majani

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by majani 2mo ago
They responded as soon as you reached out. I don't think that counts as ghosting
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by majani 3mo ago
The 2000s were a startup winter after the dotcom bubble burst. In those days you were extremely lucky if you could raise over $100k in funding and in revenue $100m was the ultimate fantasy. ZIRP was the 2010s
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by majani 4mo ago
Pointless. 95% would stick to the default
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by majani 4mo ago
Hang out with some 5-10 year olds and give them control of YouTube, they'll show you within 2 minutes
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by majani 5mo ago
The shock and awe from a nuclear strike is unmatched
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by majani 5mo ago
There are ego maniacs and people from shame cultures who would be animalistically obstinate in the face of globally televised embarrassment
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by majani 7mo ago
Since he's now being seen as a conservative, he is now adding into Christian elements to his grift. Expect to see him get even more mystical now
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by majani 8mo ago
And it was a great deal compared to the 90% cut you had to give phone carriers to highlight your java apps
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by majani 8mo ago
Yes, and also tariffs are a strategy to appeal to nationalists. This group is fine making the tradeoff of a worse economy if it means putting your nation's people first
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by majani 8mo ago
O1 would probably want to see a huge number of followers. An OG model with a large following is someone with a huge amount of agency. Probably the highest agency sex worker of them all. Impossible to traffic
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by majani 8mo ago
The more I hear about culture, the more I think it seems like the new age mysticism of the right
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by majani 8mo ago
Increasing supply would see your property value rise astronomically. Suddenly there would be developers wanting to build a 30 storey building in place of your single family unit. The ROI on that 30 storey would be high enough for them to gi
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by majani 9mo ago
Looks like they sold right before the end. Wonder whether the AI deals they've struck make up for the difference
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by majani 10mo ago
Color me shocked that libsoftiktok is an actual US account. I was certain it was a foreign operative
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by majani 10mo ago
Now that network effects and data lock-in have taken root, downtime is not as big of a concern as it was in the 2000s
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by majani 1y ago
Any solution that starts with "if we can all..." is no solution at all
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by majani 1y ago
Two big leaps in your answer: 1. that the person paying more is rich and 2. that the person paying more likely doesn't care about the band The way I see it, it is also highly likely that the person paying more is of average income and
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by majani 2y ago
I'm also black and growing up I had the impression that "woke" referred to left-leaning conspiracy theorists and activists. 9/11 truthers and gay rights activists were the main woke groups of the Bush era
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by majani 2y ago
What you are talking of is only possible in companies where the founder didn't take VC investment. Once you take VC money, you get on the treadmill of infinite growth to satisfy investors. That makes companies do strange things in purs
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by majani 2y ago
One thing I've come to realize is that the larger your social circle, the more prone you are to comparisons and hence lifestyle creep. You can see this where the careers that involve a lot of socializing (sales, entertainment, law, fin
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by majani 2y ago
And it's also bad for business. I think people on either side of the aisle underestimate just how tilted the other side can get when you go against them
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by majani 2y ago
You're on it right now. HN is a very old site with old users and old mods that links to other old sites
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by majani 2y ago
The reality is that people constantly vote for well-intentioned, empathetic interventions that have adverse economic effects in the long run
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by majani 2y ago
They were great until they put fast downloads behind a paywall. It's like they're going out of their way to throttle download speeds nowadays
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by majani 2y ago
It's the same with TikTok. If you search literally anything, some absurdly curvy, skimpily dressed woman will be part of the search results. Weird because I thought adult creators would be the first to be censored once social media pla
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by majani 2y ago
If someone spends just one day on a video production set at any level, they will never pirate media again.
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by majani 2y ago
Actually Patreon has played it perfectly by offering an android app, ios app and a website, and increasing the prices on the ios app to cater for the fees. The next thing should be to provide a clear notice on the ios app that lower prices
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by majani 2y ago
It's no longer a competitive market. MS can lowball like crazy now
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by majani 2y ago
Clearly there is a preferred age group amongst the electorate, so the open market solved this problem
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by majani 2y ago
He's clearly trying to follow the photopea playbook and make money through ads

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