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by qq66 11y ago
YouTube is an aggrieved party since they are losing money too, but there's far more popular sympathy for the individual creators.
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The profit motive is that it's rarely smart to fight a battle that you know you're going to lose. When lions fight, they stop as soon as they know who's going to win -- the losing lion would rather walk away with his life tha
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Popular appeal is one of those things that remains quite resistant to dissection and scrutiny. Up to a certain point, measurable talent drives success, but at the highest levels, the drivers of success become a lot harder to characterize. W
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Reminds me of the puzzling: "If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct? A) 25% B) 50% C) 0% D) 25%"
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Reddit management is somewhat between a rock and a hard place. They have a very free-for-all culture now, with the norms of the site driven largely by the community. As expected, these norms do not drive a lot of monetization -- the communi
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I've used AirBnB several times and never found it buggy enough to impair my main objective of booking a place to stay. It seems to be as robust as it needs to be.
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Piracy is the reason that labels license their content to streaming services like Spotify. Without the threat of piracy, they would happily maintain the CD-era pricing.
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I don't think that capturing killer whales is a thing we should do, but I don't like this line of reasoning: "They have big brains, complex social structures, rich emotional lives -- how can we still hold them captive?"
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PowerPoint does, it's called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). Alt+F11 on PowerPoint for Windows to access the IDE.
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The funnel is not that complicated; it's set up to find the people who are willing to make any amount of personal sacrifice to make huge amounts of money. Those are the people they want to be future Managing Directors. Startups that ha
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Scott Guthrie is one of those unicorns who is both highly knowledgeable, very nice personally, and a great manager (I'm not sure why you suggest that he wouldn't fare well in management, but he is already running Azure). I remembe
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It's not paranoia to be deeply concerned by the security implications of a ton of auto updating software from dozens of vendors sitting on hundreds of millions of machines.
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If you let a device cook for you every time, you're not going to learn anything, so the device's value proposition is safe. I've been taking cars to the mechanic for 15 years and haven't learned a thing about cars while
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It's got a pretty nice GPU... instead of wasting food, it can just render an image of a double portion of whatever you put in it.
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Well, when you're a political organization that doesn't make political endorsements as a matter of policy, there are all kinds of judgment calls that you make that reasonable people can disagree with.
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The king is dead, long live the king. I used to fly twice a week, and one time one of the screeners shoved a lighter in my shoe as it was going onto the belt. I started yelling at him and he turned to me with the "shush" gesture,
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Rand Paul is a declared candidate for President, and the EFF does not make political endorsements, so they're probably trying to avoid discussing Rand Paul too much.
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Phrased more poetically by Kris Kristofferson: "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." :)
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They wish they had invented it, but when "dong detection" is a prerequisite, it guarantees that they wouldn't.
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This is the answer to the oft-asked question, "Why didn't Lego build Minecraft?" Because big companies necessarily focus on risks to what they already have, while small companies focus on untapped opportunities.
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The thing about big companies is that the person responding to the inbound communcation is usually in a totally separate department from the person who wrote the policy, and often doesn't know the policy exists. It's really hard t
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Keeping in touch with friends, family, and acquaintances is a core need for a large fraction of humans. Facebook, like everything, will disappear some day, but it will be because people decide to start using some other way of keeping in tou
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by qq66 11y ago
The 16-GoPro rig isn't for a home user, it's for YouTube channel owners and other video publishers who are making money from their videos and want some more immersive content.
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I like the analogy of GarageBand vs. Ableton Live. As a mass-market application, PowerPoint has to be as easy to get started with as GarageBand, but support advanced customized features for power users, such as motion paths, custom shows, a
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Why not contact some of your 2% female users and ask them to be in normal, non-sexualized advertising for your site? It will help you attract both male and female users to show that FPV racing can be enjoyed by everyone, and it's not d
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The thing about dating services is that they work a lot better when they're not explicitly marketed as dating services. Facebook started out as a thinly veiled dating service, where the primary activities were looking up people you mig
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Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, on PowerPoint. Here are a few of my reactions (mine alone, not Microsoft's): * Presenting an idea is one of the most subtle arts of the human experience. It draws on skills like storytelling, communicat
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Yes, the purpose of ads is to convince people to buy things that they otherwise may not. But shouldnt that be a positive thing, more often than not? Traditional reasoning would suggest that someone buys something because it improves their l
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It's also because they explicitly prefer to shift as much compensation as possible towards salary as opposed to stock, benefits, perks, etc. They released a long presentation about why they do this, I think it's somewhere on Slide
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Financial companies often need working capital that's independent of investment in new products. For example, if Stripe wants to have an offering that pays Party A today, but collects that money from Party B tomorrow, they need working

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