Evan_Hellmuth

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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Better business model (definitely for business owner, arguably for customers)
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
People only care when "bad guys" do it
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Smartphones are to blame. The ubiquity of easy distraction causes these problems, not any one distraction in particular. If kids (and adults) only had phone/tablet access for an hour a day this problem would cease to exist. But for som
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Most people experience emotional body sensations - “butterflies in my stomach,” “a weight on my chest,” “steam coming out of my ears” etc.
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Whoever downvoted doesn't understand that this is a god-tier joke
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
> To keep young kids behaving on a car road trip, have a bag of their favorite candy and throw a piece out the window each time they misbehave. This guy is my hero
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Just curious if you've used it. I haven't but people say it's way better than they had imagined!
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Not sure I agree here. People love to blame social media for stoking hatred. Plenty of people use social media like... well, normal people. Life updates, baby pictures, levity. Some people don't. Social media is a mirror. People aren&#
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Wow I hadn't heard about this. What an awful event. Given the consequences, Facebook should dedicate resources to prevent it from happening again.
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
> 2018, Cambridge Analytica This is the big one, and it was a bona fide scandal. That said it happened in 2016, the story broke in 2018. Cambridge Analytica was very clearly the bad actor here, they took advantage of a too-permissive F
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
We probably don't agree on tracking being nefarious. I'm personally just not concerned about being represented by a user ID in a database with info attached to it. Every service I've ever used has this on me and in general I
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Not sure I follow - isn't making more money than you put in a direct result of a high conversion rate? But I'm curious to learn what you mean! I have no direct ad purchasing experience
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
I don't think Facebook or Instagram is a monopoly in any sense of the word. Lots of people happily don't use either and there's a boatload of competing social media platforms. If your goal is to thwart software monopolies (a
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Link a scandal or data leak since 2016 - I may need to update my priors
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Agreed on all counts! Except US FB user decline slowing (not instagram, just FB). Add in WhatsApp’s under-monetization and some bullishness on VR and you’ve got my investment thesis.
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
They don’t sell data, they let anyone who buys ads choose who the ads go to based on anonymized data. They also made it way harder to run political ads after public sentiment changed in 2016. You can go buy an ad from them right now. So can
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Have you used a Quest 2?
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
What needs to be regulated?
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
Unlike search ads, businesses buying fb/insta ads care a lot about attribution (at what rate does someone who saw the ad buy something). If ads aren’t effective businesses will stop buying them. Fake clicks will always result in a no-p
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by Evan_Hellmuth 4y ago
I agree with your assessment, and I’m a long term holder. I’d love to hear your rebuttal to the following bear case: - $10 billion to Reality Labs R&D in 2021 expected to increase annually will eat into earnings - Last year saw first ev
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by Evan_Hellmuth 5y ago
Unfortunately this is not how Google hangouts works! No one hangs out there, you have to schedule a call. There needs to be a reason to hang out. Maybe I’m playing a game or watching sports front row or working on my golf swing in VR, then
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by Evan_Hellmuth 5y ago
I’m stoked for VR to gain more adoption so I can hang with my friends who live across the country. That’s the killer app for me - a platform that all my friends use so we can have spontaneous casual hang outs!
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by Evan_Hellmuth 5y ago
“Could theoretically live forever” implies perfect DNA cloning right? Seems worth studying for anti-cancer or anti-aging purposes.
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by Evan_Hellmuth 5y ago
Pendo | Technical Account Manager | SF Bay Area, New York, Raleigh, London | Full Time | https://boards.greenhouse.io/pendo/jobs/5128506002 Pendo’s goal is to make software products a joy to use. Codeless in-app m
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by Evan_Hellmuth 6y ago
Shiller does such a great job explaining finance theory in simple terms! Would recommend
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by Evan_Hellmuth 6y ago
The linked 12-month MBA is a very cool idea! Keep it up Jakob
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by Evan_Hellmuth 6y ago
I agree with your first paragraph. But if your goal is purely to expand your vocabulary, don’t you think reading is more tangential than drilling words with flash cards?
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by Evan_Hellmuth 6y ago
An example of a similar site that monetizes with ads via carbon
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by Evan_Hellmuth 6y ago
Common way to monetize sites like yours is ads via Carbon, eg https://colors.lol/ Another more lucrative but laborious way is to use this site as an ad for contract work. Just throw a banner on top “need custom design work
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by Evan_Hellmuth 6y ago
"The once a month I load it" they don't care about you, you're not the typical paying enterprise use case.

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