Cephalopterus

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by Cephalopterus 6y ago
Came here to say this aswell, I visited the site wondering what the terms and conditions were. The page starts off by saying: > For USD $25 per month, we install and maintain a full featured Ghost install for you with no restrictions (un
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by Cephalopterus 6y ago
The problem with Lobste.rs (which arguably is also the key differentiating point) is their invite only system. Unless you know someone who's already in, there's no way to get an invite
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by Cephalopterus 7y ago
Are there any plans to add a free tier without support or migration for say, less than 100k views a month? The pricing seems pretty neat if you're closer to the limit of the pricing ie one million page views but if you're at the o
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by Cephalopterus 7y ago
AWS is quite literally a printing press for Amazon that prints it $$ and let's it devour other competitors in the retail eCommerce segment by selling at close to no margins. They need to keep the AWS quality decent because unlike their
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by Cephalopterus 7y ago
You shouldn't be comparing nominal returns between markets, what you should be comparing is the inflation adjusted real returns. That's why even if Japanese banks offer nearly no interest the currency is deflating and as a result
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by Cephalopterus 7y ago
I wish they had pricing based on countries PPP instead of a flat international pricing, it's kinda expensive if you're not from a first world country cause atleast where I am, $588 (49x12) would easily pay for a semester of colleg
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by Cephalopterus 7y ago
It's kind of like the insane amount of privacy of Adobe products is what gave them their current near absolute monopoly over the entire market. A huge number of today's graphic designers started off with pirated copies of Photosho
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by Cephalopterus 7y ago
> at the same time tons of subreddits go way beyond just moderating out the bad stuff and act like full blown newspaper editors who delete 75%+ of organically upvoted submitted content While hyper active moderation and power mods pushing
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by Cephalopterus 7y ago
> because that content can be a bit salty. AKA the fate of every site that is a collection of usergenerated content with an ad based business model. If you want to get serious about monetization then you need to actively curtail any cont
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by Cephalopterus 7y ago
Quora is arguably worse, it actively incentivized people to post inane and unproductive questions reducing the overall quantity of the content. Language topics are littered which questions such as "What is the colour red in the languag
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by Cephalopterus 7y ago
Unfortunately, VLC is developed by VideoLAN, a non-profit organization whereas Reddit is a for profit company which by definition they will chase for profits.