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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I would. Sure, 1 user. Maybe even a million users. Well, the solution for that exists: subscriptions. But nobody will build a system for such a small number of users. > That content definitely has an audience. That audience definite
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Thanks :)
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by ucaetano 8y ago
No, you don't need to use them in tandem, sure, they are more effective if used in tandem, but not required. And neither of them guarantees anything. Markets change, and you might be sitting in a drying oasis, behind a massive moat, su
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by ucaetano 8y ago
None of your arguments make any sense when you take in account the fact that such business model has enormously benefited consumers. It just doesn't make any sense.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> who presumably thought it would be a good, durable, new line of business Building an app isn't any different from starting a company. If you're a self-employed app developer, there's a strong chance that your app will ju
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by ucaetano 8y ago
That still doesn't have anything to do with the discussion.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Nobody would pay for them. You're not getting to the real problem: if a user can see an article with ads for free, or pay 10 cents, that user will most likely opt for the free version. And you can't compete with free.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I could absolutely image people being willing to pay 1 one thousandth of a cent to read an article. Oh, no, way more than that. Take a look at CPMs and ad costs. If your claim was true, and an article had 5 ads, every impression would
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> it cannot be true by any stretch of the imagination that a moat is "less efficient" than a desert Nope, a moat protects a profit center by creating barriers to entry in the form of competitive advantages. A desert kills profi
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Cities are supposed to impoverish the regions directly around them in this way, as well. This doesn't make any sense. Cities exist as trading hubs: where people trade labor, services and goods. Why are you bringing cities into thi
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> What if the ad were not in the picture at all, and you had low friction micropayments? Again, people don't want to pay for content. Between one website asking you to pay $0.10 to view an article, and another offering it for free b
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> By this logic, the biggest force in the universe preventing micropayments by linking media to the tawdry, corrupting mechanism of advertising, is Google. No, it is users being willing to pay. The vast majority of users are far more ok
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yep, one strategy analysis that I (sadly) rarely see being done is evaluating the value chain. Essentially, you look at all the links on a value chain and look at how competitive each one of those markets are. The links with the least compe
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Exactly, most people don't realize this simple strategy and worship at the altar of Google for giving "free" software. Yeah, people should stop idealizing and worshiping companies. Apple is only pursuing "privacy&qu
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I think that Google was more worried about Microsoft dominating smartphones, not Apple. Maybe initially, before the iPhone. But the iPhone was the Dreadnaught of phones: everything that came before it became instantly irrelevant (look
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Exactly! A moat is less efficient than a desert. A moat is highly susceptible to niche entrants who might expand into your main market after, but a desert leaves no to little money on the table for anyone else.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> In the case of Apple vs Android I'd say Apple is doing pretty good and are arguably doing substantially better than Google in spite of not having followed this strategy themselves. They follow a different strategy: vertically-inte
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Another way that I like to express that is "create a desert of profitability around you". I once had a strategy professor define the Google business model somewhat like that, where "Google tries to make every other business a
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by ucaetano 8y ago
"Squashing free speech in effect is dangerous" Sure, but limiting speech in your private forum isn't squashing free speech. Unless your definition of free speech is being able to say whatever you want whenever and wherever yo
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Oh, just found out that Google News has what you're looking for: go to headlines section. I opened the app and found it weird that there were news about Taylor Swift, the British royal wedding and a lot of other topics that I'm no
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> That would probably mean they'd need to ban me, since I use an ad-blocker, right? Are you saying they should be forced by law to block you? > What about someone who uploads a lot of pictures but doesn't have many friends?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
The GDPR talks about "executing a contract, which includes the provision of services" (not the exact wording, but something like that). So if you define "using the social network in return for having targeted ads displayed&qu
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Selling the credit card is illegal, serving targeted ads isn't.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
"We require tracking to pay for the costs of providing this free service". No such thing as a free lunch.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Are you mixing this up with TPUs? Tensorflow is HW independent, as it is just a SW library.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Because the SoC is supported.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Sure, and all of those spaces are free to set usage policies. So there is plenty of precedent for kicking someone out. What are you proposing? It seems that everyone comes shy of actually proposing something. Are you saying that online comm
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Effective monopolies should not be able to shut down free speech. You avoided my question, but one of those companies are effective monopolies anyway. But again: Do you think we should pass a law forcing every online community to not h
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> But they should have. Well, sure, but you need to invent time travel before that.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Google maps should be answering two questions: Where is it, and how do I get there. "What's cool and new in my city" seems like a feature that's being shoehorned on because it's a possible revenue channel. No,

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