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by gsatic 3y ago
TV/Cable/Radio ads are regulated I think. You can't play more than some N minutes of Ads per hour of content. But the fucking Internet ad world there doesn't seem any upper limit to how much of someone's time you ca
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by gsatic 3y ago
>×Riots might be a big word for what is happening. That's what Obelix always says.
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That's true but it all depends on what happens to govt and corporate wonderland going forward. They define what output the school produces to meet THEIR needs. The students needs are secondary. If chat GPT or whatever meets their (most
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by gsatic 3y ago
Get in touch with HR depts of large tech firms in your neighbourhood. There is a regular stream of decent talent that they let go off every year.
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by gsatic 3y ago
Thats cause no one talks about Collective Attention available (Demand). Thats not increasing. In fact its getting overloaded and disintegrating from the info tsunami. The UN report on the Attention Economy says only .5% of content produced
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by gsatic 3y ago
And that's why I shall be sticking to cash for the next 10 years till all the beta testing is complete. By which time hopefully interest bearing CBDCs will show up, and make all these mindless intermediaries sitting between my wallet a
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by gsatic 3y ago
It doesn't change. Have you checked how much credit card debt exists? How and why did that happen? People are easy to game.
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by gsatic 3y ago
Consumers have 3 inch chimp brains. Even the Kardashians have worked out how to exploit those brains. Don't live in some day dream about what modern marketing can make the chimp brain do.
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by gsatic 3y ago
The 'upper class' dont have enough eye balls to keep the content industry afloat.
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First Zuck wanted to be president.Now in a quest to be beloved he wantstobe Elon(sfba.social)
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We may be on the cusp of a golden age for medicine(nytimes.com)
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by gsatic 3y ago
Just wondering why announce a coup attempt sitting so far away from the capital? It feels like a suicide run...unless he has supporters in Moscow. But even then it seems a bit nuts launching it from so far away from the power center.
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by gsatic 3y ago
Switched to Brave on Linux and Android. It's not bad and even find myself using their Search more than Google quite often.
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by gsatic 3y ago
They did nothing other than layoff ten thousand+ ppl. How good do you think a balance sheet looks after that?
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by gsatic 3y ago
Someone has to sit in the chair and pretend to be in control of the uncontrollable. And its usually the clueless or the insane. My boss calls them the mindlessly ambitious. You need them cuz the other side has them too. Keeping them on a le
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Stocks in India surge to record as foreigners boost purchases(bloomberg.com)
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by gsatic 3y ago
Actual parasites can't survive without extracting things from others. These middle men can survive without further exploitation, but they are like runaway processes trapped in a loop, they have no awareness they can exit.
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by gsatic 3y ago
This is what happens when ever optimizing robots like Tim Cook are put in charge of anything. They should never be in charge of setting the heading of the ship. Keeping the ship running and afloat sure that's what optimizing robots ar
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by gsatic 3y ago
Reddit leadership and the mods are replaceable cogs of a machine. The machine always wins. How many times do we have to repeat the cycle to learn the only choice is - to be part of the machine or not. Beyond a point controlling the mindless
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by gsatic 3y ago
Google or Reddit don't matter, if the Info Explosion problem that the Internet produced gets solved some other way. Main reason such sites came into existence was there was too much info on the Internet. These sites where attempts at s
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by gsatic 3y ago
They need to cap how many ads get served. Currently they can serve up ads for every possible search query typed or inject any number of ads surrounding every page you visit, so my grandma can barely use her phone without touching an ad.
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by gsatic 3y ago
We are in a bubble in the sense, less than 0.5 % of info created is consumed by actual people. And that stat is from 2015 - https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/attention_economy_... So you have to ask w
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by gsatic 3y ago
Is there a way to see how long a link stays on the hn front page on average, and if that average is rising or falling over time? I read that avg time spent by a twitter hashtag on the twitter trending page has been falling year over year. I
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by gsatic 3y ago
All the Freebies on the Internet of the past 20 years be it email, search, chat, news/content, video, streaming, social etc have been funded by Ads. The expectation has been there is no upper bound to what Ads can fund. But thanks to C
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by gsatic 3y ago
Goldharber answers that - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber...
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It just can't be worse than a govt agency's daily bungling. And probably costs 100 times less than their pension bill. That was probably Microsofts sales pitch.
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What's the diff? They both signal value.
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It's not hard to connect it to economics. Social status = currency.
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There is are good reasons why the leisure class and the leisure class lifestyle exists. Conspicuous leisure and Conspicuous consumption serve specific purposes. Look them up. The problem is most ppl get introduced to the lifestyle, with so
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by gsatic 3y ago
Particles are similar to people that way.

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