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by dkyc 6y ago
Do 3) and 4) not contradict each other? 3) states all the distribution power is in the hands of a few companies, and 4) states that no entity can control the flow of information on these newly created distribution channels. Seems like they
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by dkyc 6y ago
I wouldn't say this is a straw man. Every billionaire being exploitative/criminal is a real political position among the American Left, see e.g. this tweet [0] by Robert Reich. He was secretary of labor in the Clinton administrati
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by dkyc 6y ago
That cookie can be disabled on Cloudflare's Enterprise plan [0] (which, to be fair, starts at like $60k a year). [0] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-U...
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by dkyc 6y ago
Generally, because all the sales & marketing cost (which makes up a big share of most large SaaS companies' expenses) is front-loaded, while the revenue is spread out over time. When you spend, say, $10k to acquire a customer, and
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by dkyc 6y ago
The pop-up advertising a 'flash sale' over the first paragraph couldn't have been placed worse.
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Wirecard Files for Insolvency(reuters.com)
9 points by dkyc 6y ago|1 comments
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by dkyc 6y ago
This is complete nonsense. He sold about $23m worth of stock [1], while he owned about 22% of stock at the time of IPO, worth roughly ~$10b in total. [1] https://www.gurufocus.com/news/1135874/zoom-video-communicat
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Responsible Visualizations about the Coronavirus(blog.datawrapper.de)
1 points by dkyc 7y ago|0 comments
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by dkyc 7y ago
"Growth" in the YC definition ("revenue growth with positive unit economics", or the closest proxy to that) seems a pretty objective test to me.
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by dkyc 7y ago
The “30% cut” only applies to digital goods like apps, software or music. Physical goods like a book ordered from Amazon (or an Uber ride, for example) are exempt. Amazon-owned properties that sell digital goods are subject to the rule th
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by dkyc 7y ago
> Yes, Google has a huge index, but most queries aren't in the long tail. I'm not quite sure about that. 15% of Google searches per day are unique, as in, Google has never seen them before. [1]. That's quite an insane
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What to consider when creating tables(blog.datawrapper.de)
1 points by dkyc 7y ago|0 comments
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Saudi Aramco Is World’s Most Profitable Company, Far Exceeding Apple(nytimes.com)
131 points by dkyc 8y ago|94 comments
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by dkyc 8y ago
I parse it as: This post includes a video of a teenager beating a tetris game which was released before the boy was born.
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by dkyc 8y ago
SpaceX ( https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/spacex-2002 ) is the one that really struck a chord with me. Not because of the design itself, but because it shows just how old the company already is, while only stepp
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by dkyc 9y ago
"Once (if..) you've made some profit, take out your initial investment and now you're gambling with free money." I never understood this sentiment, and I'm surprised to see it so often on Hacker News. It's ir
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by dkyc 9y ago
I think this is meant in another way: sales and marketing should never discuss future features with potential customers . Meaning, they should not try to win deals by promising features not yet rolled out, rather than not being involved in
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by dkyc 9y ago
I think my sibling comment's experiences are somewhat dated. Running one-time payments has been absolutely no problem with ChargeBee for us. It's obviously geared toward subscription businesses, but it has full support for one-tim
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by dkyc 9y ago
Running a Germany-based SaaS startup at some scale, so I feel confident to chime in. To put it bluntly, you're right. We have to do more work just to get started accepting money than our American counterparts. Yes, the insanely complex
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Cryptocurrencies Crashing on January 16(datawrapper.de)
4 points by dkyc 9y ago|1 comments
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by dkyc 9y ago
Took me a while to get what this app does, maybe it would be a better idea to link to their homepage: https://gogray.today/ > What was bright and shiny was now dull and boring. It's like turning your favourite dess
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Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name to Long Blockchain(bloomberg.com)
316 points by dkyc 9y ago|248 comments
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by dkyc 9y ago
Interesting map! German here, surprising to see only 3 German companies have made the list. I don't know what I expected, but 3 YC companies seems like a really low number. (Micro-nitpick: The color scale is a little bit confusing. D
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Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove(nytimes.com)
1 points by dkyc 9y ago|0 comments
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by dkyc 10y ago
Hi there. Is there a way to contact you in some way other than your UpWork-profile (linked in your HN profile)? It's a good idea to include your e-mail address there. I was in a similar situation a while ago, but can't share all i
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by dkyc 10y ago
My experience running a project/company like you describe: 1) Not the geeks, but the big multinational companies with disposable developer time end up using your open-source solution. Exactly the types of users I don't feel sorry
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by dkyc 10y ago
"It also can’t distinguish between the question of “who is” a person and a request for that person’s contact card. For instance, I have a contact card for Apple CEO Tim Cook. When I ask, “Who is Tim Cook?” Siri shows me the contact ca
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by dkyc 10y ago
There is none! It's a redirect, afaik. Fun fact: They paid over $8M for to acquire the domain from the "American Farm Bureau Federation". [0] http://mashable.com/2011/01/11/facebook-paid-8-5-mil
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by dkyc 10y ago
At first I thought "Well, Dropbox storage is 5x as expensive as hard drive space, so what's the point?" . What I didn't see was the team use case: It's actually brilliant to have access to every document of all of
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by dkyc 11y ago
"Uber is reported to have traded 1% of company stock to acquire Uber.com." Wow, if that's true, that has to be the deal of the century.

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