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MrEfficiency

-14 karma · joined August 9, 2018

I run http://efficiencyiseverything.com/

Applying Industrial Engineering principles to Life.

Currently building my own 'world changing' app, in React Native + php laravel mysql.

And building a dishwasher dinner table that cleans and sets the dishes. Written in C

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MrEfficiency··on The Bezos backlash: Is 'big philanthropy' a charade?
How small is this group?

I find myself solving problems with capitalism and simultaneously donating 5-10% of my net-income.

I also dont see life being any worse than 'before' for any classes. 'before' being 15 years ago.

MrEfficiency··on The Bezos backlash: Is 'big philanthropy' a charade?
Amazon has helped me 'invent' things. I cannot deny that getting components in 2 days for mere dollars has been very useful.

This cascades as I then provide value for people that buy my later inventions.

Sure I can use digikey, but it takes 7-9 days to get parts for a reasonable price.

While Amazon has gotten worse in the last few years, they still have crushed the established standards for shipping.

MrEfficiency··on Crypto Market Has Bottomed (According to Novogratz)
POS removes the trustless and decentralized nature of blockchain.
MrEfficiency··on Ask HN: Is AWS deprecating Windows?
Small timer here,

I cannot afford Microsoft or afford to trust Microsoft to host my apps.

Linux support is often google-able, while Microsoft is often paid.

I only imagine Amazon is getting some friction from Microsoft Corporate.

MrEfficiency··on Crypto Market Has Bottomed (According to Novogratz)
From numbers alone?

I can see Bitcoin being stable as its used as a fiat hedge, but the top alt coin Ethereum, failed to solve the Blockchain log jam. It seems overall, apps should not run on blockchain.

These ERC20 platforms have to go to ~0 before we see the bottom.

MrEfficiency··on The Most Dangerous Muse: Parkinson’s disease gave her the gift of creativity
Can you explain this further? What are positive benefits of ADHD on creativity? Ive never heard of this.
MrEfficiency··on Paying Is Voluntary at This Selfie-Friendly Store
This is why these are short term projects.

Uncompetitive products can be interesting and fun while its trendy. After, the market gets saturated if its a good idea.

If someone thinks you can create a business empire with this model, they will fail to their higher quality and lower cost competitors. However, if you were trying to pay bills for a few years, these niche ideas are fine.

MrEfficiency··on Teaching foreign policy majors to code
I always recommend python.

You are teaching coding, not computer science and electrical engineering on Day 1.

Setting variables, printing things on the screen, creating loops, making your first functions- Thats day 1.

With that, I would assume most people become addicted to programming, when you make a function, you can feel the power of programming.

After that, I encourage people to solve a problem in their own life. Most of the time, you can rig it in python- but if they wanted to build an app, they are basically ready.

My objective is to give them instant gratification and feed into their personal goals.

MrEfficiency··on Tesla to achieve leading $100/kWh battery cell cost this year, says investor
Do not trust anything Tesla says.

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manufacturers_by_motor...

MrEfficiency··on Tesla to achieve leading $100/kWh battery cell cost this year, says investor
You should look up the Chevy Bolt.

'Catching Up' might be more reserved for Tesla. They cant make cars, but automakers can.

MrEfficiency··on Tesla to achieve leading $100/kWh battery cell cost this year, says investor
Tesla(and spacex) have a massive marketing presence but have failed to deliver on their promises over and over.

I stopped trusting their PR team, they must prove themselves instead of talking now. They did this to themselves.

MrEfficiency··on Yarn Plug'n'Play: Getting rid of node_modules
Isnt this the point of OOP?

Does any other language have a solution to this?

MrEfficiency··on Yarn Plug'n'Play: Getting rid of node_modules
Wow, I thought I was alone and did something unconventional. Good(?) to hear that this isnt me.
MrEfficiency··on Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads
Any isle I go in has multiple different pricing of similar products.

Offbrand, brand name, up-and-coming brand name, etc... Most have many different features and obvious differences in quality.

In my decade of shopping at walmart, the only thing that sucked were the offbrand crackers and a 5$ battery powered light.

