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by gergov 4y ago
on the contrary, smaller transaction amounts are prone to MORE chargebacks because they are attractive targets for card testers
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by gergov 4y ago
"Not everybody is like me" would be the number 1, number 2 and number 3 advice I would give to anyone who's trying to start an online business. Like in a "How about you do that as a mantra for 10 hours a day" kind o
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by gergov 4y ago
or if you're going to ask them their age just display age appropriate content. Automatic categorizing of even user generated stuff should be a pretty much solved problem by now
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by gergov 4y ago
Below you, everyone felt it and felt it hard, everywhere.
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by gergov 4y ago
I'm not up to date on the science, but my dad was old - born in '43 - and worked as a teacher, so he could see several generations grow up. He was tall for his generation, but by the time I was a teenager, he was tiny even compare
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by gergov 4y ago
Which makes it even more interesting. One of the most head scratching pieces of this puzzle that SBF got truckloads of VC money with laughable fundraising rounds + no board seats. It didn't make any rational sense. Unless the logical c
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by gergov 4y ago
maybe this is some 4D chess narcissism of wanting to be on the big screen while you serve time?
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by gergov 4y ago
Well, once all these go down the prices of currencies will also come down, which affects even those who had their coins in cold wallets - unless they plan to hold without making a profit until the heat death of the universe
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by gergov 4y ago
Also this is a funny argument. If these things are truly making people dumber but the change is happening on a generational level, then a dumber generation would not realize that it is dumber than the previous one. It's also further mu
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by gergov 4y ago
The entire problem with ad fraud is that it's engineered to look good on those models.
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by gergov 4y ago
Marketing ROI is very tricky to measure. On the other end, you would see that the more you spend the more customers you have. The question is: are those new customers due to your increased spend or not? There's all sorts of attribution
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by gergov 4y ago
just because we are kind of worried about the winter even with IT wages doesn't make us russian bots?
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by gergov 4y ago
Right, engagement at all cost it is, but there is a fundamental difference. Television required professionals where even wrestling and reality TV is scripted: it requires some sort of willful ignorance from the viewer to engage with it. Soc
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by gergov 4y ago
The anti-vaccination / bashing of anti-vaxx people was a pretty big and one sided internet niche pre-2020. In a way that you did have some tinfoil hat people, you had some whistleblowers, and you had an army of people bashing them left
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by gergov 4y ago
I guess philosophy education tends to vary from region to region, but "young people into phil" tend to be insufferable in one way or another, while older people with an understanding of philosophy (...and a great many real world p
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by gergov 4y ago
the economy went tits up
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by gergov 4y ago
you would be surprised how the world operates outside of tech it's scary excel sheets and a lot of ducttape hell I wouldn't be surprised if the next round of innovation will be born out of tech people going into gov and realizing
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Book Review: The Society of the Spectacle(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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by gergov 4y ago
it's in the tradition of "posting the wrong answer to get the good one". within this genre the comment section ends up even more terrifying than the post itself!