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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
The dutch auction doesn't solve the race aspect. There are plenty of situations where people can't buy tickets when they want - they're at work when the price is reached, driving, the webserver is at capacity, etc. Scalpers h
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Complicating the situation is that I don't trust any of the companies making virtual assistants with this level of personal data; so the first thing I do on a new device is block the assistant's access to my location or any other
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Again, X is not a price it's a demand level (for scalper tickets). Everyone can 'bid their price' and scalpers will still buy out the bottom of the auction and take control of the pricing.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Cuz the auction ran out of tickets so the price starts to climb as scalpers monetize FOMO. Regular purchasers don't know what the scalpers think X is for this particular concert. Even if you knew X, all you could do is try to buy a tic
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
X isn't the price in my solution it's the percent of concert hopefuls who will hold their nose and pay a scalper. Once there's exactly that many tickets left, there's no point running the auction anymore. Scalpers should
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I don't get what this has to do with combating scalping. This is just a new auction game to play. It levels the playing field for a time, as all new games do, but the scalpers will eventually win it. In this case the game is to find X
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I can't say I know the full picture, but usually to get the severance package you have to sign away some legal rights and/or sign a non-disparagement. So on one level it's a bribe.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
That's by design and your comment is high praise https://www.figma.com/blog/did-snapchat-succeed-because-of-i...
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Yeah if the car manufacturers are gonna start selling trims that do all the really scary stuff for you (like cutting a hole in the roof), and basically include that work as part of the car financing, it should lower the difficulty of a DIY
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
The secret behind the van life influencers is that a nice loadout is easily six figures and they are rich people 'slumming it' for fun. While the price point on this trim is high compared to base, they are just capturing some of t
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
The cognitive distortion 'catastrophizing' comes to mind. For example you just imagined a made up scenario (this and that would have happened if X variable was different) and then accepted it as fact to justify a litany of observa
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
What about adult Heelys, can we normalize those rather than try this rent-and-litter startup scheme again?
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Personally I would rather walk than share a helmet with N other scooter riders, especially in a climate like Miami's
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I think the modern manifestation of journalist is an influencer, with an individual brand, who can support their journalism through their brand. Rather than needing to clan up with a newspaper and take editorial orders from the newspaper ex
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
This is a good idea. Seek rent from brands already on the platform and clear out all the people who got a checkmark purely as a status symbol. Then the checkmark can be used to bifurcate two social classes with different Twitter rights. I b
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
One experiment attached an artificial tail onto a chicken and the chicken shifted its stance and was able to walk similarly to how we expect dinosaurs walked. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3915051&#x
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I'm old enough to remember when Facebook started extracting an IAP tax on their own app platform where none previously existed. So forgive me for enjoying this particular turn of the wheel.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I would think this is a lower bound too, since there's a lot of companies with long leases signed before the pandemic either eating crow or subletting until the lease expires. And then if you count all the companies doing a return to o
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
There's no such thing as appropriate moderation at Twitter scale. It's societal techology we as humans do not have. Underlying moderation is some shared vision of decency - morality claims that should be enforced via justice. Thes
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
You're right, I guess they're a blend of the cross-promo strategy as well.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Signal's maneuver may be rational, but that doesn't make it good business. You can't just release a chat app into the wild. You need some strategy for how you will bootstrap users. If you build it they won't come. Some c
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
The people mad at this show are the same people who memorized Silmarillion knowledge. That memorization act for many decades was street cred in the fandom. Now the fandom has opened its borders and rapidly taken in new members who don'
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Discord has /giphy and Slack does as well, although Slack's is via addon. Slack considers this addon an Essential App which gives it top billing on their marketplace.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
If you think about it for more than 2 moments you will see that owning Giphy allows Facebook to see which chat apps you're using (via the api key for the app's Giphy integration) and who you're talking to on them (by attachin
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
It's funny that digital billboard space is the main reason they cite. To me the much bigger threat was that Giphy had integrations into many other chat and messaging apps which Facebook also competes with. Buying Giphy gave them new in
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Still can't get over the power draw for the 40 series. They recommend an 850W PSU for the 4090? A 750W PSU for the 4080? Who is the intended audience for these cards?
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I never have this problem with the post-its on the Miro board
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
I switched years ago figuring it's just like my SMS app but sometimes I'll have more secure convos with other adopters. There was no buy-in cost. Now that it's just some random chat app with its own protocol I could not be mo
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
Depends on the situation. If you're traveling, cancelling your card while away from home is a huge setback.
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by somehnacct3757 4y ago
My list of ATM defensive rituals grows even longer. For those who think time at ATM matters, consider a thermal camera like the one at the start of the video, concealed in the cabinet by fake panels. You enter your PIN, move your hand away

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