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by pixodaros 2y ago
I definitely wonder what he proposes to do about Google etc. treating everyone else's email as spam.
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by pixodaros 2y ago
In December 2017, competing video sharing site Vidme was convinced that YouTube was generously subsidized by the rest of Google https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa Google certainly errs on the side o
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by pixodaros 2y ago
That is not the problem. Its that a technology designed in the 1960s for a 1960s workforce and tool base can't be made in the USA today, for the same reason that you can't produce cost-effective Browning HPs in Belgium today htt
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by pixodaros 2y ago
I run a Wordpress site that gets tens of GB of traffic per month for about half of that (hosting + domain name registration)
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by pixodaros 2y ago
And a lot of Hacker News folks dream of joining a startup which becomes the next Google, which is less likely than making a living as a novelist! There are thousands of professional novelists in the USA but only a handful of those really s
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by pixodaros 2y ago
as someone who has written books ... essays like this can be both mostly correct, and an excuse not to finish your next book, put it on the market, and keep it on the market until sold. So beware them!
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Can't you just whip out a card, stick it in a reader, enter your pin, click "yes" and pay by bank debit? If you are using a smartphone app that is an intermediary right there. Its hard to be specific without knowing what cou
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by pixodaros 2y ago
You are welcome to use many different payment rails with Amazon, Burger King, etc. Between them Patrick McKenzie and Dan Davies are pretty good on why people use the rails they do, and which blood wrote the financial regulations governing
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by pixodaros 2y ago
If you say "when I sent this business my money or goods in the past, they always send me goods or money, so I trust them" you are vulnerable to exit scams and rug pulling. One of Dan Davies' examples is a darkweb market wher
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Losing your cryptos when a trusted intermediary steals them or loses them through incompetence (Quadriga CX) is so common that crypto fans invented their own name for it! (Rug pulling)
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Dan Davies' book on frauds has a whole chapter on scams where you open a business, buy goods and pay in cash for a year or so, then order lots of goods on credit, sell them, take the money and run. Cryptocurrency people call their ver
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by pixodaros 2y ago
As far as I can tell I pay 0% and $0.00 to transfer from Paypal to my bank account (they added an instant transfer with a 1.75% fee as a sucker option). I thought that paragraph was about "aha, if they pay from buyer's paypal wal
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by pixodaros 2y ago
The small businesses I know have learned from bitter experience never ever to leave money in Paypal because it will seize it when it feels like and give it back whenever if ever. That does not sound like a business that relies on people le
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Source: Lots of small business owners (teachers, writers, visual artists, audiovisual creators) paying their rent with a marketing strategy centred around a mailing list
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by pixodaros 2y ago
A related concept is the attention economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy Commercial sites have an incentive to promise to provide more attention than they can actually deliver, leading to a bubble.
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by pixodaros 2y ago
There is a comic by The Oatmeal about this https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people_2021 It came up when Facebook convinced news organizations to "pivot to video" then throttled their traffic.
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by pixodaros 3y ago
Astronomers, who are one of the groups very interested in Late Babylonia, use astronomical year numbering with a year 0 to make the math easier, but Amelie Kurt gives the date of the fall of Babylon as October 539 BC https://en.w
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by pixodaros 3y ago
They seem to be used by people who generate most of their money from some platforms, but want to be visible on others. Corporate social media often limits how many links you can have in your bio, and often limits what you can link to (eg.
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by pixodaros 3y ago
Yeah, the blog post does not seem to talk about the appearance of rum and distilled liquor in 18th/19th century England. I think the decline of ale and beer consumption in 19th century England was partially a response to the increased
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by pixodaros 3y ago
The traditional solution was to buy web hosting as a service, buy the domain name registration as a service, and create the site yourself. I don't find it very complicated to either create the static site or update a pre-configured Wo
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by pixodaros 3y ago
If you host a static website the traditional way, there are four main security, privacy, and cost issues which I know: - a name, address, and email address have to be registered to the domain name. Just like in porn, there are cheap servic
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by pixodaros 3y ago
Bing at least license their indexes to partners on a commercial basis, as did Yahoo until they gave up indexing the web. I am sure that the NSA, the Chinese government, the ahrefs website, and other organizations have comprehensive indexes
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by pixodaros 3y ago
That is because DuckDuckGo started relying almost entirely on Bing for their regular search results after first Yahoo gave up maintaining its own index then Yandex became part of a natio non grata leaving them to choose between partnering
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by pixodaros 3y ago
Its even stupider than that. There are only two major, publicly available web indexes in the USA, Google's and Bing's. After 24 February 2022, DuckDuckGo ended their partnership with Yandex, and since then they say "we have
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by pixodaros 3y ago
And good for them defining their categories "married" and "partnered" right at the start of the press release!
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by pixodaros 3y ago
For many Americans, travelling out-of-state is a big deal. If its important enough many of them can make it happen, but many seem to have decided that formalizing their relationship in one legal category is not that important. There are ot
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by pixodaros 3y ago
Talk like this in the USA tends to equivocate between marriage (a legally sanctioned social and economic union) and marriage (a Christian sacrament, usually grudgingly including other major religions). IIRC the second kind of marriage has
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by pixodaros 3y ago
Sometimes that is true, but if the barrier to entry is low (eg. ridehailing services), as soon as the predator raises prices, competitors will appear. If the barrier to entry is high (eg. telecommunications), there is usually some antitrus
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by pixodaros 3y ago
As long as the founders get to borrow lots of other people's money to use this strategy, they have won. Even if the company goes bankrupt or is bought at a low valuation, they collected big wages and benefits for years and get to put
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by pixodaros 3y ago
Or when the problem is "how to get as much of other people's money into our hands for as little work as possible?"

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