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by majani 9y ago
I'm curious about how accurate the assistants were at listening. That used to be the most pressing issue with voice commands that had relegated the technology to a running joke. It appears that's understandably what the companies
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by majani 9y ago
Only active users should be counted.
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by majani 9y ago
That was his point. You can just watch something edgy cause you think it's cool, not cause you want to experience it in real life.
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by majani 9y ago
I wouldn't say censorship is at play. There have been analyses showing that Google is a favorite topic of HN users[1], and also there have been customer service scenarios that prove that there are a lot of Google employees on here. Tho
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by majani 9y ago
The moat for Google is the complexity and expensive nature of doing accurate search at scale
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by majani 9y ago
It's possible that preferred stock agreements ensured that the VCs got a better return than X/10
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by majani 9y ago
This is the right answer. VCs helped Snapchat out, so it's time for Snapchat to help their VCs out and balance their books.
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by majani 9y ago
I'm curious, were you living a healthy lifestyle before, or was it a condition that came about from bad lifestyle choices?
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by majani 9y ago
Sometimes I wonder whether some sites intentionally downgrade their mobile site to push people to download their app. Certainly seems that way with reddit. Anyway, at least i.reddit.com still exists, albeit in the background like some kind
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by majani 9y ago
Giant freelance marketplaces tend to be lightning rods for outrage largely because of their tendency to directly drive down wages. Search this site for any of the large developer marketplaces and you'll be hard pressed to find a kind w
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by majani 9y ago
That's a very lopsided view. Offices also come with their own hangups. It's a matter of weighing the pros and cons and then deciding. Also, to be fair, sometimes there are a lot of imaginary cons that people think will happen when
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by majani 9y ago
The US has 13 million millionaires and 30 million "hundred thousandaires."[1] If you count everyone in the households that are sustained by those incomes, you'd find that it is not just a small minority leading cushy lives. A
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by majani 9y ago
Sounds like something that can be solved using special metadata for paywall sites, along with a process to approve those who claim to be paywall sites.
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by majani 9y ago
From where I stand, it seems like law is lucrative in litigious countries like the US. Outside of that, law tends to be a really long and hard slog to the top.
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by majani 9y ago
Projection is often the source of hate.
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by majani 9y ago
According to porn industry insiders, xvideos is run by a married couple. They are very secretive, but they definitely do millions in revenue annually.
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by majani 9y ago
Automattic is absolutely in the top tier of tech companies. I'd put them in the top 10 internet brands in terms of product recognition and impact. They're also a unicorn from a valuation point of view. I think society is understan
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by majani 9y ago
I'll indulge. When Facebook seriously have you in their sights, financially, the smart move is what Snap did: rush for IPO before your numbers start getting affected. Product-wise it appears that if Facebook make a billion dollar offer
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by majani 9y ago
Registered lurkers still count as active users. As a matter of fact, social media follows the 80:20 rule when it comes to steady content creation
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by majani 10y ago
From what I gather, the founders were plowing ahead despite clear signs of failure in store. Looking at it that way, this is not a scam, but instead a story of the less glamorous side of entrepreneurship. It's unfortunate that a proper
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by majani 10y ago
I think it's investors holding up the movement at this point. I usually see most tech guys are mentally prepared for this shift, but finance guys are strongly opposed.
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by majani 10y ago
Not all lucky breaks involve talent. For example being born into a well off family. Further to the point, you'd not imagine the number of rich kids who piss away that particular lucky break
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by majani 10y ago
Even being born is a lucky break
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by majani 10y ago
I believe that success does largely depend on capitalizing on lucky breaks. However, I also believe that each and every one of us gets lucky breaks. What matters is can you spot lucky breaks,and when you do spot them, how do you react? I th
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by majani 10y ago
The biggest question about Facebook has been whether they can stay relevant in the face of an onslaught of cooler apps in the future. The biggest test of this so far was Snapchat and they've managed to ethically out compete them with f
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by majani 10y ago
Not really. The latest crop of unicorns have done a really poor job of managing capital and they're getting slaughtered at the public markets(see twitter and snap). Dropbox has probably set themselves up for a similar fate
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by majani 10y ago
I personally made huge leaps in empathy from watching boogie2988's videos about his struggles with weight. It's important to note, however, that YouTube is first and foremost a kids network(kids video ads convert the best), and th
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by majani 10y ago
None of those have the charisma necessary to run a successful presidential campaign
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by majani 10y ago
Man, some people here just cannot picture life outside their bubble. It's amazing to me that someone flippantly dismisses making 5 million dollars as an average thing. I'm from a country where only 68,000 people out of 45 million
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by majani 10y ago
Google's in house teams usually have no real world experience converting Google Ads to sales. It's the same way game developers are usually not esports pros. There's a big difference between knowing how a product works and be

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