AJ007

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by AJ007 9y ago
If the % of ad blockers is high enough, the content providers just switch over to paid subscriptions. E.g. Youtube Red.
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Actively oppose all political candidates who have done nothing to fight back.
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It sounds weird, but companies trying to expand to areas they don't have experience in is nothing new. There are other unique incentives in play right now, but they aren't particularly crazy. Imagine your company is about to be on
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A good portion of the trouble retail is in is due to leverage. Neither they nor their lenders baked online in to their models. The leverage kills the flexibility to adapt to new trends, or in some cases even survive a 10% sag in earnings. A
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Reduced airline travel, tourism, and global trade -- sounds like a good action plan for countering global warming.
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If Facebook is the new AOL, the analogy fares poorly for Facebook's future. Becoming a global media monopoly, Facebook is going to have trouble. They may be able to skirt US anti-trust authorities at home, but not abroad. More local ju
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by AJ007 9y ago
We can't forget that the whole purpose of the internet is decentralization. Perhaps if authoritarian regimes are able to regulate it, that is a sign things have become too centralized. The more chilling question is why is a Western dem
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It is espionage by the US intelligence community against US companies. A lot of these guys should be in prison. I've repeatedly said on HN -- if the US tech companies can't build the most secure systems possible, the US government
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Here are some options: - Walmart fires half of their workers and doubles the remainder's pay - The government terminates the benefits low income Americans receive - Walmart accelerates the transition to automated stores and fires any w
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I think your answer is the best so far. Making blanket statements about it being a good or bad idea isn't very helpful. The OP made a very generalized questions with almost no detail. Certainly not enough to provide much of any helpful
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by AJ007 10y ago
Can someone call out these alleged encryption back doors for what they are? Junk science. If Apple and Google aren't legally able to build as secure as devices & infrastructure as possible, the DOJ, FBI, NSA, and CIA sure as hell w
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by AJ007 10y ago
If they made Google Maps better, users would replace Waze with it and their data collection would decrease. Since an app needs to run in the background to collect speed and location data, moving that feature to Google Maps would be a negati
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I think overall ISPs do a very good job at fighting spam. Compared to a decade and a half ago, I would call it a minimal problem. My greatest fear is that Google and Facebook will co-opt email and charge money for companies to get access. G
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She was not present when Yahoo invested in Alibaba. Her job, presumably, as the CEO was to convince all of the enterprise's employees and customers that Yahoo would be sticking around for the long run. At the same time, she had to prep
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Are the blind happy?
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What if the on-demand platform was decentralized and had no corporate owner?
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In 20 years perhaps the new generation will want physical slabs to hold when they read a book. Nostalgia is always a shrinking market. Imagine someone who really wanted to access Google using the Dewey Decimal System. At least the amount of
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Mass affluence seems to be a historical anomaly. Most would agree it has been very hard on the earth's ecosystem. Following that, it may not be sustainable no matter which economic policy choices are made.
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It would seem that up until this point, Uber+Lyft has represented the transfer of billions of dollars from very wealthy individuals and organizations, to the lower working class. There is another paradox here, that poor people use Uber+Lyft
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I agree that they summarize the current consensus opinion. Cancelled my subscription years ago and rarely read a few articles once and a while. I prefer reading articles where the author's conflicts of interest are clearly disclosed.
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Human species extinction is something almost everyone agrees shouldn't happen.
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Is this any different than the tools CIA employees and contractors built which were then used to conduct espionage against lawful American companies?
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Instead of fake news we had urban legends and old wives tales -- and these stories spread for decades or centuries. Now the velocity has increased, allowing these stories to appear to have some concentrated influence on current events. Jump
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For all of the squabbles between Night Shift and f.lux, both are doing a great job compared to what we had before. I am sure they will both continue to improve and become standard in all platforms I am a lot more concerned about street ligh
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Life in general is abusive. Our Western lifestyle with a steadily increasing standard of living has been on a steady march away from this for quite some time. Most people still don't have the luxury to pass on physically dangerous and
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This is an insightful comment. It is easy to forget not just how different Facebook of 2017 is from 2007 but the cycles they've gone through. Facebook measures and adapts to user engagement. When something spurs a loss of engagement ev
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There seems to be a big jump from what could happen to what definitely will happen. I would say highly likely that whatever car companies are left standing, one or more of them will have fairly good margins. How the ownership ends up workin
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This book does a good job of explaining why: https://www.amazon.com/New-Geography-Jobs-Enrico-Moretti/dp/... Pretty much it is a networking effect issue. The same reason why you are posting this on hackernews inst
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Have any other these same brands bailed on Facebook because of live rape, murder, or suicide streams? http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/gangbanger-facebook-lives-his-o... http://www.cnn.com/2017&#x
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Why not the subway? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Metro_Rail

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