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by majani 8y ago
Their country, their rules. The US has no God given right to world domination with their products.
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$15 an hour comes to around $30,000 a year. That's mana from heaven anywhere outside of the top 20 or so economies of the world
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This model won't wane until the entire world is developed with strong workers rights everywhere. Until then, the demand for cheap labour will just shift to the next poor region.
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Less distribution for outlets like Buzzfeed already happened. Facebook has cut reach to pages so badly of late that even boosting posts hardly gets any of the virality of yesteryear. Nowadays if your post doesn't get people clicking th
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by majani 8y ago
I don't think it's fair to include products that were rebranded and had their data moved over to the new service e.g Picasa and Urchin
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Most people settle on a few trusted sources... after starting on Google and finding good info constantly from that source.
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Uber forbids price comparison in their TOS and actively threaten to shut down price comparison sites that use their API: https://www.wired.com/story/uber-and-lyfts-never-ending-ques... I guess the plan for Uber was alw
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There is a rational fear of the market leader taking most of the market share over time.
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As an African, I can't help but think that all this charity to Africa might be contributing to us lagging behind in the world. With charities helping out so much, will the local government ever get their act together and provide these
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As much as the great firewall has been used for censorship, it has also been used to protect the flow of capital in the digital space. Countless jobs and wealth have been created in what are essentially clones of global tech giants built fo
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by majani 8y ago
I think the main issue that has allowed the likes of Google and Facebook to grow to a dangerous size is the ability to scale globally with minimal resistance from other countries. As time goes by, I start to realize that China's great
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Hit on women who only give you clear signs of attraction first and your life will be so much better on the relationships side of things, as well as avoiding nearly all the negatives. You don't usually get clear signs of attraction? The
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Give it back to who? Facebook? Their shareholders? Doesn't seem to help the situation in any sense. In the videos linked the early FB engineer says the only thing he can do now is to try use the capital he has earned to combat the il
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Downvoted for diversionary red scare tactics.
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I feel like this overreach is directly as a result of the absurd expectation VC backed companies have of constantly growing forever. People who are uncomfortable with this fact can choose to only work at bootstrapped companies that are doin
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It's more of an OS issue here. Google doesn't view Android as a separate line of business. It's merely a moat for the search business. There's no way for an OS to be a moat for another business without abusing the OS.
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by majani 8y ago
Before search engines and open source CMSes were widely adopted, it was reasonable to expect that basic news sites were going to be insanely valuable. The barriers to entry were high but the reward was now exponentially higher with the glob
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by majani 8y ago
You're being extremely dishonest with yourself if you think you won't blow through a significant portion of that million dollars if you were to get it. Lifestyle inflation is a force of nature my friend
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Google takes HN extremely seriously. They frequently respond quickly respond to complaints that make the front page. Given that it's not unreasonable to think that there are loads of Google employees on here looking to defend the compa
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Perhaps sunken cost fallacy affects even the most brilliant investors.
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Yes, this is the inherent issue at play nowadays. Investors are throwing silly money at startups in an attempt at global domination. What then happens is that the start-ups rely on pricing at a loss to get the majority market share and abso
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Yes, they sell their services at a loss, so of course people will flock to them.
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The primary value in hotels is the pampering, the primary value in airbnb is the superior amount of physical space you get
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Funny how the same developers will cheer for Apple when they post incredible profits every quarter. At such levels of profit, there's always someone in the supply chain getting screwed
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This is something I've been struggling with as an African who likes to travel. It seems to me that the thinking now in developed countries is that you don't need to hate the "others," but you don't need to trust the
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Or start-ups that are set up to just kinda help out like Patreon but now that they took massive investment they have to be greedy about what was supposed to be a charitable endeavor
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Apps often are a solution for business problems rather than users. In mediums case, the app solves the ad blocking and retention problem.
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This would need a shitload of personal data to reach the point of "it just works." This means that it's most likely one of the tech giants that will do this right
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a Nigerian founder in this space wrote a blog post explaining the high interest rates: https://medium.com/@ngozi/fundraising-fantasies-c611c2e46808
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In developed countries with effective credit scoring methods, this is true. In developing countries, the banks don't have good methods of effectively scoring vast chunks of the population, plus the amounts poorer people would want as l

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