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by BbzzbB 5y ago
I replied to a very specific part of their comment, I have not been rooting against the proposition of opening up walled garden. If "I" would use it is entirely irrelevant, all I meant to point out is people don't flock to be
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
>no one will be stupid enough not to use a client like that. Twitter allows exactly that (or used to, unsure if the API is still up): an API for third parties to use it's content and make alternative front-ends, like Nitter. How man
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
So, because Q1 guidance is a meager 3-10% revenue increase YoY and RoW active users took one (and first) small step back it is failing ?
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
WeChat Pay (Tencent) and AliPay (Alibaba) are both huge indeed. I have no clue how much cash they bring in, tho I would expect Visa and Mastercard make way more, but they are widely used, especially the former (WeChat is quite the super-a
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
E-commerce (mostly for IG) and payments (mostly for WA, somewhat for Messenger) have been parts of the Facebook bull case for a long time. Why do people think companies of >70k people can't focus on more than one product/servic
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
I had forgot about Mindustry... What have you done to me! Loved that game and wasted way too much time on it, will have to spend some more. Edit: Looks like it even got a fair few upgrades since! You can even code in game now.
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
>Facebook would ever have beneficial insight to add to a privacy standard I'm not saying "this is it", but here's a (IMO) reasonable line of thought why they would genuinely be working in that direction. Basically, sh
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
># Crawlers that are kind enough to obey, but which we'd rather not have ># unless they're feeding search engines. >[disallows UbiCrawler, DOC and zao] Anyone understand this bit? They are obedient spiders yet are disallo
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
The eyedrop (permanently hide element) is great for getting through most cookie walls without accepting anything. The filters (custom rules for hiding stuff) is great for personalizing your browsing. Eliminate scores on Reddit, YouTube vide
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
I've had no problem with it, no repetitions and only what follows post.
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Emerging markets still shown slightly north of 30% YoY ARPU growth. Combine this with a larger user base (7x NA's, 5x EU's) and it remains an important lever, one to potentially outgrow NA's + EU's share of revenue. They
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
>they can't afford it Ever heard about non-all cash deals? Besides, that $60-some B is after nearly $20B in buybacks from Q4 so they could've without it. But as they did, some two months of saved up FCF and they can again.
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
>but more importantly they're not reliant on another company's users. Must be why they paid Apple $15B last year to be default search on Safari, a mob fee that increases by the year.
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
How many times over has their DAU, ARPU and free cash flow multiplied since then?
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
When you have plateaued post-hypergrowth is not the time to get off the market, it's time to redistribute capital by massively repurchasing shares if you can't intelligently reinvest it all. Preferably after the market slams your
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Just use facebook.com/?sk=h_chr, you'll get your chronological feed minus the content recommender.
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
You don't anymore, you do need an account but doesn't have to be a Facebook one.
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Beijing Says International Mail Is Possible Culprit in First Omicron Case(wsj.com)
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
What sort of project can a layman/non-electrical engineer do with bare chips like these? And don't you always end up reproducing an RPi (with barebone specs for your needs) to be able of putting them to use? Like don't you ne
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Aren't those examples showing the discrepancy? The bait page has (roughly) 0-5 likes for 2.15M followers, these have respectively 140 likes for 270k followers and 360 likes for 25k followers. Either the dropshipping posts from the form
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Fair, the low likes could be vastly under-selling how many impressions they get and their click-through rate. Clearly it makes at minimum some money (and possibly a good amount) for the owner to be so diligently keep the page chugging alo
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Unless the video [0] I had seen (some time ago) on the subject didn't explain it right, it seems to be conflating "group think" and pattern recognition with "everyone on reddit is a bot except you"[1]/"the
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
How much does it matter here tho? I think it gatters likes/follows and baits enough people to check the profile, but the conversion rate seems extremely low (tho I guess that may be good enough with these numbers). In OP's blog pr
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
>Can I just watch TV without seeing ads? Piracy >Can I just get a new car without paying $30,000? Choose another model/brand, better yet go 1-2 year old if new(ish) is important to you. >Can I just get the chrome browser witho
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
That exists, it's www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr No more "X friend liked Y photo or commented on Z post", no more recommended content, not even sponsored posts I think (quite the loophole, if you work at Facebook please move
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Didn't expect level 1 Stockfish to be that bad, for a few moves I was thinking white was Copilot until I verified.
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
Conglomerates tend to be valued less than the sum-of-the-parts, getting control of conglomerates to spin off their businesses is a common active investing tactic. Breaking FB up is likely to unlock value for shareholders rather than hinder
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
"Web3 crypto projects"[0] he's long on and ready to pump. He's a salesman and his conviction only goes as deep as his lock-up agreements, which thankfully aren't a thing in crypto. 0: https://uk.finance.y
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
>you're asking for them to reveal someone’s phone number You're putting words in my mouth (hands?), I clearly said notify said user to get it's consent. It doesn't have to "synchronously hold a conversation waiti
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by BbzzbB 5y ago
So an iMessage group that was initiated with 5 iPhones using their phone numbers can add an Android in it no problem, but if one of them was added through Apple ID it's suddenly black magic? How about a notification asking the Apple ID

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