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by rchaud 2y ago
Who benefits from writing Amazon reviews? I've written them for years for products I purchased, for no other reason than to let other people know.
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by rchaud 2y ago
The hoarding began once they decided to abandon the DVD market, paranoid about file ripping and sharing. Now TV shows are like videogames now, can't watch without an internet connection phoning home.
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by rchaud 2y ago
No one wants to be a dump pipe.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Any $30 Android shitbox with a nieuwpipe apk has been able to do this for ~ 10 years.
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by rchaud 2y ago
They didn't though. Every single streaming service bar Netflix loses money. On top of that, they've all poisoned the well by creating as many subscription tiers as Dell has laptop SKUs and raising the price every 9 months so nobod
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by rchaud 2y ago
Development is cheap when the backward compatibility target is IE10. You can safely ignore any CSS fanciness from post-2010. This is still useful for web designers, even if it doesn't make it into a business website (most websites are
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by rchaud 2y ago
It says right there in the official messaging that they're going to use this to feed some GenAI model. How do you square that with people not caring about privacy? The feature as it existed was there specifically to address privacy con
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by rchaud 2y ago
> But dismissing an emerging technology as useless baby stuff? Reminds me of what people were saying of web, web 2.0, Nobody was saying that about the web. The web in 1994 had email and instant messaging out of the box, it replaced lette
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by rchaud 2y ago
Have McKinsey come along to facilitate.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Yep, I did this some time ago when I realized how few things actually need apps, when the website does the same thing without notifications and tracking.
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by rchaud 2y ago
The clumsy rollout of this is surprising considering Apple's conservative approach to new technology. I thought Apple was one of those companies that could afford to ignore the Gartner hype index. As for the ham-fisted summarization on
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by rchaud 2y ago
What makes more money, working at Facebook in an executive role or putting out a book that people might hear about but almost certainly won't buy? I don't see these types of books as business opportunities.
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by rchaud 2y ago
> she called the book “defamatory” and alleged that Wynn-Williams had skipped “the industry’s standard fact-checking process.” Why don't we let the community decide, instead of these bureaucratic, free speech-chilling "fact che
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by rchaud 2y ago
Yes, but not because of a self-proclaimed "law". The UX is similar across FB, Twitter and LinkedIN, because they all sell ads, and what you can charge for ads is reliant on how much time people are spending on the platform.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Tech funding that's reliant on a large number of small donors is less sustainable than a few deep pockets. However, the latter situation opens the door for somebody to simply become the largest funder and start implicitly dictating its
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by rchaud 2y ago
...or designers could just learn some HTML/CSS/JS instead of using half-measures like Figma that need a FE developer handoff step. See how that works?
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by rchaud 2y ago
There's an enormous difference between HCI and UX. HCI relates to computer usability for general use cases. A CAD program is there to help you get tasks done, not waste your time, so must follow general HCI principles. UX is watered do
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by rchaud 2y ago
We need a part 2 for this, the stage after you've picked up a bag of VC money: 1) Add an AI chatbot to every screen, add "AI-powered" to the homepage headline 2) On the pricing page, title the top tier as "Call our Sales
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by rchaud 2y ago
Growing steadily isn't impressive considering the reach that Apple has. As a mature company and not a startup that's valued on potential, Apple will also be looking at their actual margins. Costs a lot to make those TV shows.
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by rchaud 2y ago
I have an M2 Macbook Air with horrible battery life, 5 hours maybe. The 2014 Intel MBP it replaced had 8-9 hours for about 5 years, then came down to 3-4 hours.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Cisco makes network equipment (selling shovels in a gold rush), so a high valuation at the time wasn't out of the ordinary, considering Cisco was actually profitable during the dotcom boom, when many newly public companies were 'p
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by rchaud 2y ago
The pitch is always "here's how we're going to squeeze more blood from the stone". Public comments like these are targeted at investors, not customers.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Yes, but Google left that functionality half baked intentionally, letting 3rd party developers fill the void. Even now the Google Files app feels like a toy compared to Fossify Explorer or Solid Explorer.
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by rchaud 2y ago
Is it a revolution if you needed millions of marketing dollars? How many ads did Napster have to run before the whole world knew what MP3s were?
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by rchaud 2y ago
DMCA claims took out huge numbers of public torrent trackers which was how 99% of people accessed contraband media. All the way back in 2008, the loss of TorrentSpy.com probably shifted everybody to private trackers, but it's a whack-a
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by rchaud 2y ago
> They were revolutionary as product genres, not necessary individual companies. Even then, they were evolutionary at best. Before Netflix and Spotify, streaming movies and music were already there as a technology, ask anybody with a Meg
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by rchaud 2y ago
The difference is that interns can learn, and can benefit from reference items like a prior report, whose format and structure they can follow when working on the revisions. AI is just AI. You can upload a reference file for it to summarize
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by rchaud 2y ago
I use Ublock Origin (an ad-blocking extension) to hide images. So ads are always hidden to begin with.
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by rchaud 2y ago
And this will inflate away the debts tokenized in CCP-held US Treasuries. 4D chess! Russia did something similar in 1998 that sank the US hedge fund Long Term Capital Management.
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by rchaud 2y ago
People believe what they want to believe. When reality turns out to not match their expectation, they quietly drop out of the conversation, without admitting they misjudged things. Best example of that is to take a look at HN in 2022 when M

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