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by dalbasal 3y ago
I agree... Any alternative has two core issues... Adoption curve issues and scalability/potential. What do you do when adoption is 2%, 20%, etc. If issues exist at 5% adoption rates can't be solved, those at 50% will never be rele
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Idk... Maybe... But Reddit seems to hold info pretty poorly. A lot of the subs/posts and incredibly dumb. The good information is there, often, but finding it is hit and miss. Until relatively recently, unofficially archived gives web
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by dalbasal 3y ago
The types of queries where gpt is useful (or I hope will soon be useful) to me are those where google themselves have "destroyed the internet.^" If you want to basic information about a physical exercise, a recipe, a travel destin
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by dalbasal 3y ago
I feel like economics has gone backwards, for generations now, in its understanding of monetary/debt/macroeconomic inflation. I don't think we ha "The Answer" before. But now we don't even have the questions an
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Agreed. Pop culture "obsession" may have been useful for overcoming blanket bans on research, funding, etc. It was obsession that created these bans in the first place, and obsession that triggered them. Now obsession it's in
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by dalbasal 3y ago
What you are saying is true, but that doesn't mean a lot of underhanded "games" aren't played. " Nobody is getting rich off failure; if everyone were to walk away there'd be nothing left and therefore nothing t
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by dalbasal 3y ago
So... certainly with social media, the rules the rules and only we know the rulebook. The incentives are just stacked towards not having policies. First once you have a policy, that policy can be criticised. Nothing withstands criticism the
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Apologies. I did know that at some point.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Yes... Books, & TV shows are often brandless. We're used to that. It's how story land looks, but our world is full of brands. How many brand names do we say per day?
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Maybe at the margin. Broadly though, the way to do YouTube professionally is high frequency. Most channels these days attract pretty consistent views per vid. The most straightforward way to increase revenue is frequency.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
You know, I don't think they can anymore. The web is not what itwas, so they can't just "revert." They need talent, execution, ideas. IDK if websearch still has that at google. A possibility of big(ish) ideas about how w
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by dalbasal 3y ago
That shift (pc to smartphone) represents a lot more "who and how many" users than how they use it. As late as late 2000, web was still pretty exclusive club. I went to college mid-2000s. Even among students, it was a geeky minorit
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by dalbasal 3y ago
"Search results plagued with ‘clickbait’ would have been an understatement 20 years ago. The parts of the open web you access from Google/search (most of it) is almost entirely made-for-google' ranking algorithims. The situat
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Yes it is. The pertinent question (to me) is the relative corruption and/or other dysfunction to national and/or subnational governments. That's the competition.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
They seem to have the right idea. Do you know much about them? Are they good/effective?
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Or the European Pirate Party or similar. They have a handful of elected MEPs at any given time. That is the problem though. That's not very serious politics. If it's a coalition of tech companies, law enforcement and whatnot vs pi
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by dalbasal 3y ago
yes.. Also, MEPs are often elected differently allowing otherwise unlikely or fringe candidates to succeed. And, parties/people just don't treap. EP seriously. Everyone knows it's a clownshow. Treat it that way. EP can't
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Yes, corruption at national (and subnational) levels is much greater. EC institutions don't control enough programs, funds or building permits to rival states on this front. I do think there is "soft" corruption (as OP allude
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Idk... The EC pushes through controversial decisions, that are not controversial between states... the bar is generally something high in this regard. National Governments get a buffer between them and discontented citizens, because "i
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Well said, and it rhymes with many of the mistakes we have made in the past. We discount the social, the emotional, the storytelling... Often they're what matters. It also rhymes with common parenting folk wisdom that having "the
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by dalbasal 3y ago
I think good tutoring should/does demonstrate the standard. It shows us what education can do, when the limiting factor is (ideally) the students' ability to learn instead of resources available to teach. Idk if any technology, in
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by dalbasal 3y ago
I encourage everyone to watch/listen to Peter Thiel's " Why Monopolies Are a Good Thing ." Thiel is a objectivist (Ayn Rand acolyte). This puts him in a position to argue a libertarian/conservative-like position, bu
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Everything makes more sense when you believe it to be intentionally orchestrated by someone or something. That's why this way of thinking is so popular. Edit:them/it
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Livestock feed is part of food's supply chain (and ou literal food chain). Yes, we can eat eat a lot of this feed... but that doesn't mean that the world will neatly respond to a shortage of quantity with a slight tweak to quality
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by dalbasal 3y ago
No. It's rhetorical.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
This is true, but does not stop a foodie from going on a mission to replicate the spicy sausage flavour of petrol station food they loved on childhood road trips.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Is android viable outside of its role ass asset to search/ads. Google's money comes from adwords. Adwords has two key assets. One is Google search. The other is Google's systemic ability to gather ad-useful data using android
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Sure... maybe. Do you really think a court process could make those decisions well? I'm not even sure if that would work. Does Google search now have to use adwords? Will the court mandate the revenue split? Most of both entities&#x2
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by dalbasal 3y ago
IDK if those are, in themselves, indicators. The idea is not purity. The idea is for technical common sense to win over sales/consultant-led architecture.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
You can't scare google with antitrust. The game is structured. If Google lose, they face an affordable fine or mandated adjustment to a single business practice. In this case, the business practice is "OEM Search Deals" which

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