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by jp555 7y ago
I wonder if the OP still uses a Credit Card? How is giving one company info on every transaction I make for decades , different than giving one company info on every link I click on? My link history seems to me to be a MUCH noisier signal
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by jp555 7y ago
Absolutely. If your market is geographically concentrated, a newspaper - if the people you're targeting in your geography read that newspaper - can be a great channel.
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by jp555 7y ago
Ah yes, that would make a lot more sense.
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by jp555 7y ago
"In most cases, it's wasted money." Of course it is!! In a business, it's pretty normal that almost everyone you tell your offer to (advertising) will decline most of the time. Expecting an advertising impression to turn
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by jp555 7y ago
The Journalism industry can't go on like this.
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by jp555 7y ago
Makes me think of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
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by jp555 7y ago
I read this faster than it took Wired to render the text on their article’s page, and I think your comment is more info-dense. Although the ads & graphics were loaded, with the text highlights in place it looked like a weird redacted do
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by jp555 7y ago
Sure as a whole, on average. But there absolutely is a small minority of extreme producers in most domains.
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by jp555 7y ago
So if you get a degree, it’s really the book publishers, librarians, and coal burning electricity plant that kept the lights on who deserve most of the credit?
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by jp555 7y ago
The halo drive concept is interesting. It uses a beam of light to extract gravity energy from a black hole and use to to maintain acceleration of your ship. Almost no fuel needed because its really just a kind of extreme gravity assist that
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by jp555 7y ago
I've read that the wiring harness of a modern ICE car costs more than the transmission. Do you think it's possible that all we need is ~$100/KWh, after which due to diminishing returns, find better ROI improving other areas l
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by jp555 8y ago
Where does the money go as tax? Isn’t most of it paid out to private businesses that supply the government? Maybe payroll is a bigger expense?
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by jp555 8y ago
I read during earlier attempts to pass the Copyright directive that it is not implementable in Poland because it would be unconstitutional. I understood that was why Poland was voting against it, but that was in the summer, and I’m not sure
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by jp555 8y ago
So you’re saying you’d like targeting to be better?
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by jp555 8y ago
So you’d agree better targeting is needed?
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by jp555 8y ago
You’ll get more ads that don’t relate to you, so you’ll feel like there’s more advertising. If you don’t want to be bothered by ads, we probably need better targeting, not a ban on it.
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by jp555 8y ago
Does it also make you upset that it used to be a rainforest before the ice came and destroyed it all? I not trying to be sarcastic, just thinking about it.
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by jp555 8y ago
Technological progress has always been a series of overlapping S-curves. We all think it’s new when we notice the pattern, but it’s been going on forever. The pace of aviation tech progress in the early half of the 20th century had most bel
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by jp555 8y ago
Sources that invalidate foundational theory? It’s like claims that cell radios cause molecular damage in humans; that probably requires proving Enstien’s Nobel prize winning work on the photoelectric effect is wrong.
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by jp555 8y ago
My high school physics says that’s BS, but EMP scare tactics does make for a great info-war weapon. It’s quite the boogeyman if you don’t have much science background. Stuxnet like attacks are way way more plausible and likely.
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by jp555 8y ago
EMP weapons are not a real thing. If you detonate a nuclear weapon above a city, no matter how far above, you will call upon you a nuclear response. There’s no difference between an EMP attempt and a nuclear strike. So why would you attempt
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by jp555 8y ago
Even if they did, it doesn’t mean they’re going away. GM went bankrupt in 2009, still here.
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by jp555 8y ago
“A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem solving operations” A recipe is an algorithm.
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by jp555 8y ago
The definition of a monopoly is when there is only one seller of something. That exclusivity can be achieved in a number of ways such as patents, trade secrets, or some other monopoly moat.
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by jp555 8y ago
Or maybe the screens would have retailed for something like $5000 each, in a market with little to no demand (eg: consumer video conferencing prior to smartphones). There are no bad ideas, just bad timing.
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by jp555 8y ago
Yep! Monopoly just means there's only one supplier of any commodity. It does not mean there are no alternatives. A patent is a government-issued monopoly.
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by jp555 8y ago
Apple is the only supplier of iOS devices. "A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
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by jp555 8y ago
But definitely an iOS monopoly.
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by jp555 8y ago
A few ideas that come to me are very strong institutions (rule of law, property rights, human rights, etc), extensive infrastructure (roads/transit, electricity, comms, etc), and a culture that supports and encourages free enterprise.
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by jp555 8y ago
No deal would be a huge buying opportunity. Even in the worst case scenario, the UK is almost certainly not going to collapse. I mean it’s survived way worse times. It might take a beating, but it’ll figure it out.

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