phones. Plenty of cheaper phones
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by Eridrus 8y ago
OMG this whole situation infuriates me. I've complained about this to Google's security folks, and basically the answer I got there was that they don't believe in password managers as a solution and would rather have FIDO&#x2
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Its pretty obvious that Waymo wants to make car hardware a commodity, and car companies don't like that and want autonomy to be a commodity. I don't really know where Cruise is at, but it's not crazy to believe that both thin
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> Even if the alleged institution was real (which it wasn't - they didn't even put up a website until after the article was submitted), the author had valid credentials (which they didn't), or someone knew of them personal
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think there is a real disconnect between what peer review is and what the public seems to think peer review is. The public seems to think that peer review indicates that something is true, but that's clearly not the case because we h
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by Eridrus 8y ago
IMO Overvalued usually implies a comparison to something else. For housing you could compare to: cost of renting, cost of in-fill construction, salaries in the area, cost of alternatives (eg moving, to other neighborhoods or cities). I thin
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So, this article says there is no security model that doesn't trust the owner of the device, and there's something to that. But "evil maid" attacks are a pretty routine occurance in China, and having hardware that is res
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> Would a politically correct, by-the-book US president have had the balls to sanction China? Does Trump even have a goal in mind with his tariffs? It seems like he just wants to score political points, rather than achieve any actual out
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't think there needs to be a conspiracy for vehement denials to make sense. Security is a hugely important reputational good for both Apple & AWS.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Yeah, I'm not entirely clear what counts as a hobby and what doesn't. I went to a comedy show tonight. Does that count as a hobby? I don't think so, but it's also clearly a leisure activity. Does reading count as a hobby
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Most self-taught people I have met have come up with their own projects, or at least played with Kaggle, as people are usually advised to do. MOOCs are only a small part of the options people can and do exercise.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't think this is an accurate assessment of education in the ML space. There are tonnes of people who have self-taught themselves the material. The issue I see is that employers do not trust non-university credentials, and so there
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> Besides that, city governments don't answer to the industry; they answer to their voters. Do you find your city government to be very responsive to your desires? Maybe it actually is in small towns, but in larger cities, the gover
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by Eridrus 8y ago
And we can democratically repeal the tax deductions.
825.
by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't really believe that these other reasons are a major driver, but it also doesn't matter one way or the other, we can get rid of the tax benefits and let people keep the rest if they want. I agree that the benefit is largely
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by Eridrus 8y ago
We should get rid of all charitable tax deductions, and then these funds would simply cease to exist, because they only exist to capture these tax deductions while preserving the donors' power. I don't have any beef with the found
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by Eridrus 8y ago
https://qz.com/1092737/us-tax-reformers-should-get-rid-of-th...
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by Eridrus 8y ago
We only hear about breaches when they get user data. The Cambridge analytica thing wasn't really a breach IMO. 1 large breach vs 0 over however many years does not seem statistically significant.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I liked SF and Oakland when I lived there, but I moved to NYC and don't really want to move back. And that makes me take the comment about whether the tech industry should be in the bay area fairly seriously. I work for a Big Tech co
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I went through the intro. The Python exercises are flakey. Most of them didn't do anything when I clicked Run or Submit. I messed around and called the function myself and that seemed to get it to start doing something. The presentatio
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by Eridrus 8y ago
That's both disturbing and pretty much the level of professionalism I expect from CBP. I wish someone were to cataloging these sorts of incidents, rather than just reading about them in HN threads.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It is an infringement. I certainly don't think I should have to explain everything in my bag to little hitlers. I'm willing to entertain arguments that it is a worthwhile trade-off, but we must acknowledge that it is an infringeme
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by Eridrus 8y ago
3 episodes a week now, baby! Is Pod Save the World better than Pod Save America? I gave the later a try and didn't like it at all. Oh, also, 1A on NPR is pretty good too, I don't listen to it too much these days, since it's a
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I'm curious what you mean by high production values. I do notice podcasts thanking their audio engineer, though I'm not entirely sure what is involved. I assume some amount of editing goes on, but is it that expensive to edit an h
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I dislike most tech podcasts, except the great NLP Highlights Podcast which interviews researchers about recent papers they have written I also listen to a bunch of politics podcasts The Weeds Erza Klein Show 538 politics podcasts Gimme She
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Back in 2006-2009, I had a computer security blog and it was helpful, it was an artefact employers could look at to see what I knew. I also got some incoming interest from recruiters for fairly senior positions (eg Director level), that did
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't think the concept of what a bifurcated/multiple internets is has really been clarified. China's internet is the most split, but it is still technically connected and operates on a blacklist system. I think what we&#x2
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So I took a version of that survey that told you how you were doing as you went along myself to see how it would go. And the main component to predicting correctly was really some form of occam's razor/causal reasoning, where the
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by Eridrus 8y ago
You can use the community product to make commercial software: https://www.quora.com/Can-startups-use-Microsoft-Visual-Stud... The windows app store store does take a cut, though it seems to be reduced to 15%: https:/
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This is nonsense. By what criteria, besides "I like it" is "An individual sells a product at a one-off price to a entrepreneur who then is able to make a living off of it." the ideal form of business? Adobe went from th

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