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by rm999 11y ago
The way online monetization currently works is extremely inefficient for pretty much everyone involved, and it will change. I recently worked in the ad tech industry and I know this first hand: publishers have been feeling the heat of dropp
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The best way to buy used products since web 1.0 has either been craigslist (local, negotiating) or ebay (online auction). But both are terribly run companies that have let their business models fail. Sadly, they're the de facto market
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Verizon throttled their unlimited 3g plans for years (apparently they just stopped this month: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/08/13... ). They planned to do this to 4g unlimit
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T-mobile does actually honor their unlimited plans (unlike AT&T and Verizon). This article is about people explicitly breaking the TOS on a non-unlimited part of the plan. I switched to T-mobile recently and it's been a breath of f
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Definitely feel free to add that!
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I switched from mostly using R to Python about a year ago for gluing together my data pipeline (from data source all the way to production models and frontends/visualizations). It hasn't really impacted what I'm capable of do
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The typical self-described "buy and hold investor" I know is actually a "buy and hold then panic and sell" investor. Take a look at r/investing to see what I'm talking about. I'm not criticizing them per s
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You could make many of the same arguments about Japan post-WWII. As I understand it, Japan stopped exporting as many low quality, low-margin products during the 80s (largely due to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry), and was
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by rm999 11y ago
Farming comes with huge amounts of negative environmental externalities (lost ecosystems, runoff, pesticides). I'm curious how the cost effectiveness would change if farms were properly taxed for their environmental impact.
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Rough bill of materials is probably around 3-5 dollars (I searched online and found low power wifi chips in bulk at around 2-3 dollars). I'd estimate 10-15 dollars after R&D, assembly, packaging, shipping, etc. Does that seem reaso
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by rm999 11y ago
I had the same issue. Then I found out the Economist puts out a audio version of their entire print edition. My podcast app downloads it automatically every Thursday (using RSS), and it provides me with more than enough content for the week
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> Pearson, the owner of the Financial Times, which has had a non-controlling 50% stake in us since 1928, is selling. Three-fifths of those shares will go to an existing shareholder—Exor, the holding company of the Agnelli family. The res
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by rm999 11y ago
The hackernews effect? That's pretty much the default reaction anytime a mainstream source is posted here.
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>This is the problem with reporting in general --it's full of half truths and poorly researched pieces I largely agree with you, and it's very possible that the original nytimes article is questionable. But a lot of what you sa
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by rm999 11y ago
I tried reading that article, but for a topic that I find interesting (especially as someone who has studied AI and machine learning) I hoped it would be more approachable and easier to read. Can anyone explain the last few sentences for me
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I've built up a solid work-life balance with an amazing girlfriend, a wide variety of interesting (and close) friends, and some cool hobbies. I'm content with not being considered by employers who don't respect that.
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Perversely, America's excessive amount of control over all other countries has likely (largely) led to the world's unprecedented amount of peace and stability. This is the theory of Hegemonic stability: https://en.wikip
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>In order to prove their point effectively without falling in the same trap they are pointing, they should conduct the same experiment with a random example each time, not one especially created to mislead the experimentee. This is the p
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>Be vague and 1 or 2 other places? Or name specific companies/roles? I've seen people take both approaches. I like to be open to avoid coming off as antagonistic, but HR folks do sometimes talk to each other across companies an
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by rm999 11y ago
Shoot to get another job offer. HR treats you much better when they know they have to compete for you - they'll speed up every step of the process, and they'll be more willing to negotiate. Also, you may end up liking the other of
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by rm999 11y ago
Renting is the best option for flexibility. Want to add a bedroom? Want to change neighborhoods? Just lost your job and want to downgrade? Want to move closer to your new job, or an entirely new state? These are all good, common use-cases f
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This should have a [2013] in the title: "this page was created by reddit user rhiever in October 2013". This visualization is very cool but is stale in a lot of areas.
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Yes! As someone who frequently runs memory-intensive algorithms on large(ish) datasets, I have a hard time explaining to many technical people that moving from a single server to a cluster increases complexity and cost by an incredible amou
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ABP has been whitelisting for less than three years, meaning it supported itself for most of its existence. Anyway, uBlock leapfrogged ABP, which tells me that ABP isn't really being developed too well if a newcomer can do so much bett
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It sounds good in theory, but large websites cannot be added to the whitelist without paying. This implies to me that revenue is higher on ABP's priority list than encouraging "good" ads. If ABP really wanted to make the bigg
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>Because we understand that having a revenue model leads to software that is maintained and developed more actively This needs a huge citation. uBlock Origin is revenue free (as far as I know) and is well-maintained and arguably far bett
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For comparison, what would be the radius of a continuous cylindrical battery that powers the Tesla Model S? Assume, perhaps, that the battery has the same energy density as a typical AA battery.
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In my experience around a lot of professional data analysts, shoddy scientific design is ubiquitous; I was definitely guilty of it all the time. A mentor gave me some advice that helped tremendously: formulate what you're trying to ans
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The difference is almost all big law firms pay first year associates the same amount (within the same city, at least). For the last few years this has been ~160K in NYC/DC/SF. Smaller firms typically pay much, much less. Getting i
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by rm999 12y ago
Meh. The more I do machine learning in industry the more I realize how little the ML part matters compares to everything else. A typical project I've seen takes 3-6 months and contains thousands lines of code, but the machine learning

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