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by ve55 6y ago
The slides provided are also very quick to read, providing visual graphs of growth in many areas by catagory: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2020/q3... 3.21 billion monthly active u
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Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2020 Results [pdf](s21.q4cdn.com)
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Absolutely, but this seems hard to attain. For-profit tools inherently have millions (or billions) of dollars to put into not only improving their UX, but also into advertising and making their product viral, sometimes at the cost of users
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I really enjoy having copies of all of the content I consume locally. It feels nice knowing that it cannot be taken away from me by anyone. It's there when I lose Internet, it is there if I stop paying for various subscriptions, and
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by ve55 6y ago
Honestly, I think you would be surprised. Talk to some males aged 14-18 that play video games, and you may find that almost their entire social life and graph is on Discord.
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I often have similar thoughts to this - there's very few areas where decentralized software has had a better UX than centralized alternatives, and that is why they haven't had as much success. I think compromises can be made, an
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A user would have a difficult time leaving the platform, even if they preferred an alternative, unless all of their friends and communicates also left, similar to why leaving a platform like Facebook or Reddit can be so difficult.
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I've been becoming increasingly concerned that Discord is winning a little too much , and will basically end up becoming the Facebook of the next generation if things go right for them. Right now they're still in the fun phase -
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They have the market and the network effects, so the game is over, regardless of how profitable they are, if they get acquired, etc.
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Do keep in mind with Discord's original market (gamers), a lot of existing software worked just like that, including teamspeak and ventrilo.
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The reason I'd personally say it's unfair is because Discord should do their own fair calculations, not just copy what another low-paying company pay may have given before. Discord is valued at several billion dollars, and their l
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This is one of the many things I point to when asked questions such as "Why would you trust your VPN provider more than your ISP?"
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They might mean that they approve users for it more easily and quickly than other brokerages. Logs are definitely kept (and in more locations than just RH).
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What a wonderful advertisement for working at Stripe. The impact of long-form well-written essays like this is huge, and fits perfectly with the theme of the essay itself about helping others succeed at scale. I like the personal notes incl
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I would say products where the product price is high, the social status of using the product is high, and the profit margin of the product is high. You could add some other details, but I generally think of those things when I use that term
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Competition by Apple and Google in these areas will imo always be a bit asymmetrical as long as Apple makes its money off of selling luxury products and services while Google instead makes its money off of advertisers or data.
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It would be nice if this level of negligence and incompetence was somehow punished so that it stopped happening so often
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I wonder if a solution such as "Cancel all orders and publicly announce this as well as trading commencement time such as +1 hours ahead, then reboot the server just before that and resume the day as normal" was considered, and if
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There are great deteails and write-ups on Bitmex's website such as https://www.bitmex.com/app/perpetualContractsGuide , but in general it is basically either futures or a type of swap contract, but all based in BTC
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The state of remote proctoring software is really, really bad. Students are forced to install software that records video+audio of them, performs facial recognition, records their every keystroke for analysis, records their browsing history
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This is big news. What is interesting about this to me is that unlike many crypocurrency exchanges, bitmex only deals in derivatives. What this means for them is that you can only deposit BTC, and only take out BTC. So they do not give anyo
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Just because every transaction is public does not mean that it's impossible to mix bitcoins, as transactions can have multiple inputs and outputs. It's difficult to mix, but keep in mind perfect information isn't available to
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Herbivore Men(en.wikipedia.org)
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Kelly Criterion(en.wikipedia.org)
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Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey(en.wikipedia.org)
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Here is Subway's nutrition page for those curious: https://www.subway.com/en-US/MenuNutrition/Nutrition/Nutriti... Most sandwiches seem to have around 7g of sugar in them. This might not appear too bad (
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by ve55 6y ago
I was curious what the average PR looked like, so I went to their project and opened one at random: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5968/commits/5d8b75ef0a3... Yeah, it's pretty bad.
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There are a lot of limitations and the addon class will never be as good as it used to be. Solutions are to either use an old FF, different version, or fork that supports them. I still have an okay time doing this, but it probably won'
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Thanks for the response - I had assumed the beta period was soon coming to an end, so by the time I was able to have access I'd have to pay just for basic experimentation. It was hard to say specifically what I'd design since I&#x
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OpenAI's goal is definitely not to give everyone unlimited/equal access to powerful tools like GPT-3. We've had countless jokes about the name being 'OpenAI', and perhaps it's true that it's not the best

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