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by mrkramer 2y ago
Zuckerberg bets that Twitter will collapse under*
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I hope they survive because more competition the better. Time will tell what will happen. I also wish Google+ survived but unfortunately it didn't.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
>monetising a 175-million user base is not dependent on growth Sure but engagement of that userbase will eventually start to drop because there are so many social networks out there and Threads is not that much different than your averag
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Zuckerberg bets that Twitter will collapse under's Musk's management and that Threads would then fill up the void. But my assumption is, Threads will close sooner or later because in the long term, it is simply not viable business
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Scalpers Work with Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's 'Non-Transferable' Tickets(404media.co)
23 points by mrkramer 2y ago|1 comments
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by mrkramer 2y ago
My take on declining online social engagement is; a lot of people like to consume online content passively e.g. just reading Facebook posts or watching a YouTube video without actually liking or commenting. Another thing is; increasing numb
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by mrkramer 2y ago
What makes you think if Nietzsche lived today, he wouldn't be a blogger?
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by mrkramer 2y ago
On mobile you can tap "Watch on YouTube" and it will deep link and open the video inside your YouTube mobile app.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
UX might not be that good but software offering for Windows and backward compatibility is awesome.
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FBI puts a $5M bounty on the missing Cryptoqueen(pcgamer.com)
12 points by mrkramer 2y ago|1 comments
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Yea, you have to click "Tools" to see the number of search results and the time it took for Google to retrieve information. Again, idk why they hid that.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
YouTube takes thousands of data points and signals to rank search results and there are millions of videos to search and rank, it's quite hard problem to solve. Initially I wasn't a fan of vertical search engine/s but I think
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by mrkramer 2y ago
They have infinite scroll for the YouTube search results but the irony is that the top search results are often not the ones you are looking for so you have to scroll somewhere to the middle to find useful results (or try different query or
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I actually liked continuous scroll and I thought it is a good change but I guess Google figured out that SEO people got upset because they couldn't brag how: "We can make your website show up on the first page of Google search res
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by mrkramer 2y ago
>What types of pages do you keep permanently open in tabs? Sometimes blog posts and sometimes youtube videos. There are tabs that are like 300MB of memory. Some websites are badly optimized or full of ads and trackers and that's als
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I use memory saver on Chrome and it helps substantially but Chrome just doesn't feel right. It might be the most secure browser out there but performance is lacking. Modern software should be more efficient than this. There is open-sou
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I have thousands of bookmarks....I keep my tabs open so that I can jump back in when I'm back to my PC.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I'm not a huge fan of social networks or tagging but I wondered for some time why social networks like Instagram and Twitter don't have "Global" tags and "Personal (Local)" tags. Let's take a blog for exam
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Ask HN: Best alternative to Chrome for power-user?
2 points by mrkramer 2y ago|7 comments
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Tbh, idk. Idk even what skills are the most in-demand right now, because everything is getting constantly and rapidly disrupted. Most likely in the next 10 years, skills which will be most demanded are skills which won't be easily repl
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by mrkramer 2y ago
>ignoring robots.txt Robots.txt is not legally binding, it is a good will among web stakeholders to respect it. But if you are repeatedly breaking it, you will have an army of web masters against you. And as far as I remember, big news o
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Apple is iPhone company but they accumulated so much cash and talent that they can take a swing at anything they want.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
News industry is struggling but scraping public web content is legal as far as it is not commercially used....at least that's my layman understanding (but Perplexity is using it commercially). The solution for news industry with regard
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by mrkramer 2y ago
First mistake of Perplexity was strategical one of not going head to head with Google and making its product open and free to use. They could've offered freemium type model where you could use Perplexity for free and see ads but if you
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by mrkramer 2y ago
You've got nothing to hide but malicious actors have everything to exploit.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I use ablocker but even with adblocker, Fandom's UI is so cluttered, that it is actually bloatware. It ranks high on Google and it is apparently one of the most visited websites in the world, undeservedly so.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Who mentioned China? This article reminded me of Soviet Union of 100 years ago and Stalin's war against landlords/kulaks.
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YouTube is testing another way to combat ad blockers(techcrunch.com)
10 points by mrkramer 2y ago|4 comments
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by mrkramer 2y ago
>Yes, for much of it's lifetime it was behind the 360 in worldwide sales, and might have been a disappointment for Sony, especially after the PS2 domination, but I wouldn't call say it "Lost Handily" to the xbox360. I
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by mrkramer 2y ago
My last gaming console was PS2 and yea I loved it because gaming consoles are meant for "couch gaming" with big TV screen and as one gaming friend of mine told me: "When you buy gaming console, you are set for the next 5 year

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