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by anon98356 6y ago
All of those business cases already exist in a reasonably accessible form. >A simple business case might be interest earned by lending. Could you use traditional banking for this? That is the basic business model of most retail banks. Yo
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by anon98356 6y ago
Serious question. What is the business case for trustless financial products? If there's money involved 90% of people are going to need to trust something in the process, whether that's the counter party or the middleman.
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by anon98356 6y ago
You're right it won't all be search revenue. What I guess I'm trying to say in a nutshell is: For a competitor, the overall boost in revenue due to a much higher all round use of their search engine is likely to offset the ex
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by anon98356 6y ago
My understanding of the regulation is that it requires a good faith negotiation. Not Google/FB/DDG/Bing just paying what the media organisations demand. Google's posturing inherently indicates they aren't negotiatin
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by anon98356 6y ago
It also means potentially explosive market share growth. From Google's perspective it isn't that they can't pay, it's that they don't want to. A competitor product such as DDG or Bing suddenly looking at pretty big
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by anon98356 6y ago
Did they bring it on themselves? Or where they forced to adapt to the loss of revenue? As you say it's harder to skim content behind a paywall or in a video, it's also harder to scrape it. For every user like you that visited more
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by anon98356 6y ago
I think it is a fair characterisation. They want their content on Google because if they don't then it won't be seen. I'm not saying this was a deliberate strategy by Google but it is the reality. I would argue most people do
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by anon98356 6y ago
Why not? Google set itself up effectively as a gatekeeper to their content (whether by design or not that is the current situation) then completely gutted their primary revenue stream. Also, the major driver of this news is Google's at
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by anon98356 6y ago
A different approach is to incentivise behaviour sure, that doesn't mean it's inherently better. A plant shutdown at 100ppm will likely result in running the plant at 90ppm to account for the risk of breaching the limit. But if I
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by anon98356 6y ago
It can be funny when coming from one IC to another IC. Which I think is the point of that sentence. Jokes that may have been funny and have hit home when you were co-workers suddenly have very different connotations now that you might actua
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by anon98356 6y ago
Does A) matter? In terms of evaluating the value I would care about the number of shares and their likely value (now and in the future). If that is 2% of the company or 1% why does that matter? B) is going to have a bigger impact on evaluat
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by anon98356 6y ago
That's definitely true, and as they move away from physical media more scrutiny of what they are doing is required. But as it stands this isn't yet an issue for game consoles
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by anon98356 6y ago
That's a licensing fee and separate to the discussion about market control. As it stands (although this is starting to change) a developer can sell the game through a variety of different avenues (online, brick and mortar, the xbox sto
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by anon98356 6y ago
Depends on what you define as their game store. I can purchase a game that is playable on the xbox from anywhere that sells a copy. One of these places is the digital store that comes with the xbox. But I can also go to cd-keys, or amazon a
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by anon98356 6y ago
Herd immunity is a thing, but as I heard one scientist describe it: It's not a question of achieving herd immunity or not, it's a question of how. Mass vaccination also leads to herd immunity, it's achieved by creating immun
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by anon98356 6y ago
As an non American English speaker Excel would also format that as 1 Feb for me. It has been pretty good at picking up your locale for a long time, and is also reasonably trivial to change
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by anon98356 6y ago
To potentially reinterpret the GP, it isn't that we need to regulate scale, but that scale doesn't excuse you from being regulated. Specifically in the case of YT, as an extreme example, if all video available online in a country
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by anon98356 6y ago
And what's to stop me creating thousands of these anonymous unregulated accounts to launder money? There are a lot of aspects to regulating the financial industry that have to account for the many different scenarios involved. The regu
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by anon98356 6y ago
I always chose to believe it was Just Another Friendly Aucklander. I knew I was lying to myself, but it makes you feel slightly better than acknowledging 2/3 of your fellow citizens don't like you.
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by anon98356 6y ago
Maybe, doesn't make the judgement criteria any less arbitrary though. And given how dark my corner of the room is, I suspect I'd need a pretty expensive lighting setup to make it any better :)
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by anon98356 6y ago
These challenger banks are also currently operating in relative niches. Yes Monzo has a million bank accounts, but in terms of their product offering, it isn't close to the breadth of your traditional "High Street" bank. As t
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by anon98356 6y ago
How is subconsciously judging based on lighting, audio etc. any better than whether or not you play golf? The only spot for me to put my desk means that, in video conferences I look like an anonymous whistle blower from a news report. How i
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by anon98356 6y ago
You would think so, but if you read these notices carefully a lot of them will say by either hit "Accept" or closing this pop-up you are consenting. So by hitting the 'X' you are unconditionally opting in. Unless your ta
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by anon98356 6y ago
The author uses discord as the prime example and then fails to explain the link. They talk about the large r/LoL community but then identify that Discord replaced TeamSpeak. Is r/LoL now dead? I'm failing to see in what way t
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by anon98356 6y ago
The main argument for non-competes comes from banking/professional services (thinks accountants or lawyers). It's to stop you taking all your clients with you when you jump ship. It's typically only enforced for partners or r
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by anon98356 6y ago
No they are paid for with ads. How a website determines what ad to show is where it gets troublesome. There is no requirement to have 1000 trackers load cookies every time I go to your website in order to show me an ad.
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by anon98356 6y ago
Such as? I don't mean to sound facetious, but if we take the intent behind GDPR and the current state of user tracking across the web what changes, at a regulatory level, would you suggest that still fulfills the aims of GDPR that does
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by anon98356 6y ago
GDPR doesn't prevent a publisher charging for content, or displaying ads. What it says is, if you want to use personal data about a user to determine what ads to display, you have to get their explicit consent. I have noticed a few of
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by anon98356 7y ago
Yes there is a distinction between the two, but in this scenario they both needed to be considered. If you are making it more accessible to vote and that leads to a decrease in voter turnout is that a good thing? The claim of the GP was tha
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by anon98356 7y ago
I do remember a few years ago reading (I think it was in freakonomics) that this isn't actually a guarantee. Some places that have postal voting as the primary form of voting have actually seen a decrease in participation. After an ini

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