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by imagist 10y ago
Obviously.
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by imagist 10y ago
That's not a cost, that's a benefit. There's not one ad-supported site I care about that I wouldn't be willing to donate to. And I'd be ecstatic if Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/BuzzFeed/etc. went
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by imagist 10y ago
There are already websites that detect my ad blocker and request that I turn on ads or leave, usually in condescending language, but I do leave.
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by imagist 10y ago
> You set the price when you consume the content that you know is funded with ads. How do I know this without viewing ads that I don't agree to view? > It is your attention which you are agreeing to trade for information or enter
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by imagist 10y ago
> 2. This could hurt small startups that are very carefully managing an ad budget. They say the market will adjust, but until it does small startups take a hit. People we know. There isn't a god-given right to make money via your ch
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by imagist 10y ago
Corporations are by nature amoral, only caring about money.
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by imagist 10y ago
> One of the biggest problems we have in software is over-engineering. Again, this is dependent on your goals. If your goal is just to make a quick buck, any well-advertised shit will do, so any engineering you can cut out is waste. But
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by imagist 10y ago
You're getting a rare down vote from me because this is such an obvious straw man. At least pretend to try to understand his point.
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by imagist 10y ago
Did you get paid to do this?
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by imagist 10y ago
It is absolutely as simple as "bottom lines can decrease quality". Removing the bottom line from consideration doesn't guarantee a good result, obviously . But that doesn't mean that bottom lines can't decrease qu
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by imagist 10y ago
> These are intruiging thoughts, and you might be right, but you're changing the subject and talking about global economic theory and philosophy along the lines of Hobbes and Marx and Smith. In the context of this thread, these are
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by imagist 10y ago
This is a perfect example of the cognitive dissonance in business. The driving premise of capitalism is that various competing companies pursuing the bottom line will produce the best outcomes. Yet here we have a case that shows this premis
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by imagist 10y ago
Sure, but that money is rarely enough. Investors take on high risk when investing in a startup, but that risk is localized. They typically have a diversified portfolio so that the successes outweigh the failures. As a result their local ris
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by imagist 10y ago
The first thing I got from this page was a pop-up asking "Want more saastr?" Given all I've seen of saastr is a pop-up, no, I do not want more pop-ups.
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by imagist 10y ago
> The trouble is, vanishingly few current products are designed to improve our lives first. We became the product existing to provide more data. This, more than anything, is why I refuse to view ads and jealously guard my data.
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by imagist 10y ago
No, I'm not claiming I have an inalienable right to view a webpage. People are free to put up ad-blocker-blockers and I'll happily leave them alone. I'll even leave a site if they simply request that I view ads to use their s
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by imagist 10y ago
My point is that the answer is a definite no.
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by imagist 10y ago
> [V]irtual currencies could undermine America’s long-standing ability to disrupt the financial networks of its foes and even permanently upend parts of the global financial system. This is one of the most compelling reasons we should ad
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by imagist 10y ago
Yeah. That's what I thought when I read that.
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by imagist 10y ago
Yeah, you could substitute a lot of stuff for espresso there: chocolate, for example. Basically the curdling reaction is the key there.
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by imagist 10y ago
I worked at an ice cream shop. Chocolate + vanilla in a shake is called a black and white shake and in a cone is called a twist cone. It's a common enough combo it had its own name.
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by imagist 10y ago
Headline follows Betteridge's Law.
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by imagist 10y ago
True, but my point is that the alternatives being proposed are vaporware. JSON works now. IMHO JSON is the least shitty of the shitty solutions that exist.
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by imagist 10y ago
I can see your argument for consistent structure--I definitely don't love vimscript or nginx's custom configuration language. But that doesn't require we jump out of text--JSON and XML are viable, provided they remain geared
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by imagist 10y ago
Sure, maybe they're untrustworthy, but we don't need to trust them to believe what they say in this case. We can evaluate what they say independently of their trustworthiness, using logic and experience.
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by imagist 10y ago
There is already progress being made toward stopping that kind of advertising too.
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by imagist 10y ago
I think a good alternative to ad driven sites like Facebook and Twitter would be to not have those sites. The parts of the Internet which are paid for by ads have a net negative impact on humanity.
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by imagist 10y ago
I did not and will not agree to see ads, nor am I obligated to clutter my mind with crap just because I viewed a webpage. You can't just claim that people agree to things because it's convenient to your business model.
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by imagist 10y ago
But I seek out communication with people whose ideas I care about. That's very different from having someone shove their self-serving ideas in front of me.
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by imagist 10y ago
I like having ideas in my head that come from sources I respect whose opinions I valued enough to seek out.

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