Viewing profile — th0raway

It's not about the minor offenses of uninteresting people, but what happens because a change in political orientation makes you suddenly interesting. Even more so when AI automates…

If by European you mean mostly British, sure! And you can see how Anglosphere metro areas resemble each other a lot. But Europe is not one thing.

I mean, I also get obsessed with their horror when, after coming from abroad, I am back at my American suburb. All this mandatory front yard and setbacks that must be lawn, even th…

On one end we have Coase's theory of the firm, but then we have the realities of the modern tech megacap company, which is 20+ companies in a trench coat, and where it's clear the …

What they are often talking about there is countries where the official exchange rate is very different from a real world exchange rate: This happened in Argentina quite often. Tha…

Far fewer than you'd think: The vast majority of Europe is in the same boat as the US. Whenever there's value in agglomeration (ie, all the time), the value of well placed properti…

America already has plenty of cities that aren't doing very well, and aren't getting migration, so new cities aren't going to help. There's plenty of cheap housing inventory in the…

There's quite the history of straight out cheating in high level MtG, and yes, insufficient randomization is one of the most typical ways around it. If all you do is cut their deck…

Disney has an especially difficult problem, as optimizing for revenue for an org might actually lower total revenue for the entire company. See how many movies do badly because peo…

The shareholders have little to do with this, ultimately. You see the same rot happen in private companies where the main investor really has full control. It doesn't take much tim…

Ridiculous tracking happened before AI too. Go read the book about Bridgewater, describing, among other things, how internal security worked when it was led by James Comey (yes, th…

The biggest difference there isn't production costs, but the physical costs of maintaining the giant library, in a way that is reasonable streamable at a good cost from any device,…

It's the first step to building the top companies: You first need enough agglomeration of that labor so that, whenever there's a recession, you can scoop up some of that labor for …

We opened the Cloud Code floodgates all at once in my org. After a few months we looked at stats, and asked managers for impressions on performance changes. The API cost per engine…

Yes, in a reasonable microservice land where the places you need to connect to are all documented in very concise places, you have have extremely productive $10 days. In the giant …

It comes down to two things. One is the well documented issue of how, when you are that rich, you are treated differently, and how that will ultimately modify your behavior. The ot…

There are many answers, often related to company size and interest in teaching. Some large bay area companies think that training people into a FP style of Scala is too expensive/h…

You have to look at it from both sides though: If I started a business with Stripe as a processor, it's in Stripe's best interest for my business to grow as much as possible, becau…

I've seen plenty of reporting pipelines that are that slow over the years. If this was built on the cheap, so it just uses existing pipelines, and instead of working through stream…

Instead of text in an email, imagine it as a slack reacji. It'd be no different than +1 or shipit in github.

If you are Facebook, Amazon or someone like that it can make sense, but their level of sophistication is insane for someone that isn't making millions a month. At a smaller scale, …

On both parts of your comment you are missing a huge piece of the puzzle: fraud. A payments processor (old school or digital) is constantly taking on some certain amount of risk of…

You might disagree with the read if you actually saw what the implementation of said principles looks like. There's plenty of articles out there about what those principles do to a…

I've seen one of those predictors. It looked at an honest signal, captured in a way that would be fairly representative of the population at large. Since the data had some location…

My current company has a very similar interview style, and I later learned that I was pretty close to not being hired because I didn't do quite as well as one interviewer wanted on…