Akababa

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Dating Is a Rich Person's Game Now(wired.com)
5 points by Akababa 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Akababa 5mo ago
There are diminishing returns to more engineers. Also hiring more is like investing with leverage. You might increase EV but also increase the chance of going bust if things go poorly.
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by Akababa 1y ago
Found the person who didn't read the article lol
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by Akababa 6y ago
ozontel.com doesn't exist. Is that a typo or did a competitor really buy ads to a nonexistent domain?
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Bad Software Engineering Killed Cyberpunk 2077’s Release(youtube.com)
2 points by Akababa 6y ago|0 comments
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by Akababa 6y ago
So Trevor fabricated evidence to fool the police? That's a far more serious offense than the sexual misconduct, and frankly it's hard to believe he could pull that off, unless he managed to bribe the police. Johnny's probably
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by Akababa 6y ago
If you look at it in terms of risk-adjusted returns (Sharpe ratio), a fixed transaction fee costs more Sharpe on a low-variance bet than it does on a high-variance bet. The variance of balanced contracts is higher than the variance of unbal
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by Akababa 6y ago
A large proportion, if not the majority of my doordash orders include some sort of promotion. They're everywhere and at this point I almost have an expectation that doordash will always have a promotion that lets me order at a discoun
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by Akababa 6y ago
Yeah, but left/right is a big part of what differentiates political parties. It's like the first factor in a PCA decomposition.
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by Akababa 6y ago
I don't get it. If the landlord wants the filming to happen so badly, why doesn't he kick in a few grand to compensate his tenant... That's a lot easier than kicking and screaming all night.
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by Akababa 6y ago
If ROM space is so valuable, why is ASCII text (which I imagine is relatively large) stored on it?
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A new quantum paradox throws the foundations of observed reality into question(inverse.com)
3 points by Akababa 6y ago|0 comments
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by Akababa 6y ago
If true, that's uncannily reminiscent of North Korea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inebLA3HqPo
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Ray tracing has failed to deliver on its promise(pcgamer.com)
7 points by Akababa 6y ago|4 comments
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by Akababa 6y ago
That's the fundamental problem of hiring: you have to make educated guesses about who is going to make a better employee. And you should be willing to pay more to hire someone who you believe is better. For some companies, salaries are
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by Akababa 6y ago
They can't lock me out of my account if I do it myself first!
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by Akababa 6y ago
Have you talked to the person who made the not? They might not realize how distracting it is. Maybe they'll move it to another channel as a compromise.
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by Akababa 6y ago
It's about supply and demand. If he really is the best person for the job, then there's nothing to be gained from paying him a higher fixed salary. But if there's someone else who's even marginally better that you can ge
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by Akababa 6y ago
That's a uniform distribution
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by Akababa 6y ago
You can even use an android emulator for this - some of them come with location spoofing too.
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by Akababa 6y ago
My impression is that Uber fulfills a niche for drivers who want a certain tradeoff between flexibility and job security. There are people who fit into that niche and people who don't, but forcing the company to change its value propos
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by Akababa 6y ago
You're the one who brought up the forest metaphor, where plants compete for light.
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by Akababa 6y ago
I share a monitor and peripherals for both personal and work stuff, and find that an effective way to "turn off work mode" is to simply switch the hub from my work laptop to my personal computer so I'm not as tempted to go ba
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by Akababa 6y ago
This is part of a super generic tradeoff between liberty and public good that differs from case to case depending on your culture and values. For example, should we ban smoking? What about meth? And so on.
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by Akababa 6y ago
As other commenters have mentioned, all the company has to do is disclose risks in their public filings and it's up to investors to do their due diligence. It's safe to say that unless they lied to investors, the majority of capit
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by Akababa 6y ago
I'm not sure that this makes an economic difference - ultimately Uber's algorithm will set the price where supply intersects demand. Or equivalently, drivers can raise their own prices/restrict supply by only working during s
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by Akababa 6y ago
Noob question: how do they even measure performance faster than RAM sequential read?
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by Akababa 7y ago
I can see your point, but that does beg the question: what niche does a nonacademic nonprofit fill? It seems to me that's it's not filling a particular niche at all, but rather sitting somewhere between a corporate lab and a tradi
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by Akababa 7y ago
It labels almost every paragraph as a different speaker, which makes you wonder why they bother to try! Does their software really think the podcast has 20 different participants?
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by Akababa 7y ago
Is volume control necessary? I don't think the YouTube app even has it because it just uses your device volume.

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