willz

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by willz 18y ago
The cost is in distribution. How many people work in the TV industry to deliver the shows to the TV viewers vs how many people work in YouTube.
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by willz 18y ago
I think people got this all wrong. The money-making potential of videos should be compared with televisions, not clicks. One hour of YouTube time should eventually make about the same amount of money than one hour of TV, that's the future a
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by willz 18y ago
Thanks for the note. To support your reading, I met a guy from NASA a few years ago. According to him, NASA is a bureaucracy run by accountants.
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Five surprising salaries (Astronomers 96K/year)(cnn.com)
1 points by willz 18y ago|2 comments
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by willz 19y ago
I need some enlightenment on the tagging business. Do people really find tagging useful? Do people really browse by tags? Is there a site that uses tag in such a way that I can get something substantial out of it? I ask this because, for ex
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by willz 19y ago
I disagree with what he said, but honestly, he got me flipping through all his 11 pages, that is quite something. One, he's got style, I have never seen a page so simple that it becomes intriguing. Two, he wants to go beyond Google, isn't t
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by willz 19y ago
I disagree. Startups succeed and fail for many reasons. For example, lot of startups fail simply because the idea doesn't work, not execution. Read the "black swan" book, the single most important reason for failure or success is actually l
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by willz 19y ago
Thanks for being my first replier. You can't have privacy when you want to socialize. Philosophically, I find the "social media" ironical - they work to avoid people meeting each other. By far the biggest opportunity for loopt is in dating.
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by willz 19y ago
I was browsing hacker news in Dana st coffee house in downtown Mountain View. A guy stopped by my side and said "oh you are reading ycombinator ... my name is Sam Altman." Sam is the loopt founder. I really liked what he did - to seize an o
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by willz 19y ago
The article amounts to saying one thing, streaming is getting popular. But so what? People will still buy a house even if they can also rent it. Renting and owning will always coexist. Also, if streaming gets popular, then a million people