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by nugget 4y ago
This is not as true as it used to be, at least in certain states. Under CCPA/CPRA in California, you can request that personal information is removed. There are half a dozen other laws around the US that allow for similar requests in
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by nugget 4y ago
For me, carbohydrate consumption and appetite are massively correlated. When I reduce carbs below 30g/day, my appetite is naturally suppressed (or avoids over-stimulation). Food feels much less addictive. It's easier not to snac
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by nugget 4y ago
When ads are relevant and contextual enough, they become as good as or better than content. The problem isn't advertising. The problem is bad, mediocre, even malicious ads and ad formats. The proliferation of terrible ads and ad form
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by nugget 4y ago
I wonder if perversely all the bad press could actually help Google by lessening antitrust scrutiny. If they're perceived to be setting themselves up for failure, do they become less of a target?
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by nugget 4y ago
Your reference to orthorexia is extreme. There's nothing in the parent comment that would take my mind there. It's true that relatively few people realize how polluted drinking water has become - lead and other metals, PFAS, pla
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by nugget 4y ago
Now that they are venture funded, Bitwarden will try to restrict competition as much as they can. It's a familiar playbook. I wouldn't be surprised if Bitwarden has applied pressure behind the scenes on Vaultwarden to move in th
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by nugget 4y ago
My grandfather survived Pearl Harbor and became a B-25 pilot in one of those cohorts with an 80%+ casualty rate. As a kid, I enjoyed reading and hearing about his experiences. It made me proud of his service. But I'm not sure it les
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by nugget 4y ago
Carol Bartz was the one who decided to divest search to Microsoft. Even preceding Carol, there was an attitude among the executives at Yahoo that search was not "strategic" and as a result they jumped from one shiny new object to
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by nugget 4y ago
Big companies are all about politics, all the time, in my experience. Smart business/product decisions require many quarters, sometimes years, of discipline and commitment to pay off. Whereas a shorter term focus results in less head
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by nugget 4y ago
One of my family members is an anesthesiologist who runs oral and written board exams for physicians seeking to become or remain board certified. Over the holidays I sat him down with ChatGPT and ran through a dozen of the hardest board qu
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by nugget 4y ago
I'm curious how all these advancements in AI will impact KYC and identity authentication. It's already easy to scrape OSINT to pull the answers needed for most people's knowledge based authentication sequences. Will we hit
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by nugget 4y ago
Dozens of new privacy laws have been passed in the last few years. In some cases, there are now severe financial penalties associated with non-compliance. This has started to empower internal teams within companies (who want to do the rig
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by nugget 4y ago
The best advice I heard for non zero-to-one folks was to watch for Series B rounds where multiple top tier venture firms participated, for example Sequoia + Lightspeed or Benchmark + Accel. This was back around 2012 so the economics could
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by nugget 4y ago
I'm just curious: would you pay Google $5/month for a paid search plan that had no ads and didn't store or monetize any of your search query data? Assume you trust them to abide by the terms and not exploit any loopholes.
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by nugget 4y ago
The trend I'm seeing companies settle into is one where Monday and Friday are work from home days, with Friday being more like a half day or optional day. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are default in-office days. I'm curious
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by nugget 4y ago
Google acquired YouTube and Facebook acquired Instagram. Both for what seemed like insane valuations at the time. Both were brilliant defensive acquisitions in hindsight. Both fueled tech valuations by illustrating the opportunity for ra
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by nugget 4y ago
Tech seems somewhat unique because you can start a new company and within a relatively short period of time (<10 years) you can threaten the eventual existence of Fortune 500 incumbents. The entire venture capital/startup ecosystem
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by nugget 4y ago
Adobe employs more dark patterns in their rebill/subscription products than any other established company I've dealt with. I go out of my way to avoid them now. It doesn't surprise me that they had to pay such a premium for
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by nugget 4y ago
Children have value in the hyperefficient society you describe, but it's emotional rather than monetary. It's hard to compare abstract, future emotional upside to dollars spent on diapers and sleepless hours lost to infant childc
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by nugget 4y ago
Millennial here. In the last 18 months I've substantially increased the % of net worth I'm comfortable allocating to a home, reflected in both purchase price and remodeling costs: - it's not clear that pandemic-era is over,
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by nugget 4y ago
I did find it odd that the dealership couldn't accept my state-issued ID for ID validation. Maybe there's some regulatory capture at work there. Even if state-issued ID docs were accepted, that would solve for KYC but not for cr
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by nugget 4y ago
CRAs maintain consumer credit scores which support consumer borrowing and lending - a large part of the US financial system. Experian could have (and perhaps should have) been disbanded after their data breach, but if you disband the categ
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by nugget 4y ago
I've been exposed to the world of law enforcement a few times in my career. They're mostly good people, with a few bad apples. They're granted extraordinary authority by society and should be subjected to scrutiny from outs
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by nugget 4y ago
I'm just old enough to remember the dot com bubble. Very few companies back then had much revenue, let alone any profit. Public tech companies in 2022 have enormous revenue and profit streams. Alphabet/Google is trading around
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by nugget 4y ago
Preemption would be an enormous mistake. Federal legislation moves at a glacial pace. In a field like privacy, you may only get to pass one substantial bill every 10 or 15 years. Technology moves too quickly for lawmakers at the Federal
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by nugget 4y ago
BitWarden is based almost entirely on open source so it's possible to branch the project. Given some of the language on their website and their more recent attitude towards OS licenses, my prediction is that they will use the new fund
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by nugget 4y ago
Your experience is not unique, OP. One of the happiest days of my digital life is when I finished moving 100s of domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap.
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by nugget 4y ago
That makes sense. I wouldn't call that ad fraud. That's the ML system optimizing for what you've said you want. If you bid for cpc you're going to get a lot of cheap clicks, but they're going to be nearly worthle
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by nugget 4y ago
If you are spending thousands per day you should be backing out real time ROI/LTV which eliminates nearly all potential fraud. The performance ad market moved from pay per impression to pay per click and then finally to pay per convers
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by nugget 4y ago
AppLovin is a suite of developer tools plus an ad network. By your definition of adware, Facebook is an adware company. Google too. Given the level of anti-trust scrutiny aimed at Facebook, there's little to no chance they would rece

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