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by etchalon 4y ago
Make it literally any store, then. Target, Costco, Walmart, etc. You can't walk into Target, demand they carry your product, refuse to pay them a fee for doing so, while claiming Target has a "monopoly" on their customer beca
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by etchalon 4y ago
I don't understand how the customer wouldn't belong to Apple. I can't go into McDonald's and order a Whopper. McDonald's owns me, so long as I'm in their store. If I want a Whopper, I have to go to Burger King.
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by etchalon 4y ago
The notion that the social network provides value on its own is … weird. Social networks are valuable because of users. They gain value by attracting large numbers of users. They have limited inherent value, and the majority have features w
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by etchalon 4y ago
I will never understand the argument that "consumers are making the wrong choice and I want the government to force companies to take that choice away from them. It hurts my business. Force them to make different choices, specifically
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by etchalon 4y ago
I think the last one might be "true-able" if they changed the internal classification for certain types of content. Third-parties haven't confirmed this, and their data shows the opposite, so I'd wager either it's a
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by etchalon 4y ago
Are there any social networks, in existence, at scale, which do not rely on advertising as their primary revenue source?
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by etchalon 4y ago
I don't know why anyone would take seriously anything Twitter says, beyond acknowledging they said it. Everything is currently a moving target, and subject to their owner's whims.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I don't think it'd work.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Alexa feels like a "First CityWide Change Bank" sketch, writ large.
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by etchalon 4y ago
There are no successful subscription-only social networks. It's been tried. It has not worked.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I don't think "should" is really a function here. "Must" might be. No one has figured out a way to monetize a social network without advertising, at least not at the scale Twitter has to operate.
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by etchalon 4y ago
No, you're glue.
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by etchalon 4y ago
You've completely missed the point.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I have no doubt the consultants would be less efficient (perhaps by orders of magnitude) than employees who'd been there for years, but I think they could at least keep the lights on.
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by etchalon 4y ago
"It's just a banana Michael, how much could it cost?"
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by etchalon 4y ago
I'm not arguing for or against any specific precept. I'm not a Buddhist. My analogy was meant to out point that the argument, "I believe everything you believe, except for this one thing" is sophomoric, as the number of
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by etchalon 4y ago
I tend to think this is overblown, if for no other reason than, whatever the team's current status, there are always mercenary, high-rate consultants that can be brought in to help.
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by etchalon 4y ago
It feels like there would be a way to construct the tree in a manner that would drop the likelihood a negative balance was detected to an acceptably small number.
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by etchalon 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_precepts
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by etchalon 4y ago
"I completely agree with the core tenants of Buddhism, but I think I should be able to eat babies."
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by etchalon 4y ago
There is no such thing as a "fair" way to sell anything where demand vastly outstrips supply. There are just choices about what resource you want to prejudice for: money, time or luck.
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by etchalon 4y ago
There are infinitely better ways to spend my time than improving the personal megaphone of a billionaire.
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by etchalon 4y ago
You think Twitter controls the narrative?
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by etchalon 4y ago
"Change the world by adding PayPal to Twitter." Nah.
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by etchalon 4y ago
This will never happen. I don't know why people pretend it might, or why this site shows up on HN every few months as if it's new information.
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by etchalon 4y ago
That is not what happened.
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by etchalon 4y ago
The article conflates the case in Maryland, which was dismissed after Ulbricht was already convicted and his appeals denied by SCOTUS. The article pretends this exonerated Ross when it reality the government didn't see a reason to go t
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by etchalon 4y ago
A lot of places never stopped publishing RSS feeds. It's just not a lot of people read them anymore.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Social networks work because people enjoy using them. As people tell their friends about the network, they use it, and network effects allow it to grow. As it grows, its brand is established. Twitter is a distant fourth or fifth place netwo
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by etchalon 4y ago
That didn't really work out.

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