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by csallen 3y ago
None of this is really new. People have sought low-quality high-dopamine content since television was the main medium. Since the spread of radio. Since the development of novels. Probably the beginning of the printing press, writing, or hel
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by csallen 3y ago
> Smartphones should be a dead and withered technology… We need to move on and forward, yet we're being leased old tech… I'll bite. What technology should we be using that surpasses smartphones?
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by csallen 3y ago
We don't forget. We just don't care. I am in no way upset that Google is refining my ad profile and making money. Many billions of other people are also not upset by that.
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by csallen 3y ago
> I never understood the idea that the government ought to write their own e-filing software when others already exist This is the most baffling take I've read on this subject. The IRS are the ones we're submitting our tax fo
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by csallen 3y ago
Because Apple has decided so, because it makes them lots of money, and it isn't a big enough dealbreaker for consumers to not buy iPhones. I believe the Google Play Store has ads, too.
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by csallen 3y ago
I really don't think the poor are getting poorer. Would you rather be poor today, poor 50 years ago, or poor 100 years ago? I would choose today. Because a capitalist society facilitates investment into new technologies, whose prices t
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by csallen 3y ago
The world isn't so bad. You might just need a perspective shift. A huge number of regular human activities and interactions don't generate profit, and yet aren't considered worthless. Go play an intramural sport, or take a wa
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by csallen 3y ago
If you don't like the recent commercial depictions of the LotR series… don't watch them? Of course you have the right to criticize and complain about them. But to let their existence "spoil" your enjoyment of the origina
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by csallen 3y ago
Would you rather go to a place with no mosquitos, or go to a place where you're swarmed by mosquitos and have to swat them away? Would you rather have no pimples, or get constant pimples and have to apply cream to heal them? Would you
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by csallen 3y ago
I mean you're essentially asking why people think a rare event is rare.
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by csallen 3y ago
How does Uber scam me? But I agree with your second sentence. I would much rather pay a few extra pennies/dollars than have to go out of my way. It's a better world where there's a reliable company that's accountable, th
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by csallen 3y ago
You raised money. Does that mean you're going for a billion dollar exit? What does that path look like, exactly? Related, I recently started rebuilding the post editor on IndieHackers.com to use Tiptap. Enjoying it so far. I wish your
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by csallen 3y ago
Yes exactly. If Uber did this sort of thing as a matter of course, people would be up in arms about it. This is one advantage to there being 1-2 huge brands (Uber and Lyft, Amazon and Walmart, etc.) vs a smattering of tiny businesses (e.g.
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by csallen 3y ago
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. How does this work? What's it like to use this? Seems like one of the most important possible questions to answer, but the website says nothing.
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by csallen 3y ago
What do you think explains why America has none of the top 10 polluting rivers? And only one of the top 1000? Despite the fact that we use massive amounts of plastic relative to most other countries, and that we are the headquarters of Coca
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by csallen 3y ago
You're missing what was literally the entire point of my comment, which is that government action has worked. Shaming the wrong party does not work, regardless of your personal opinion on what the rest of humanity "should"
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by csallen 3y ago
Food and drink products are going to cause the most pollution compared to other products, because food and drinks are consumed with a higher frequency than anything thing else on the planet. However, being a manufacturer of these products i
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by csallen 3y ago
It's common startup knowledge at this point that a splashy launch will always lead to subsequent declines in usage, because huge numbers of non-ideal users are attracted by the initial press event. The viral growth you're talking
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by csallen 3y ago
> One important role of government is to set and maintain standards for listing on markets, so that customers are protected. An example of such a rule would be that all publicly traded companies have equal voting rights across all share
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by csallen 3y ago
It is a free market though? Sellers in a free market are free to sell what they choose, which includes not selling things they don't want to sell. If the government were to step in and _force_ public companies to sell stock they don&#x
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by csallen 3y ago
What's wrong with it? If people want to be allowed to buy/sell second-class shares that don't have voting rights, then I don't see the problem with there being a market for that.
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by csallen 3y ago
Advertising works extremely well precisely because most people are aware that many brands with something of value are also willing to pay for ads. Look at Apple.
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by csallen 3y ago
It's easy for random people on HN and elsewhere to armchair quarterback, and act as if they know for sure what makes Twitter tick. But they don't have access to the data, and they have no experience building or running a massive s
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by csallen 3y ago
This happened to me, too. You have to scroll down to get the Bend/Straighten button to work. Basically, the visuals on the right side of the page correspond to what part of the instructions you have scrolled top the top.
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by csallen 3y ago
It's embarrassing for Hacker News that this is the top-rated comment. > All children need fathers > Father[s] have an authority no mother can have > There's a reason virtually every culture is patriarchal. Patriarchy
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by csallen 3y ago
What device are you talking about? The Portal?
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by csallen 3y ago
And you've just never, ever, needed to rearrange or move your windows since?
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by csallen 3y ago
Reddit is a massive social website. The vast majority of the value of Reddit comes from the fact that it's humongous. A niche community that tries to filter out most people isn't a Reddit replacement.
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by csallen 3y ago
This is why you don't build a business on top of someone else's rug.
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by csallen 3y ago
https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline-pro...

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