orasis

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by orasis 9y ago
I've seen plenty of people fall into shady karma, especially my (ahem) peers in the early peer-to-peer space. Other than Zooko and Roger Dingeldine it seems most of the guys had to make a bunch of bullshit philosophical contortions ab
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by orasis 9y ago
"Your location is important in many other ways. One survey of 20,000 people in the US found that satisfaction with location was a major component of life satisfaction.10 This is because where you live determines many important aspects
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by orasis 10y ago
Broadscale keyline design would greatly improve water retention in California: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyline_design I've done this in areas on my property and in two years I can already see new clovers o
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by orasis 10y ago
"Simple rules for complex decisions" Use machine learning techniques to allow humans to make complex decisions: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04690
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by orasis 10y ago
What is this used for?
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by orasis 10y ago
The answer is simple: most people don't live intentionally. I regularly meet miserable people in SF that could elevate their happiness by changing their life situation. But they don't, because the default path is easier.
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by orasis 10y ago
He's spot on about fairness but dead wrong about competition. Life is not a zero-sum game. Choose the path of abundance and create new value for others over the path of scarcity and competition.
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by orasis 10y ago
If it were only paying members whose votes were counted that might work?
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by orasis 10y ago
They don't want to incentivize people writing just to get maximum clicks.
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by orasis 10y ago
Survivorship bias may also explain a big part of this.
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by orasis 10y ago
Most people that I know don't discount the time value of money on their LTV calculations so, in practice LTV != NPV. But yes, NPV would provide a more accurate calculation. (Edit: to be clear on definitions, NPV is "Net Present V
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by orasis 10y ago
Someone downvoted you, but thanks for asking this question - it made me realize I was communicating poorly. Paid user acquisition is spending money, usually on ads, to get people to install your app. The app business is now a ruthless winne
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by orasis 10y ago
Ah, sorry. I got ya.
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by orasis 10y ago
Building great software includes great monetization. Otherwise have fun making $10/month on something you poured hundreds of hours into.
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by orasis 10y ago
In app subscriptions are pretty simple on iOS now, though Apple is forcing you to clutter up the UI with a bunch of extra terms and conditions info.
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by orasis 10y ago
The numbers on the App Store disagree with your first thesis of up front payment. Simply look through the top grossing apps and most of them are free to play games.
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by orasis 10y ago
I have an app with 45% first month retention that is doing subscription monetization. A huge percentage of the subscribers subscribe in the first week so I don't know about doing a long free trial. That said, I need to do some machine
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by orasis 10y ago
Unless your app is a viral, monetization can't just be a strategy - it is the primary design criteria. I have a 5 ⭐️ app, 7 Second Meditation, that has fantastic retention numbers, but I didn't design it around monetization from d
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by orasis 10y ago
Please don't disrespect real wisdom by using "wise" in that way. Wisdom is multi-dimensional and holistic. Screwing over people and the environment is a loser move.
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by orasis 10y ago
If that private corporation were a mining company in Montana they would choose to take the profits, go bankrupt, and again have the people pay to clean up the mess.
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by orasis 10y ago
In glacier national park they use excavators for the first passes.
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by orasis 10y ago
In the context of bandits, how does this perform compared to Thompson Sampling?
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by orasis 10y ago
Can you provide more credible data on this?
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by orasis 10y ago
Diving into the article one sees that these ratios are largely unchanged since the 1980s.
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by orasis 10y ago
Product mix is more important than hitting the single "best" price. Each customer has an amount that they want to pay. If you want to maximize profits you need to allow customers to pay as much as they are willing. This means th
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by orasis 10y ago
Even using facts, not biased opinions, vastly different models can arise. If the sampled facts that give rise to the models are random, then the models will tend to be similar. However, if the facts that make up the models are selectively p
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by orasis 10y ago
No. some configurations can be solved perfectly but as you get to higher mine density it becomes probabilistic.
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by orasis 10y ago
The author of this article shouldn't be apologizing for Tesla. The car should work to avoid hitting stuff. Period. "The footage shows that the Tesla needed to merge or change lane in order to avoid the barrier – something the Au
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by orasis 10y ago
The long tail arises from niches in aggregate.
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by orasis 10y ago
Fix the bot problem. Beyond headline testing, I'll never advertise on Twitter again due to bot clicks.

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