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by polote 6y ago
It's crazy how they talk of a bunch of risk to their business, but don't talk about their main risk. The more people are able to find interesting people on their app, the more they will loose their paying customers. So basically t
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by polote 6y ago
The same way the Match group scales. Bumble today belongs to the Badoo Network, and is showing strong growth mainly because the product is better and more respectful of girls than Tinder. As long as Tinder exists their number of users will
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by polote 6y ago
Bumble business model is not related to people going on date, rather to guys matching more girls. And both things are very poorly linked
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by polote 6y ago
A knowledge managment software, much better than Jira, Notion and alike. As being a knowledge base will be the only goal! Let me know if you want to be notified when released
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by polote 6y ago
> Dropbox still has the best sync by far than any other system This is a common dev thought. But almost no company in the world is going to care about that. You can onboard some consumer with that point but I hope they don't actuall
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by polote 6y ago
And previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23185166
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by polote 6y ago
Didn't that start actually when Trump became president?
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by polote 6y ago
The problem is not free speech, the problem is anyone can have millions of people notified about what they say. If you limit followers to 50k or don't allow a message to have a reach of more than 50k, then you will solve part of the pr
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by polote 6y ago
The solution is probably something along the line of preventing unverified content to be published to millions of followers, but that would kill their business...
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by polote 6y ago
What's next ? What happens when Signal is bought by Microsoft and Discord is bought by Google ?
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by polote 6y ago
if we let the virus lives its life, maximum 2% of pop will die, 90 more % will live normally and a few percent will have covid related health issues. so we sacrifice a few percent of population for the future of the others
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by polote 6y ago
So now the number of free icu beds in hospital and number of death are the only kpi we look at to make decisions? It is crazy how people opinion like mine is fully ignored in Europe. today we tolerate flu deaths so that people can live free
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by polote 6y ago
Well then why do some people think it is idiotic?
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by polote 6y ago
> the government should just let this run its course Isn't it just an opinion? I personally think that way. Why wouldn't I be allowed to think that?
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by polote 6y ago
One thing I don't understand, is why government don't give free money to manufacturers ? Locking down is costing so much to society and governments. Instead of giving money to people who don't work, just give money to produce
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by polote 6y ago
dupe : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25630011
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by polote 6y ago
Don't want to be mean, but just to inform you, guidelines says "Please don't delete and repost. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place." and I know you have posted and then dele
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by polote 6y ago
That's what happen when you have too much money to spend and you don't take time to evaluate if money is well spent.
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by polote 6y ago
Well, the answer is easy. We are all different. We all have one only life, some people prefer to spend it watching football, some being productive, some helping others, and some ... Of course you will also find people who are not happy at t
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by polote 6y ago
I have two mood tracking points per day, one when waking up when when going to sleep. So if it is part of your routine it is very easy to do. Then you must well define your scale if your want to be consistent over time
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by polote 6y ago
Whoaa, amazing, I've been doing the same during the last 5 years, but I use an easier setup, I use an app, so I just have to click on buttons at the end of each activity. > Stay tuned to learn how do different activities influence
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by polote 6y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25617601 97 comments
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by polote 6y ago
Honestly why do people think that cannot happen at Apple ? That kind of thing can happen in any company. Apple is thousands of employees, it only requires a few bad people to create a situation like that. I'm not sure though, creating
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by polote 6y ago
Any better software to replace it ?
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by polote 6y ago
> But if more people would follow the rules with a bit of discipline, things would be much better. As shown in Asian countries, which mostly don't have a Covid-19 problem How do you know they have less case because people follow the
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by polote 6y ago
> - If you handle local outbreaks quickly, you can get infections down to 0 in the affected region. This is not true for a country like Germany, you would have to hard lockdown for some time and close all borders, and then verify any per
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by polote 6y ago
> If efficient reactions had been taken in January, a lot of things had been easier. What would have been easier? Germany reacted quickly and now have a lot of death > of course watch international travel closely. If you close down f
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by polote 6y ago
dupe 14 days ago 360 comments
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by polote 6y ago
A funny way to get this list is to publish a post on HN, wait a few days and check the list of backlinks on Google console
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by polote 6y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25541329 still on front page and more comments

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