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by exelius 8y ago
I feel a subreddit is a good solution when you need to have a discussion with over 1,000 people. That’s an arbitrary number, but it’s the point at which personal relationships break down and it becomes a “flat” discussion. I don’t think Red
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by exelius 8y ago
I know someone who is a mod for a couple major subs and he absolutely does paid placements (he has his own bot network for everything, but being a mod his shill posts don’t get deleted). Mods don’t necessarily use their mod power itself for
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s going to blow back on them. The user experience is significantly worse. The entire goal is to reduce information density to cram in more ads. Guess they didn’t get the memo that this transformation is exactly what drove users away fr
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by exelius 8y ago
Just like Twitter; but most of those millions of eyeballs aren’t posting anything.
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Right but I think their picture will be disjointed and incomplete. Something like 99% of all users are lurkers who never post a single comment.
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by exelius 8y ago
That’s a strange fursona...
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by exelius 8y ago
I would go so far as to say that while the moderators of most major subs may have started as volunteers, they are almost certainly on someone’s payroll now as “social influencers”. This includes the political subreddits (actually especially
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by exelius 8y ago
What if you use Reddit the way I do when posting anonymously: I post on throwaway accounts and delete the accounts every few weeks. The account names aren’t saved in the posts, and the posts aren’t linked in any visible way. I’m sure Reddit
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by exelius 8y ago
Right; if you run the Craigslist model. Reddit has been more interventionist with content, which means they need more people to manage the community. I would guess they have all the developers they need...
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There’s always the exception that proves the rule, but yeah it’s pretty waspy once you move a level above the kids hired out of university.
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by exelius 8y ago
Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free. Change any one of those three and the user base will abandon you. It’s been Reddit’s dilemma since the beginning: you can’t monetize a toxic user base that has t
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by exelius 8y ago
Most cities don’t include adequate ground-depth rights in land titles, so home-scale geothermal in cities is almost certainly out. This isn’t a regulatory thing; you literally only own the first 10 feet of ground or so (hence so many horizo
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by exelius 8y ago
My hypothesis is that Goldman et al were only interested in crypto as a market-making opportunity. Crypto price manipulation fits right in with their commodity trading strategy (buy up most of the global supply and sit on it).
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by exelius 8y ago
Bingo; if you’ve ever met successful traders they’re usually not that smart. Most were just in the right place at the right time. They try to justify their exceptionalism by giving advice, but it boils down to “be a WASP and get a job at an
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by exelius 8y ago
I think this case is a bit too hard to prove much more than negligence, but establishing criminal liability would send the right message that you gotta do this right before unleashing it on public streets.
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Right, an officer’s opinion is worth jack shit in an NTSB investigation. They go after facts.
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by exelius 8y ago
If you’re gonna test something like this on public roads, there need to be better engineering failsafes in place. The place for the product folks to override safety features is the test track. If the feature didn’t work, they should have pu
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by exelius 8y ago
I think this will end up with an Uber exec facing manslaughter charges for gross negligence.
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by exelius 8y ago
I think you’re confusing “programmer” with “10x programmer”. Plenty of people are capable of implementing business logic in code. Very few are capable of designing that logic — they’re the 10x programmers who know all about data structures,
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by exelius 8y ago
I feel that we have spent 30 years replicating Bash across multiple computer systems. The further my clients move to the cloud, the more shell scripts they write at the exclusion of other languages. and just like this, I have clients who ha
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by exelius 8y ago
Maybe a bit meta for HN.
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Snap’s core demo is just now graduating. They’ll have that sweet, sweet disposable income soon enough.
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by exelius 8y ago
With all the new IAC stuff coming out, expect big companies to move the web IDE route over the next 10 years. Even if it’s less functional, they will push it out. I have several clients really interested in it; not least because in combinat
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by exelius 8y ago
I don’t know it’s so much Russia’s MO as the result of a decentralized Russian intelligence community that overlaps heavily with criminal elements. So some Russian mafia cell may be spying on Americans hoping Putin throws some legitimate bu
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by exelius 8y ago
Yep; docs, ripped jeans and flannel are all really fashionable right now. Feels like high school.
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by exelius 8y ago
Design is cyclical in about 30 year cycles. Grunge is back in. Everything ugly is beautiful again.
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s been dubbed “digital brutalist” [1] style; as a rejection of the “streamlined, flat” designs of the last decade. Style evolves; Snap is targeting a younger demographic and the best way to say “we’re not Facebook or google; we’re cooler
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by exelius 8y ago
Right, even then you have more funds end in the red or very close to break-even than the black. It’s definitely a portfolio game. My hypothesis is that the Unicorns need public-company levels of financing but don’t want the oversight used t
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by exelius 8y ago
Actually the VCs don’t make out so well either; VC as an asset class generally underperforms the public markets. A few whales (Kleiner, Sequoia, et al) run the market, and they’re market-makers who prop up valuations and bring in other folk
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by exelius 8y ago
Same author actually. But yes, Medicare fraud is all too common. I honestly don’t understand why — Medicare fraud is very easy to catch with modern analytics and the penalties are stiff. But it persists... CMS is moving to outcome-based pay

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