Eridrus

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by Eridrus 8y ago
> In order to monetize games, new titles have to be approved by two regulatory bodies, the National Radio and Television Administration and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The National Radio and Television Administration hasn’t appr
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by Eridrus 8y ago
You want money in nominal terms, so PPP doesn't matter. EU is not really a single market, they have unified regulations, which is helpful, but at the very least language differences mean you're doing custom work for every country.
903.
by Eridrus 8y ago
This is basically the selection criteria for getting a job, why wouldn't they be?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Summer is not usually a popular time to visit Vegas, so it's a tonne of business in the off-season when the rooms would otherwise not be booked. Also, hackers have money these days, it's probably pretty lucrative overall despite t
905.
by Eridrus 8y ago
Seconding the recommendation for arXiv. The thing that surprised me the most was that people watch what gets posted on arXiv, so they someone will probably read your paper if its an active research area, you may even find people discussing
906.
by Eridrus 8y ago
I'm not saying government should have no say, but if the owner of the neighboring land was fine with it, that's a pretty good sign that it's ok, and the city shouldn't hassle them unless people complain to the city.
907.
by Eridrus 8y ago
As other commenters, and the article itself, have pointed out, there's already plenty of stuff on sidewalks. The fact that this even needs a new law to be passed points out how ridiculous regulation is. There should be a law that talks
908.
by Eridrus 8y ago
Why do you think games development is like this?
909.
by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't think high corporate taxes make sense, but I'm not convinced they would have much effect on entrepreneurship. By definition they are taxes on profits, and corporations can deduct a lot more from their taxes than people can
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by Eridrus 8y ago
There's a bunch of statistics that show the US is not particularly entrepreneurial. The US does have very high levels of VC investment, a large single market with (often) consistent regulation and language, and this helps startups surv
911.
by Eridrus 8y ago
> Am I the only person who thinks this is luxury? How much do you think it costs to add the "luxury" you see here vs construction costs for the actual building? Spoiler alert: very little. So it makes perfect sense to make the
912.
by Eridrus 8y ago
> What if Microsoft took away 30% of revenue from all software developers publishing on Windows Store? This is exactly how it works. Steam also takes a 30% cut. This is literally how every app platform works now.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think this article is correct in identifying bad faith, but I don't think conservatives are really wrong that many people have embraced equality of outcome as the goal and the yardstick against which everyone is measured against. Y
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> Why should Epic care about Android's development costs? He seems to care about console makers' costs and considers their 30% there reasonable, but he does not seem to consider them reasonable here. > Why overpay for Google
915.
by Eridrus 8y ago
It's a pretty good chunk of equity, but.... 1k business users in 12 months seems pretty difficult - besides a good product you'll need marketing $$ or sales people to get you there - are they giving you any capital to get there? Y
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> “Fifteen years ago there was no technology precinct or technology industry in Australia,” said Farquhar, “As computer science graduates the best we could hope for was working at a bank or a consultancy organisation… and Mike and I were
917.
by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't think these issues are actually that separate; both of them seek to limit Uber trips; one does it on the demand side by increasing the price, the other does it on the supply side, by directly constraining supply. The exact mech
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think it's pretty clear why de Blasio doesn't like congestion pricing: people who are used to driving would feel acute pain, he's quite cozy with the Taxi lobby and raising prices/wages on Uber/etc is politically
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Most engineers at large Ad-supported companies are not working on ads in any meaningful way. Ads pay the bills, but only to the extent that you have something people want, to put the ads next to, and most of the engineers are there trying t
920.
by Eridrus 8y ago
Have they significantly reduced the challenge though? I don't think the core task of driving is significantly easier than these problems that they have elided. I know it is a bit of a fallacy to say "we can fly to the moon, so we
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This is certainly more cautious, but it's not clear that this is any more realistic than Waymo's plan which involves limiting vehicles to a predefine area, mapping in great detail, etc.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I see the problem as difficult in the same way that losing weight is difficult: we know how to do it, it's relatively straight forward, you just have to really want it and commit to it for extended periods of time. I'm sure you ca
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> I wish more companies were like Craigslist - happy to make an great profit and a lasting business I'm not really sure Craigslist is a good model here, I feel like their business is getting taken apart vertical by vertical as they
924.
by Eridrus 8y ago
So what had fundamentally changed here? Is it just that China is a bigger market now? Did Google think they actually had enough leverage to get the Chinese to back down? Are the founders simply less idealistic than before?
925.
by Eridrus 8y ago
I mean, this is exactly what the article says "companies who have economic interests in not solving ... Hate speech, harassment and other attacks on social networks". Maybe your definition of extremism does not include hate speech
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't think this is sufficient for those calling for filtering of hate speech. The goal is not so that you personally don't see it, but rather that no-one sees it. You see this in the reporting about hate speech in private fac
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Sure, but this article is about technical solutions, not social solutions, and technical solutions face this trade-off.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> Additionally, the web is facing critical internet health issues, seemingly intractable due to the centralization of power in the hands of a few large companies who have economic interests in not solving these problems I think that line
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Strong technical teams can get stuck solving the wrong problem, or building a more general/elegant solution than is truly necessary for the problem at hand. This is particularly likely to affect teams with a lot of folks from academia.
930.
by Eridrus 8y ago
> Land and not housing is a positional good Yes, but the discussion about housing isn't "there is no affordable housing anywhere", but rather "there is no affordable housing near jobs and people have to commute very f

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