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by jbob2000 6y ago
They're making money until they aren't. OnlyFans is sweeping a large amount of adult models off of Snapchat. Everyone is doing disappearing content, stories, and photo filters. The only thing they have left are the contracts the
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> What makes TikTok unique beyond growing like wildfire: their monetization strategy will be easier (the social aspect leads to relevant advertising), and their community is more stable! I think monetizing a community that did not start
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Apps are easy to install... and easy to uninstall. Where's Snapchat these days? What about Vine? What about tumblr? These companies make apps to try to monetize a community, but communities are fickle and easy to scare off. If I were a
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Yes, every once in a while there is a product that does not need advertising or aggressive marketing, where it's value is immediately and plainly obvious to everyone watching. Buying one of these things does not enter you into the cons
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At the end of the day, I can rest easy knowing that all of this is to shove products in my face that I still don’t want or have any use for. All of the analytics of the internet, all of this data collection and machine learning - all to s
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There’s no hoax, we know that Russian operatives purchased ads across social media to influence the 2016 election. We know that members of Trump’s campaign party went to the Russians for dirt on Hillary Clinton. Missing a smoking gun does n
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There are many resources to discover mindful meditation. A trite blog article stuffed with ads, email plugs, and reseller links is not the place to start.
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You can unsubscribe. This is not sleazy, it’s a standard business practice that most companies engage in.
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All of this requires political support. You can't collect the data if you are not allowed to or if your results are silenced. Enforcement requires political will, otherwise the criminals never get prosecuted or flee to their home count
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Nature and animal conservation is a political issue. The best use of your skills would be to aid in the lobbying efforts for tighter regulations and more money for developing countries. You might save a tiger, but in the year it took you to
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Hmm I think it’s just our group, we have a Production support team that holds the keys, and there’s only 3 of them that can access my app. For example, if I want to change an environment variable, I can’t just log into the cloud console or
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I now understand why the bank I work for creates the separation of duties; the person who builds the system has no access to it, and the person with access has no idea how it works. As a developer, it frustrates the shit of out me because I
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A platform isn’t some magical place with no basis in society, they don’t exist in some walled-off world where the real world is alien. They are still part of the general culture. It’s a fault of Quora to have dogmatic rules like this, there
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Salary is about how easy you are to replace, and nothing else. Remote workers are easy to replace because you can go all around the world to find someone to do the work. Why pay COL to someone in Mississippi when you can pay much less for s
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I did this for a while, the problem is that there's really no such thing as a high-quality USB switch. They are all garbage and mess with USB devices in some way (at least at the consumer level).
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We're in strange times if you can't call a flat-earther an idiot and a moron. What's next, I can't call a Nazi a piece of shit? There are objectively correct times to use insults, this is definitely one of them.
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The article completely dehumanizes Instagram users, it's a window into the lack of empathy social media companies have for other human beings.
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They want exponential growth purely because it is exponential. They aren't chasing anything other than that metric, they didn't ask how they could make it better, they didn't ask their current users what could make it better,
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I think his point is that, Trump provided the opportunity for these law professors to get their "dream job" (a seat on the supreme court, your name is in the history books for centuries). And yet, NONE of them took this up. His po
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> Netflix says the service offers “virtual workstations, integrated storage and full access to secure rendering in a connected environment” and is intended to “provide collaborators frictionless access to infrastructure to meet Netflix’s
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You didn't read the article. This is a service for VFX artists who are working on Netflix titles. It's a competitive advantage for Netflix if their VFX artists can work faster than others while working remotely. These desktops won
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I don’t mean to be ignorant, but what are these critical safety functions? The closest thing to safety that I’ve seen is they give the speech at the beginning about oxygen masks and remind you to buckle up. Given that the inflight safety
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Management never wants to invest in the tooling
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Part of Bloomberg's business model is news-as-advertising; "This company developed this new therapy, find out more". I think that's what the editor is referring to as "enterprise stories". He's basically
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Publicly traded companies wouldn't exist given Chinese government rule. It is a short term interest to support that government, when long term, it could ultimately lead to the shareholder's removal or dilution by the government.
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Ok, you can sit in a corner for the next 1000 years while all of that data is gathered for you. A glimpse at your username suggests you have intense bias with regards to the human body and its immune system.
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Data needs a narrative attached, otherwise it's just noise. There is a point where adding more data doesn't change the narrative, so it's pointless to continue gathering data.
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This is what I don't hear anyone talking about. Right now, my company is saying "we're going back to the office 2 weeks after the province fully reopens". This is great! It's tied to the progression of the virus and
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This is the problem with this post; Paul isn’t getting into specifics, so it’s easy for anyone to read this and say “ah yes, it is them who have the problem and not me”. I gather he wants to tell all of these people casting platitudes down
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In philosophy, this is called the “Newton’s flaming laser sword problem”. Did Newton have a flaming laser sword? Sure, he could have had one. But we have no evidence today of that, so for the context of our discussion, let’s ignore it. An

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