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by m52go 12y ago
Advertisement is unrelated crap when I don't want to see it (unrelated to content). Affiliate links are related crap that I might want to see (related to content).
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by m52go 12y ago
Make it paid, and you might have a fighting chance with executives and salespeople. Executives get cold-called AND cold-emailed by terrible salespeople all the time. Know why? Both media are essentially free. Paying would create a much-need
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by m52go 12y ago
It's better than...more ads. And paywalls. Got a better idea?
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by m52go 12y ago
There would have to be some kind of dynamic security setup so people couldn't do that. Like always-changing RSA tokens, etc.
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by m52go 12y ago
Flat fee model + modify HTTP headers to allow paying users to skip intrusive crap? Like DNT but with $ attached. Unregistered users unaffected. Seamless for everyone. Thoughts?
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by m52go 12y ago
I should have been clearer...I think that model is effective only when users who have disproportionally significant influence are charged. So Gaga and Obama should actually be charged an annual fee of something like $20,000. Maybe it's
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by m52go 12y ago
I'm the first person to criticize free online media, but they should have remained free until gaining a critical mass of users and THEN charged them to stay on. That's how Twitter should work...think Lady Gaga or Barack Obama are
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by m52go 12y ago
I agree that artisan work can't replace an entire economy. But I also don't think that artisan work will be the only viable means of earning a living in that world. Notably, I don't think the corner store (in terms of local s
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by m52go 12y ago
True. While it's tough to predict the future, I'll counter that every trade isn't endlessly scalable and winner-take-all. As a business-owner, that's where you want to be, but there will be plenty of 'jobs' ser
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by m52go 12y ago
I didn't mean to suggest the 401(k) causes large corporations to exist. It doesn't. It does, however, create a mentality of dependence on relying on companies for employment and livelihood. In this new environment, that's a t
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by m52go 12y ago
I think this notion of a jobless future is extreme. Hear me out. What we're witnessing is the dawning of a new era in which relying upon a job to earn a livelihood becomes extinct. That's very different. Instead of submitting to
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by m52go 12y ago
Intrusive ads & indiscriminate tracking are more offensive.
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by m52go 12y ago
After writing that post, I was all fired up to work on a micro-payment solution of the type you mentioned in one of your other posts...but then I lost motivation. Cheeky landing page: http://stevejain.com/penthouse/ Ho
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by m52go 12y ago
Absolutely! I agree with pretty much everything you said. I meant 'free' in a superficial way, but it's clear that ultimately, there are costs. I recently wrote a post drawing parallels between the ad-driven economy to the de
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by m52go 12y ago
The problem is that the default price of consumption on the internet has become FREE. Just because the price to transmit content on the internet is negligible, doesn't mean the price to PRODUCE it is also negligible. It's one of t
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by m52go 12y ago
This is genius.
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by m52go 12y ago
Intelligence--the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. That's how Google claims to define it, although frustratingly, it doesn't list its source. That seems like a reasonable definition. As a result, I think it'
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by m52go 12y ago
I bet the cockroach brains are much less varied than ours, i.e., the variance of intelligence in a random sample population of cockroaches is much smaller than it would be in a random sample of human beings. With that added variance, the im
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by m52go 12y ago
not sure why you're getting voted down...i came here to say that same thing. it's kind of funny.
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by m52go 12y ago
> How do you bundle people into groups? Manually? How scalable is this? At first, we'll use intelligence. Then as we scale, we'll use more intelligence. > How? Do you have database of experts or what? There's a huge amo
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Yo Problems(yoproblems.com)
2 points by m52go 12y ago|2 comments
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A treasure trove of economics + banking + finance quotes(nowandfutures.com)
1 points by m52go 13y ago|0 comments
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Righting on the Fly – become a powerful writer with the writing you already do(rightingonthefly.com)
1 points by m52go 13y ago|0 comments
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by m52go 13y ago
You seem bitter about something, either as if you were involved with the first Maiden Lane and missed your bonus that year or as if you have vested interests in seeing this new Maiden Lane succeed. I meant what I said. Why are you reading s
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by m52go 13y ago
Correlations can never always be estimated correctly. They'll work for a while, but as soon as the underlying assets stop acting according to the 'rules' upon which the original correlations were calculated, disaster strike
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by m52go 13y ago
Guess where the last fund called Maiden Lane came from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Lane_Transactions
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by m52go 13y ago
That's exactly where I ended up! His wisdom is clear from his quotes, but it's something else to read those essays in their entirety. Great stuff.
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by m52go 13y ago
Time considerations are vital. Supporting slavery right now is immoral. Opposing gay marriage right now is NOT immoral right now however much you can't stand it.
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by m52go 13y ago
Thank you so much for posting this quote. It's not an uncommon one, but I've never seen the whole thing, i.e., the part after the first line. Point taken :)
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Ask HN: What are the most virtuous companies?
2 points by m52go 13y ago|0 comments

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