punee

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by punee 11y ago
NIH much? Developers cost a lot of money. Mailchimp doesn't. Maybe your "clueless micro-managers" know a little more than you think.
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by punee 11y ago
Full article here for anyone interested: http://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/economics/a-phool-a...
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by punee 11y ago
Huh? The answer is in your question. Non-public advertising. Medical sales.
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by punee 11y ago
> Once you have one human level AI you can make more replacing each human in the production of the human level AI - you basically start at the end point and working backwards replacing each job performed by a human with an AI. Again, I d
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by punee 11y ago
I think what you're saying makes some amount of sense, but I still feel there's a lot of handwaving and hidden assumptions around the way such a system gets bootstrapped. If you have links to more detailed ressources on that topic
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by punee 11y ago
So we're going to need robots to replace all the humans. I'm not sure how that fits in the zero marginal cost narrative. I'm not sure I really understand the economics either. Is AI going to be free? Who are the owners of cap
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by punee 11y ago
"If the AI is at human level then it can do all human jobs." I don't see how that follows. How does a computer program do manual labor?
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by punee 11y ago
How does human level AI make everyone unemployable?
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by punee 11y ago
Someone in the comments section of the blog links to an interesting article w.r.t. your first point: http://www.nature.com/news/registered-clinical-trials-make-p... The snark in the original article makes the author so
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by punee 11y ago
Okay, so now I'd like someone honest to read this whole thread and tell me with a straight face that Hacker News is "full of libertarians", as I read here from time to time. I mean, there's someone here who doesn't
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by punee 11y ago
I don't want to sound too critical, but have any professional typographers reviewed this? I'm mostly asking because at first glance, some of the models look quite terrible to me (questionable font pairing, excessive column width,
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by punee 11y ago
What I find interesting here is to evaluate exactly how great your idea was compared to that of your competitors. It sounds like in your case, what made the idea good was not so much the product itself, but applying it to the right niche
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by punee 11y ago
If by "consumption culture" you mean "sales", then yeah.
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by punee 11y ago
I guess because Google's Dutch auction was considered a failure.
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by punee 11y ago
You don't think it's hard to explain what? How advertising causes high rents in San Francisco? Be my guest.
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by punee 11y ago
Yes, and people left Syria to go to Europe because of advertisements too. Damn advertisers. They were behind it all along. Preposterous.
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by punee 11y ago
If only we knew who's buying all the advertising, maybe it would start making sense. Walk me through the causal process here. Does it go something like... Landlords want more money so they devise a massive marketing campaign, including
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by punee 11y ago
You make some valid points but... Complaining about a $5 user acquisition cost? If you think that's expensive, try a field sales team.
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by punee 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're asking. How is which industry growing? If you mean how is ad tech growing, it's growing because digital advertising as a share of total advertising is growing. It's mainly ea
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by punee 11y ago
I think much of the value you lost went into the pockets of your landlord and the local businesses you patronize (which is what you wanted?). How exactly do you suggest your money ends up in the pockets of advertisers? I'd love to hear
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by punee 11y ago
> It might not be part of production per se, but it's necessary for getting the item to the buyer. Advertisement, much less so. Is that so? How do you figure? How do you get an item to a buyer that will never be a buyer because he n
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by punee 11y ago
"Advertising is very bad and unsustainable and it's going to bring about the end of the universe because of evil venture capitalists. Is this what you want? No! So if you want to save your soul, you can repent now and start using
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by punee 11y ago
Your message is a little disjointed. Are "other parts" marketing or not-marketing? Take your pick. Anyway, the article doesn't discuss where ad money goes. It would need to use figures for that. Instead, it tries to paint a m
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by punee 11y ago
First, numbers would be required to see exactly how the market is "economically upheld" by VCs. Second, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but your example seems poorly chosen. Uber and Lyft live off of venture capi
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by punee 11y ago
Is this article a joke? Suppose for the sake of the argument that instead of drawing an arrow from the consumer to ad tech, I drew an arrow to... any other market. Couldn't I make exactly the same argument? People pay a "consumpti
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by punee 11y ago
That's because the article is just a thinly veiled ad for the author's ad-free service.
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by punee 11y ago
That's incorrect. "all muslims living in Europe who have the potential to be radicalised" is the subset of muslims who have the potential to be radicalised. Your comment would have been valid if he/she had written "
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by punee 11y ago
If you know the word and you're looking for synonyms, use a thesaurus.[1] If you know the general idea and want a more precise word to describe it, I'd look into WordNet, especially concepts like hyponyms (subsets of a general wor
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by punee 11y ago
So science advances slowly?
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by punee 11y ago
Then I guess Coke won't "continue to bleed sales and struggle" as the parent suggested? Note that Coke ALREADY provides "healthy alternatives" (they sell bottled water if that's your thing). And also note that

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