Kuiper

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by Kuiper 10mo ago
There is a huge audience for AI-generated content on YouTube, though admittedly many of them are oblivious to the fact that they are watching AI-generated content. Here are several examples of videos with 1 million views that people don&#x2
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by Kuiper 3y ago
This brings to mind one of my favorite TV shows, One Outs. It's about the strategies that a clever and "unsportsmanlike" player brings to a baseball team, exploiting the rules while violating the spirit of the game. As one e
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by Kuiper 6y ago
This actually sounds like the opposite of what Michael Crichton described. The Gell-Mann Amnesia occurs when, due to your domain expertise, you are able to see when a publication display a complete lack of understanding on the topic they ar
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by Kuiper 7y ago
Unclear. We know how authors get paid for Kindle Unlimited because KDP is a self-publishing platform that anyone can use and Amazon has pages that explain everything when you go through the KDP signup process (plus reports from literally h
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by Kuiper 7y ago
Note: this thread is about Kindle Unlimited , which has a different monetization/payment model than regular Kindle ebooks. KU readers do not "buy" KU ebooks, any more than Netflix users "buy" the TV shows that the
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by Kuiper 7y ago
Authors get paid monthly, approximately two months after the royalties are earned. So if you have a KU subscription and you read 20% of a KU book in January, the author will get paid for those pages in March, and then if you continue readi
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by Kuiper 7y ago
Again: Netflix. For. eBooks. It used to be that if Blockbuster wanted to rent out Raiders of the Lost Ark to six different customers simultaneously, they needed to own 6 VHS copies of Raiders of the Lost Ark . Now, with streaming, Ne
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by Kuiper 7y ago
The post you are responding to is about Kindle Unlimited , and not regular Kindle ebooks. Kindle Unlimited, as stated in the post, is Amazon's subscription service where people pay a $10 monthly fee for access to all ebooks in the Ki
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by Kuiper 7y ago
Your intuitions are correct; romance novels and thriller novels tend to be the most successful genres on Kindle Unlimited. Different pricing/distribution models attract different kinds of customers. (On the other end of things, I have
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by Kuiper 7y ago
My understanding is that Netflix just pays a fixed, pre-agreed amount up front (either paying a licensing fee for existing content, or funding the production of their own Netflix originals). If lots of people view a show, Netflix takes tha
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by Kuiper 7y ago
Since you seem to have missed the point of my "Netflix for ebooks" analogy (which you quoted): Kindle Unlimited is a subscription service where users can pay $10/month for unlimited access to a catalog of books that authors h
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by Kuiper 7y ago
This is apparently how older Kindle models worked, which has made them an attack vector for fraud on Kindle Unlimited: > KDP [Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon's self-publishing platform] pays authors for both paid downloads as well
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by Kuiper 7y ago
One of the selling points for Kindle is that if you switch devices partway through (e.g. switch from reading on your tablet to reading on your phone, or switch from reading the ebook to listening to the audiobook in your car), it remembers
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by Kuiper 7y ago
I'm not sure I relate to Paul Graham's experience of finding being a "noob" unpleasant -- if anything, I find it's the opposite, because any time you're a "noob," there's so much low-hanging frui
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by Kuiper 7y ago
>>while this meeting can be gotten out of, it requires some sort of excuse, and an individual's consistent absence is considered a mild crisis for the group. >any religious group that considers your occasional absence as a
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by Kuiper 7y ago
Japanese 21st century light novel titles have a long way to go if they want to catch up with 18th century book titles, like 12 Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescu
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by Kuiper 8y ago
The only real issue RSS has is that ads have to be baked in. Sadly I don't know if we could have an open system with personalized ads. They've already figured out how to do this. I download the Waypoint podcast (which is part o
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by Kuiper 8y ago
There's not a lot of "discipline" that goes into paying off your credit card each month (in the sense of practice); my credit card auto-debits from my checking account at the end of the month to pay off the full balance for t
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by Kuiper 8y ago
I'm a full-time freelancer/remote worker. In late 2016, I made the decision to move to Pittsburgh, partly persuaded Paul Graham's talk about how Pittsburgh could become a startup hub. (PG grew up in Monroeville, 10 miles eas
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by Kuiper 8y ago
I recommend reading the submission you're commenting on, as this is actually answered in the article: “Sometimes we’ll start on a trailer before they’ve even started filming,” Gritton says. “We just break down the script. Then we’ll g
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by Kuiper 8y ago
has a pre-trailer to the trailer If you're wondering why this is done, it's because when the trailer is shown on Youtube as a pre-roll ad, users have the ability to "skip" the ad after 5 seconds. Thus, the trailer nee
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by Kuiper 8y ago
I actually found myself doing somewhat similar when playing digital card games like Magic: The Gathering online and Shadowverse: I would "think out loud" and talk through the lines I was considering them ("Hmm, if I attack li
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by Kuiper 8y ago
Are you on Android? I had a similar problem with my Pixel 2 last year, and I've seen other Android users report similar issues with other bluetooth headsets. Under Android developer options, there's an option called "absolu
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by Kuiper 8y ago
The author of the article also seems to imply that FDA approval is the only process by which a treatment could be "proven effective." There are many treatments that are already available in Europe but spend years waiting for FDA
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by Kuiper 8y ago
why is robbing one person an offense that gets incarceration, but robbing a hundred people may not even get you prosecuted? In the latter case (where you describe "robbing a hundred people"), are you referring to wage theft? Be
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by Kuiper 8y ago
If you can't pay a fine as pinishment for robbing a bank, why can you do it for something like wage theft? Robbery is a violent crime (robbery, by definition, consists of using force or threat of force/intimidation) that places
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by Kuiper 8y ago
There are a number of sites where people post serial fiction as it's written, chapter by chapter, and many popular web serials began with opening chapters of around 500-2000 words (2-8 pages). These sites usually offer writers validat
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by Kuiper 8y ago
I think opening "prologue" scenes like this are mostly about priming the audience's expectations. Movies do this too; the story of The Matrix begins with Neo working as a corporate drone, but the opening scene is an action s
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by Kuiper 8y ago
I've seen some online commenters (that I can only assume are younger millennials or Gen-Z'ers) call the show "unrealistic" due to the amount of autonomy the kids have, apparently not realizing that this is how many peopl
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by Kuiper 8y ago
As a fantasy author, I am constantly looking for ways to provide description that engages all five senses. In most fiction, the vast majority of description is focused on what characters see, but if you really want to place the reader in a

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