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This describes how ads are displayed in paper magazines. Sounds fine to me, I prefer static ads in predictable spots that don't cause page jumps the way "dynamic ads" do on web.
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As long as they're fed a 24/7 media diet of government overreach and cruelty to others, they won't even notice when it's their turn. Note that even now, they blame American job losses on Central America and China instead
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Reminiscent of Stalin's utterance to Churchill at Yalta about not risking the pope's displeasure about Soviet resettlement plans for Polish Catholics: "How many divisions does the Pope have?" Today in America, that could
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Reminds me of the "college is a scam, learn a trade" people, all of whom went to college and plan to send their kids to college as well.
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> Wrong, social network is centered around the concept of "you" and your "friends", where the content itself is not as important. This post was brought to you by the year 2012.
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Nobody is "connecting" on social media anymore, they are just liking and commenting on whatever random thing the algo throws at them. You and I are the doing same thing, commenting on posts made by strangers.
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The comment threads are basically "infinite scroll". They're paginated once they hit 500 or something. Scanning a SM post takes 2 seconds, HN comments much longer.
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What about the giant marquee block halfway down the page about "Agentic Developers" and rolling their own protocol?
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Oof, I want to be supportive, but the landing page has that "SaaS product" look and mentions of Notion and Linktree tells me their target audience is the budding generation of "content creators" shilling Notion templates
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No, not unless there is a large American buyer already in place. The DOJ did not force Microsoft to sell IE in 2001 either, and back then there was no US software company anywhere near Microsoft's size that would have purchased it. DOJ
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And demonstrated by his new business partner in the private prison industry, Bukele of El Salvador.
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That's happening because crypto 'value' doesn't exist in a vaccuum, immune to the vagaries of the tradFi markets. When shit hits the fan, credibility matters. That's why traders park cash in government bonds when a
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Capital gains on AI investment doesn't need a breakthrough. I'm sure pharma companies and others are building their own custom models to assist R&D, but those aren't the ones sinking the truly huge sums into consumer-faci
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It's an easy thing to slap on to a service with lots of users. Back in the day this would be called a 'message board'. "Social media" requires the use of iframes that can be embedded on 3rd party sites. OpenAI is a
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by rchaud 2y ago
Adobe Animate is a sad shell of Flash. It only supports 2D, where its ancient predecessor supported 3D 20 years ago. It is a largely dead product, although parts of the Flash spirit lives on in After Effects, which is a video-centric tool.
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Unless the prospective buyer's name rhymes with Melon Tusk, I doubt the DOJ will do anything to challenge Google's web monopoly this strongly.
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Teslas are more locked down software-wise than iOS, so their worth in half a century should be around whatever scrap metal is going for then.
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"For some reason", really? The US reconstructed Europe after WW2 using its own funds mostly and has subsidized its defense spending for the past 80 years and counting. Europe also has enormous amounts of resource wealth expropriat
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If Trump has learned anything, it is that the US is a lot easier to bully than others. He is convicted of a felony, he talks down to his own voters, abandons his biggest promises (repealing ACA and building a wall) and they still let him le
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Much like Russia's overnight transition to a market economy in 1991, which opened the door to oligarch pillaging of national resources, 2 successive economic crises and a bond default, and 2 brutal wars in Chechnya. Something tells me
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Things like threatening Canada and Greenland's sovereignty, unilaterally tanking stock markets and levying huge tariffs on western trading partners are not popular with his voters. What they want doesn't matter anymore, these move
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It's far from the only place the policy is incoherent. They fired the top ranking officer at the US base in Greenland for having the temerity to tell their host nation "I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I d
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The finer points don't matter. If it did, they'd be wondering why the nation is not awash in coal jobs and why Obamacare wasn't repealed. Both of those were supposed to have happened by 2020. Tariffs are sold to them as &quot
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I'm addressing the assertion that mean comments will scare off 'normal people'. It hasn't yet on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram etc. Brand pages get blasted everywhere, it comes with the territory.
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Enterprise can pay the rising susbcription costs without blinking, a solo business will think twice.
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Contrarian takes without empirical evidence remain a rare occurrence however.
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Those places aren't worth their while, and blessed be they for that! All a business cares about is maximum reach, so they will ignore the small sites in favour of the biggest aggregator for the lowest cost. If somebody on a smaller sit
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The public yearns for formulaic engagement slop /s
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Indeed. Humans dont make you talk to a chatbot for help or have 'no-reply' in their email addresses.
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I'm pretty sure Russia still preaches a lot of admirable things that it doesn't actually practice. Talk is cheap yet people will put stock in it anyway.

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