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   by majani 10y ago

   What is the incentive for an employer or freelancer to choose this over a global marketplace?
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   by majani 10y ago

   If you read Mark's story, it's clear that he was aware of what was happening at the time but didn't drink the kool-aid, while if you look at the other dot bombs, they definitely thought the world was changing and the rules ha
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   by majani 10y ago

   Here is a chart that describes the practical steps: https://embed.gyazo.com/4324b66e1a3045ad63349061a76f4756.png According to that illustration, the coup plotters missed the crucial step of breaching the president's re
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   by majani 10y ago

   I feel like this is the fate of all the social networks whose main purpose is to feed into people's vanity. Surely 20 year companies can't be built off of people's desire to show off how much better their lives are to ours?
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   by majani 10y ago

   I'll hold back for as long as my computer does everything I need it to do with no trouble. These forced upgrades is how arbitrary obsolescence is implemented.
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   by majani 10y ago

   one of the funny things foreigners notice when they come to my country(Kenya) is that there's chicken & chips shops EVERYWHERE. People absolutely adore chicken over here and are willing to pay over the odds for it, so the supply ha
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   by majani 11y ago

   But VR/augmented reality is still the next big thing. The demand in commerce and advertising is for more and more invasive media, I'd say any prediction towards this goal is dead on. It's just a matter of finding well priced,
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   by majani 11y ago

   It highlights one of the biggest issues in tech today. Buzzfeed is one of many tech companies that really should just be a fun little mid sized company that makes enough to go around, but in the end has gotten caught up in the Silicon Valle
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   by majani 11y ago

   Same in Kenya. Though there are some hookers on there, but they leave nothing to the imagination, so it's easy to sort them in/out if that's what you're looking for.
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    by majani 11y ago

    That is a fact of life for all marketplaces. Historically speaking, it has already been proven that the power users who look to form relationships outside of a marketplace are usually edge cases and have little effect on the viability of th
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    by majani 11y ago

    It'll just run out of fashion with time. 10 years ago, flip phones, slide up phones and two ways were the status symbols. Fashion is cyclical, maybe we'll see the return of the flip? :)
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    by majani 11y ago

    And there lies Twitter's main problem, along with a lot of other startups. Many tech companies should just be small or medium sized. The underlying opportunity was not as enormous as investors predicted. But they've raised billion
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    by majani 11y ago

    reminds me of the time in the 90s when literally just adding .com to a company's name and having a website made its valuation jump
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    by majani 11y ago

    I don't mind stringent enforcement of life saving measures on a place as dangerous as the road, even if it means everybody moving at 10kph in bad conditions. Roads are the biggest killer of youth globally[1], minor emotional factors su
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    by majani 11y ago

    I think the friendly way to say it is that most people(yourself included) only achieve a medium/expert level of competence in one or two areas of their life. In the other areas, most of us are just bumbling through. Unfortunately thoug
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    by majani 11y ago

    You've got more bravery than most to just walk up to a lady during the day and say hi. That more than makes up for any disadvantages your race may put you at.
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    by majani 11y ago

    Spreading risk and blame, pressure from investors to spend the big raise money, the diplomatic roles that become necessary at a certain size, R&D employees. Mostly political reasons, but reasons nonetheless
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    by majani 11y ago

    Yup. Most guys here are in their 20s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734
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    by majani 11y ago

    We'll always need someone to man the machines
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    by majani 11y ago

    User friendly packaging sometimes makes all the difference. Apple's empire is built on user friendly packaging.
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    How to Sell Your Company(jacquesmattheij.com)

    3 points by majani 11y ago|0 comments
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    by majani 11y ago

    You're missing the issue here. Cherry picking websites that are zero rated is evil, monopolistic practice. If the internet is to be subsidized to the poor, then give them the whole internet. Not just Facebook and a select few other web
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    by majani 11y ago

    I wouldn't say fame leading to riches is over. It just follows an extreme long tail curve where less than 10% of the ones who get fame get all the good money, and the other 90% get scraps. Come to think of it, that's just how most
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    by majani 11y ago

    Sounds dystopian, even for me who lives in neighboring Kenya.
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    by majani 11y ago

    I accidentally downvoted you due to fat finger error, sorry.
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    by majani 11y ago

    Poetic justice for YouTube, who grew off the back of willful ignorance of music copyright for the first few years before cracking down.
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    by majani 11y ago

    Remember most African sites are hosted on Western web hosts.
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    by majani 11y ago

    First in a Stanford class can still turn out to be an incompetent VC who doesn't do due diligence
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    by majani 11y ago

    Thank you for this. So many people online make diet and exercise seem like some silver bullet, and it's fascinating how much it has been accepted as a silver bullet, yet in my experience it was no big deal. Though I've noticed tha
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    by majani 11y ago

    Any article about paparazzi is not properly balanced without a mention of the way many, many stars actually cooperate with them for media exposure.