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Video claiming school shooting victim is a paid actor was #1 on YouTube Trending(motherboard.vice.com)
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by rjvir 9y ago
This strikes me as an area where distributed apps on a blockchain could have a big impact. Currently, top piracy options like torrent websites and Kodi addons constantly get taken down by the government (through methods described in this ar
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by rjvir 9y ago
Yup, the marginal convenience advantages to web apps are so minimal compared to the ability to write legitimate native mobile apps. Vue.js and Angular are complete non-starters for me since they don't have native counterparts.
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by rjvir 9y ago
Yes, like a Tequila company founded by George Clooney getting bought for $1b today
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by rjvir 9y ago
This article mentions that Google Plus had a staff of greater than 1,000: > Plus, by comparison, had upwards of 1,000 [people on staff], sucked up from divisions across the company. http://mashable.com/2015/08/0
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by rjvir 9y ago
Over 1000 Googlers were cranking on Google Plus, which at the time was a Facebook copy cat. What makes Facebook so threatening to Snapchat is the aggressive cloning in tandem with it's pre-existing, larger network. By the time Google
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by rjvir 9y ago
Facebook at least had incredible growth. This report shows Snapchat missing on that mark too.
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Uber launches self-driving car pilot program in Tempe(bizjournals.com)
2 points by rjvir 10y ago|0 comments
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by rjvir 10y ago
The fundamental challenge is that of having hand-delivered paper newspapers be the centralized hub of information. Any manifestation of the Internet makes that obsolete - but the specific method of obsoletion may be different by country.
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by rjvir 10y ago
Maybe phrasing it another way could be useful: with or without Facebook, the journalism industry would be heavily declining. Yes, Facebook is how many people use the Internet - but it's a mistake to therefore conclude Facebook is respo
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by rjvir 10y ago
This chart ( https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/778260618914652164 ) suggests that Facebook should not a lone scapegoat for journalism's decline - the internet as a whole is a more reasonable target.
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by rjvir 10y ago
How many of the top 100 websites are open source? Sure, it's not zero, but large open source production products are rare to begin with.
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by rjvir 10y ago
What does this mean for Twitter Digits? Will their free SMS authentications continue? It would be a perfect fit if they phased in Twitter Digits as a Firebase authentication provider - I suspect many developers (including myself) already us
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by rjvir 10y ago
Assuming the bot can communicate with other players, what's stopping it from being smart enough to negotiate it's own collusion schemes?
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by rjvir 10y ago
I think that might not be possible with AirPods. One of it's features is that it stops playing music when you take out one of the ears.
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Amazon employee attempts suicide after leaving email note to co-workers and CEO(thenextweb.com)
1 points by rjvir 10y ago|0 comments
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by rjvir 10y ago
I don't think gift cards are a big conspiracy from the retail industry that primarily perpetuated the idea that cash is a bad gift. It seems more likely that cash became unpopular independently. And for good reason! Trading cash during
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by rjvir 10y ago
On the other hand, it often seems like news coverage is biased in the direction of a horse race. As in, the media is incentivized to make it seem like a close race with a lot of action, because that is engaging.
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by rjvir 10y ago
> Postmates raised $141 million in a financing round led by Founders Fund. The San Francisco VC firm, co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel So much for the Silicon Valley boycott of Peter Thiel. I wonder if they would have raised from Th
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by rjvir 10y ago
Bundles are often great deals for consumers. The TV bundle is the result of decades of scale, iteration, and the free market. TV has a lot of weaknesses, but I don't think its bundle economics are one of them. The most successful alter
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by rjvir 10y ago
They are learning the hard way the drawbacks of being uncompromising in the belief of antiracism.
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by rjvir 10y ago
> Working on Atlas at Stripe has that potential for impact and you get to work with awesome founders Same with countless other jobs, such as working at Facebook, Google, Amazon, Snapchat, etc
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by rjvir 10y ago
That proportion is not too relevant for this graph. The graph is relative. Even if a only a small percentage of Twitch users use Google search to access Twitch, the graph would be somewhat indicative of it's growth.
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by rjvir 10y ago
The graph is relative. The idea is that Twitch viewership is correlated with Google searches - not that Google search is responsible for all Twitch traffic.
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by rjvir 10y ago
It's worth noting that in the 2 year period since Amazon bought Twitch, their search interest via Google has been stagnant. https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2014-08-25%202016...
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by rjvir 10y ago
There was a time when Heroku seemed just as foreign to me as Docker does in this article. - So shared webhosting is dead, apparently Heroku is the future? - Why Ruby, why not just PHP? - Wait, what's Rails? Is that different from Ruby?
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by rjvir 10y ago
Pokemon Go has shattered every record (downloads, engagement, revenue, etc). It's not just downloads.
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by rjvir 10y ago
I remember going to Apple Camp as a kid (around 2006). At the time, they had different sessions teaching kids how to "edit movies", "make music", "build websites" etc. They were showing us how to use iMovie, Ga
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by rjvir 10y ago
If it's ever clear that eliminating certain types of deals (eg exclusive) is beneficial from a revenue standpoint, studios would likely do so.
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by rjvir 10y ago
Why is ESPN an exception? Their price is a reflection of how much people want it. ESPN (and sports as a whole) are a big driver of cable subscriptions, which helps all cable channels.

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