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by jsemrau 4y ago
Is TikTok a social network? Fundamentally, in order for TikTok to work you don't need to be connected to anyone. Doesn't it make it anti-social? Does it matter if the content is UGC or not for the app to be social?
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This is literally the definition of "beta" in equities trading. There is nothing bad with riding a good bull run. Ponzenomics is the issue here (imho) where we have to come to realize that there is no liquidity in many crypto curr
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by jsemrau 4y ago
Well, the point is that we need to realize there is always a human being on the other side of the comment / post. On Twitter that might not always be true. And these players may have been created for the sole purpose to troll / eg
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by jsemrau 4y ago
Terraform is a godsend in my opinion. It makes architecture as a service as simply as a python script.
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This. Instead of a Meta/Google/Twitter world advertisers can now create deals with Amazon, Disney[1], Apple [2] Netflix [3], Mercado Libre, etc directly without the social media middlemen, without the political outrage, and withou
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by jsemrau 4y ago
You are right no one knowns anything in trading.
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by jsemrau 4y ago
Usually a great strategy. However, 2020-2021 were an artificially created equity bubble. I don't think we will see this coming back anytime soon. https://i.imgur.com/MsIGcSo.png
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by jsemrau 4y ago
I'd agree after watching this YT video by the Financial Times. Suddenly having to pay import taxes led many companies to move operations to mainland Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2lWmgEK1Y
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by jsemrau 4y ago
Very "not" surprising. Exhibits (a) "Chinese parent company, ByteDance, planned to spy on the physical locations of specific American citizens using the popular video app's location data" https://futuris
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by jsemrau 4y ago
I put my thoughts about next-gen social into a concept that I like to call "Eigensocial" and expressed that through the Finclout project. 1. Micro-blogging doesn't add much in 2022. Velocity of content is too high and com
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I agree with you. However, these are not UI changes.
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I'd argue that IE6 got worse and didn't keep up with developments while Firefox got consistently better. Firefox' problem as "only" that is was really slow and that's what Chrome solved. Yet, I also think that
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Interestingly written on Medium which is also dying. Fun fact: I have about 1,300 "followers" on Medium. My articles have generated 90 views over the last 30 days [1] But there is hope [2] [1] https://imgur.com/e
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Maybe Musk is planning something completely different with the Twitter tech. Intercar / Interplanetary communication? https://app.finclout.io/t/A3lkgnE
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by jsemrau 4y ago
The round knob to increase / decrease sound volume is simply the best UX in the car. Why do I have to navigate to a submenu to push a button repeatedly to change the volume. The less I look at the road the higher the risk of an acciden
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by jsemrau 4y ago
Finally found it: That's from Jasom Slama directly : https://youtu.be/zO9hRBRmPi8?t=34
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by jsemrau 4y ago
If it weren't for these pesky share buyback programs. 45B at a price of 330 USD only in 2021!
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There was a UE5 Engine demo that used Witcher-like environments in their tech demo.
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Not sure what "constant dollars" are, but I did Board Reporting for a Fortune 25 company and we used a 3 month average to limit the impact of sudden fluctuations.
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[1] Due to macroeconomic condition marketing spend by companies is decreasing -> Lower revenue [2] New entrants in the social ad-tech market (Apple, Uber, Netflix, Youtube, etc) take a slice of a shrinking market [3] Privacy regulations
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by jsemrau 4y ago
> Average revenue per User is down Given the increased competition in the ad-tech space this will be even worse in the future. [1] UBER https://app.finclout.io/t/10B6BLO . [2] APPLE https://app.finclout.
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by jsemrau 4y ago
Couldn't stand watching the show in the same vein as I didn't enjoy the Star Wars Sequels. The story is boring, the characters are bland, and the world doesn't feels lived in. LotR has way too many mystery box storylines whic
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by jsemrau 4y ago
> I could use might be recommendation engines. Assume I have a database of tags (a tag cloud?), and I know you have similar interests to me. If you also have a tag cloud This was the first "naive" implementation on finclout. Ev
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Given that Parler is primarily associated with alt-right users, this purchase is quite amusing. Yet it underlines how the right to speak freely is under threat online and I am not sure if Billionaires further centralizing access is the righ
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No it isn't. Lending is next to Prostitution one of the industries that exists for the longest time in some cases 5000 BC [1] Trust relationships are mostly subjective and do not scale well to individuals that do not have established n
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My answer doesn't lack empathy but is based on years of work experience. If you are lending money to people you don't want empathy or subjectivity you want to make sure that the person can repay the money. And that is not only to
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Because in lending you need to rely on a data source to provide information about repayment behaviour, sanctions, fraud flags, outstanding loan volumes, historical loan volumes, etc in a neutral, reliable, verified, and consistent manner. W
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This is known. Hence, when we were building the peer-reviewed moderation / curation function for finclout we only show the content. While in selected cases the poster is identifiable, for most users the decision is done only based on
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I use it mainly as a digital rolodex. But that's about it. Not that it would be possible to schedule meetings easily and follow-up with conversations. But then, this would make it an email client.
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#cryingCEOmeme LinkedIn has become such a cringefest it's not even funny anymore. It got worse than Twitter which only is still in everyone's mind because pseudo-relevant Tweets are screenshotted easily and reposted at all corners

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