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by AJ007 6y ago
If you are hiring, you have to have tasks of staggered difficulty and pay by the hour. Risks still include a skilled worker being swapped out later. If you have a project with a multi-week timeline, the final product delivered at once, you
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by AJ007 6y ago
A low quality comment: you don't even know if it a person. In 2021 you actually need a coherent multi-paragraph post, and a lot of them, to separate a human from a bot. Presumably, there are also a tremendous amount of fake accounts re
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by AJ007 6y ago
It depends on what one's definition of viable is. Take VC money and become a billionaire?
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One of Google's greatest strength was in the pre 2010 period was they were the only advertising sources that sold high quality traffic in massive volume and fraud was almost a non-issue. Go back to 2007 and try to run an ad campaign an
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by AJ007 6y ago
I disagree with multiple things he said here under the natural monopoly paragraph in terms of cost and capex. Clearly that is a lower barrier today than it was 20 years ago. Bing, Yandex, Duckduckgo* do as good of a job and in some cases mu
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by AJ007 6y ago
It could go multiple ways. The limits of the CCPA, GDPR, and likely some future US federal data privacy act do constrain the possible outcomes. I'm not sure my opinion of this should happen or that should happen matters one bit. In the
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by AJ007 6y ago
I would like to see data on Google's revenue distribution per user, guessing it would be very lopsided. Some users are clicking ads for 50%+ of their searches. DuckDuckGo users are different because they most likely at minimum know the
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by AJ007 6y ago
Thanks to anti-trust actions both from the US and EU, we will find out.
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You can pay them millions of dollars a year and they don't give a shit.
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This is for.. a free t-shirt?
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Most of the US airlines will end up bankrupt in the next 12 months which will give the re-organized companies a lot of contractual leeway in deciding what planes they really want to fly. I would discount anything Boeing says or does at this
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by AJ007 6y ago
My expectation is as companies like Adobe, Autodesk, et al become more bloated in their cloud pricing two things will happen: a) First, nuking the hobbyist/amateur users asphyxiates your future pipeline. These people will now use and i
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by AJ007 6y ago
Someone at Amazon had to have looked at the sales boost fake reviews give and decided to leave them. There is just no way that this hasn't been tested. So if the fake reviews sales increase > decrease in user retention, they decided
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by AJ007 6y ago
These comments are bizarre. This topic has been discussed ad nauseam in hacker news for many years. The discussion on here was justifiably more extensive and explained more deeply than anywhere else. People on hacker news have used Google s
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by AJ007 6y ago
He was very vocal years back when Microsoft was trying to pull off with UWP - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-03-04-tim-sweene... - That is too much to go in to here, but I would recommend reading about it
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by AJ007 6y ago
Google is both the most dominant it every has been and the most vulnerable it has ever been, at the same time. From what we've seen with GPT-3, we can train one machine learning model by ingesting the entire scraped web and a whole lot
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by AJ007 6y ago
Tim Sweeney was outspoken about Microsoft’s attempt to force their “App Store” down windows users throats. Microsoft backed down, has certainly moved in a more developer friendly direction, and arguably may have saved their own asses in the
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by AJ007 6y ago
8,399,000 people in NYC, 21 percent of that is 1,763,790. 1% of that is 17,000. So far as of Saturday at 6:49pm EST 16,919 have officially died in NYC. I think the anti-body test in this case is fairly close and the death rate is probably 1
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by AJ007 7y ago
This cross led my mind when China was claiming there was no reason to stop international flights yet Chinese citizens were being jailed shut in their homes. This is probably peak China.
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by AJ007 7y ago
There literally is no Oyo. They took hotels from the bottom x% of hotels, and guaranteed them revenue and got the Oyo sign slapped on the front door. Who could have thought this would work? Like starting a banana company by white labeling t
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by AJ007 7y ago
I was thinking about how many low quality Bloomberg News stories have generated complaints on HN. They keep getting posted and upvoted and are just junk. The quality used to be there. The stories were well researched and more business on-to
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by AJ007 7y ago
This covid-19 debacle illustrated a big conflation with experts and authoritative bureaucracies. Researchers, scientists, and people on the ground in China, Taiwan, and South Korea issued early warnings well ahead of the WHO, CDC, and FDA f
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by AJ007 7y ago
Once the hospitals a past capacity and people are dying in tents, it will make a lot more sense. This should have been done earlier but it wasn’t, and likely could not be in a free country.
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Suspension of rent and mortgage payments is very possible. Current landlord won’t have any replacement renter or ability to evict you. Unlike 9/11 or 2008, this could be viewed as one giant economic freeze for everyone.
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by AJ007 7y ago
You can also set your user agent to googlebot and get the old google images back. Also the search results don’t look as bad.
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by AJ007 7y ago
Straightening out the chain of liabilities would take some knowledge of state and local laws as well as all of the contracts involved. To claim the money is just gone is wrong. If they cancel right before an event, perhaps it is, but the co
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by AJ007 7y ago
I’ve started doing this. In the case of CCPA, GDPR disclosures and “do not track” requirements I suggest uninstalling Chrome and all Google software and switching to Firefox with proper as locking software enabled. I think Google is complia
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by AJ007 7y ago
The keyboard thing is a legitimate issue. When you can’t type a key, it’s a problem. That said, I had been a lifelong PC user until 2015. I decided to buy a Macbook, the first model to use the reviled keyboard. Everything I read online said
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You are largely being informed by PR people and lobbyists. Also facts are generally missing or just wrong when published in real time. Books gives a much more accurate and accountable view of events.
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Right, the unifying thing there is basically about community size. The same thing happens offline. The fact that you had a highly educated user base made a difference too. Early internet users either at a university or affluent and interest

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