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by cirgue 8y ago
"If your paid product is worse than the free competitor, people will continue to use the free product until that changes." Netflix's value add for 90% of people is content discovery and convenience.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Yeah, probably not much, but approximate to the ARPU for google, which I think is around $25 per year. Also, if anyone is interested in working on something like this, shoot me an email at the address in my profile.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Part of the problem is that our discoverability mechanisms on the internet now massively favor monetized content. I for one would happily use an 'indie' search engine that favors lightly monetized/non-monetized content.
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by cirgue 8y ago
That's not super tinfoily, it's pretty much what undergraduate economics implies should happen with increased wealth disparity in a city (the wealth disparity part, not necessarily the automation part).
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by cirgue 8y ago
> It is time our industry recognizes that alcohol has no place in healthy, diverse, and inclusive environments. If your working environment has issues with people getting trashed and behaving unprofessionally at company functions where a
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by cirgue 8y ago
My bet would be some kind of internal political/interpersonal bullshit that is good for generating hot takes on twitter and not much else.
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by cirgue 8y ago
There is no magical one-asshole-at-a-time rule.
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by cirgue 8y ago
I don't. At all. There's a huge difference between saying 'marijuana is bad for you' and 'we should imprison people for marijuana-related offenses"
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by cirgue 8y ago
I was referring to alcohol, not marijuana.
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Does it really matter? Is alcohol safe? Are most medications safe? Yeah, it does. It matters a hell of a lot that alcohol isn't safe, and there are a whole bunch of very well-known problems associated with using it regularly. Same
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Interesting Esoterica(read.somethingorotherwhatever.com)
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by cirgue 8y ago
> SF does a lot of spins on food. If I were to describe food here, I'd have to say it's generally "gimmicky". We need a word for the disappointment experienced upon realizing that the food in front of you has been opt
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by cirgue 8y ago
So I get what your saying, but this is actually an interesting question and dismissing it out of hand stretches the bounds of good faith.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Because the world is not divided into good and bad, and I care about the 'why' of a rating much more than I care about whether it's positive or negative.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Can you provide an example snippet?
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by cirgue 8y ago
I go back and forth about mandatory indentation. Part of me hates it, but I remember why I don’t mind as much every time I have to do code reviews.
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by cirgue 8y ago
I had always heard this used as kind of a metaphor: do whatever the hell you want to in writing, follow every thread, wander all over the place, believe your own bullshit, and just get all the ideas out of you and onto the page. When you ed
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by cirgue 8y ago
There’s no magical one-asshole-at-a-time rule.
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by cirgue 8y ago
You're setting a very high bar for 'trivial' in the enterprise programming world outside of FANG. Half of the developers in my company would learn a nontrivial amount from having to copy and paste solutions from github.
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Udacity Dislikes: They are placing too large of a bet on the nanodegree concept. There isn't a clear ROI for students - and it's fairly clear that most companies don't really give a hoot about online certifications. My c
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by cirgue 8y ago
> "Princess" is pretty disingenuous in that it lessens the Emirates' treatment of women as possessions. In being the daughter of one of the royal family, she is actually a princess in the titular sense. Having lived in the
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by cirgue 8y ago
> For the most part, social media doesn't change people's opinions or beliefs. Maybe not, but it certainly does influence which beliefs people choose to talk about. It also influences the range of beliefs people think it is pos
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by cirgue 8y ago
I think that 'artificial intelligence' being used as a curtain for the Ozs of the world to hide behind is a much greater threat than either of these things.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Pilots, Boy Scouts, anyone in military/fire/rescue/ police, and anyone who has had avi training (or other outdoor rec training) will recognize that immediately.
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by cirgue 8y ago
HN’s culture is pretty good at sniffing out and giving appropriate context to bullshit in ways Facebook emphatically isn’t, and I don’t think it’s true to say that people aren’t also taking YouTube to task for the same kind of malfeasance.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Do you know of a good side-by-side comparison of a simple app built with blueprints versus one without? I am still trying to wrap my head around the problem that they solve.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Any you don’t think the way to solve this is to build better social and cultural institutions instead of throwing surveillance technology at the problem? Terrible ideas are rarely created ex nihilo, they almost always arise as a response to
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by cirgue 8y ago
I disagree that joy is superior to pain. They’re both necessary parts of life and one without the other is indistinguishable from oblivion. Plenty of people would disagree about alive/animate versus dead/inanimate and in ways that
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by cirgue 8y ago
You're completely right of course, we hire people who we believe are the top 5% of the applicant pool. The point remains the same: what a company says about their hiring standards has little or no bearing on what their standards actual
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by cirgue 8y ago
I was thinking more Ministry of Silly Walks.

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