MrEfficiency··on Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads
I find it weird to say-

I'm excited to see what Walmart does in the next decade...

but seriously, Amazon has gotten big enough to be 'bad' to customers and get away with it. The moment I saw an item was Prime only, I realized I needed to shop at the competitors.

MrEfficiency··on Number of hedge fund startups lowest in nearly two decades
thank you!
MrEfficiency··on Number of hedge fund startups lowest in nearly two decades
How and why does this happen?

I dont quite understand what would encourage someone to take outside investment money unless its necessary to build production.

Maybe I'm so small time, I just dont understand, but Snapchat survived without taking investment from my understanding.

MrEfficiency··on Money Crypto vs. Tech Crypto
"Tech Crypto"

Doesnt mention the near impossibility of having 7 computers verify every database write for an application. Its slow/unreliable and expensive.

Ethereum doesnt seem to scale and the solution to this is going POS, which removes the trustless nature of blockchain.

MrEfficiency··on Winklevoss Brothers Launch Ethereum Token Backed by U.S. Dollars
Since ETH is expensive and slow, I dont understand why they didnt just copypaste ETH and run their own...
MrEfficiency··on What is Bitcoin Cash?
No mention that mining difficulty changed with BCH?

Cant trust a coin that has a few players that decide how much money they want to print.

MrEfficiency··on Many who crafted regulations after the 2008 crisis now work for Wall Street
The mental gymnastics in OPs post are classic government apologists.

Instead of criticizing the system, they find an excuse to propagate it.

I dont have a solution, government is a beast that can barely be controlled. Voting and politicians seem like they have power, but the employees are often entrenched and reinforced by the winners of the current system.

MrEfficiency··on A Popular Mac App That Sent Users' Browsing History to China Has Been Removed
Im pretty sure Apple has a marketing team patrolling ycombinator.

or fanboys.

MrEfficiency··on A Popular Mac App That Sent Users' Browsing History to China Has Been Removed
I cant remember why I uninstalled, but the UI changed and I couldnt do something I used to be able to.

I think it was navigating videos and being able to hit 'Next' in-video.

Whatever the case it broke and I found a new file explorer.

MrEfficiency··on A Popular Mac App That Sent Users' Browsing History to China Has Been Removed
Dont forget you need to buy an apple, and the yearly membership, and have to constantly update when code is intentionally broken.

As a small time dev with limited resources, Apple is my least favorite company to deal with.

MrEfficiency··on What Does Google Know About Me?
I am fortunate enough to have only a few stupid things I said as a child online.

I dont have any illegal doings or things I'm trying to hide.

Sure my route to work and friends houses is being tracked. But that isnt exactly uncommon, my friends know where I work and live.

My search history is mostly video games, chemistry questions, and web development. My Fapping habits are pretty mild compare to the stuff I've seen.

I'm curious what the future is, I'm mild. But I can imagine that many people have a history they wish to hide.

MrEfficiency··on GIMP receives a $100K donation
Can we streamline the controls?

Thats what GIMP needs. After 9 years of using GIMP I switched to photoshop because I was doing many photos and couldnt hand the inconsistency of what each button does.

MrEfficiency··on How to Procrastinate Productively
I have a few things like this.

I sew when I'm brain dead and hate working. Not even organizing/grunt work sounds appealing, so I'll design and make some sweaters.

Ive also found getting stuck in a favorite video game has helped productivity. When I'd rather work than get past a hard spot, I'll keep working. Similar is true if you simply uninstall a large game.

MrEfficiency··on Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages
Consider that only the biggest and largest companies can meet all of google's expectations.

Single person websites wont be able to compete.

This means 'for profit' websites rather than free blogs take priority.

This sounds like how Facebook killed their brand.

MrEfficiency··on Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages
>people just want the web services that they want. Google could easily fade away and be supplanted by another entity in ten years' time if something sufficiently innovative and disruptive arrives on the scene.

Google has enough services that even if google searching became obsolete, they could fall back on their other services that are currently free like email and docs.

Apple isnt quite like this. A bad/boring iphone=end of Apple.

MrEfficiency··on Google Dataset Search
What is the best way for a website to format data to the public?

I already have my presentation, but I can also provide it as a .xls, .csv, sql, or html table.

What would be best to help programmers/data scientists use my data?

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