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by nebabyte 9y ago
UBI is such a fundamental shift to the model that the back-of-the-napkin calculations would look even more basic and stripped away than that. The questions become much more 'fundamental' in nature. "What is our net import a
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Frankly I figured bezos or etc would've been the first tech leader on that train. After all, when you're in the business of (A) optimizing every nook and cranny and (B) selling to the masses new luxury technologies, it's in y
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Novel one-to-many and many-to-many interactions - text and otherwise - are always a fun thought exercise. They all seem in that halcyon realm of "Next big thing just waiting to be made".
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Honestly, as much as I love them: Imzy in its current form was never going to catch on. Other sites can get away with some bad choices like login-required because of momentum, but... The culture and userbase they were hoping to attract was
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by nebabyte 9y ago
either*, and I wouldn't use voat as a yardstick - it's had its own slew of fairly poor decisions and has likely not evolved out of the "run as a side project" mentality it was founded with (though idk, haven't been
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> shinier but harder to use give it time. reddit's not done shittying up their UI - hell, they're just getting started :)
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by nebabyte 9y ago
4) login required. Seeded content does nothing to attract new users when behind a wall. Hell, I had an account and the content still felt a degree removed from when I wanted it. Even a static cached digest would at least attract new users
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Practically any monetization effort is a function of the number of users - a percent of users paying is still a percent. If they're not seeing the demand it's smarter to cut losses than to continue on without a plan to make the si
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Hey Dan, I was a member in the early beta, am really sad to see Imzy go but really appreciate you guys branching off and making the efforts toward a new site (which I agree definitely still needs to exist). > We still feel that the inter
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Tepix's point was about entitlement, not criticism. "There is no excuse for ___" definitely crosses the line from criticism to entitlement. :^)
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by nebabyte 9y ago
The FAQ continues to list the "HN becoming more like reddit" comments (which I'd classify this comment as, considering even in a vaccuum both exhibit regression-to-the-mean based quality deterioration, so it's familiar)
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by nebabyte 9y ago
What a weird opening sentence. Unless he was planning on making a Michael Jackson joke (quick skim ~ none?) or just wanted to call attention to the "fun" point that he has a friend named Michael Jackson, I don't see why it wo
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> There wasn't any point to the quiz Knowing fb, there might well have been; if they had a facial recognition webcam up and noted applicant scores no one would hear about it. They'd probably just call it an "experiment in
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Early hieroglyphics: "tipcoin! 1 beer"
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by nebabyte 9y ago
ala -> aka "The War ... Not sure of the specifics but by context I'm assuming that was the intent.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Twitch Plays Github
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Rather superficial attempt at wit. Anywhere "in the real world" that operates on feedback - which in a corporatized world is many things - also has that "interpretation by the system" - see the MSM as the most obvious ex
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Not according to Google [0]! Given their pitch to advertisers, we are built exactly to live in "moments" - all conveniently full of advertising opportunities ;) Depends on who you ask, I suppose. lol [0] https://youtu
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Bear in mind the concerns pointed out in this [0] subthread, namely that parents/citizens might not know (or want to bother learning) enough about "how the internet works" (or even thinking "having the government handl
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Right, which is why I said this > If only adblock lists (content subscription in general) were a more common model. You could tell your neighbors they can just "not subscribe to those channels" without affecting others. Hmm Con
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> > How in the hell are the people of the UK supporting something like this? > As a person from and living in the UK, I'm equally shocked and appalled as you. Everybody I know is baffled by and vehemently against these ridicul
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by nebabyte 9y ago
These are the kind of "ideas" that get people to waste a lot of time and VC money, so I invite the author to either put his money where his mouth is or accept the existing solutions in spite of his minor look-and-feel/nostalg
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> OK. I'll just fire up my VPN to route around the 'problem-solving' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374926 Nonparticipation and avoidance are stopgaps; don't expect stopgaps to save you. Those
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> The 51% cannot completely neglect the wishes of the other 49%. In these cases, the only non-gridlocked solution is fragmentation. It's the survivorship bias - the only issues that continue to paralyze a region are the ones that c
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by nebabyte 9y ago
If seeking a platform makes you a mouthpiece, then ISIS is just a mouthpiece for Twitter.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> Hillary Clinton allegedly requested that Julian Assange be killed Politicians have the weirdest rider lists
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by nebabyte 9y ago
It's a fair point - I don't see how ad hominem attacks change the news. I guess that's why painting him as a russian sympathizer is "in" now. Makes it seem like the leaks even if authentic have some agenda. But stil
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> U.S. officials speaking to The Washington Post seemed "confident that they have devised an approach that is so bureaucratically, legally and morally sound that future administrations will follow suit" Wonder how much sleep Ob
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> I'm not sure how long it's going to take for people to realise: the government is not your friend Slow your roll there m8. Government as an aggregate will of a people can do good. (I say this because a libertarian utopia wo
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Yup. The goal of TGF is suppression, not complete shutout. By most accounts it unfortunately does a really good job of that.

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