adamson

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by adamson 7y ago
Right? As I was reading GP, all I could think is that there are a million other instances of an issue having two interested but opposed parties, one being larger than the other, and in advanced pluralistic democracies, we generally find way
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by adamson 7y ago
It’s unfortunate that it’s third party, but conda has the unquestionable advantage of being the only Python-centric packaging system that has a reasonable shared binary library story
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by adamson 7y ago
I guess you'd have to see historical margins to make any sort of reasonable projections, but I think GP is saying that they've so increased their unit margin on the ride-hailing to near zero that it's dishonest to say they&#x
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by adamson 7y ago
I live in lower Manhattan, and there have been many shootings within a mile of me in the past year, even a few within two blocks of me, but because the per-capita numbers are so low, I'm pretty unconcerned about being shot, and so it d
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by adamson 7y ago
I’m not aware of any evidence that that’s actually the motivation behind preventing deflation. Just about every economist will tell you that deflation is undesirable because it incentives hoarding accumulated currency rather than investing
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by adamson 7y ago
Why was upkeep that expensive? Would you be maintaining the entire estate as a perfectly manicured garden?
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by adamson 7y ago
If anything, the "best and brightest" folks in Hertz management who drafted the policies that both the phone assistant and the person behind the counter had to try to navigate (and who both acknowledged the policies they were stru
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by adamson 7y ago
In what sense was Martin "doing the right thing" by hoarding documents seemingly for its own sake/to satisfy some tick? I don't think it's fair to the others you listed to lump Martin in with them.
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by adamson 7y ago
What would the power law effect look like here? 0.1% of branded retweets being worth $20,000?
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by adamson 7y ago
Can you expand on point 4? Conda-forge releases perfectly fine tensorflow-gpu builds, with the caveat that they don’t ship stubs or the actual NVIDIA driver with them so it’s not truly standalone, but the same can be said of pytorch or real
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by adamson 7y ago
It shouldn't bother you if you have a long investment horizon, like the average retail trader.
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by adamson 7y ago
If you're a market maker or broker, it is illegal for you or any part of your firm that you have informed to front run client orders, plain and simple.
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by adamson 7y ago
Well, the Javits Center is still standing
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by adamson 7y ago
Thorsten Ball very recently gave an interview on Software Engineering Radio [1] where he discusses the books and the language and his thinking on each. [1] https://www.se-radio.net/2019/05/365-thorsten-ball-on-buil
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by adamson 7y ago
It'd be amazing if there were an open smart device protocol (maybe there is one?) that was widely implemented. There's no reason turning on the lights in your room or changing what Spotify is playing on your speakers needs to be t
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by adamson 7y ago
Yes, but you’re still free to turn around and sell Linux as part of a SaaS offering as Amazon does. It saves you from someone surreptitiously forking your project and selling the fork without contributing back improvements to the public, bu
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by adamson 7y ago
Sure, but in this case e.g. GPL vs BSD is only marginally relevant (any modification needs to be GPL in the GPL case) to the particular case of selling OSS software as SaaS since either license lets you package and sell the bare software.
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by adamson 7y ago
I don't see this. Are you saying the author has a bone to pick with Amazon in particular or that he has a stake in seeing OSS-based cloud services become non-OSS because he has money at stake in selling those services? None of the prop
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by adamson 7y ago
I don't think it's that hard to understand. To some degree, Amazon's behavior is exploiting an idealism that has given us software such as Linux that we're all benefitting from today, and it's easy to see why a star
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by adamson 7y ago
I still do that if I come across one when I'm thirsty. This is the first I've heard of their dangers!
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by adamson 7y ago
You don’t think the Soviet economy would have collapsed much earlier than it did had it taken no signals at all into account? There are signals other than price that give you a sense of demand
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by adamson 7y ago
I googled "Firestone Ford" before reading to the end of the sentence and seeing your link, and amazingly, the first result is a woman named "Martha Firestone Ford" [1], whose name comes from the same business relationshi
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by adamson 7y ago
How is that an effective repercussion without them also telling you that they're giving you a lower rating for that reason? Do they expect you to somehow intuit over time based on meticulously checking your score after each ride and do
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by adamson 7y ago
This feels like a circular argument. Not everyone needs HTTP/2 support (especially for internal services for enterprise applications).
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by adamson 7y ago
> Things that you might expect to be invalid, are valid. A zero byte array deserialised as a protobuf message is a perfectly valid message. All the strings are "" (not null), the bools false, and the ints 0. How does this work?
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by adamson 7y ago
Wow, I've walked by that block so many times and never would have guessed it was the work of IM Pei
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by adamson 7y ago
It's by no means a constant, permeating stink. Sure, there are some neighborhoods with open air food markets that can be smelly, or some that are downwind of waste processing centers (most of East Williamsburg), or smelly because of wa
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by adamson 7y ago
Do people find that time spent in motion or moving between tasks is ever the determining factor of how quickly or effectively you can prepare a meal in the context of a home kitchen? Granted, I've rarely cooked for more than ~4 people,
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by adamson 7y ago
It grew by 10x, but I doubt Lyft's infrastructure or day-to-day engineering costs have grown anywhere near that much. That said, I have no idea what Lyft could spend $600MM on researching.
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by adamson 7y ago
Wasn't Milo's book literally titled "Dangerous"?

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