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by return1 7y ago
> If your business is solely dependent on tracking scripts, tricking users with clickbait titles and using archaic ads - then you’re destined to fail regardless. If that were true, they had 2 decades to fail and they didn't. People
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by return1 7y ago
> Happiness is the one thing we should be optimizing for here s some more spurious correlations. Countries with very high happiness have some of the highest suicide rates. happiness might be dangerous to the survival of the species. We
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by return1 7y ago
Either advertising is so powerful as to rule the world, or it's so useless that nobody benefits from it. I 'd say , without adequate research on the effectiveness of advertising, these correlational studies are only marginally int
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by return1 7y ago
"not inherently evil" != "good"
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by return1 7y ago
you think communicating with you is unethical?
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by return1 7y ago
Ironically, advertising your position against advertising is also a form of advertising. I dont think it's right to view advertising as inherently unethical. Communication and signaling are parts of human nature
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by return1 7y ago
> Germany after 1989, Convenient. I think they should include DDR which had no advertising at all.
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by return1 7y ago
this is BS that trivializes GDPR and almost amounts to fraud. someone will get sued for this.
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by return1 7y ago
In fact i think there is a startup opportunity there, because cleaning up / getting rid of stuff is work.
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by return1 7y ago
There is a certain physiological response to conquest that goes beyond satisfaction, especially in males. For example , the fans of a football team having their testosterone levels go up after a win. This translates to every sphere as some
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by return1 7y ago
it is not supposed to be gambling
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by return1 7y ago
Maybe index funds should not be allowed in the first place? It's extreme navel-gazing at best. Does that have anything to do with the purpose of public markets (to fund the economy)?
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by return1 7y ago
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by return1 7y ago
I wonder what is the role of hype in the scientific progress, or progress in general. Is there evidence that it pushes it forward?
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by return1 7y ago
It occurs to me that such gigs may solve the isolation problem that people who work at home often report
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by return1 7y ago
Thats needlessly accusatory. It seems they are the equivalent of (male) uber drivers and according to the article they get some extra income but not a lot.
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by return1 7y ago
All these technologies existed in webpages in the 90s. There were a lot of popups too, it's kind of a meme https://www.techly.com.au/2018/02/14/techly-explains-fascina...
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by return1 7y ago
the problem is they leak out
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by return1 7y ago
> didn’t involve knowing at least two tech stacks. The backend just queried a database and then spewed out some HTML Actually this hasn't changed, you can still work the exact same way with a LAMP stack. The perceptions have change
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by return1 7y ago
Seriously you dont remember the gifs, the flash , the unblocked popups/popunders/popovers/hijackers etc? It was far worse back then but the signal to noise was better. The reason: lack of social media which is 99.999999% abso
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by return1 7y ago
9/11 was definitely the turning point - the end of optimism. I never expected that the world would not have recovered 20 years later.
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Show HN: Best places to start your own company(projectilo.com)
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by return1 7y ago
I wonder if return1 can benefit from this. He also wonders if it helps other people to refer to them in the 3rd person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4FxhUA0SKM
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by return1 7y ago
simplicity of what? getting any kind of information was ecruciatingly hard until broadband became available. There were wars, politics, same or worse than today's (yugoslav wars, gulf wars, palestine). You can have a roadtrip nowadays
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by return1 7y ago
Arguing that somehow being targeted with ads to make $$$ is worse than being jailed / having your property taken is kind of tone deaf.
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by return1 7y ago
> Microsoft makes decisions for its own benefit 100% of the time. The nature of decisions is completely different. Microsoft cannot put you in jail, confiscate your property etc. Also, microsoft has outlived a ton of governments who lost
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by return1 7y ago
Funny to read this in a US VC investment forum.
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by return1 7y ago
Digital advertising grew by 17% in 2018 according to IAB / PwC report
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by return1 7y ago
> I’m European, I trust my government I think it would help to state your nationality, European governments range widely in trust levels from west to east, and there are a lot of governments in there. I wouldn't trust the greek gov
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by return1 7y ago
most of the companies being fined are EU businesses / shops. europe doesn't have many big successful tech companies.

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