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by yojo 4y ago
Allowing websites to get a somewhat accurate count of visitors plus bounce rate helps them to tell how they’re doing. Hopefully, they use that to guide developing a better product/service. If you can allow them to do that without getti
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To be clear, they’re not generating unique headers. They’re setting them to the day start, so they can tell if the requester has already been to the site today or not. It actually seems pretty reasonable.
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Housing Shortage Reflects the Cheap Cost of Holding Vacant Land(wsj.com)
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Taste is almost definitionally subjective and culturally mediated. There are trends in flavors, and the ability of a vintner to match those trends is indistinguishable from producing “better” wine. If you take the drink outside of its refer
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For people not reading the whole thing (reasonable, it is long): the author comes to the conclusion that it was not so “genius” after all, given the prior art, and that he read it in a computer graphics book. He still gives Carmack props fo
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It looks like TFA uses some diagrams from that pdf without attribution. I get that we’re firmly in the realm of absurdity, but it still feels… cheep
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Fruit at the discount grocery store is usually old/nearing end of life. Citrus, and limes in particular, get noticeably more bitter as they age and oxidize. This actually leads to a schism in European/American bartending. Europe j
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by yojo 4y ago
Empirically true. See: PonziCoin https://techweez.com/2018/01/26/ponzicoin-crypto-scheme/
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I have the same feeling about the Fez OST. Fez was good. The soundtrack was great .
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I assume you’re joking, but in case you’re not - the plan would put the capital city (Prague/Praha) under 200m of water.
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Even in the realm of "real" reviews, there's a filtering problem. As others have mentioned in this thread, many services will just not post a poor review. They have an incentive to make a sale, and a low star rating is going
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Fair point, it’s all hard. I intended to call out romance as a (long shot) potential source of overnight success. Reading the various self-publishing forums, any post that starts with “I earned six figures on my first book” ends with “and i
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by yojo 4y ago
I ran a novel on Royal Road as a serial. Definitely a hard market to get traction in if you’re not doing litrpg or xanxia. I published a techno thriller at 2+ chapters a week for six months and ended up with ~20 readers for the conclusion.
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by yojo 4y ago
If you want to become a writer, you should definitely have a financial cushion. Replicating Stross’s success will almost certainly take years of minimally paid hard work, plus a fair bit of luck. Writing is a hard, hard business. Unless you
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by yojo 4y ago
My 1 bedroom in Cole Valley was $3,500 when I left it in 2019. It was big (800sq ft) and had parking, but should give you a comp point.
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Fair point. I guess Twitch takes 50% from their streamers (and runs ads for the folks who don’t sub). YouTube takes 30%. So TikTok is at the high end, but the number is not as insane as it first appeared to me.
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by yojo 4y ago
You’re right. I didn’t consider the AppStore. From the article, a $103 donation ended up as a balance of $33 in the TikTok account. If we assume TikTok has not negotiated a better rate (doubtful), then the math looks like: Donation: $106 Af
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When you have a systemic shock with unknown impact, rational can still be ultimately wrong. If there’s a 50% chance of total economic meltdown, and you can avert it with a few years of high inflation, that might still be the correct decisio
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by yojo 4y ago
This is correct in hindsight. At the time, a lot of smart people were forecasting economic armageddon. Businesses screwed up too; big, well financed companies like Airbnb did massive layoffs. My superhost acquaintance went on to have her be
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by yojo 4y ago
TikTok. They post the full math toward the bottom. TikTok took 69% off the top, the money transfer shop took 10% of the remainder, and the middleman got a 35% cut of what was left, leaving the family with $19 of the original $106 donation
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by yojo 4y ago
I’ve shopped at a couple worker owned co-ops. None of them grow their own food, though some do value-add preparation (e.g. prepared salads). I think there are farming co-ops, but that does not seem to be what the article is about.
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by yojo 4y ago
Bureaucrats are not elected either. Most government workplaces are no more democratic than a corporation. Democracy is probably a better macro-level organizational system, but on smaller scales having a chain of command and an executive fun
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The time stamp thing is especially crazy, and you can see it break down if you saccade to a ticking clock. This twitter thread made the rounds a while back, which lays it out in a nice incredulous rant: https://mobile.twitter.com
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by yojo 4y ago
It is likely scalping reduces the total effective supply. Presumably, scalpers do not successfully unload 100% of tickets before the event, any unsold go unused. It is possible (and would depend on demand elasticity and proportion of ticket
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Your point is valid, but assumes I have a deep enough social pool that I can drop friends and replace them with more compatible communicators. That might or might not be true, but I’m hesitant to test it. I like my friends, other than their
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There is a social expectation of reachability. I get texts from friends trying to make plans for <2 hours in the future. My wife asks me to pick up things at the store, or do something for her in the house. You can turn your phone off or
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These things are not mutually exclusive. That was part of the author’s complaint. They spent a lot of film marking time without doing anything to advance the world, characters, or story.
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In college, when cell phones were just becoming a thing (the old dumb ones - yes, I’m old), I resisted on similar grounds. I disparagingly referred to a phone as a “leash,” arguing that the mere presence of something that can interrupt you
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I have not seen the show. I don’t have a horse in this. But I think the author’s point was more general: the world and the actions of the characters don’t make any sense. The honor culture thing is a fantasy trope, and you need to either fo
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The folks at Google are already working at a megacorp. That small and scrappy ship sailed two decades ago. If I had to guess, most Google engineers aren’t working on cool greenfield stuff, they’re maintaining and extending huge legacy proje

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