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by gsatic 3y ago
All this has been used historically to justify empire, monopolies and nation states. Yet empires, monopolies and nation states die out all the times. Cities on the other hand regularly outlive them all. Rome still stands. Thats an example o
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by gsatic 3y ago
> This isn’t an issue for like 99% of them That's why 99% don't care or will ever care about mastadon. Just like all other EU funded efforts go nowhere. Social medias main features are - broadcast, Following others broadcasts,
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by gsatic 3y ago
Scale needs to have some purpose. We are not ants or weeds.
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by gsatic 3y ago
> journal of marketing research What are ppl even getting so excited about? I mean this is a field which teaches kids to recite - "half the money I spend is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half".
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India's 2nd largest govt bank used strangers phnnos to boost app registrations(aljazeera.com)
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The earnings recession is here(finance.yahoo.com)
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China's digital currency revolution – China Tonight – ABC News [video](youtube.com)
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China-led EV boom in Thailand threatens Japan's grip on key market(channelnewsasia.com)
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by gsatic 3y ago
Russia is accumulating a lot of yuan. Maybe Mr. Ma needs to visit Moscow.
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by gsatic 3y ago
Has elmo said anything about Palestine?
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by gsatic 3y ago
Polymetallic nodules are scattered all over under the sea - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese_nodule But the composition is slightly different from what he has found. Time will tell. He is probably trying to get
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by gsatic 3y ago
It's a response to the Info Explosion and the associated Noise and chaos. Once everyone is hooked up to a network, or as networks hook up with to each other, the thing that happens always is Info explodes. As cost to broadcast drops to
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by gsatic 3y ago
But this isn't academia or sports where ppl are focused. Some one here talks about flies one day and the circus the next. And they get points for being novel. So what? The Internet is full of novelty. Over flowing and overloading every
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by gsatic 3y ago
You don't need stingers. Airport IT breaks down every 2 days for free.
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by gsatic 3y ago
You don't need China to do that. American corporate robots have been doing it on autopilot for decades.
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France's leisure class is totally disconnected from its ppl. I don't know how that's going to change.
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Banks have huge amount of institutional knowledge on lending. And that's what they need to do without playing games with depositor cash. They need to borrow from the central bank. Central Bank is much more sophisticated than the avg de
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by gsatic 3y ago
Mass action has to be a little more imaginative. Capitalists aren't as bright as ppl think. Most are trapped in infinite loops they don't have the creativity or sense to exit. We saw during COVID companies and supply chains collap
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by gsatic 3y ago
This has been the "fix" through out banking history, and it is the one of the main reasons central banks came into existence. Cause banks need to be bailed out all the time. The plebs hear only abt the big bailouts. But there are
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by gsatic 3y ago
He is right about the meanness, but his own product head says the goal is to capture market (to be ad monetized in future) cuz ppl are unhappy with twitter. So that's the goal of Threads. Not doing anything about meanness. Cuz guess wh
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What problem are they solving? No one has any idea. Info keeps exploding instead of shrinking.
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Sure does. Faraday stopped his EM experiments, not cuz of ignorant ppl, but "great" mathematicians of the day were mocking him for his lack of math skills. Without those experiments, no one would have ever dreamt up electromagnet
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by gsatic 3y ago
You could say HN has a decent web of trust, but it doesn't solve the info overload problem. Think of how many links are not being clicked or read by anyone. HN can show us the number everyday. If they say for every 100 links submitted
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by gsatic 3y ago
It is true. UN has a report on it - https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/attention_economy_... The only small correction would be AI is not required. What was required to overwhelm everything is Cost of
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by gsatic 3y ago
> unless you have the time, energy, inclination, theoretical knowledge Why does anyone need all that?
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The UN report on the Attention Economy points out only 0.5% of content produced is consumed. And that was from 2015. Google, Youtube, Facebook, TikTok are not going to tell content creators that. They want everyone busy searching for an aud
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Its all Ad Feuled content generation. It will end outside the US much faster cuz the Ad spends per person are much much lower. And therefore the polluted content too is much less. US advertising is a 350 Billion a Yr business. That's N
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Ppl are not thinking to deeply abt what problem is being solved. They are just reacting. Telling everyone to build and grow audience is very nice, until you realize (1) the Total Available Eyeballs are not growing. So new problems are being
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Mail breaks down as soon as everyone starts broadcasting to everyone else. Also the reason why ppl behind mail and chat never saw social media coming. Social media can't work on top of those protocols so they thought it would fail. Nor
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Content consumed/content produced is tending to 0 cause the denominator has grown ridiculously massive. Whats funny is the goal of most tech companies when the internet came out was to minimize Info Explosions networks began to produce

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