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by majani 9y ago
While you've done well to filter the language, I still don't get the benefits to the consumer
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by majani 9y ago
Is this specific to North America? As someone who lives along the equator, I think it's impossible to get too little sun exposure in these parts.
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by majani 9y ago
But what better atonement for previous sins than giving away 99% of your wealth to charity?
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by majani 9y ago
They should change their name to wework.com to increase their valuation further.
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by majani 9y ago
Charging whatever YOU think it's worth is where your reasoning is flawed. The point of charging more is so that you find out what the CUSTOMER thinks your product is worth. However, I understand that the brevity of the sentence makes i
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by majani 9y ago
Netflix is super profitable? According to what accounting methods?
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by majani 9y ago
"Apologize rather than ask for permission" has always been a common mantra in tech. It's just that with Uber it's a freelancer marketplace so they're dealing with actual people instead of just data, which magnifies
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by majani 9y ago
The way I see it, all those people are probably making good money($100k+ annually) and there is research that shows that above that point it's all gravy. In that sense the free market capitalism system works.
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by majani 9y ago
Indeed. I feel like niche audiences with small operations is the only way to make profit in this business any more. Digital media is now a 'lifestyle business.'
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by majani 9y ago
It's tricky for Facebook as a public company to report any sort of dip or stall in user growth.
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by majani 9y ago
Wow, no one's talking about mobile? Have they fixed the lagginess and inaccurate click detection that routinely crops up on the Android browser?
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by majani 9y ago
Apps that represent light websites like Google and Facebook are now 300mb+. With such memory hogging updates, few people with older phones are going to update.
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by majani 9y ago
This is the biggest problem I have with Adsense. Most of the time it seems like they couldn't find an ad that fits me but their system decided to just throw me a random ad for Forex Trading or whatever. This turns their supposedly soph
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by majani 9y ago
It's not rare at all. It's just not celebrated in the big tech news sites. The VC route is way more exciting to cover.
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by majani 9y ago
What if you go with small electric cars? Does that cut the cost further?
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by majani 9y ago
To own a big boat without financially stressing yourself would require you to be a billionaire. That level of wealth involves a huge amount of luck.
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by majani 9y ago
The luxury market is less about marginal value and more about good marketing and noticeable distinctions from what is considered normal.
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by majani 9y ago
Meh, it's the natural way. Power cycles around, no empire remains forever.
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by majani 9y ago
I think it died because bookmarking is a feature, not a company. As so many syncing and social media services gained traction, a pure bookmarking service was always gonna get lost in the noise. I was A Delicious user for a while, but now I
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by majani 9y ago
From my experience, the "creators"(developers, marketers, writers etc) in a company tend to favor remote work, while the "money men"(VCs and salespeople) tend to favor office space. Remote work only stands a chance if it
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by majani 9y ago
As with any article about music finances, it misses one crucial detail: elaborating how the money is split between every single entity in the value chain. There's plenty of YouTubers who make orders of magnitude more money on the same
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by majani 9y ago
as a counter to that, in third world countries, rent is often a way better deal all round, so if you're not hung up on home ownership, you can get by pretty well for less.
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by majani 9y ago
I believe that when it comes to search, the aim should not be about competing with Google in it's current form. That is impossible. The aim should be to change the architecture of search such that it becomes a commodity that anyone can
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by majani 9y ago
There's a book called Start Small, Stay Small that is really good for the purpose of solopreneurship if that's your thing.
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by majani 9y ago
What problem is this solving?
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by majani 9y ago
Delivery start-ups appear to be built to race to IPO, much like music start-ups. There is no intent to make profit.
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by majani 9y ago
You're actually agreeing with him because your point is also a bureaucracy issue.
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by majani 9y ago
I've always wondered whether VOD is an inherently unsustainable business model. The big daddy in the space charges $8-12 per month yet people regularly watch upwards of 10 movies per month on the service. That's less than $1 per m
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by majani 9y ago
If you go back as far as Socrates, he was against the youth reading books in an age where intellectuals were known for reciting literature by heart. So yes, you are just old and grumpy.
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by majani 9y ago
Go to Indie Hackers or Basecamp SVN for such material.

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