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by fossuser 6y ago
Gary Gulman talks a bit about the relief he got from it. Unfortunately for him it was only short term relief, but it really did seem to work. He’s doing well now, so maybe that short term relief helped in some way as part of everything else
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by fossuser 6y ago
It’s not about that either. There is a healthy market here. Forcing Apple to do what you suggest is harmful to users and reduces user choice by making the Apple ecosystem like Android. This removes Apple’s ability to do things like block tr
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by fossuser 6y ago
Amazon is great, Twitter can be great if you use it well, and the other two are pretty easy to drop.
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by fossuser 6y ago
A closer analogy is Walmart deciding what goes on its shelves and it being hard for users to buy from any other store besides Walmart once they choose a “Walmart” device which locks them into their choice a bit. I can see the argument, I ju
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by fossuser 6y ago
The lock down gives Apple the leverage to force good behavior and policy. If it was left to choice the companies are incentivized to be shitty. Users are unsophisticated so the incentive will be for companies to track, mine, and sell data a
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by fossuser 6y ago
You won’t find any disagreement from me on this. Western company deference to China is wrong: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html That’s mostly a separate issue though.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I don't agree with this or want this. I like that Apple has leverage to tell app developers to adhere to their platform rules in ways that benefit Apple's users. If Apple was wielding this to harm users that'd be one thing, b
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by fossuser 6y ago
It's worth reading the entire blog post I linked - it's good and provides more context. I only quoted a relevant subsection because I know otherwise 99% of people won't click through to read any of it.
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by fossuser 6y ago
The best analysis of this is from Stratechery: https://stratechery.com/2020/privacy-labels-and-lookalike-au... -- "Amazon, meanwhile, is increasingly where shopping searches start, particularly for Prime customers
820.
by fossuser 6y ago
We don't really disagree, FB, Google, and Amazon will be less affected by this change than everyone else that can't do all of the things you're suggesting. That's the harm Stratechery is talking about. The affect on FB a
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by fossuser 6y ago
If it doesn't affect small businesses then who is buying all of the FB ads? If you look through your ad feed what do you see? When I had FB, most of the ads were for products (or services) from small businesses. Maybe you can dispute s
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think the issue is a little different than I suggested (though the small business ads are a part of it). I think this is a worthwhile read: https://stratechery.com/2020/privacy-labels-and-lookalike-au... > "S
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by fossuser 6y ago
They get hit indirectly, not because the small businesses sell ads - but because they buy targeted ads on Facebook (and those targeted ads work). Edit: Smaller companies also rely on these IDs because they aren't able to track in other
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think Apple will win this war and FB will lose. Nobody cares that small businesses benefit from targeted FB ads except FB and small businesses, customers certainly don’t, users don’t. The small group of users that would care about that
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Why Was Trading Restricted?(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by fossuser 6y ago|0 comments
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by fossuser 6y ago
Well the RH decision may have been more reasonable than I thought (and have to do with clearing house details I didn’t understand) - just communicated terribly: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021&#x2
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, I agree and think it's likely to do well as the dominant and trusted centralized exchange to get fiat in and out. I just don't see them as that different from Robinhood in the service they provide and the risks associated wi
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by fossuser 6y ago
It's another centralized exchange though. I think the DeFi work is more interesting, particularly stuff like this: https://uniswap.org/ Still early, but truly decentralized exchanges are super interesting.
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by fossuser 6y ago
My mistake - after rereading your comment I understand what you were saying. I agree with you actually - I generally find overuse of profanity in real life leaves a bad impression on me too. I just think the wsb context is a bit of a differ
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah I think you're right - I haven't read the book, but I understand the thesis and this seems like a good example of it. Some companies can still see the writing on the wall and adapt though. When the iPhone launched Google imme
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by fossuser 6y ago
I'd guess the truth is dumber here than you think.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I'm pretty sure you're wrong about this and this isn't 'naked shorting'. I have pretty low confidence in the detailed specifics here, but I saw some discussion on Twitter that naked shorting being legal could have a
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by fossuser 6y ago
I don't have a strong position on this steering wheel, but the arguments here just seem like bullshit. If steering wheels went from this shape to round you could write a similar article making up similar reasons why the status quo was
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by fossuser 6y ago
> As a Tesla owner it really getting to the point state side that buying one may be a negative as the only connector they offer is their own It comes with an adapter, this isn’t an issue for owners. I’ve said elsewhere in this thread, bu
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, definitely possible Europeans don’t understand the extent of the dealership problem in the US. It’d be a longer comment, but there are really bad incentives and the dealership owners have a lot of local political power. There are a l
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by fossuser 6y ago
Market incentives are why we have it at all. Tesla fought against the legacy companies mocking them and most of the press lying about them for ten years. They pulled off a miracle and succeeded in spite of all that and now legacy companies
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by fossuser 6y ago
> Legacy companies want profits which are rising, to please the stakeholders. How are RIM or Palm’s profits these days? I don’t agree about hydrogen and I think the EV market has proved the point by now.
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by fossuser 6y ago
I don’t agree - if this were the case we wouldn’t have EVs or a charging network at all. Tesla built this in spite of all the attacks against them, at this point it should be their competitive advantage. I’m sure the others will try and com
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by fossuser 6y ago
I could see how someone could hold the position you do, I just don’t agree with it. You’ve picked out the similarities, but have ignored what I would argue are more important differences. I suspect we’re not going to agree on this, so proba
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by fossuser 6y ago
I agree with you. I don’t think the use of the word retarded is the same.

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