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by wilfra 14y ago
That's a theoretical problem that wont matter in practice. Google only has two practical options: they can make .shop completely open and operate it just like .co or .io, or they can lock it down and use it only for themselves, in which cas
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by wilfra 14y ago
I'm not confusing anything I'm trying to put it in terms you will understand. One company does control .com right now, and .net. Their name is VeriSign. Just like VeriSign administers those, Google is going to administer .shop.
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by wilfra 14y ago
think about them like really expensive .com's and this will be easier to swallow. you can't get google.com or sex.com because they are taken - but you can get any other .com that is available. or you can get on somebody elses domain for fre
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by wilfra 14y ago
This is the exact opposite of a monopoly. Everybody and their sister is going to have their own extension and anybody who can afford one can still buy their own.
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by wilfra 14y ago
That would be a PR nightmare for Amazon - instead of the PR coup that giving them away for free would be. Would be one helluva promotional tool for AWS if it came with unlimited free .app domains. I don't understand why people are so quick
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by wilfra 14y ago
http://graph.facebook.com/11
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by wilfra 14y ago
Sure they do but on average a millionaire from HK is going to travel internationally a lot more - especially to poor countries - than a millionaire from New York, simply due to geography and living on a small island. All they have to do is
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by wilfra 14y ago
It's also very valuable traffic to advertisers so they can pay out attractive rates to writers while also making good money being the middle man. If Pinterest, Twitter or Tumblr were to adopt this model, it probably wouldn't be very effecti
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by wilfra 14y ago
SeekingAlpha seems to be doing quite well and their content is all driven by paid user submissions. I've never submitted content, but as a user I love it. Very high quality articles.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Go with a name that will work even if you end up pivoting 10 more times, because you will if your company is still around in 100 years. Blog post I did on buying premium domains you might find helpful in your search - feel free to email me
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by wilfra 14y ago
I definitely wouldn't go with a blanket 'wont work' it just wont work for every affiliate program. I've been a reseller for online poker affiliate programs for close to 10 years now and the number of sites that don't allow it is dwarfed by
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by wilfra 14y ago
It's an interesting pivot. Not sure about the domain now, though. I had signed up for and was excited about them potentially disrupting the affiliate marketing industry.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Rich people who live in Hong Kong do not view their relative wealth like people who live in Manhatten, because they surely travel frequently and are thus acutely aware of just how much richer they are than everybody else on the planet, whil
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by wilfra 14y ago
You need a source to confirm that if you take the wealth away from the rich people in your tiny island nation, other people are not going to be motivated to create wealth there in the future? Hong Kong and Singapore thrive because they are
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by wilfra 14y ago
Well hey, I'll get on board with that. Sounds like an impossibility though unless you're a country like Kuwait with an endless supply of money you don't have to work for and a tiny population.
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by wilfra 14y ago
If landlords are exploiting people and providing unsafe places to live, then that should be dealt with. I haven't seen anybody other than you mention those things though. People are just appalled by how small and ugly the rooms/cages are an
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by wilfra 14y ago
That works once, then it stops working in the future and backfires because people would no longer be motivated to create wealth in that jurisdiction. Which means no jobs and no tax revenue.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Right and if the people of Hong Kong thought the government should be providing suitable housing for everybody who comes to Hong Kong (note that many of these people are foreigners) then they would vote in politicians who would make that ha
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by wilfra 14y ago
Libertarians are not the only ones who believe it is not the governments responsibility to provide for the poor.
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by wilfra 14y ago
they are not being forced to live there, they are choosing to do so and paying rent. they are free to move anywhere else they want, including across the border to mainland china where it is much cheaper.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Shenzhen is still much, much cheaper than HK. I had a 2 bedroom 90 square meter apartment in Shenzhen in a brand new building and a nice part of town for 3,000 RMB/month. The same in Hong Kong would have been roughly 10 times more expensive
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by wilfra 14y ago
I disagree it is the governments job to give people a place to live. From the sounds of it, Hong Kong already does a lot of this. At some point, people need to take care of themselves.
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by wilfra 14y ago
You're saying housing prices on the mainland are only slightly more affordable than in HK? That's absurdly inaccurate. Housing is cheap on the mainland outside of prime areas of big cities. The job market is another story, the earning power
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by wilfra 14y ago
Good video. I disagree that the government should do anything about it though. What's the alternative, make them homeless? If there is both supply and demand, let people do what they want. If San Francisco allowed this, there would be far f
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by wilfra 14y ago
"(I work at Stripe, and I'm the author of the tweet cited in the article.)" #humility I would have gone for something like 'sup bitches this is Patrick Collison'. Perhaps thats why I'm not the CEO of Stripe.
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by wilfra 14y ago
There is no copyright claim here, the article says it's not illegal and they are right. But if MySpace decided tomorrow they wanted to finally catch up to Facebook and the result was a new site that was a near-exact replica of Facebook, nat
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by wilfra 14y ago
That's regulated by law.
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by wilfra 14y ago
Your landing page and the game are both amazingly well designed and fun to interact with. Some of the best work I've seen.
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by wilfra 14y ago
The degree from Stanford and the job at Meebo were definitely what got the attention - not the skills listed. Recruiters are heavily biased on what school you went to and which companies you have worked for.

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