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by acituan 6y ago
> Server logs are great for logging what is happening on your server, but awful for understanding your user base. There is a high correlation between a usage pattern being interesting and likelihood of it making a representative appearan
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by acituan 6y ago
> They can't afford anything "per user" or any significant number of users. That was my point. In this thought exercise, we ought to separate the amount paid to users by country, because it will differ as much as a few ord
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by acituan 6y ago
> $17/yr in annual revenue per user Revenue per user is a very misleading way to evaluate the value when talking about a hyper-global operation. It is as useful as averaging the global price of a loaf of bread, which would be priced
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by acituan 6y ago
> Throwing around buzzwords proves nothing These are technical terms, not buzzwords and calling them so doesn't make much of a counter-argument. > That's the essence of a free market No it is not. You seem to equate free mar
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by acituan 6y ago
> Waving your hands and throwing random numbers around doesn't imply a presence of cost. Come on, let's not go in circles. I posited there is a cost to user in being locked into a single app store. You claimed if there was such
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by acituan 6y ago
> Users seem overall to be quite satisfied with what they are getting from their iPhones. So your claim here appears to be empirically false. A lack of reduction in observable demand doesn't imply an absence of cost. Let's say
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by acituan 6y ago
> it's not one that's fixable except by users changing their preferences. By definition market failures can't be fixed by market dynamics. That is why state does tons of interventions/regulations to make it work. &g
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by acituan 6y ago
And users are entitled to better app stores. In other words, users are entitled to chose between businesses according to their abilities in utilizing their profits to deliver more value. If there were competing app stores available on iOS,
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by acituan 6y ago
> It's called business. It happens all the time in every single industry And we call those situations market failures . Besides, in this case the market failure is due to a monopolistic mechanism, which doesn't happen "
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by acituan 6y ago
> These things are true; and also a significant component of Apple's value proposition You're describing the value of an app store, not the App Store. So the problem is not the value proposition, the problem is Apple's m
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by acituan 6y ago
> Why is it unethical to charge a fee to developers who want to distribute their software through an app store that Apple owns? Developer don't necessarily want to distribute their software through that app store, they are forced
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by acituan 6y ago
YouTube is mainly a 3-way market; the content producer, the content consumer and the ad seller. All of which benefit from network effects. In addition to that, a high 7 day active user count is a very attractive goal in itself as you can up
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by acituan 6y ago
Google doesn't report anything but revenue on Youtube, so we don't know the margin. Most of the revenue is dispersed to content creators, and infrastructure costs must be huge , so more likely than not it is a loss leader.
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by acituan 6y ago
Next time you can’t make sense of an argument, you should not engage then, instead of making low effort, ad hominem attacks.
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by acituan 6y ago
I don't hear any actual counterargument. > BS. This is not economic theory, and you are not an economist, friend. If so, please quantify with numbers so we can compare (don't wast your time). As it happens I actually am an econ
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by acituan 6y ago
> Google, Amazon, FB are not the monopolies that you should be worried about. They are fun to talk about and tech is sexy, but there are bigger problems - ISPs / telecoms, for example. That is a very misleading comparison. For almos
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by acituan 6y ago
> They can maintain hashes of potentially offensive passwords Assuming they want to check against all casing combinations, the list of hashes would be 3 orders of magnitude bigger for a list of 7 letter words. If they want to check for s
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by acituan 6y ago
> Not losing your ability to receive email will help resolve the problem. Sure, I'm trying to prevent this stealing focus from the fact that this shouldn't have been a problem to begin with. The argument for separation is not m
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by acituan 6y ago
Does it really make it less of a problem if they had a separate domain for corporate and it was only the user content going down? Serving user content can as well be part of a service’s core product and registrar induced downtime is a big e
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by acituan 6y ago
According to the postmortem they had removed the site in question a week back. Google was acting on a week old data. Besides, any user-content serving platform will have to deal with malicious users. It is not a perfect process, especially
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by acituan 6y ago
> why do they treat their customers who make them their money with such disrespect Because "respect" in this case costs money. And because they can, since precisely the transaction is so tacit. It might take a few more decades
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by acituan 6y ago
That is not what truth is. Belief, knowledge, truth they all have different meanings in epistemology. There are centuries of philosophy and critique made on these problems. If you are interested in learning, I would suggest starting with so
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by acituan 6y ago
You’re right. Yet currently there is one major normativity in action and that is the normativity of the market. Market rewwards economies of scale and monopolies more than anything else. Unfortunately there is no working institution left to
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by acituan 6y ago
I think the meaning of OP was they are not paying explicitly, and in that don’t have much contractual entitlement to receive support. “Paying in data” is a euphemism that we are used for the positive externality we provide when we allow bei
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by acituan 6y ago
> In a real life investigation where the outcome can bring legal sanctions that destroys a person's life or career the opinion of the investigator has weight, but that opinion is irrelevant without evidence to connect the dots Truth
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by acituan 6y ago
> That is why investigations are a thing My point was exactly how states in the past could not un-corrupt themselves through investigations. That is why observing, questioning eyes of everyone is needed. > The need for proofs is compl
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by acituan 6y ago
> Which likely explains why conspiracy theories proliferate. That is not necessarily a bad thing, but setting an arbitrarily high standard is problematic. Human life is complex, interactions are combinatorially so. Just because uncertain
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by acituan 6y ago
> A conspiracy theory is a belief there should be a conspiracy but without the necessary qualified evidence. That is an arbitrarily high standard. Just because the subject of a hypothesis is that there is a conspiracy doesn't autom
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by acituan 6y ago
Presidents are also commanders in chief; a civilian that has ultimate control of state’s violence monopoly. Still the distinction between lawful/unlawful applies.
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by acituan 6y ago
> You have to stop after "as much as possible". Adding a "while still" makes it optimization, your value judgment doesn't get to determine what does and does not fit inside the "while still" of minimize

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