mrkramer

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by mrkramer 1y ago
For me it was always: Google, YouTube, Reddit and forums. There are also niche sites that cater to certain groups and interests like Steam and Twitch for gaming or IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes for movies. There is no universal content discovery
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by mrkramer 1y ago
You can do something like that but it must be an Open Web project. Walled gardens only care about themselves and their ad revenue.
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by mrkramer 1y ago
Google introduced its Google Knowledge Graph in 2012 and for sure it caused the drop in website clicks but I would say not that significant. People want quality content and they will always look for quality websites with or without AI overv
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by mrkramer 1y ago
If I recall correctly it has been proven that violent games do not affect young adults in negative way unless they are already mentally disturbed. There are thousands of movies that depict killing and sexual violence and nobody talks about
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by mrkramer 1y ago
Crypto FTW.
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by mrkramer 1y ago
Tbh it's better that the state controls citizens' payment infrastructure than the private commercial banks.
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by mrkramer 1y ago
worked in the internet gambling industry* Late grammar correction :/
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by mrkramer 1y ago
He was ahead of his time.
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by mrkramer 1y ago
Yea, micropayments but people can't keep up with dozens subscriptions. Someone will figure out micropayments sooner or later.
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by mrkramer 1y ago
No....because you would get to see preview of the article and if you trust the news outlet and the author, you would do it.
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by mrkramer 1y ago
In the last 10 years or so companies and news outlets stared gravitating towards subscription based business model but people can't or don't want to subscribe to multiple different services(subscription fatigue). My prediction is
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by mrkramer 1y ago
Most of them are 4 or 5 or sometimes 3 stars but tbh it would be a good idea to have a website that highlights bad products and their reviews "for fun and profit".
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by mrkramer 1y ago
>Ratings compression Star ratings on major platforms increasingly cluster between 4.3 and 4.9, leaving buyers little room to distinguish products. Last year I was skimming through IKEA furniture and majority of reviews are 4 or 5 stars.
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by mrkramer 1y ago
They charge for pretty much everything, even for running your bank account. But now they will not be allowed by law to charge you "bank account operating cost fees" for bank accounts that are used for receiving salary and/or
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by mrkramer 1y ago
Satoshi wanted to bypass banks and make P2P direct payments with no trusted party besides Bitcoin protocol hence >no mechanism exists to make payments over a communications channel without a trusted party And crypto community speculated
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by mrkramer 1y ago
>Chargebacks of legitimate purchases on most large platforms are extremely rare. Most will be from stolen cards. I never used ecommerce back in the day on the internet but I can imagine that ecommerce fraud was widespread. And that'
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by mrkramer 1y ago
I'm from Croatia but I don't send money abroad, I only use credit cards and banks locally. As far as I can see from our local banks' websites, they implement SEPA standards. There must be some sort of misunderstanding or erro
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by mrkramer 1y ago
>Write a Steam knockoff platform that's trustworthy enough for people to download, and load it up with dirty games. Put the premium on the customers if they want to use credit card transactions, otherwise push them towards crypto pa
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by mrkramer 1y ago
>This is why I gave up on credit card processing for my startup casino in 2010 and just went to taking Bitcoin and other crypto. And how many customers you lost in 2010 because of that? Probably more than 90%. Even now people are relucta
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by mrkramer 1y ago
Maybe now is the time to rethink accepting crypto again? But this time stablecoins not volatile coins like BTC and ETH.
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by mrkramer 1y ago
He probably has 2 domains that link to the same website.
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by mrkramer 1y ago
I remember reading some blog post that badly configured SSL certificate will cause something like 90% of people bouncing off the website because they are scared of the big red Chrome warning. SSL certificate is actually an important UX fact
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by mrkramer 1y ago
My intention was preventing the abuse of financial power e.g. put price controls on player acquisitions so Manchester City or PSG are not allowed to pay €100M for a new player while other clubs can't afford top players or rising stars.
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by mrkramer 1y ago
>I personally can't see the appeal. It seems like a fun toy for a bit. Super impressive stuff but the idea of treating it like a human is a bit depressing to me. I wouldn't mind chatbot trained on Kant's or Hegel's wo
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by mrkramer 1y ago
>you'd be surprised on how deranged some people are, no matter the sexes. Having a Prince Charming / Manic Pixie Dream Girl that always agree with you will be the utopia for them, and amplifying their mental issues. Isn't
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by mrkramer 1y ago
In all seriousness; maybe good idea for a chatbot would be a teenager in order for future parents to learn how to raise and manage an underage person.
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by mrkramer 1y ago
>There absolutely are limits on how much can be spent. That’s why Man City is under investigation of 100+ charges for violating FFP, financial fair play, rules. They are under investigation posteriori, they should've been stopped ap
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by mrkramer 1y ago
Few months ago I was watching Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley interviews and they said that in F1 there should be a cap on how much teams are allowed to spend because Mercedes always wins....but in football there are no such thoughts and l
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by mrkramer 1y ago
I'm always anxious when I download npm packages or when I pip Python packages...tbh it's a gamble because there are so many supply chain attacks and/or malicious developers.
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>UK law said that there was a presumption that computer systems were working correctly unless there was evidence to the contrary. Defense had to prove that only one Horizon/Fujitsu accounting software was buggy and the whole prosecu

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