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by nathanyz 6y ago
This is my recommendation as well, although since you mentioned it, I would throw in SICP as well, You can work through SICP to help learn Clojure/LISP at the fundamentals level, and then expand out to more practical use cases with the
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Good point, their advantage has mainly been geographic distance based. Where being within X miles trumps being in the top 100 yoga instructors if you are looking to go to an in person lesson. Virtual removes that advantage and now favors ex
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Funny you mention Yoga studios, as we are actually seeing a big influx from this market for video hosting. Many are starting to productize their lessons which will likely be bigger wins, versus selling their time as instructors. I think it&
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This is the undercurrent of the pandemic's impacts. Businesses are disappearing by the tens of thousands and they are not necessarily represented in the normal metrics of bankruptcies. Unemployment and GDP are impacted by these closure
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These are good ideas. Our theory is that by simplifying the complexity of video hosting, it makes it viable for more people to test against various business models without having to do the heavy lifting of figuring out video encoding, deliv
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by nathanyz 6y ago
Up front disclosure, I am the founder of a video hosting company. I think you have very quickly found the reason for YouTube boiling the frog. Bandwidth, encoding, and storage all have costs associated with them. They are not simply free an
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I think this holds true for anything where reviews are easily viewable and a common part of the buying process. I would bet you find a similar problem with Amazon products that can get sunk by just a few negative reviews early on.
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Yes, we are considering this exact thing as well. I think the challenge systemwide is this further divides the privileged from the lowest income earners. It adds additional cost that even when pooled with others is outside the realm of affo
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Fraud and abuse prevention really boils down to something like this. You don't need to be perfect with blocking these folks, but you need to be better than your competitors so that the cost/benefit balance shifts to encourage the
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by nathanyz 6y ago
Exactly this. While the underlying theory is excellent on many of these theoretical algorithms, they typically don't perform as expected when taking into account the infinite complexities of the real-world. But being able to understand
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I would disagree that the 3rd-party SDKs don't make revenue for Facebook. They likely provide additional targeting and behavioral data that feeds into their giant ad machine and lookalike audiences.
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My thoughts on this are that we are in a period of Low friction to create content => cheap, easy, mass volumes of content AND no curation based on accuracy, scientific rigor, and truthfulness. In fact the curation is biased heavily towar
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The true cost of “free” YouTube (2019)(buzz.swarmify.com)
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This is unfortunately the case in many of these offers where the big banner number is used to entice people in, but the actual amount given is much lower. There is really no accountability to these types of over-promises as its not really r
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Our entire service is based around the belief that you should control the video source files. So while we can auto-import existing YouTube videos, our core belief is that you should provide a self hosted version of the original video files,
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Exactly, reliably streaming video is much more complicated and expensive than given credit for. YouTube being $0 does not actually mean it's free, it just means the creator/publisher isn't paying for it directly in money, but
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Also us at Swarmify[3] [3] https://swarmify.com/
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Yeah, we did an analysis* on the recent upgrades to use LCP, and found that the score now heavily incentivizes Iframe/Embed content even though they are a big negative for actual performance. [*] https://buzz.swarmify.com&#x
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by nathanyz 6y ago
I appreciate the reasoned and thought out reply. At the engineering level, I get why capturing the results from the iframe is challenging and that its just a gap in the measurement by the tools. Here is the problem though. When these new me
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by nathanyz 6y ago
I agree that user metrics should show the inverse. The problem is that Pagespeed and the new Web Vitals are supposed to be a proxy of user metrics. So business owners will assume that a 100 Pagespeed score actually means a faster website. I
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These new metrics have a serious flaw. The iframe loophole is so bad, we even did a write-up on it: https://buzz.swarmify.com/how-to-get-a-100-score-on-lighthou... . See the article for the gory details, but the gist of it i
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by nathanyz 6y ago
As Google pushes forward with their new Web Vitals, they left one giant hole in how those are being calculated.
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Framehole: PageSpeed 6.0 loophole for easy perfect score(buzz.swarmify.com)
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by nathanyz 7y ago
Fair point. For me I seeing it as ceding control to some other company to decide what products and services I should buy. It's not complete control, but its a persistent influence that even if I know it is happening is hard to resist.
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by nathanyz 7y ago
When will we all learn that ad-supported versus paid products are just a variation of the Stanford marshmallow experiment. Free, ad-supported products are all about short term gratification because it costs us nothing today. Instead if we c
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So many apps are asking to use Bluetooth(theverge.com)
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"With great scale, comes great responsibility"
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Agreed, I mean these guys are now pawns in some political game. But these are people's lives. Let them off the hook and then you can commence with your dick measuring contests.
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The world is dying. It's your fault(thixr.com)
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by nathanyz 7y ago
Agreed, this is all a form of weaponized AI being used by the private sector to influence, optimize, and profit. Using AI for these purposes is perfectly fine. But there needs to be a realization of the impact so that guidelines, checks, an

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