majani

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

Pointless. 95% would stick to the default

Hang out with some 5-10 year olds and give them control of YouTube, they'll show you within 2 minutes

The shock and awe from a nuclear strike is unmatched

There are ego maniacs and people from shame cultures who would be animalistically obstinate in the face of globally televised embarrassment

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

And it was a great deal compared to the 90% cut you had to give phone carriers to highlight your java apps

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

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

The more I hear about culture, the more I think it seems like the new age mysticism of the right

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 give you multiple millions of dollars for your land. What would decrease is the beauty of the neighborhood, but people can be taught to appreciate the beauty of highrise buildings

Looks like they sold right before the end. Wonder whether the AI deals they've struck make up for the difference

Color me shocked that libsoftiktok is an actual US account. I was certain it was a foreign operative

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

Any solution that starts with "if we can all..." is no solution at all

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 just convinced themselves to pay more because they are superfans

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

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 pursuit of this impossible goal. Like hiring for the sake of showing growth in headcount, hiring people to branch into unrelated verticals, hiring people with big resumes just to say you have them on the team etc

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, finance etc) are known for having flashy people. And the careers that you can do as a loner (programming, quant, researcher etc) are known for having miserly folk

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

You're on it right now. HN is a very old site with old users and old mods that links to other old sites

The reality is that people constantly vote for well-intentioned, empathetic interventions that have adverse economic effects in the long run

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

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 platforms got to the profit maximization stage. G rated content is the biggest revenue multiplier in the media business

If someone spends just one day on a video production set at any level, they will never pirate media again.

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 can be found on the other apps. Then they will be able to objectively tell how many people value the app store's value additions enough to pay extra

It's no longer a competitive market. MS can lowball like crazy now

Clearly there is a preferred age group amongst the electorate, so the open market solved this problem

He's clearly trying to follow the photopea playbook and make money through ads

They were ex-Ivy league and friends from college. They fit into the current investor meta perfectly