mrgriscom

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by mrgriscom 8y ago
If states allocated their electors proportional to the popular vote within each state, the results would track national popular vote to within 1%. They don't, and rather use winner-take-all for game theory reasons... swings states were
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by mrgriscom 8y ago
I explored the same thing but got different results from you. Bush v. Gore almost a dead tie and 2016 a slight Hillary win. http://mrgris.com/blog/2016-12-06-538-problems-but-a-swing-s...
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by mrgriscom 9y ago
Anybody know what camera was used to film this?
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by mrgriscom 9y ago
> Sorry to be snippy, but: Come on man, do I really need to explain this one? Sudden loss of employment is incredibly disruptive at best, and for many it's a significant financial hardship. If you're getting paid handsomely in
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by mrgriscom 9y ago
The converse is that in Europe the caller pays (or used to pay?) more based on whether they're calling a cell phone or a landline. Why should I care what kind of phone the person on the other end has? That seems like their burden, not
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by mrgriscom 9y ago
Airport security != customs
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by mrgriscom 9y ago
Also this: http://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/
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by mrgriscom 9y ago
Well... yes, because if we got used to terrorism, it would break the media cycle and cease to terrorize, and people would stop doing it!
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by mrgriscom 9y ago
Thought I'd share my own work in progress: http://mrgris.com:10011/summits/ (definitely not ready for primetime) To me the most fascinating aspect of prominence is how it identifies the relationships between mount
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by mrgriscom 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by mrgriscom 10y ago
It sounds like the actual most dangerous problem was people financing homes on unsustainable lending terms, literally requiring the home value to go up so you could refinance before your ARM teaser rate expired.
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by mrgriscom 10y ago
Because the market is flooded with similar houses for cheaper.
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by mrgriscom 10y ago
Wow, lotta founders showing their true colors in this thread re: contempt for their investors.
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by mrgriscom 10y ago
Yeah for me it's overlay in the maps app or bust. I liked opening google maps and seeing all my friends and family. The option to share only city-level location was enough to assuage any feelings of creepiness. And I know I'm on t
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by mrgriscom 10y ago
I can't believe the amount of effort invested in this more cumbersome, much more specific use case solution rather than just bringing back Latitude -- a fully functional product (and exactly the same under the hood) that existed 6 year
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by mrgriscom 10y ago
You just write it off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ
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by mrgriscom 10y ago
Redfin as a company takes a lower commission -- more precisely, they refund about a third of their commission to you. Agents themselves are paid a bonus based solely on client satisfaction surveys. At least that's how they said it work
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by mrgriscom 10y ago
That's when I checked to make sure it wasn't an April Fools joke.
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by mrgriscom 11y ago
Eh, I'm sympathetic to the argument, when you literally have nothing else to go on. Uniform sampling is often a dream in sociology.
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by mrgriscom 11y ago
The title of this post seems a little inflammatory. The main story is the borderline-illegal heat she got from management for providing a forum to share salaries, and the difference in treatment regarding the peer bonuses, which may or may
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by mrgriscom 11y ago
My understanding of CIELAB is that it tries to approximate perceptual uniformity while also having a rather simple transformation formula. As such the perceptual uniformity is compromised (intentionally). It is a good approximation but the
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by mrgriscom 11y ago
Part of me cringes at jumping through all these hoops to recreate some sort of anachronistic aesthetic which probably only looks better to you because it's what you're used to. It reminds me of how electric cars program in a &#x27
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by mrgriscom 11y ago
If any color enthusiasts here are frustrated by the lack of perceptual uniformity in every colorspace in common use, I wrote some utility code to work with the Munsell color system -- the only color system produced entirely from measurement
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by mrgriscom 11y ago
I'm sure there is some huge technical hurdle that someone will educate me about, but how is bittorrent streaming of live content not a thing yet? All these would-be cord-cutters say that sports is the only thing holding them back. Why
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by mrgriscom 11y ago
I'd like to plug going part-time as a good way to temper burnout and provide a soft landing for if/when you eventually decide to leave. You still get some money coming in -- proportionally more due to progressive taxation. You sti
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by mrgriscom 11y ago
I don't understand the desire to pay off the mortgage after a big windfall, especially with interest rates so low. I suppose you get a vague sense of security, as in "the bank can never take my house away now", but you just t
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by mrgriscom 11y ago
Hey, some of us like the extreme distortion of the Mercator projection! http://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/ It is interesting how WebGL is enabling the use of dynamic re-projection and making the old web Merc
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
Why haven't you? Aren't they public?
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
I think the real reason was to preserve round-trip compatibility (legacy char -> unicode char -> legacy char) with the existing encodings for those alphabets.
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by mrgriscom 12y ago
To oppose Han unification is to say that an 'a' in English and an 'a' in French should be different code points, because they're different languages. Alternatively, if Unicode directly encoded words, rather than let

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