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by ggg9990 8y ago
How did poor advertisers manage when advertising was on TV and billboards and couldn’t be tracked?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Tesla has 10% of GM’s employees? That’s nuts. Does GM have a lot more contractors?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
My guess is that their biggest technical challenge is fraud detection. High dollar two sided marketplace is ripe for it.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Not for a network effect business. A network effect business doesn’t need a strong advantage or even any advantage if the network is strong enough. Note that eBay has barely changed in 20 years yet is still the only place to go to get Hambu
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Bland and unexceptional is the brand. Walmart isn’t trying to be fun or cool, they’re trying to signal “cheap stuff inside.” If bland and unexciting came to your mind, it’s working.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
What about a hotel making its own mattress? Westin did this with massive commercial success.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Well, Airbnbs font will be seen by more people than most startups...
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It’s easy to say you’re overinvested in design, but many massively successful companies are separated from their also-ran competitors by seemingly minor design decisions, like 140 character limits or disappearing messages. In this context,
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Also, I can’t see any other reason they’d care. Who does the header harm?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I don’t know how they bill. If it is just the Content-Length then they eat the cost of the header.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I get that this is data that Fastly has to send but doesn’t get to bill directly to customers, but don’t expect ME to care about this until the average news article stops sending me 10 MB.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
A lot of watching, and my claim is only about the fans, not the players, so I’m not sure how any playing experience would help me here. I know that millions of people have watched Lawrence Taylor’s career ending tackle of Joe Thiesmann whil
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Perhaps a military metaphor is best —- the QB role is no more violent than Army general, and the players and soldiers are the ones who are most sickened by the violence and injury. That doesn’t change the fact that both football and war hav
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The US has a violence fetish, the same way that the UK has a class fetish. The football quarterback is the highest status kid in the school because he is the leader of an organization demonstrated to deliver and endure violence.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It would be puerile for a Swedish person, far from it for an American. The fact that it’s the military of my own country has little to do with how evil it is or isn’t.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
A big part of the problem is effortlessly getting content from your phone (where it’s easiest to find) to your TV (where it’s best to watch) through the competing hostile ecosystems of Apple/Google/Amazon/Facebook.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Has Disney ever sold rights to anything? Their business model is to accumulate vast amounts of IP with emotional attachments to consumers. The more people sign this petition the more Disney will value the Monkey Island IP.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Only today’s nitpicking culture could ever create an impression that Steve Jobs wasn’t intelligent. He basically created modern computing. The thought that he was just a snake oil huckster is lunacy.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
For sure - it's just that they do have a great presence in this category already. Ready-to-cook meals that are in an aluminum tray and only need to be shoved in the oven for 20 minutes.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It should activate while driving - it just shouldn’t immediately cut the power. It should set off a blaring alarm.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I think Amazon’s investment in delivery infrastructure will eventually outcompete everyone.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
This entire space will eventually be dominated by Costco for pickup and Amazon for delivered.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
They probably give up at some point, and may have built the feature less than 5 years ago.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It’s not a pipe dream in Northern Europe.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Google is going to kill this business with Duplex, because I’m in a few years I’m going to assume that any call I get from a stranger trying to sell me something is a robot.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Well, people make a LOT of mistakes with Excel. I once made one that caused the answer to be off by $60 million (out of $200m), and didn’t discover it until I had presented to senior management. I never told anyone.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
One of the reasons Excel is still so popular for business processes compared to purpose-built apps. The main disadvantage (the user can go in and edit any data or formula that they want) is a feature to many users.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
But couldn't this be framed as: the viewer chooses what to request. The agent chooses how to respond, based on the terms offered by the requestor. They could require a payment, a login, or a promise to view ads before responding.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
And websites can sell static JPG ads that are impossible to block.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
You seem to consider the consumer the only “agent” — they have to make the decision on what sites to visit, they have to comply with the terms of the implicit agreement... what are the obligations of the publisher?

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