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by majani 5y ago
Maybe address the fair points raised rather than demonizing the other side?
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by majani 5y ago
Monogamy appears to have been successfully enforced for just a brief period of 150 years after the industrial revolution. Studies that show that polygamy was rife before the industrial revolution and now the digital age seems to be bringing
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by majani 5y ago
I am in the real money gaming space and gambling apps have a ratings ceiling of 3 stars in my experience.
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by majani 5y ago
Maybe some of these apps are better off as websites then. Write once, run everywhere.
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by majani 5y ago
The overwhelming majority of apps in the app store could actually just be turned into websites, so the cost of doing it on your own isn't that high
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by majani 5y ago
Not OP, but small government principles, religious morals and being in favor of the government's defense functions are conservative views that are definitely not welcome in most parts of the Bay.
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by majani 5y ago
Or a job in actual politics
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by majani 5y ago
Google isn't exactly a penny pinching small business, and for now, while the getting is good, they don't need to act like one.
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by majani 6y ago
What age are your parents? I find it hard to believe that you can live past 80 years with a high quality of life, barring having 1 in 100 age-related genetics
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by majani 6y ago
Subscription services' weak spot is that they are incentivized to pander to you hard and reinforce your biases. A subscription search engine would just create the ultimate echo chamber
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by majani 6y ago
Excessive fines could bankrupt startups and even incentivize companies to hack their competition into bankruptcy.
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by majani 6y ago
The gamble was higher engagement on the Google app and Chrome. Google have been trying to turn Chrome and their app into news portals to squeeze some more monetization avenues out of them as search revenue growth begins to max out.
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by majani 6y ago
popups have their positive uses. Security on banking websites, anti-cheating on web games, and social logins are a few good reasons I can think of to have popups on a website.
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by majani 6y ago
And also they have to balance out internal politics as well. Putting massive incentives on the discovery of bugs could really mess up the motivations of internal staff.
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by majani 6y ago
Yup. Right now there is a rush to invest in African loan apps that have finally found ways to scalably extend credit to poor people in African countries. Hits a sweet spot between doing good and making business sense. There are also big inv
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by majani 6y ago
Increasing agricultural productivity nowadays doesn't involve encroaching more land. And the developing nations, where the populations are booming, are still on the lower end of agricultural productivity. Combine that with the fact tha
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by majani 6y ago
The way I see it, constant dissatisfaction is a core part of making progress
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by majani 6y ago
Yes. I have to confess, I have been patiently waiting since 2013 for the US government to effectively shut this shindig down in one way or another. After all this time, I have begun to reconsider my position. Tulip mania only lasted 2 years
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by majani 6y ago
Satoshi owns $54 billion worth of Bitcoin at this point.
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by majani 6y ago
That's US $178m today for those who are curious
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by majani 6y ago
This type of scenario is probably the primary reason for the existence of management consulting firms: to have someone to point the finger to when risky decisions go tits up.
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by majani 6y ago
Not paying back debts as agreed is tantamount to stealing, which is even shittier IMO
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by majani 6y ago
The one true power in the world is the ability to physically harm others. Therefore given how modern civilization is structured, a head of state with a loyal military and police is always the most powerful person in the country.
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by majani 6y ago
The math of free vs paid has been long settled. If a product can get hundreds of millions of free users from "Western" countries, free trumps any paid model. Firefox still has 250 million users, so free still makes the most sense.
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by majani 6y ago
Absolutely not, this is an existential crisis for Pornhub. They need the credit card companies now since they're a huge operation that needs to diversify revenue, but a leaner upstart could just survive off of ad network and affiliate
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by majani 6y ago
Those are some extraordinary sweeping claims you've made with exactly zero evidence to back them up.
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by majani 6y ago
How is it possible to abuse a market position when there are thousands of active competitors threatening to eat Facebook's lunch in each of the areas it leads in? The app stores and web are still full of social media upstarts
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by majani 6y ago
To be fair, that Whatsapp deal still looks insane. Still no meaningful revenue coming from that end 8 years later
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by majani 6y ago
Unfortunately there's literally thousands of social networking sites, chat apps and photo sharing apps out there, and many of them have millions of downloads which keeps Facebook on their toes. Facebook can easily win this based off of
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by majani 6y ago
Once you go public, you become 5x harder to kill than your average company, and US investors have shown am increased appetite to fund unprofitable companies in the last few decades, so Uber will be around for a while

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