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by achenet 4y ago
ask for donations. Make good work, people will pay to support it. Works for NPR.
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by achenet 4y ago
for who? Is the value that Google gets from one user having ads really that high? Youtube Premium is only ~$10/month, does Google really make that much more with ads?
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by achenet 4y ago
you solve this by leaving an ad supported business model in favor of asking for donations. Write a document website with a Patreon like gwern.net instead of some bloated ad-sponsored clickbait like BuzzFeed.
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Ask HN: Why is Google Premium not a thing?
114 points by achenet 4y ago|231 comments
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by achenet 4y ago
Their founders lack of a third vacation home. :p There are a relatively large number of companies that aren't really "solving a problem" but still making bank. For example, what problem is Instagram solving? Giving advertiser
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by achenet 4y ago
> Sounds like a lot of work to me. In other words, the teflon pan is actually more convenient. I'm probably being a little nitpicky/contrarian when I say this, but for my cooking style, teflon is actually more. I cook with lar
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by achenet 4y ago
Thank you for further explaining your point of view. I think also that the US's healthcare is partially to blame - if you had universal healthcare, then poor people would also (in theory) have equal access to drug prescriptions. I do t
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by achenet 4y ago
it's just that the market is different in different countries. I'm in France, making 32,000Eur/year with 1 YoE. I had a friend in America making 130,000$ with roughly the same amount of experience. Americans pay much more f
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by achenet 4y ago
but... I write my resumé in markdown and compile it to PDF with pandoc ...
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by achenet 5y ago
Something similar happened around the fall of the Soviet Union. Yelstin gave every Russian citizen a certificate worth 10,000 rubbles to buy shares in state owned enterprises that were being privatized. Those with ready cash bought the cert
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by achenet 5y ago
Isn’t Kolmogorov Complexity hard to measure, because it depends on the language chosen?
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by achenet 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this tip ^_^
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by achenet 5y ago
because they have a growing number of paying customers.
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by achenet 5y ago
we have a similar thing in France, called CIFRE :)
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by achenet 5y ago
you can always start now by doing an undergrad. :) I've had students aged above 50 years old in my undergrad degree, and I plan on going back to school myself for another undergrad in an unrelated field in my 30s.
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by achenet 5y ago
well, I can only answer for my specific case, but the way I made friends at the gym was basically people noticing that I was doing the Olympic lifts and commenting on that, plus occasionally giving random compliments/technique tips to
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by achenet 5y ago
my condolences. :( I guess it may depend on the sport group. I've had good luck with the local Basic Fit (globo-gym type outfit, but the nearby branch has some nice people), and my weighlifting club, so perhaps you may find better luck
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by achenet 5y ago
not if those jobs entail good written or even oral communication skills. Native English speakers have a huge leg up on Indians and Eastern Europeans in this regard. For example, I imagine Coca-Cola is willing to pay more to have the perso
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by achenet 5y ago
join a sports activity. Free socializing, plus health benefits. :)
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by achenet 5y ago
the OP's father could always try programming as a hobby, see if it suits him, and if so try to find opportunities to do work for others.
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by achenet 5y ago
we could ask, but would have no garantee such a proof would be correct.
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by achenet 5y ago
If you had access to the reactions of someone reading the content, you could _possibly_ train an agent to spot textual patterns likely to cause the reader to have negative reactions. You could do a similar thing with a robot DJ, by feeding
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by achenet 5y ago
This sounds like a much more elegant way of coordinating large groups of people towards a common goal that the current status quo of heirachical bureaucracies. Honestly, if I ever start a company, I'd like to try something similar. T
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by achenet 5y ago
could you please describe how you did the switch?
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by achenet 5y ago
How do you draw the line between companies and individuals? Is a one man consulting 'company' allowed to experiement with the software? Personally, I feel the way to "save" the open source movement would be simply have m
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by achenet 5y ago
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. Helped me reduce bad habits, get useful things done, and have more fun.
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by achenet 5y ago
Okay, my first name is Ariel as well, and I gotta say - This is awesome. You're an inspiration, bro.
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by achenet 5y ago
It ain't that bad. We have the internet, that's pretty neat, and there's enough good food to feed many people. Yeah you may have some people who are still mentally stuck in the feudal age, and yes it would be nicer if they go
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by achenet 5y ago
Historically, those who owned property were the haves, and those who worked it were the have-nots. Médiéval lord/peasant, Cotton plantation owner/African slaves, Captialist/worker, etc. As such, owning a hotel, which is a bus
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by achenet 5y ago
nice, thanks for the read ^_^

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