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Facebook ad campaigns heavily favor advertisers slicing up demographics as much as possible. I am going to make the assumption that at the very beginning of the campaign an advertiser created many segments, split by age and gender. After th
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Google has had corrupt employee problems in the Adwords department: https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/07/shoemoney-sues-google-empl... I trust the security and audit trail on Google's engineering side. I de
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I think its going to be selectively shared, with much unshared. The results for human interaction will be very annoying. The next time you see someone at the airport playing a game on their phone with the volume maxed, imagine them dancing
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It is definitely an opportunity for someone else. Just take a look at google finance's popularity using Google Trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=google%20finance&... I think Google, Facebook,
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I'm annoyed by getting counterfeit vacuum cleaner filters at the same price or higher as real ones, but anything where counterfeit could be dangerous I completely avoid (like, for example coffee filters or easily counterfeited electron
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They aren't the only AV company doing it. There is another who openly sells the user's history. I was really shocked how no one cares.
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I don't know what their "real" gdp growth was, but the larger point is that GDP growth occurred because of an even larger increase in debt. That debt likely went to wasteful/non-productive projects. That isn't healt
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Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom were mocked for warning about the dangers of powerful future AI. I've said this here before, the primary use cases of machine learning right now, today, are hostile. That does not bode well for our future. We
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For the general public, SpaceX = Elon Musk = Tesla. The successes of SpaceX have carried over to the Tesla brand for consumers and probably many investors, both large and small. If Elon Musk was separated from the Tesla brand, it would be a
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This is how it looks to an average consumer: here is a shitty version of Apple's reader mode that doesn't really work, brought to you by Google.com.
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Google is panicking over user behavior changes. Fewer people using the traditional search, more people using voice search, more people using a mobile web browser which they can't control. Someone is plotting the use of paid search ads
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I don’t know if it was meant to be a subtle joke, but tourism 75 years ago (in Europe or otherwise..) seriously?
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It is worth pointing out that the "winning" centralized systems are largely built using decentralized systems. A lesson to start ups is to be very careful building your product by assembling pieces of commercial centralized system
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I've been running my own tech company for over a decade now, and prior to that my job was everything from cleaning toilets to changing lightbulbs. On paper it sounds terrible, but I was very happy. The work environment matters a lot. T
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If you follow people on Twitter based on the quality of their activity then Twitter is incredibly valuable. My problem has never been about people tweeting things which were offensive, it was about them tweeting things about their dogs and
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I would like to see a statement that YC China will not discriminate based on ethnicity, gender, religion, or sexual orientation and more importantly will not support startups which create technology which make doing so easier.
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The US has basically done this with Cuba and North Korea. Unfortunately whether everyone is better off or not presents a non-falsifiable hypothesis. I think there certainly should be a distinction between what is being traded. Medicine &amp
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Not only is it ethical, it is the reason we are on computers right now and not foraging for food.
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AWS is arguably an original category. Unfortunately this is really just an opinion piece. I’d like to see some empirical work examining Amazon’s impact on different markets.
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The big challenge for publishers right now is censorship. Platform censorship happens in many ways: - Visibility hidden because an algorithm in a non-chronological news feed thinks your content won't get enough engagement - Visibility
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How did that work out for Eastern Europe when the Soviet Union was in power?
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So now bureaucrats can pass out political favors through selective enforcement.
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It’s the dangerous products that concern me more than the counterfeit ones. I’m more lenient than you, but yes there are huge category groups I won’t even bother trying to buy on Amazon. That list has been increasing, not shrinking. I still
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When I dropped out of school I thought the odds on the outcome of staying and graduating were worse than leaving. The bad outcome having been getting an average salary at a job I was unhappy with. I dropped out with a tiny income from my bu
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Principles no one is actually using - “In the end, my search failed to produce a single organization that adopted the principles in a Bridgewater-like manner” https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b184ggn6dd6090
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We have so many small cryptocurrencies because so few buyers from last years boom bothered to read or understand anything about how Bitcoin worked.
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There is signifiant disagreement to what extent Facebook and Google are compliant.
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Sometimes I fall asleep and have to go see the movie again.
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Look at Recruit’s existing line of business and revenue. The bigger question, to me, is what happens if Google decides two sites dominating their organic listings is not welcome.
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There was some low hanging fruit for companies to create subscription plans who shouldn’t have been adding them. The more subscriptions your target customer has, the harder it is to convert them on the new one. For the business side the cei

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