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by AJ007 8y ago
I strongly agree that the serious issue here is Youtube's recommendation system. There is nothing inherently wrong with recommendation systems. There is a problem when they are optimized for maximum view time with a disregard to conten
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by AJ007 8y ago
I've noticed that 'ax to grind' also tends to equate with a PR firm didn't write these articles.
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It’s unfair to the companies that don’t get the tax breaks. Politically, I’m not sure having an environment where special rules are granted or exempted by government officials on a selective basis is healthy either.
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That probably means the actual value of those condo units is $50,000, assuming the income holds up and the population keeps increasing. The big question to me is if the properties can even be maintained.
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by AJ007 8y ago
Electronic game dev right now is the furthest from monopoly almost any industry can be. The big AAA developers just keep rolling out rehashes of their old games as long as the revenue exceeds developments costs. Very similar model to super
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by AJ007 8y ago
There is some irony here in how terrible and clunky the Gmail web UI has gotten, yet how standardized and seamless email has remained. Hacker news has had a recurring discussion about disrupting email. Of course some startup would love to v
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by AJ007 8y ago
The only spam in my Twitter feed is “people you follow also follow.” I’ve been doing a lot of blocking.
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Ad blockers are mandatory on my parents computers. They can’t distinguish between what is or isn’t an ad (not speaking specifically of Spotify display ads.) I feel like I hold an opinion no one else reading hacker news has, I believe websit
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The other part of Peter Thiel's point is that if you aren't a monopoly, you pretend you are, so you can convince investors you are much more valuable.
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A fork of a Bitcoin fork (Bitcoin Cash.) And presumably this must lead to another fork prior to when the illegal content was inserted. The alternatives being, it isn't a real blockchain at all, or all of the users become criminals. Fro
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The unifying lesson I've been appreciating after reaching my 30s is that in order to make good decisions, an individual needs to have a very clear understanding of how something works. If you know how something works, then you can fore
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I may wildly presumptive (based on the photo in the article), but if there aren't any doors I'm not sure how useful heat/AC would be.
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In some respect the people who are showing up to the blockchain party long after it ended are lucky. They could have learned about this stuff in late 2017 and been wiped out.
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Google wants extractable facts that they can insert directly in the search results. I speculate the users want it too, at least as long as those “facts” are actually true. The more voice makes up the percentage of searches, the fewer search
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by AJ007 8y ago
I know little about insurance from a professional context, but as an investor what I know is often insurance companies do not earn more than they pay out from premiums, they earn it from the float. This can persist for very long periods of
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by AJ007 8y ago
There has been plenty of in depth reporting about what was going on at Vice. They knew damn well what they were doing. Pump and dump on an unsuspecting old media company that still had tons of money.
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by AJ007 8y ago
Be suspect of any centralized, closed service attempting to replace an open, working, eco-system of decentralized platforms.
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by AJ007 8y ago
I’m not sure that the average internet reader knew the difference between buzzfeed, buzzfeed news, the New York Times, and any random fake news site a 16 year old threw up. At the time, my view was that, Buzzfeed, and others, were just atte
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by AJ007 8y ago
“Yang’s arrest serves the purpose of granting additional leverage to the Chinese government in international negotiations for the protection and promotion of Huawei around the world.” That isn’t how Americans react. Chinese companies, malic
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Releasing the source code for Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3 was very much a Carmack thing. Source code releases for extremely successful, closed, commercial projects remains very uncommon (though it is fair to point out that th
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Depending on the country, dominant market share as a search engine, online advertising platform, web browser, and operating system. And they’ve been claiming to be adding their own ad blocking to that web browser for sites that have “too ma
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by AJ007 8y ago
In this case its $ paid for marketing.
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The whole issues of reviews and ratings remains a pretty big issue across all platforms. Some of these shortfalls may be unsolvable, like predicting a high consequence, low probability future action, like being murdered by your Uber driver.
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I never got that image from WeWork. Anyone around during late 2008-2009 knows what happened to leases and rents. It seemed apparent from the beginning that WeWork was just exchanging future risk for current cash, and thus everything else wa
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by AJ007 8y ago
Traffic source matters too. You could end up with a bunch of junk click from the search network while Google.com is doing just fine. If things are really unfavorable, google might start sending you youtube clicks. The more you are able to s
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by AJ007 8y ago
Mediocre, with some exceptions like medicine and law, you need to run your own company or work remotely to live very comfortably.
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If you were to make a list of each cryptocurrency you could find, then you’d be somewhere are 99.99%. The people buying these things either don’t understand how Bitcoin works, or think they are going to get rich quick from the greater fool
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It’s pattern recognition and confusion. The news stories that are fake are presented and look the same way as real ones. I would like to see a study using the same subjects but check to see if they can tell what is a Google search result an
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EC2 and Google Cloud concern me a lot more than Facebook and Reddit. A lot of those censor-able platforms have only been successful because the users believed they were using something different than it actually was (surprise, Tumblr users.
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My mom stopped working when I was born. My dad didn’t earn a large income but was extremely cautious with money. You can save a lot of money by never eating out, not flying, and so on. There are people who nickel and dime everything but mak

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