emeerson

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by emeerson 5y ago
Orchard | Software & Infra Engineers, all levels | NYC, Austin, DC, Atlanta, Remote | Full-Time At Orchard we're building software for life's biggest financial decision: buying and selling a home. Our products solve problems a
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by emeerson 6y ago
Agree. Further corollary: more workers will be concentrated around 2nd-tier hubs where their wages will be lower than 1st-tier, but higher that median wages. 2nd-tier median wages will then drive up housing prices which will rinse & rep
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by emeerson 6y ago
Orchard | ONSITE (WFH for now) | Full-time | https://orchard.com | NYC - New York City, NY Orchard is building software for life’s biggest financial decision: buying and selling a home. Our products solve problems along the enti
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by emeerson 6y ago
Super helpful - thank you! IIS / containerized .NET apps that may be optimized in Azure is compelling.
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by emeerson 6y ago
Exciting is also a confusing property for me. AWS has offered a superset of services beyond what I or colleagues have ever been able to apply.
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Ask HN: Azure customers, why do you host with Azure over AWS or GCP?
4 points by emeerson 6y ago|11 comments
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by emeerson 6y ago
Makes sense that business incentives inform decision making, but how do you explain the difference in Twitter's content policy? They also, presumably, measure their business via MAU & DAU. Sometimes I think its as simple as humans
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by emeerson 6y ago
Initially I thought of those numbers (36m in the US) as totally unrealistic. But then comparing to seasonal influenza case counts, they seem to be within that order of magnitude (39m-56m cases): https://www.cdc.gov/flu&#x2F
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by emeerson 6y ago
Re. Money in a bank account not contributing to scarcity: I think that logic checks out when you observe money as a resource in isolation. If you think of Money as a proxy for "captured value," then one way to look at it is how mu
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by emeerson 6y ago
Interesting to present it as a binary tradeoff. I want to win, but I want to make sure that the thesis has some modeling diligence =)
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by emeerson 6y ago
Strongly agree with this. Dates serve a critical goalpost in technical planning, yet they should be viewed as flexible (having a reasonable margin of error) and informed by tight & trust-driven feedback loops. I subscribe to Gantt chart
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by emeerson 6y ago
not an argument, an attempt to synthesize this event into a parable. Failed attempt at that ;)
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by emeerson 6y ago
To clarify my thinking: defunding Govt' pandemic preparedness became a forcing function for the individually wealthy to deploy private capital with much higher $$$ cost. Point taken that its a stretch of the imagination.
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by emeerson 6y ago
What's remarkable is how this is a clear case study of the amount of wealth destroyed _by gutting government_ If I were to try to be pithy: Capitalism destroyed by the incompetency of libertarian ideals.
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by emeerson 7y ago
I suspect this is because these are wolves in operator's clothing. If you deploy true operators that are doing labor in their area of expertise, and if they can pre-empt obvious mistakes + generate reproducible playbooks, you could net
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by emeerson 7y ago
Won't claim this is the absolute priority, but recently been thinking about the generalizable problem of: "domain disentanglement." In other words: solve the Data Model Coupling problem programmatically. Applied to an RDBMS,
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by emeerson 7y ago
PG, this is a thoughtful essay. Yet I'll point out a flaw in this thinking below. Intellectually Honest merits here: - you want to incentivize people to create value for society and optimize globally by raising the quality of life of
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by emeerson 7y ago
You don't have to imagine. You can do a real cultural economic comparison to other countries: Italy, Greece, Russia, Spain (and others) are countries that index more on your proposed value system: socialization, family, quality of lif
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by emeerson 7y ago
Is this even addressing the root cause of 2016 misinformation campaigning? I was assuming most misinformation was distributed as user-generated content, not ads. How much was Spotify exploited as a media platform for campaign misinformati
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by emeerson 7y ago
eerily poignant
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by emeerson 8y ago
This is very wise advice, and I can especially appreciate the layer of empathy: empower engineers to add to their toolchain (mgmt or technical). To complement this thinking, however, I also expect a leader to align engineers to business pri
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by emeerson 8y ago
It would take Googlmart 5+ years to play catch up if not longer. Google's too disorganized and they don't have any supply chain tech built up. Amazon has years of supply chain infrastructure (both software, physical systems and or
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by emeerson 9y ago
This is all true. The flip side of this, however, is that "trial phase failure" does not conclude "ineffective biologic." There are many other variables to Clinical Trials, including flaws in trial design, time spent and
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by emeerson 10y ago
No-tipping trends are starting to reverse now, however: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/why-rest... Upscale and some midscale restaurants in NYC have seen a drop in demand since no-ti
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by emeerson 10y ago
Other than intuitive observation of the creative class economy, this article offers neither a definition of "dominant, enduring social structures" nor evidence outside of GDP as a metric. So far it's like "duh GDP in th
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by emeerson 11y ago
Both the 5c/per ad and user-willingness-to-pay estimates are way optimistic. Ads you see probably has a CPM (cost per milleu, or thousand) of at $5 on the upper end and I'm guessing average around $1 CPM, which would be .5c and
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by emeerson 13y ago
This looks like a viable research route? New pathway for eliminating bacteria thats viral instead of antibiotic (fungal?) based: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120724104640.ht... Can anyone spe
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by emeerson 13y ago
The author admits a valid case for eschewing miranda rights within the first paragraph. You can't make an argument for a constitutional right and say 'oh wait but there is an exception. and by the way this one might meet it.'