anth1988

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by anth1988 9y ago
> They just need one viable competitor I'm not convinced that is sufficient. Facebook at 80% isn't really any different than facebook at 99, or whatever. Google has a viable competitor in Bing, but google still dominates search
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by anth1988 9y ago
> In my world-view, the cause is the state What does this even mean? > To illustrate my point with an extreme example: making it illegal to kill your slave doesn't solve the underlying slavery issue, but hopefully it would stop s
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by anth1988 9y ago
Rules written in blood. If you aren't prepared for a bit of bureaucracy then you have no place being anywhere near this industry.
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by anth1988 9y ago
> Don't plan to drive anywhere on eclipse day > Don't make any solid plans until 3-4 days before. Most places only have about 40% chance of it being clear. If you haven't made plans already, you are probably driving. B
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by anth1988 9y ago
Or you could see a bunch more smaller companies that still make acquisitions, and a whole lot of smaller IPOs that return a decent profit.
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by anth1988 9y ago
> How is google even a monopoly? Bing exists, yahoo still exists. In Asia Google isn't even the most popular search engine. Not a monopoly is not a high enough bar. They are dominant in search, browser, and mobile. > Try using ev
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by anth1988 9y ago
I won't really miss any of those things when they are gone, because others will come and take their place. > if you're one of the uber technerds that thinks that Google is unabashedly evil as opposed to the people who worship a
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by anth1988 9y ago
> In 2013, the European Commission fined Microsoft for giving preferential treatment to its own browser, Internet Explorer. I don't understand why Microsoft gets fined, but Google gets a pass when they used their other products to p
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by anth1988 9y ago
> Also, what would be the point of dropping out of this coalition? It would remove the obvious conflict of interest. To be clear, I'm talking about dissolving the coalition of advertisers and instead having the group agree to regula
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by anth1988 9y ago
The lead is not only factual, but greatly strengthens the points made within. Google makes the vast majority of their money off advertising and data, they are taking steps that will help them to get an even stronger hold on that market with
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by anth1988 9y ago
> that allows Google and Facebook to raise advertising prices above equilibrium pricing Maybe, but do they need to do that or do they just sit there and reap the profits of being an ever expanding proportion of the market (which is now t
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by anth1988 9y ago
I'm not disagreeing that this is possible, but I don't think jumping straight to such a nightmare scenario really does any good. The reason being is that they just don't go that far and it's suddenly seems okay in compar
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by anth1988 9y ago
> But doesn't it hurt the advertisers? That's not a given either Easy scenario, I come up with a new ad style that works pretty well (worth loads). Google (et al) say no, that violates some standard we set, blocked. They just c