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by majani 9y ago
One of the reasonable conclusions to all this is that revenue sharing on user generated content is a live wire that platforms would rather not touch from now on, despite it being morally correct.
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by majani 9y ago
The big boys like VEVO get on YouTube's "Preferred Partner" program where the policies are way less strict. Last year Pewdiepie got kicked off the Preferred Partner program and makes jokes at the beginning of his videos abou
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by majani 9y ago
Check the freakonomics show about ticketmaster. The tickets problem is not going away any time soon, and no company that leans heavily on good PR is going to get into that business
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by majani 9y ago
Maybe educate the superstitious buyers that these animal parts are not magical. That might reduce the demand and therefore reduce the supply
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by majani 9y ago
I've said this before on this forum, but I'll reiterate it here since it's relevant. As a Kenyan I can advise if there are any endangered species indigenous to Kenya that you would like to see, your best bet is to just go see
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by majani 9y ago
Sounds like a fancy chopper in that case
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by majani 9y ago
To add on to this, many jobs won't have good metrics in place, so promotion will depend on emotion and cognitive biases. Learning how to work these two factors is crucial.
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by majani 9y ago
It might just settle in a tiny corner of the web eventually. This is not the first wave of excitement about decentralisation. I remember there was a similar wave of excitement with torrents and decentralised file storage, but convenience an
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by majani 9y ago
And there lies the depressing truth about health and fitness: it's mostly dependent on genetics. The many optimisations you read about are only a small part of the equation
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by majani 9y ago
One way to "hacking" the location issue is to move to SV, get hired in a big company, then convince them over the years to set up a presence in your home country which you will gladly spearhead with no increased salary demands. Wo
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by majani 9y ago
Two sides to every story. One thing that sticks out here is why Arrington of all people would easily cave and give 10% to someone who did "nothing."
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by majani 9y ago
there are many examples of countries that have been able to leapfrog certain steps in development. Case in point: most 3rd world countries skipped over desktop computing, straight into mobile. Maybe self driving cars will somehow take over
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by majani 9y ago
I don't think DFP is the biggest culprit of annoying ads. If they were,Google would definitely have taken the less controversial option of imposing stringent rules around DFP creatives. The biggest culprits are the up and coming ad net
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by majani 9y ago
algorithmic sorting increases monetization opportunities by several orders of magnitude, that's why they do it. Just fiddle with the algorithm to decrease reach of a certain group of users, then make those users pay for extra reach. Vo
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by majani 9y ago
I believe Google already does that with video ads. Part of Google's rules are that there be no autoplay video ads. But on YouTube annoying autoplay video ads are their bread and butter
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by majani 9y ago
It always baffles me that a company based in a country as litigious as the US has gotten away with being so careless about Customer Care for so long.
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by majani 9y ago
You could still make 19x if you invested in January 2017 and sold in December
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by majani 9y ago
It's trivial for gamblers to get round such a regulation and trivial for bookies to plausibly deny it
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by majani 9y ago
OK then, read this :) http://www.techweez.com/2017/06/05/majani-speaks-on-ghafla-a...
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by majani 9y ago
Bought it back :)
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by majani 9y ago
As a publisher, thanks for this blunt answer that cuts through to the crux of the issue. There are supposedly big publishers that have shut down in my country without a single obituary or fond remembrance from users. Sometimes I wonder in t
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by majani 9y ago
Since Whatsapp joined Facebook, they are now only interested in ideas that have potential billion dollar upsides. The phone you are suggesting is more likely to be built by an entrepreneur who's eyeing a small but steady business.
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by majani 9y ago
Arbitrarily high salaries are often more of a retention play for existing employees than anything else. Note how strong the disclaimer was at the end that they're <b>not hiring.</b>
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by majani 9y ago
Boxing had a similar problem, but the solution was that they changed the rules and the fan base dwindled after that. "Football" will likely take a similar path.
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by majani 9y ago
The only company that could manage these subscriptions effectively is one that owns either: 1. The browser 2. The app store or 3. The OS Oh, wait...
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by majani 9y ago
Subscription to ads would mean a lot of waste in the budget. Very few advertisers would go for that over CPC/CPA pricing
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by majani 9y ago
Kenya is the global leader in mobile money adoption for the same reasons you've stated. Smart money should be preaching the crypto gospel in Somalia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela etc. The average citizen from such countries is way more in tune
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by majani 9y ago
Wow, my mind is blown. Makes me now feel like all those claims Google made in the past about how impractical hiring a customer care team would be for them was just pure BS.
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by majani 9y ago
I wonder why you're the only skeptic in a forum that's usually skeptical about every post. Yes, you're right, this is not Google's MO. Google tend to look for software based solutions first and foremost before resorting
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by majani 9y ago
The psychological process you've described happens with any investment.

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