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by thedarkginger 9y ago
"Many of the most important antitrust lawsuits in American history — against IBM, Alcoa, Kodak and others — were rooted in claims that one company had made technological discoveries that allowed it to outpace competitors." Does th
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
I've been doing the Amazon drop shipping thing for ~6 months, and I am honestly shocked how little these "quirks" in the AMZ ecosystem are discussed. Aside from the product review issues listed here, Amazon seems to enforce a
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Spotify launches Spotlight, a new take on podcasts(theverge.com)
1 points by thedarkginger 9y ago|0 comments
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
Reminds me of the Joe Biden speech a couple years back: > If I took you and blindfolded you and took you to LaGuardia Airport in New York, you'd think, ‘I must be in some third-world country.’
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
not my OC, but I think it's interesting how challenging creating a unified leaderboard for podcasts is because measurement is so bad today.
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On podcast analytics issues: why iHeart Media Pods seem to dominate the charts(podnews.net)
1 points by thedarkginger 9y ago|1 comments
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
Thought this was an interesting addendum to this discussion from last week based on Bloomberg's report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15653871
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“The Cause and Consequences of the Retail Apocalypse”(newrepublic.com)
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
For anyone more knowledgeable in the online music industry than I, what's the deal with this? > “For music streaming start-ups, 70 to 80 percent of revenue, in the best case scenario, goes to rights holders from the word go,” Mullig
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The Agony and Ecstasy of Building an Online Music Business(slate.com)
2 points by thedarkginger 9y ago|2 comments
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
Not a registered Medium user. I assume you mean a reader gets 50 claps to give out, right (not "can clap" something 50x)?
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Medium will now pay writers based on how many claps they get(theverge.com)
5 points by thedarkginger 9y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: What are some companies that do a good job acting on user feedback?
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
This was mentioned briefly in the article on the backdrop of how the major players are running away from text -- but as some context -- this really has been a bleak summer for sportswriting. ESPN started by laying off ~100 employees, with t
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
Would like to hear any success stories for media (and speciifcally sports media). I've been running a sports blog for 5+ years and don't use Patreon but have seen many friends start that effort in the last year. To be honest, I do
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
First off, really rooting for the Athletic, because I genuinely hope there is a place for good sportswriting in the future (and underlying that hope is that a business model will emerge that allows that to happen). As a big college football
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
For anyone interested (I was...), here's a good recap of Forbes' "contributor" model which is based in 'entrepreneurial journalism.' Non-professional writers get paid based on unique visitors (like presumably w
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
Who is the payment processing leader at this point for digital payments? I assume Stripe, no?
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
I mean, if you are anti-union, it's a pretty genius play politically because it legalizes and incentivizes free riding. Unions exist on dues. As organizations, they were already weakening, and then if you further limit membership, you&
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
If you're in the U.S., this is an interesting layer to the labor rights debate: "right-to-work" states. Now 28 states (including all of the South, where wages are low) have passed laws that guarantee those who opt out of unio
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
What's the way forward for Medium? At first, these types of partnerships seemed promising. Now they tried the Medium memberships, and that doesn't seem to be catching any steam.
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
> HBO explained that the decision for Miller to depart the show was a mutual one. This is disappointing.
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
Have never worked in a non-open office plan so I can't really conceptualize this but sounds interesting. So if I envision a floor, do you just have rows of 2-person offices with hallways in between?
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
This is big news for Detroit. Probably along with the train station, the Packard Plant was a symbol of the D's blighted era. If you're wondering what this looked like before, Anthony Bourdain made a stop to this site on his show a
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
It kind of blows my mind that even real, serious journalism outlets cheapen their product like this (nearing the mid-2000s music lyrics website threshold). Got a NYT digital subscription to see if it was worth it, and I like it. Would be mo
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
This aspect is what makes me think Snap might be a canary in the coal mine. In the temporary image space, virtually all of the innovation has come from that company, whether it's the initial concept, expanding scope with stories, addin
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
Sluggish user growth probably doesn't look much better when Facebook's overt effort to clone their product seems to be working. Instagram Stories alone already outpaces Snap 200M to 166M. Looks like an uphill battle from here. ht
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Is the gig economy working?(newyorker.com)
39 points by thedarkginger 9y ago|15 comments
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by thedarkginger 9y ago
Ask HN: A core component of Musk's strategy is radically reducing the cost of underground drilling (now 14x slower than a snail, evidently). Considering how drilling underlies many existing big businesses (oil wells, civic engineering
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by thedarkginger 10y ago
Honest question: can you think of any examples that are not already trendy cities (as the case has been with those three) where large tech companies have made serious investments that led to a big, negative social outcome? On the flip side,

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