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by majani 7y ago
It sucks to be poor because it sucks to be at the bottom of social hierarchies. This is an evolutionary feature of society, not a bug.
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by majani 7y ago
Google's stock price would drop sharply if they went into maintenance mode right now. One of the main reasons they command the crazy high valuation they do today is because they remain on the cutting edge of the latest technology, whic
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by majani 7y ago
It's good for people with content that doesn't align with the values of employees of major platforms e.g right wing publishers, the porn publishers of Tumblr etc. Such people are always at risk of deplatforming and it's nice
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by majani 7y ago
Post this is right-leaning communities. Right-wing thought leaders are really getting hammered by major platforms right now and they could really drive adoption if they take up your product.
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by majani 7y ago
The article misses one crucial issue with esports. The appeal of mainstream sports tends to be that the audience gets to watch genetic outliers perform physical feats of wonder. It's a very primal appeal. Watching Sonicfox dominate jus
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by majani 7y ago
Problem is Fortnite really isn't that watchable on a competitive level. Following a 100 player deathmatch on a third-person shooter is cumbersome to say the least.
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by majani 7y ago
There are a lot of prolific people in esports that argue the same, that esports should be a grassroots, fan-driven thing, rather than the sponsor-driven model
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by majani 7y ago
That would make sense if the game companies were the ones sponsoring the teams, but they only support esports in small ways.
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by majani 7y ago
I live in Kenya and this has already happened. The 'make farming cool' movement is very emotionally driven and ill advised. Small scale farming is just not sustainable any more.
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by majani 7y ago
The biggest publishers already roll their own ad tech systems with white label software such as OpenX, balancing out ads from third party ad networks as well as their own in-house ads.
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by majani 7y ago
Even then, the "big spender" level keeps shifting upwards. I remember back in the day it was $5k a month that got you special attention. Now it seems like only $10m+ clients get Google's attention.
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by majani 7y ago
Google made 32 billion dollars last year. They can spare a few hundred million to solve an existential problem for YouTube.
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by majani 7y ago
Actually the headline of this is the takeaway you should get from this story. People with safety nets are the ones who get to do startups. This is logical and how it should be. If you weren't born into a rich family, then make saving u
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by majani 7y ago
They should put a black background on this with green text to make it more realistic.
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by majani 7y ago
Unfortunately targeted advertising appears to be the best way to maximize returns for massive, VC-backed social media platforms. Charging for stuff simply isn't as profitable. The numbers have been run before multiple times.
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by majani 7y ago
The problem simply shifts from pandering to advertisers to pandering to power users.
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by majani 8y ago
Well those 7-9 outlets could enable porous paywalls that allow for shared links to be viewed for free.
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by majani 8y ago
Yes. The problem is the internet has created advertising avenues that are way more efficient than any newspaper can hope to replicate. Only the most trusted newspapers that can turn to subscription and affiliate revenue will be able to surv
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by majani 8y ago
"Olympic medal winner" is like a golden ticket in the fitness trainer industry. There's a lot of rich people who would be willing to pay over the odds to be trained by her.
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by majani 8y ago
It's not a failing if the global revenue is representative of the global economy.
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by majani 8y ago
I think you simply fail to recognize just how far ahead North America is from the rest of the world financially.
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by majani 8y ago
Funny how the pendulum hasn't swung in the garbage collection and bricklaying sectors as well though, isn't it? It's all a power struggle at the end of the day.
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by majani 8y ago
Funny thing is, there tends to be immense trust in the underworld because the consequence of betrayal is your life or limb.
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by majani 8y ago
In my experience, for men it's usually some combination of women, children, addictive substances and "stunting" that finds guys in that situation.
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by majani 8y ago
I feel like parents who obsess about the Ivy League track to success also tend to delegate raising of the child to the school. I would argue that a well raised child with a good enough education stands as much a chance of success as an Ivy
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by majani 8y ago
Maybe Spotify and others could offer an option to serve untargeted ads, but hide it away under heaps of menus and technical jargon such that only the 0.1% of their users who are obsessed with this topic will bother with it
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by majani 8y ago
The efficiency of targeted ads depends greatly on there being a sufficient number of ads and sophisticated buyers on the platform. If you only have one unsophisticated advertiser on Adsense, it's a high likelihood that Adsense will jus
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by majani 8y ago
You got your waves wrong. 90s was telco and basic internet, 00s was social media and e-commerce, 2010s is the smartphone and app wave.
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by majani 8y ago
Even in the growing and harvesting of plants, large amounts of animals get killed in the process. The moles underground, the rabbits and hares that eat the plants, the rats and snakes that shelter in the piles of harvest etc, they all have
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by majani 8y ago
Letting the local market compete is "bullshit" now? I'm guessing China should be "fair" and let US gaming companies take billions out of their economy without hiring a single Chinese person or paying a cent in Chine

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