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This is an extremely insightful article. Strong agree with the core points made that these are copilots or co-processors rather than replacements. Maybe at some point in the future we will all be replaced (sound familiar?) but for now these are tools that can help us make progress as a society at a much faster rate

Do folks know that 55% of ad revenue goes directly to the creators whose content you are watching? Apps like this sound great, but ultimately damage ecosystems. YT Premium is like $11.99/mo and you never see an ad again. If you think you're getting $12/mo USD value out of YT, then I question why you'd want to go through the hassle of this over just paying not to see ads (ps: premium income also goes to the creators!) - how much is your time worth?

How mission driven teams at FAANG build $1Tn+ market cap:

1. Product teams create utility at ~zero marginal cost per additional user

2. Platform teams drive distribution

3. Monetization teams convert utility to cash

4. GOTO 1

I'm by far not an expert in this space, but governance coins can also be utility coins - eg provide you with certain rights to use a service, or use a service at a discount or priority in some way ( eg. see Celsius). In this way, the coins circulate and can be used as a form of payment in an alternative to fiat but that were originally bought with fiat (similar to tokens at a laundromat). Overall, I recommend you look into DeFi for a few examples of this (eg Uniswap, Celsius)

I understand. Governance tokens are equity (usually with voting rights), and are used to generate a capital base for a decentralised product (think: crowdfunding). Not all governance tokens are airdropped and the secondary market for said tokens often results in them appreciating over time. I would suspect shapeshift to fund itself and generate wealth for the founders through doing this both at the point of issuance and over time.

they will release their own governance token through an airdrop. It's the new way to fund decentralised startups - no need for VC. Essentially it's the equivalent of an IPO on day 1.

'78 reporting in. We had a BBC Micro in our school library in Derbyshire. That coupled with the Speccys and c64's floating around at the time are probably a large part of why I'm sitting here in SF working at a senior level in big tech. Thanks BBC.

I'm not sure AWS have updated their specs since then (all the specs for an ECU refer to a 1Ghz 2007 Xeon). We also tested our staging c1.xlarge and it scored less than the cloudharmony results indicated a c1.xlarge should.

What does Mixpanel think about adding statistical significance where appropriate? Take the Fbconnect and nonFbconnect users vs song engagement in the video. The chap in the video was fairly certain there was no significant increase, but visually it looks as if there in fact was have a slight, but significant difference between the two patterns of engagement. Impossible to tell without some sort of statistical analysis. There are probably lots of cases like these if your offering is fundamentally sound.

If I was the guy that championed and implemented FBConnect in my app and one of my co-founders thought that based on that graph there was no significant difference I'd be pretty pissed off.