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by beerlord 8y ago
No, the reason is that to-date there had not been a global platform available. AirBNB benefits from a massive global economy of scale. I can use the same platform in America, Germany, Australia, Bulgaria. First one to scale wins.
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by beerlord 8y ago
Looks like 1440p gaming at a reasonable budget is finally here. Now we just need some good (non-curved) Nvidia-approved adaptive sync cards at 32" 1440p IPS.
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by beerlord 8y ago
Youtube just needs to increase the barriers before a channel can be monetised. Then, with a smaller pool of channels, they need better human review to prevent exactly things like this from happening. If they are worried about the costs of a
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by beerlord 8y ago
You should be doing this anyway as part of your integration into the culture. East Asians are smart - they name their children Jason Wu, Lucy Wang, Winson Ho from birth.
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by beerlord 8y ago
All of the means to attack Youtube have been centred on questionable video content being supported with ads from mainstream companies. Youtube should have wisened up and become a lot more selective of which videos were supplied with ads.
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by beerlord 8y ago
My mother was there in the 80s (with my father, on a holiday) and complained about being groped and harassed by men, and the poor quality of food and water. No desire to ever visit or to have much to do with the people from there. The India
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by beerlord 8y ago
Overpopulation. Too many people, not enough resources to support them. 600m Indians without proper access to water. Better access to contraception and changing social attitudes needed - the expectation that if you are impoverished you shoul
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by beerlord 8y ago
The problem is not the videos being there, its the advertisments next to them. Youtube simply needs to move to a proper gatekeeping model around monetisation, requiring human review and biannual review checks. Start it at 10,000 subscribers
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by beerlord 8y ago
Its not one post. Indians favour other Indians, to the exclusion of Americans and Europeans in general. I've seen it in IT, in retail, in trucking, in America and in other mass-immigration previously European societies (Australia). Eve
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by beerlord 8y ago
I don't hire Indians as freelancers or employees. Whenever I post a Freelance role, I can be sure that I will get at least 1-2 generic applications from Indians. Usually they are part of some cohort of other IT workers - so even if I a
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by beerlord 8y ago
Death-cycle. Fewer petrol stations, fewer mechanics, fewer sales stores, fewer places where they are allowed to be used. But, its not happening fast enough. We need to ban fossil-fuel powered non-commercial vehicles starting from 2021. We h
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Major Games Publishers Are Feeling the Impact of Peaking Attention(midiaresearch.com)
83 points by beerlord 8y ago|106 comments
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by beerlord 8y ago
It should be like the visa lottery. Limit any individual country (India or China for example) to a maximum of 10% of the total visa allocation each. Right now India gets 76% of all H1B visas, so Indians know the system inside and out, and h
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by beerlord 8y ago
In every large company there are always excess personnel, or departments or individuals who are not performing. I'm sure there are other large companies that semi-regularly fire a single digit % of their workforce, but because they are
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by beerlord 8y ago
If this was the case then populations wouldn't be expanding - too many people would be dying before reaching reproductive age. Its simpler than that. Women in many parts of the world have no agency, and no access to contraception. Chan
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by beerlord 8y ago
The planet is going to be soon full of 9 billion humans, many desperately hungry and thirsty. Africa and West Asia is the sole source of this increase. We need an urgent program to strip away food aid and replace it completely with educatio
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by beerlord 8y ago
Kenya is a crime hotspot with GDP per capita of $1,500. Average IQ is 80. I don't think people there care about privacy when they are struggling to avoid being robbed and to put a roof over their heads. If these measures can make Gover
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by beerlord 8y ago
The average person doesn't care about privacy (they have nothing interesting to share anyway), and better-targeted ads makes capitalism more efficient. Plus, the services that ads enable are very widely used and popular. All that the E
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by beerlord 8y ago
It is functionally very different because: -You dont have to drive around and find a park (less congestion and real estate) -You can pool your trip with another user (Uber Pool)
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by beerlord 8y ago
I wouldn't view it as 'this is what Germany wanted from WW2', instead 'this is how Germany should have carried out WW2'. You can imagine that if Germany made better use of individual European countries, made some hi
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by beerlord 8y ago
Because its much better, and so attracts more people to the service. Uber has a great potential to be used as public transport, with dynamic route pathing based on supply and demand. Something traditional public transport could never do.
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by beerlord 8y ago
This has been the case for all of human history. The solution is that the economically unfavoured do not reproduce, and the favoured do. We are all the children of European tribal leaders, kings and nobles thousands of years ago. Follow thi
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by beerlord 8y ago
We are also going to need standardisation on reporting of car use to Governments. If we are no longer going to fund roads through fuel taxes, we need some other mechanism to do it. Proper charging of road use would unlock efficiencies for t
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by beerlord 8y ago
And here it is from the Chinese perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a-QpyF7rNc&t=3512s
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by beerlord 8y ago
My thoughts as well. I can almost guarantee this will be used for advertising.
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by beerlord 8y ago
The best theory out there is the 'Cold Winters' theory. But it leads to politically incorrect conclusions, so is not widespread.
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by beerlord 8y ago
Can someone explain how Facebook or Google hiring testers willing to expose 100% of their personal usage via an opt-in, paid program impacts consumers? Why should we 'applaud' Apple for this? Isn't it perfectly reasonable for
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by beerlord 8y ago
And Apple has market share for the only mobile consumers that matter: rich people and whales.
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by beerlord 8y ago
This is what they need to cut if they want to sell phones. Get people gaming on iOS devices and they will buy the latest and greatest hardware to get the best experience. But if all you can play are casual games, your experience can get no
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Game retailer GameStop says it can’t sell itself, sees stock dive 27%(arstechnica.com)
2 points by beerlord 8y ago|0 comments

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