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by hrktb 7y ago
I would guess one niche is people that wanted the 7 inches tablets and ipad mini to succeed more. They opted for cellular models, and would have prefered to be able to message and take calls there, getting rid of their phone altogether (tha
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This device’s whole point would be outside of the “we” point of view. In general “we” don’t need a revolution of the current form factor. A sizeable portion of users have stopped upgrading and wait for their current phone to be dead, some a
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I think you are right in that it is cultural. Then, it could be less a matter of being risk averse or not, but more that people like independence, and the preferred status is not 'founder of a company' but 'self-employed&#x27
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> early-on ramen-stage startups assuming you do your homework, file for help programs etc., $250 a month would be high, and event then doesn't seem like such a high hurdle. If you are that tight, shouldn't you take more time to
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This is a rabbit hole where any actual advice needs to be prefaced with pages worth of what else you are doing on the side. There are countless of people who instead of eating less move to higher protein diets and exercice more, while doing
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I am not at all in PC gaming community, but I had the impression that more and more people were moving to linux. In particular Steam for linux seemed to be praised a lot as a stable platform (up to a point where making non games run on Stea
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It feels weird having Google on the “improve connection between the company” side when they are the poster child of parallel implementations and internal competing products and standards (at least as seen from the outside). It is just a war
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The contention might be on the time frame. Desktop OS and apps won’t go away for the next 10 or 20 years by sheer inertia of the corporate market, and the halo effect on home users. And I guess the past month/years issues don’t affect
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> If you lose revenue because google shows a few sentences of the introduction your content is not worth it to readers Arguably the very fact that Google finds it worth to display content on the search result proves the contents value. W
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This is an interesting argument as we are in completely unknown territory. As is it now we have some of the oldest scripts still readable because of pure luck (they were trapped in specific materials that preserved them, stayed in unopened
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Very interesting piece. I also got caught in rabbit hole following the AAP report on ebooks sales declining. It was an interesting ride, showing a glimpse on how much things are changing and the industry is evolving. The entry of the hole,
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> it appeals to both girls and boys It still seems to be mostly marketed at boys. Looking at the itunes store page, first item is a video with running, shooting, fighting, racing cars and burning armors. Second photo a mosaic, third figh
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by hrktb 7y ago
Wouldn't Patreon's success be a counterpoint ? The vast majority of people don't pay, but there seem to be enough people paying that it at least balances the ad dependency of a number of creators. I might be biased, but most
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You are right, but I’d see a tipping point where the money is better used by bringing better maps to services people actually use, effectively improving their life. It would be no different from straight paying Google so they map the stre
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Our western societies fundamentally value extroversion, exchanging with the world and participate in the group. A monastry is the opposite. It worked when praying for the world was largely accepted as having some effect. Nowadays thoughts a
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You are perfectly right, in that this is a real thing. Lunches are not just food intake, and being there or not will have an effect on your work life. I personally feel it’s something that should be more explicited. It goes well along share
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> it will make a difference between 2 otherwise identical cakes. If we go into "all else equal" territory, you could get a promotion and not neighbour because you created your dog an instagram account that your boss likes. Or
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One of the most interesting thing with paper globes is that the object becomes very familiar with kids. They understand it's inexpensive, won't shatter if they drop it so don't fear touching or moving it around, playing with
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You are completely right, for all our history of working in the same buildings, in person. This changes though when you move to different floors. At some point you might be working more with someone that is on the other side of the street t
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> Jamie Terran, a licensed career coach in New York City, said that small talk between colleagues and supervisors builds rapport, which in turn builds trust. IMOA trust is built by delivering, being consistent and helping out. You can ch
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How does it work for a 10 people team for instance ? One of them will be a team leader at some point. A second one might follow and become a team leader while the firth one goes higher. Will they go up one more level ? let’s say yes. That m
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They’re violating rules and it’s not without any consequences though [ex 0] It also looks to me the same as child labor in developing countries for instance. It might be par for the course but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be against it, or
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While skeptism is always healthy, a lot of the flack Amazon is getting seems pretty legit. Competitors might be piling in it and pushing it under the spotlight、even exaggerate parts of it, but of lot of Amazon’s operations is still provably
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it’s not anemic in China though
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I think self managed censoring is equally impossible. It is twitter’s model, and it puts an incredible burden on the most targeted or vulnerable users. Or to get back to reddit, the model works for people who stay focused on a very limited
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I think self managed censoring is equally impossible. It is twitter’s model, and it puts an incredible burden on the most targeted or vulnerable users. Or to get back to reddit, the model works for people who stay focused on a very limited
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I think the iPhone SE is a special case in that it's still supported to this day, and actually works fine in most if not all regards. Any user happy with it has no reason to be vocal. Most people won't be making blogpost about how
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I’d argue we have countless of digitized books, photographs and movies from way before 1969 that we wouldn’t get access to in physical form. They might not be our individual personal copies, but they’re there, actually accessible. To your p
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> ~50 years That’s very carefully handled books. My kids books are in no shape in a matter of months. Then adults also spill, grease, and tear their books. I had to buy some cheap second hand copies for a series with no digital release a
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> a consumer, a physical thing inherently has more value than a digital one because it keeps the value after I buy it. I can lend the book to someone legally after I'm done with it. I can sell it, trade it, or donate to a library. F

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