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by rchaud 1y ago
> Javice appeared regularly on cable news programs to boost Frank’s profile, also once appearing on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list. ...alongside other scrupulous business luminaries like Sam Bankman Fried, Shkreli and Holmes.
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Correct. Site owners moved their communities over to social media pages because they couldn't handle moderating the waves of spam comments that littered every single post on their site. They figured, let Facebook/Twitter handle mo
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Yes, these scams have aleays been there. The distinction was that advertisers like newspapers and magazines had a standards body that would reject ad placements that were insulting to their audience's intelligence.
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If they post the episode on Youtube, download an audio stream of that file instead. No ads injected there.
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Because they don't want to drive off business.
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There was once a time when advertisers had to show some creativity in their ad copy to develop brand recognition and stay within the editorial guidelines of magazines and newspapers. Online "targeted" ads eliminated the gatekeeper
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Well, why not? IT is a cost center after all /s
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I'd be interested to know what proportion of these millionnaires' net worth came from inheritances. That's the real dream Hollywood never tells you about.
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He's small fry now. Maybe if he had a popular podcast things would be different.
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Does it matter if American elected officials are often lawyers if they don't read the bills they vote on? [0][1]. Or if the bills in questions often contain language copy-pasted from lobbyists' memos? This topic runs the risk of b
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Plenty of people open Reels or Tiktok the second they wake up. Mobile means notifications, and of you see one as soon as you turn off the alarm, you're more likely to open the app.
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...or don't want to pay for Cliff's Notes.
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Personal computers were extremely expensive until the mid-90s when free consumer email and chat started making them a necessity. Microcomputers didn't exist until the 80s and were largely useless to people with jobs didn't require
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VR is in what I think of as a "native DRM" market. Why did the iPod take off? Because everybody already had gigabytes of stolen music on their computers with no content gated by record label distribution deals. The MP3 format was
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Agreed on both points. When blogging became the dominant reason for having a website, we were already on the way to the "content" hell. Any semi popular website had pressure to post more frequently, diluting quality. And pretty so
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My parents were highly computer literate and taught me how to use them growing up. These days they can barely even send emails and spend 30-60 minutes looking for files that are either on their desktop, download folder or in Recent Document
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20 years ago the ads appeared in a clearly marked and differently marked sidebar, away from the main content.
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Were you logged in or logged out when you ran the searches?
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It's already happened to an elderly family member who was trying to troubleshoot a printer problem. The top results were 1-800 hotlines run by scammers looking to get remote access to their machine to "fix" the issue. Google
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Everyone posts to centralized RSS feeds these days. The company that owns the feed creates duplicates of the uploaded file, inserts ads into them, and serves a version of the file containing ads localized to the downloader's country. I
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I associate ProductHunt with lots of rocket emojis and artificial-seeming comments congratulating the company on launching. There is usually zero discussion of the product itself, so the whole thing came off as a way to advertise for free.
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Perhaps for your next post you could ask Claude for the definition of a "fun fact".
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The PowerPoints that sold investors on the company were written and discussed by humans.
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I remember the HP website crashing in 2011 when they cancelled the PalmOS device line and slashed the price of the HP Touchpad tablet from $500 to $99. I had to call their 1800 number and wait 45 minutes to place my order with a sales rep.
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The age old advice of "just buy Toyota or Honda" still applies.
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You just explained why EU software startups do not cause VCs to rain money down on them.
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The time to complete the paperwork on a $200k/yr deal is longer than 2 weeks. Especially if the customer is expected to fork over 4000% more than what they were paying.
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"Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says his company has cut 4,000 customer service jobs as AI steps in: ‘I need less heads’" https://fortune.com/2025/09/02/salesforce-ceo-billionaire-ma...
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Fired account managers aren't sending any emails to their customers.
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They're not an independent business, their pricing is probably decided by Salesforce. It's probably bundled in free for Salesforce customers who buy a minimum of X seats.

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