surrealvortex

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by surrealvortex 10y ago
If I had to guess, probably because most people stop drinking coffee after around 7 pm so that they can actually get to sleep at a reasonable time, and it is not economical for the shops to stay open beyond that time because of fewer custom
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
At least some of the 30% would go to back-end staff. The article I linked to presents a case where the cooks etc had a raise because of this.
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
I also don't understand tipping at food carts. Customers stand in a line to pay and get their food, and are also expected to tip (either via Square or through tip jars). Edit: the expectation is generally implicit, and while standing i
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
Unless everyone decides to kill tips all at once, this will never work out. No server will work for a fixed 20% increment when they have the potential to get a lot more than that, especially on Saturday nights. There have been plenty of exa
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
Load balancing strategies are also important. For a service that receives requests that take different amounts of effort to fulfill, weighted least conns is almost certainly better than random or round robin.
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
To supply a counter-point, I'm underweight, and I had sore wrists and lower back pain before I made my workspace ergonomic.
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
You get used to working in a dense workspace after a while. I think companies mainly like dense workspaces because it costs less, while justifying it as increasing collaboration. I don't need much collaboration at my job. Working remot
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
I have a standing desk. So my monitor is visible to everyone in the area. Discourages me from doing anything other than work when I'm at work. It's not like someone is going to comment that I've been looking at Facebook at wo
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
You can join/ create a family plan. $15 for up to 6 people.
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
As a vegetarian teetotaler, I end up partially subsidizing most other people's meals. We do split checks evenly though (one of us pays), and use Splitwise to register that. It's just better all around to have this kind of accounta
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Encryption is “essential tradecraft” of terrorists, FBI director says(arstechnica.com)
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Amazon working to address racial disparity in same-day delivery service(theverge.com)
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
Just one of a long list of arguments against the privatization of the prison system. There are very few things that should be in the exclusive purview of the government, and the prison system is one of them. Prison, in most cases, should be
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
Curious about the last part. How does that work? If they make small changes and get patents based on the new formula, won't other companies be allowed to use the original formula? I'm guessing somehow both formulae are covered by
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
I didn't take a position one way or the other in my comment. But if anything, I definitely did not support the company. I was more concerned about the billions of people in other countries who will suffer because they will lose access
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
Well, my point was that if everyone decided to source it through India, they will no longer sell anything for $84k. Even if 10% of people did that, their profits will slip enough for them to notice and take action.
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
Most of the criticism against drug companies is that while they invest x for R&D and actual manufacturing, they earn back at least 100*x in profits. I don't think there are many other industries that allow this to happen. I'm
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
I'm conflicted about this article. On the one hand, the pharmaceutical companies gouging ordinary Americans is abominable. Doing something to circumvent their greed is something to support. On the other hand, if enough people exploit l
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
> "Dot, a hockey-puckish satellite, extends the range of an Echo or Tap" No. The Dot is standalone, and is not a range-extender. I think Amazon's tactic of allowing only those people who already own an Alexa device has bac
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
Not entirely sure, but don't credit card companies charge a considerable minimum fee per transaction? I'm guessing the fee kicks in for each month. That'd be a significant marginal cost. Although a large organization like the
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
What? Trucks do have a bounded capacity. A truck cannot carry more than x kgs of packages or y liters of volume. Are you arguing against that? If Amazon had asked for a single truck from UPS at 5 PM from warehouse A (the number of trucks or
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
That's just sad. I guess I can understand the motivation, though that doesn't justify anything. It's becoming very difficult to monetize online newspapers, and they are forced to resort to such unethical practices to make end
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
Um, if someone else cancels, they free up the resource (volume or weight or number of packages). This allows some other package to use the resource. This essentially makes it non-static, since it depends on the number of shipments that will
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
Or maybe the transportation resource Amazon had to use to ship later in the day had some cancelations? It's impossible to build a distributed system that has fully consistent results. That is usually the reason for inconsistencies betw
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
That brings up another distinction - profilers don't distinguish between a method that takes very little time to run but is called very often and another method that is pretty expensive, but is not called very often. Ultimately, we do
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by surrealvortex 10y ago
I'm currently using flame graphs at work. If your application hasn't been profiled recently, you'll usually get lots of improvement for very little effort. Some 15 minutes of work improved CPU usage of my team's biggest