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by davidcbc 9y ago
What are you looking for when you search for a book?
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by davidcbc 9y ago
In person relationships being more rewarding doesn't mean that Facebook has no value. I personally get a lot of value out of being on Facebook
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by davidcbc 9y ago
So did I? I'm not sure what your point is. My post was framed around the current users of adblockers.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
> If that were the case Chrome's disruptive ad blocker would have been released shortly after the rise of flash ads This seems like an odd argument. Are uBlock's incentives unaligned with yours because they didn't release
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Be careful what you wish for, your favorite services might not exist without advertising. Sure, you might be willing to pay for the service, but would enough people be willing to pay to keep the service afloat? Probably not in a large numbe
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by davidcbc 9y ago
I question whether a "large majority" of people using adblockers are aware they are doing anything other than blocking ads. The HN crowd tends to overestimate the tech-savviness of the general population when it comes to this stuf
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by davidcbc 9y ago
> In many cases, there's no choice, unless you're willing to accept a certain level of inconvenience, or a monetary cost. Yes, choices come with tradeoffs, that doesn't mean you don't have a choice. The big 4 are succ
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by davidcbc 9y ago
I agree that rising housing costs are a problem and more should be done on the affordable housing front, but everything getting more crowded sounds pretty good for those businesses that are getting crowded. A growing vibrant economy is a go
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by davidcbc 9y ago
How do you improve the quality of life for the current residents without bringing in modern jobs? Many of these cities were built around industries that just aren't relevant any more, how does a city continue to thrive without new indu
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by davidcbc 9y ago
So you would discourage businesses from coming to your city. I suspect your reelection campaign is going to be a difficult one.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
So NYC aside, what is your answer for cities? How does a city improve itself without bringing in new jobs and tax revenue? Should a city just let buildings sit there and rot instead of selling them to a company that wants to create hundreds
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by davidcbc 9y ago
You can opt out of Google ad targeting and general tracking for free https://myaccount.google.com/u/1/privacy
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by davidcbc 9y ago
At best those are potential intrinsic values for blockchains, not bitcoin.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
> Is it possible to write a post on HN that isn't pointlessly critical of Facebook Mostly it is just impossible for there to be a story about FB on HN that doesn't have a bunch of people tripping over themselves to tell everyon
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by davidcbc 9y ago
You have to be able to explain this in a way that normal people are going to understand and care about. Whenever issues with cryptocurrency come up the true believers trip over themselves to post how it will all be solved if everyone just d
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by davidcbc 9y ago
I feel like you are talking about a completely different company. Googlers are critical about things all the time. People are encouraged not to be jerks about things but being critical about things isn't against the norm by any means.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
What recruiter has ever said "This is just an ok place to work?" Every job I've had the people I've interacted with in recruiting/interviews have all been very positive about the company.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
As a society we shouldn't make people choose between the two. That's why we have things like a social safety net and minimum wage.
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Vanguard chief: You will never see a Bitcoin fund from us(cnbc.com)
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The problem is you're trying to solve a problem that most Facebook users don't care about. The hurdles to replacing Facebook or Twitter aren't technical, they are social. The killer feature of any social network is people usi
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by davidcbc 9y ago
You must have worked at some really terrible companies. While I don't doubt this is the case at some places the places I've worked haven't been like this at all.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
This is a terrible idea. Now if someone wants to interview at your company they have an 80% chance of being unemployed when it is done. Good luck getting good candidates to jump through that hoop.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
And what happens if someone can't pass them? They die because they can't get health care?
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Do you think that once bitcoin collapses under its own weight and investors lose a ton of money the general public is going to trust another cryptocurrency?
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by davidcbc 9y ago
You can do any of the following. 1) Accept that most websites have to make money to continue to provide you content and that advertising is how most of them do it. 2) Do not visit websites that choose to support their business through adver
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by davidcbc 9y ago
I'm sure that your search engine with no websites on it will be a huge success.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Personal failings are one thing, but that hasn't been the downfall of Travis Kalanick. His professional failings have been his downfall.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
There is no reasoning with people about specific issues when they are tied up in identity politics. That is true whether they are a liberal or a conservative.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
How are you going to get people to use your platform? That's the problem with all of these "Facebook but better!" ideas, the killer feature of a social network is the people and Facebook has them.
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3) Anyone implying that the police need to change is labeled anti police by a large portion of the population because this has become a political issue in the US and given the current political climate of identity politics there is really n

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