melomal

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by melomal 6y ago
> I cringe because because every goddamn privacy invasion has come from our friendly American overlords Exactly! It seems that the propaganda machine is still rolling heavy.
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by melomal 6y ago
> I would fear the Chinese government If you are outside of China then surely there is nothing to really be scared of? What could the Chinese government do with your data that could cause harm? I get it's the principle but ultimatel
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by melomal 6y ago
Thank you for your response and clarification! Your point on the multiple attempts to connect etc seems to make sense. I would imagine a lot of people checking these requests may jump to conclusions that every piece of data is being pulled
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by melomal 6y ago
This is what I am trying to figure out. I have a UK focused website therefore I use UK based servers, US focused website I use US based servers. Aren't most processing chips/hardware made in China for all major western tech compan
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by melomal 6y ago
The unicorn playbook. There's going to be VCs on LinkedIn trying to explain why this is such a good long term play...
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by melomal 6y ago
> was talking to a bunch of Chinese servers constantly Out of curiosity do you want Chinese companies to use US servers? Or where would servers be ideally placed for a Chinese brand to be accepted? I genuinely am curious to know.
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by melomal 6y ago
> I think I was doing myself a disservice Were you able to run a data comparison in terms of users/time on site/number of pages etc. I would assume that this in itself would clearly tell you if the ads were harmful or not. >
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by melomal 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback. Native ads in my opinion are key and ultimately need to try and match up even more so with the content. As in style, colours, fonts etc.
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by melomal 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback! Targeted ads seem to get a love/hate relationship for many people.
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by melomal 6y ago
Completely agree but the reality of it is, most people want to monetize but they cannot outside of ads or ebooks etc. Your drivel may only reach X number of people but when you are getting Y amount of readers, I guarantee you will look to f
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by melomal 6y ago
First hand experience retargeting gets <1% CR. But it's so cheap, like honestly so so cheap to run and forget about it that people just don't bother with the fine tuning. Thank you for the input, this is something that I would
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Ask HN: What ads would you like to be shown online?
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by melomal 6y ago
You could also say the same about Russia making the UK basically their poison playing ground. You would think much more would be done when a whole city needs to be shut down due to the spread of the poison between people. Money is money, pe
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by melomal 6y ago
I can imagine all of the growth hacking tactics everyone is going to implement. There's a startup out there already using GPT-3 to automate sales email creation.
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by melomal 6y ago
For sure I agree, I just tried to check my Reddit account and it has now been suspended due to some activity so that I could find the comment. Unfortunately I cannot find it but ultimately it was not a debate, it was a classic teen response
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by melomal 6y ago
Sometimes text lacks the context that we need to feel and see as humans. IMO debates and discussions via chat will always be terrible. People misread texts all the time assuming it was said in a way that was meant to be insulting. Once we c
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by melomal 6y ago
> had people to exchange ideas with that were non-existent in other kids my age. This I completely agree with. I've have many hobbies in my early years that were considered weird of just not in line with what my friends liked. Havin
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by melomal 6y ago
> reddit meme-spam and nitpickers 8 years of basically no engagement from me (maybe 30 karma points) I call someone out and bam I'm getting downvoted to kingdom come but at the same time being gilded with silver. It just didn't
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by melomal 6y ago
I tapped out after I realized that I was having an argument with someone that was probably no older than 15/16. When you do that you quickly ask yourself WTF am I doing here?
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by melomal 6y ago
It's the public that needs convincing more so than the government. Billy Gates is probably the best person, apart from Elon, to try and convince people that it's not that bad. It's a good way to build positive PR for somethin
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by melomal 6y ago
You are also right on the niche ad-tech. I want to discover new products and brands again, not get shown the same product over and over again because I used a specific keyword or bought that product 3 months ago. This is something I will po
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by melomal 6y ago
Exactly, I've worked for a couple of start-ups that focused completely on growth hacking. Product was 2nd simply because of tech debt build up. A lot of people assume reading GA data you can unearth these hidden gems, it's nothing
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by melomal 6y ago
One sentence has decimated my digital marketing career and I honestly couldn't agree more. I think this has something to do with more than just Google itself though and good old capitalism. There are heaps of SaaS platforms out there (
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by melomal 6y ago
I still make references to friends and family to the whole wood pulp issue (I should find some new references). I believe it's Hershey's chocolate that is basically 1% off the minimum amount of chocolate content to legally call it
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by melomal 6y ago
> I don't understand how every parent isn't filled with sheer, abject terror at their child's death from starvation, thirst, disease, or violence. Sometimes the tech community just lives in another world. In reality: work,
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by melomal 6y ago
I'm desperately trying to find the source but discounters like Lidl/Aldi just use well known brands, signed with NDAs on both sides. Imagine knowing that a discount chain is about to make a regular purchase of 300,000 tins of bean
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by melomal 6y ago
The insane growth the stock has had needs to be kept propped up for the shareholders to be happy. More profit = more shareholder value and that's that. Once you IPO, forget about any and all startup grandiose values that was created on
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by melomal 6y ago
It pains me to go shopping where there are "well-known" brands on display. All that I see is their brand tax slapped onto each product whereas I go to Lidl/Aldi and I have no qualms in buying the knock off products. Same prod
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by melomal 6y ago
Growth hacker of 8 years here. This smells like the brilliant plan of endless A/B testing that a unicorn did once, wrote about it on their company blog once it was used up, then everyone else followed. These are all growth 'levers
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by melomal 6y ago
then they'll spin off the division, add it to a SPAC and go public as another $1bn unicorn.

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