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by ohashi 5y ago
So it went from 'these claims are outrageous' to they wouldn't hold up in a court of law? You're a facebook shill and you're embarrassing yourself. You're not fighting misinformation, you are the disinformation
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by ohashi 5y ago
So do you work for facebook or is your only purpose on HN to try to defend the company?
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by ohashi 5y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/14/facebook-... https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/white-supre... https://www.reuters.com/article/
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by ohashi 5y ago
We can't be critical of a company that makes people miserable? That weakens democracy? That enables violence and hate? Just because they make a lot of money we should be cheering? Oh wow, they made $11! Let's forget everything els
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by ohashi 5y ago
I have run Storj nodes, they can be profitable, but it takes a long time to actually fill that space up. I do like the project though.
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by ohashi 5y ago
Storefront... you have Shopify. The most valuable use case, people are building those. The problem is people want a million different things for lots of other stuff. Shopify now has its own ecosystem too. It's the nature of creating po
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by ohashi 5y ago
Might be good to disclose you're promoting your own company
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by ohashi 5y ago
Have you tried k6 and if so, what do you think? I've found it pretty powerful and it's completely scriptable which opens the doors to a lot of opportunity to do complex tests.
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by ohashi 5y ago
Is there a publicly accessible view where people can see bills, how they've changed and who proposed the changes then?
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by ohashi 5y ago
I am honestly having a hard time articulating why I don't like the idea of people donating their money to me for what I do. I will try, maybe I am irrational? There is so much money being passed around in web hosting review space, by c
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by ohashi 5y ago
Maybe the marketing hasn't been great. But nobody seems to care. The status quo benefits the companies that get the most marketing, why invest in trying to change the rules that benefit them? I tried some more expose type stuff, reveal
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by ohashi 5y ago
I guess the problem is two fold, could I charge some people a premium for premium information? Absolutely, yes. Does hiding some information behind a paywall fit with my goal of a better review landscape in the web hosting industry? Sadly,
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by ohashi 5y ago
Thanks edbloom! It really does help motivate me to hear people get value from my work, because it definitely isn't financially motivated at this point. I appreciate the offer of premium members only payments. I want my data to be publi
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by ohashi 5y ago
The whole reason I built what I did was because after a decade in the web hosting world, I still couldn't name a review site that was worth referring anyone to. I wanted to build something different and meaningful. I did. It just hasn&
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by ohashi 5y ago
I'm in a strange position here. I fundamentally agree that reviews for the most part are absolute steaming pile of crap of a space for many niches. I work in one of the worst - web hosting reviews. It's plagued by fake affiliate r
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by ohashi 5y ago
internet shitposting?
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by ohashi 5y ago
hey, where did you go now? Care to offer any opinion about reviews in the space?
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by ohashi 5y ago
It is my old startup but it's been somewhat of a side project as the revenue has gone down and consulting and other projects have grown. But I do web hosting reviews based on what people say on Twitter using sentiment analysis. It avoi
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by ohashi 5y ago
The survivorship bias is strong here
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by ohashi 5y ago
Yeah, I pick that up as spam detection looking for identical type of messages/content.
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by ohashi 5y ago
Yes and updated it, thanks!
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by ohashi 5y ago
For hosting, it's pretty clear based on who they put at the top and top few rankings. Is it one of the cheap, high affiliate hosts? Fake. Problem is, people unfamiliar with the space might not be aware of it. For people who know, web h
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by ohashi 5y ago
Yeah, I custom wrote a lot of the NLP years ago. It was adapted from my Master's thesis predicting box office sales using sentiment analysis on twitter data (and a few other variables like number of theaters it plays in). Back then, no
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by ohashi 5y ago
As someone who has been working on an honest web hosting review site for a decade now. You're totally right. I see the same pattern in this article talking about fake review sites. The biggest offender in hosting was Endurance Internat
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by ohashi 5y ago
Anyone who kicks back while their web hosting is down... is a psychopath. That's just not going to happen. Are you accountable to literally nobody? Even as a solopreneur, there are customers/visitors. If my site is down, I am losi
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by ohashi 5y ago
I'm a fan of the documenting everything even on stuff I wrote and maintain for myself. Because, like you said, old me was way smarter than current me. When he was writing this code, he had the domain space modeled in his head better th
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by ohashi 5y ago
Trade war benefits nobody, but if you can gain slight advantages by manipulating currency, stealing IP, etc, you can get ahead while 'saying the right thing.'
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by ohashi 5y ago
Don't worry, I understood.
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by ohashi 5y ago
I feel like they also are trying to send me content that upsets me to get me to engage. Mute one conspiracy theorist and all the others start getting moved up in my feed.
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by ohashi 5y ago
They came back together again is the problem.

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