qvorak's comments

On: Study shows the top 0.01% of Scandinavian househol...

[qvorak]

We don't need much of a study to see how little[1] corporations pay in taxes relative to the quoted rates of 30%+ that are thrown around.

[1] http://erikrood.com/Posts/tax_rates.html

On: Show HN: Top domains posted on Reddit

[qvorak]

This essentially shows the top urls posted each week (since it's a weekly refresh cadence pulling from the 'top monthly' in reddit, which refreshes daily).

On: Show HN: Top domains posted on Reddit

[qvorak]

Working on an app to connect content creators with advertisers, and in my search for content creators I've been pulling a lot of reddit data. Thought this was fairly interesting so dropped it into a table. Unsurprisingly, ~75% of top posts are from image/video hosting domains.

On: What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest? (2014)

[qvorak]

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

On: Life is Short

[qvorak]

I think the very last paragraph summarizes it a bit better (and more concisely):

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short."

On: The eye of hurricane Matthew passes directly over ...

[qvorak]

Any idea what he used to make that? Super impressive

[shpx → qvorak]

windytv is a fork of earth [0], which is open source [1] and made with D3.js [2], I'm guessing windytv is also using d3.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415777

[1] https://github.com/cambecc/earth

[2] https://earth.nullschool.net/about.html

On: U.S. Federal Govt. vehicles drove 5B miles in 2015...

[qvorak]

Doh! Updated...