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by kbos87 6y ago
I think that you are right that the ad formats on Facebook are a lot more effective, but I'd also argue that they have orders of magnitude more data, and more opportunities to serve ads to anyone because of their scale. Most ad network
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by kbos87 6y ago
I have zero sympathy for Facebook. If they claim to care so much about small businesses, they should start by committing to change how they respond to any upstart social app that dares encroach on what they see as their territory. That bein
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by kbos87 6y ago
Agree with this. If a purely cost driven race to the bottom is inevitable, it already would have happened. I think what’s going on right now increases the competition for roles that some people may have previously had a geographic advantage
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by kbos87 6y ago
Agreed. Plumbers, electricians, and other complicated/messy jobs will probably see some minor efficiency gains, but won’t be replaced by automation in any foreseeable future I can imagine.
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by kbos87 6y ago
I’m more imagining roving bands of laid off truck drivers stopping the autonomous truck, robbing it, and setting it on fire.
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by kbos87 6y ago
I see what you mean. I understood the parent comment to mean that Salesforce can be used to basically build a bespoke saas app that you use at the heart of your operations, but I’d agree that doesn’t change the nature of your business as a
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by kbos87 6y ago
Spot on. This also feels like a strategy that won’t age well. It’s tough if not impossible to deliver great UX from a bunch of acquired pieces. Slack’s relatively short path to wide adoption is evidence that the world is less and less toler
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by kbos87 6y ago
You have a sales team out talking to those grocery stores. You need to keep track of the relationships they have with those stores, the conversations they have, where those stores are along the journey to becoming customers. You want to und
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by kbos87 6y ago
Very fair point - I should have said that I don’t see SF reverting to what it was characterized by most recently. I mean an unusual concentration of tech talent, sky high property values, and massive income disparities.
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by kbos87 6y ago
Can you elaborate on what some of those data privacy concerns are? I’ve centralized more and more in Notion and I’m admittedly a layperson when it comes to really understanding what questions I should even ask to judge the security of somet
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by kbos87 6y ago
It’s going to be very interesting to see what plays out at the end of the pandemic, assuming there is an end (I’m optimistic.) My hypothesis is that many markets eventually return to normal, but SF strikes me as one that may never be what i
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by kbos87 6y ago
This piece comes off as weakly constructed and from someone who doesn’t understand the world that marketers and salespeople live in. If I’m a marketer, I’m not looking for perfection in my open rates for instance, I’m looking for broad, dir
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by kbos87 6y ago
This might be (very) pedestrian, but the first question that comes to my mind - What is my work situation expected to be? Am I going there to work, or is the expectation that I’m independently wealthy, or joining up with a local employer?
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by kbos87 6y ago
I definitely see the point here, but it depends on what you mean by “understand”. I don’t think that understanding blockchain or the technical components of how such a system works would be important to the average voter. If such a system c
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by kbos87 6y ago
I’m in Massachusetts and I think two things played out here - #1 - Most people I’ve spoken to understand the principle behind right to repair, they know it is in the best interests of consumers, and that there are well funded interests in o
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by kbos87 6y ago
Not even a passing mention of the privacy questions at stake here. I don’t fault the police for seeking answers, but every self-nominated amateur sleuth isn’t due an answer about the identity of someone who in all likelihood wanted to live
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by kbos87 6y ago
In a similar situation, the alcohol delivery service Drizly received a ton of backlash for buying ads on the brand terms of a Black-owned wine shop in Boston that they had no affiliation with. When buyers understand how platforms do this, t
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by kbos87 6y ago
If we were to ask Uber why they don’t provide a living wage or any meaningful benefits to their drivers, they would be the first to tell us that they believe they follow the law. Then they turn around and use aggressive tactics to bend the
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by kbos87 6y ago
Having someone in my life who I could easily see falling into the bucket we are labeling “ignorant and/or apathetic”, I’d say there could also be less cynical reasons why people fall into this trap. Might it be fair to also assume that
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by kbos87 6y ago
Normally I’d be inclined to believe Mother Jones and doubt Facebook but the argument here feels weak and possibly misrepresented. I don’t doubt that Mother Jones lost traffic due to an algorithm change, but implied in the article is that it
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by kbos87 6y ago
I don’t know that I agree with MA in this case, but you can’t ignore the broad context. New Hampshire has, for decades, been in aggressive pursuit of revenue from MA residents. - The shopping malls just across the border where MA residents
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by kbos87 6y ago
This is so anti-user. A similar service offered by Spotify is how I moved from Apple Music to Spotify. The playlists belong to the user - this is vendor lock in of the worst sort.
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I’m not an engineer, but I can say that for a very long time Grindr felt like it was basic, poorly built, and generally unreliable. A couple of years ago it felt like there was a serious wave of investment in the app - the UI got better, it
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The real-time location tracking is very central to the app. It’s a grid of people organized by distance.
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There are romantic arguments to be made on both sides here - historians saying that something is lost when this transformation happens, and that this is simply progress that people react to positively on the side of the doers. Both of those
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I don’t think regulators are actually doing their jobs here. If Teslas actually a successful dead man switch, we wouldn’t see story after story like this - https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/17/ca
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by kbos87 6y ago
Exactly - that object could have just as easily posed a mortal threat to the driver of the Tesla, yet it didn’t stop.
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by kbos87 6y ago
I really have to push back against your point that Tesla “vigorously communicates” that driver attention must be maintained at all times, when in fact, they really seem like they want to occupy a gray space in-between: - They advertise and
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by kbos87 6y ago
The IIHS does all sorts of autonomous braking test scenarios involving pedestrians - https://youtu.be/TJgUiZgX5rE A pedestrian darting out from behind a car is known to be a tricky scenario, but some systems handle it at le
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by kbos87 6y ago
Honest question though, if we were to dig into “brain disorder”, how well defined is that really? Is there a measurable effect on a human brain when using an “addictive” product vs. one we are coming back to because we like to use it?

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