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by bduerst 7y ago
This is kind of spot on to Succession 's "ATN News: We're listening"
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by bduerst 7y ago
>The problem with all anti-censorship platforms is that they become hate platforms by default Popper's Paradox made reality. I still remember Voat blowing up because their lawyers started making them remove comments inciting violen
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by bduerst 7y ago
>We could implement it with blockchain. Mining would have no monetary incentivization, so the people left controlling the network are the ones who are incentivized to push a message on your new distributed reddit. Like with all things th
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by bduerst 7y ago
At the risk of committing a sunk cost fallacy, I would definitely say that's worth it since you are already so close and a sizable segment of society places a minimal expectation on having such a thing. Degrees are more a certificate
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by bduerst 7y ago
I switched to Fi from ATT precisely because international was such a PITA. Fi just "works" as soon as you land and it picks up the towers, which is a huge relief from having to call some robo-operator and pay $30 for some super l
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by bduerst 7y ago
How does this compare to Gratuitous Space Battles ? https://positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/
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by bduerst 7y ago
Precisely - Shopify is a white-label ecommerce platform, whereas ebay and amazon are walled gardens.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Drop shippers are on all e-commerce platforms, from the shopify 1-pagers to merchants on ebay and Amazon. It's saturated the entire market at this point.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Again, comparisons with physical retail are moot because, in your grocery store, nobody can walk in off the street and start selling off the shelves. The grocery store is not an open e-commerce platform but a curated service with physical
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by bduerst 7y ago
The issue is that Amazon is prioritizing their own products/labels, not that prioritization just happens (which is basic search query functionality).
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by bduerst 7y ago
Only certain big box retailers do that, like Best Buy , whose business model have them leasing floor space in their physical locations, which has tangible scarcity. Amazon is not leasing retail floor space, so to GP's point, any compa
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by bduerst 7y ago
Who was chasing more tourism for Everest? This seems more like it's a side effect of the rock climbing fad than a countries' tourism board balancing their national tourism.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Promoted Content is an industry term, not just a phrase. Publishers will subsidize themselves by accepting money from companies to write promotional articles, even without disclosing it. There's a difference between that and an aut
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by bduerst 7y ago
Uber is publicly traded, they can no longer do funding rounds as they always have. That is more likely a reason for layoffs than uber fearing investors fearing recession. If anything it's a signal that the company is publicly traded,
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by bduerst 7y ago
Okay. How is your comment relevant to Uber layoffs?
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by bduerst 7y ago
>market cap You mean their private unicorn valuation? Kodak is publicly traded, WeWork is not, so you can't compare them. WeWork isn't that different from most failing unicorns.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Link to the actual game: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/american-mall-game/
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by bduerst 7y ago
Uber laying off several hundred people is not a signal for a market recession. How is your comment relevant?
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by bduerst 7y ago
That's survivor bias though, isn't it? There are a ton of bad ideas and companies that sink all the time. WeWork isn't new or unique in this regard, for reasons you described. Just because you see a boat sink doesn't mea
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by bduerst 7y ago
Doubtful. The bitcoin community would react how it usually reacts towards large thefts or scams: blame the victim. I.e. It's their fault for not understanding X, doing Y, or having Z security; in this case the fault being having that
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by bduerst 7y ago
Only if the attack is from the outside, which is not a requirement. It's not mutually exclusive. The miners who control the bitcoin network are already centralized on a handful of organizations in China. If they colluded on this at
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by bduerst 7y ago
Bitcoin isn't anonymous. The entire history of every transaction between every wallet is visible. This means if someone knows your wallet ID (i.e. you bought something from them and shipped it) they know exactly how much bitcoin you h
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by bduerst 7y ago
>Data-yielding requests, Jan to June 2015
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by bduerst 7y ago
It shouldn't - their are good uses too. Their dream is an example of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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by bduerst 7y ago
That is not an article about selling or giving up personal data. You dodged the question with irrelevant links.
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by bduerst 7y ago
I was in Ikea this weekend to pick up a single item and the game was more "rat in a maze" than hide and seek.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Even less so. Google canned their project dragonfly, which was to share user data with the Chinese government, while Apple quietly handed over the iCloud encryption keys for all their users.
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by bduerst 7y ago
>Our hypothesis is that existing lenders are disproportionately ineffective at detecting and underwriting internet businesses Is that because you have a view into your business customers cash flows, so you think you'll be able to be
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by bduerst 7y ago
Punching holes in certain payment methods (like money wires) isn't the same as building a case for crypto. Also crypto isn't instant. Bitcoin takes 10 minutes if you're lucky, even longer if the network is maxed at 7 transac
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by bduerst 7y ago
Cash's physical nature makes transactions with parties less anonymous, meaning there are other routes of remediation (i.e. small claims court, etc.)

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