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by boffinism 4y ago
In the former there are always some people paying for something they do not want enough to go through the effort of buying (although they may still consider it reasonable enough value to stick with given it requires no further effort to do
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by boffinism 4y ago
Dear customers: we know. But our businesses are viable as subscription services, and not as one-off or ad-hoc puchase models. We know because we tried them. So we're catering to the people who are OK with buying a subscription because
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by boffinism 4y ago
> no source for the $6.5k/month revenue It's in a photo attached to the first tweet: https://readthegeneralist.com/briefing/helium > Data Credits are used when onboarding a hotspot, asserting a location
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by boffinism 4y ago
They all laughed at Moviepass, but just look at a chart of its usage growth. Clubhouse too.
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by boffinism 4y ago
This is often true even for people who do not naturally gravitate towards other people. You can both benefit from social interaction and find it extremely challenging.
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by boffinism 4y ago
I once worked in a VERY chaotic startup with near-constant pivots and priority shifts. In each case, at the time, the change in direction could be justified... but morale was chronically low, particularly among software engineers. I spoke t
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by boffinism 4y ago
Right, but now imagine you weren't one of the people who had someone knowledgeable and sceptical pointing out the flaws. Imagine all you ever came across was crypto bros and people who believed, repeated and amplified their bullshit. I
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by boffinism 4y ago
It appears to me that the measures France is preparing are measures to keep the power _on_, not turn it off: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/france-pr...
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by boffinism 4y ago
Your sentences 3 and 4 prove how your definition in sentence 1 is not remotely exact.
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by boffinism 4y ago
A counterargument might be that consciousness is an inherent side effect of all the stuff that goes on in the brain. And while yes, the brain does some computation, that is by no means a complete description of all the brain does and is. So
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by boffinism 4y ago
I'm not super happy about using 'writing' to mean 'publishing articles online with the goal of maximizing your subscriber count'.
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by boffinism 4y ago
The Ocho.
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ZeroStableCoin is out of stealth mode(twitter.com)
1 points by boffinism 4y ago|1 comments
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Dear Crypto(twitlonger.com)
155 points by boffinism 4y ago|69 comments
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People with dark personality traits more enthusiastic about Bitcoin, study finds(psypost.org)
2 points by boffinism 4y ago|0 comments
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by boffinism 4y ago
For an article about book promotion and tone of voice, the tone of voice sure did put me off buying the book.
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War of memes: Why Z-war won't end with peace(threadreaderapp.com)
90 points by boffinism 4y ago|59 comments
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by boffinism 5y ago
The subtext is: it wasn't a successful business, so the only option for survival was to try to find a buyer/investor to fund it on the promise of future success
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by boffinism 5y ago
Yup, if someone is saying your site is hard to read, listen. If someone facetiously dismisses a post because they claim that the parent website is intentionally designed to ruin , as in actively degrade, their eyesight, that's a diffe
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by boffinism 5y ago
No, but my original comment wasn't about accessibility (of which I'm a proponent, by the way), it was about whether the specific sentence "It almost seems like this was intentionally created to ruin eyesight" was unhelpf
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by boffinism 5y ago
Do you believe that things that you find fatiguing to read are also going to 'ruin' your eyesight if you try? Is there any evidence for this?
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by boffinism 5y ago
I wasn't aware that different bits of text in different shades of grey would 'ruin eyesight'. Can you provide a citation, or are you simply expressing "I don't like how this website looks" using hyperbole? Or a
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by boffinism 5y ago
To save you a click, the 'it' in the title is 'metaprogramming'. The thesis of the article is that, especially in Ruby world, we use the term 'magic' too much, when it's really a derogatory term that appli
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by boffinism 5y ago
As a subscriber you wouldn't see the ads, though.
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by boffinism 5y ago
The post doesn't miss that. The post is about that.
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by boffinism 5y ago
If I may: Facebook's user numbers have actually started falling [0], so your third sentence is incorrect. Your first two sentences make a decent point, though. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60238565
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Trump's Truth Social app branded a disaster(bbc.co.uk)
15 points by boffinism 5y ago|11 comments
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by boffinism 5y ago
Using the existence of shades of grey to deny the existence of black and white is equally childish in my opinion...
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by boffinism 5y ago
"just"
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by boffinism 5y ago
I wish they'd talked about running costs as well as the price of parts in the 'costs' section. It's the electricity bill that puts me off. Unless it can be... solar powered?

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