doublejay1999

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by doublejay1999 5y ago
The answers to all your questions is no, which is precisely the point the author is trying to make. If we made the case for operating "at human scale" Youtube would be amongst first casualties. to your last point : > Anyone c
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by doublejay1999 5y ago
Great point. There are fundamentally 2 types of content, although the line is getting blurred : The hobbyist blog, and the publishers magazine. The first exists for joy, the second only exists to deliver adverts. THe blurring occurs because
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by doublejay1999 5y ago
that's not to mention the first page of results from your query will be from amzon, ebay, & eggsdirect.com trying to sell you the eggs in the first place.
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by doublejay1999 5y ago
I've been worrying about this for a while. I think there are 2 things at play; the first is a gradual wearing of our attention span in a world where we can scroll through the whole worlds news and everyone's opinion on it, in the
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
its pretty ugly whichever way you look at it. The Guardian has a compulsion to feed the pearl clutching middle class centre left with stories of exotic oppression. Sadly, the story here is one of a Billionaire appropriating an even more un
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
I never really bothered with it in my youth. Now I'm nudging 50, there's many a bike achieved with red bull & ibuprofen. i dont mind the taste, but the the smell is pungent and it always repeats on me something awful.
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
Without making a conscious brand based decision, i found myself owning lots of Panasonic electronics in the the 90s. Walkmans, CD Walkmans, headphones, TVs, Car Stereos. They all seemed to me to beat the Sony equivalents, in execution
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
Darwin. Every single time. > It looks like a lottery nobody wants to play. I would suggest you tell the people you are referring to here to stay in bed. And if they must get out of bed, at least never go downstairs. https://
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
Forgive me for being blunt : > leaves no room for honest positive and meaningful work, and at risk of pointing out the obvious, there's a lot of meaningful work to be done. There's plenty of meaningful work to be done, but most
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
Well, I'm pleased to read this. I say that as someone who fell for the schtick, and he made a couple of sales out of me. He tells a decent story, and you feel like you've learn something after reading him. Scratch below the su
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
For most of the 20th & 21st century, the west has consistently shown that it does not give fuck where it's cotton comes from, and that it certainly doesn't give a fuck about muslims in other countries, as along as they are sla
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
indistinguishable from magic, for this 11 year old boy.
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
Imagine a culture that does not fetishize work!
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
You know you are reading right wing rag when they reduce every issue of the day to and argument for private capital. In this article, which frankly is argued less well than an average Reddit comment, the unattributed author suggests only f
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
I would like to buy a buy a drink for the Lawyer who sold this case to plaintiffs.
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
Epic know they can't win this using the Law. Apple will argue they built a market of nBillion customers, which anyone can access for a fee. What Epic hope to do, is win commercial support and build pressure on apple to lower their fe
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
the only question, is how long employers will continue to pay a premium based on your postcode.
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
the moment one random internet guy posts "this could go to $1000" there is an anchoring effect. It's the oldest boiler room scam on the books. "this could ten bag!" someone cries..... and suddenly you've got
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
the 5 stages of grief in full effect
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
give aways on reddit
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
"“Are you confident that alternate search engines are going to be able to fill a massive void left by Google and Australians won’t be left worse off?”" this is what a planted question looks like :-)
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
Simplistically, yes. At IPO when potatoes are very first introduced to market, he decides what he thinks they are worth. The market will quickly decide the 'real' price. Whether his first asking price is £2.00 £12.00 the market
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
i take a list of orders from a few grocery stores in my town and go to the market. i've got some orders from people who'll pay £1 for 10 potatoes, some that will pay 90p and some that will pay 80p. i meet with the farmers.
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
I've always thought privacy coins are not the clear cut win their are widely thought to be. Yes, on one hand it commoditizes the hiding of money and puts financial privacy in the hands of everyone. On the other hand, the more money yo
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
> Here, growing up, we have a list of vaccines that a child gets as they grow up (tetanus, diphteria, chickenpox, etc). your pediatrist knows the schedule and follows along, obviously. This is such an important point ! History has many e
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
> open their wallets, pay for the services they use, and support independent businesses Except these things began as hobbies before business became involved at all. It’s a message board for book lovers ffs, pre web people used to build t
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
This matches my experience in junior cricket. At early ages, up to 12 ish, those with older siblings in the sport are a year or two ahead of those that don’t. At 13 and up it starts to even out, as individual commitment and physical gifts p
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
VCs make plenty of profit, selling on the companies they bought. It doesn't matter whether the companies are profitable. It's a simple model: if you are a VC and you spot an idea, preferrably with an edgy and marketable founder,
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
One of the things I took from the book, is that thinking fast is practically inevitable, for neurological reasons : it's effectively 'baked in' or at very least, deeply ingrained into the braing by the time one reaches adult
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by doublejay1999 6y ago
I like both points here. Twitter gets traction because professional trolls / grifters use it to build their personal brand. They are frequently newspaper columnists, authors, and TV pundits who benefit directly or indirectly from have

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