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bekman··on DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist
I’m from Ethiopia and it says the same. So technically not available for “everyone”.
bekman··on 10 years ago today, Groupon turned down Google’s $6B offer
6 years ago Snapchat turned down $3B offer, today Snapchat worth $70B
bekman··on Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
Tell this to the 99% non techie populations
bekman··on Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases
Not a fair comparison, this’s between developers and Apple, Apple doesn’t change you anything after you buy their phone.
bekman··on Zynga to buy Peak Games for $1.8B
Last year they did $1.2 billion and have been profitable the last couple of years.
bekman··on Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Suit
Last year FB’s profit was 22 billion so that’s less than 3%
bekman··on Layoffs hit Quora
Making a platform for people to create content and building an algorithm to scrap(steal) that content is a very different thing.
bekman··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Sorry I can’t share the url.
bekman··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
My website started five years ago, It didn’t get any traffic the first three years before one of my quiz went viral. Now I have around 70k followers on Pinterest.
bekman··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Business is not for all, believe me I have tried :) but I’m studying for my master’s degree.
bekman··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Thank you, Sorry I can’t tell you that for so many reasons.
bekman··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
Good question, my career is very important to me. It gives me an identity. I just can’t sit at home all day. I’m gonna die with boredom.
bekman··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
I run a popular Quiz website. I make around $6,000 per month from Google adsense. I work between 2-3 hours a week usually posting quiz links on my Pinterest page. My only expense is hosting which is around $20 per month (Digital Ocean). I have never advertised my website and it gets all the traffic from Pinterest Organically. Compare to my salary, I'm an IT Administrator in my day job and make $400 per month. I live in Ethiopia :) I thought this inspires my fellow HN. Good day.
bekman··on Ask HN: What do you do on an Android phone that cannot be done on an iPhone?
Where i live most people use android and it's hard to transfer files via Bluetooth. I wish ios support universal Bluetooth protocol.
bekman··on Boeing delays 737 MAX software fix delivery
If it’s needed to be fixed then it’s not safe.
bekman··on Ethiopian Airlines: Boeing 737 Crashes on Way to Kenya
Another 737 Max crashes in months, both after takeoff and both brand new, something is not right here.
bekman··on How Satya Nadella tripled Microsoft's stock price in just over four years
To be fair all major stocks have increased the last five years.
bekman··on Rise of Bitcoin Competitor Ripple Creates Wealth to Rival Zuckerberg
If this’s not a bubble I don’t know what it’s
bekman··on Boston Dynamics has a new creepy dog-like robot called SpotMini
Do they have commercially available products or just R&D?
bekman··on Facebook crushes Q3 earnings, warns that future profit will slow
It's insane to have a 47% net profit margin.
bekman··on Google is apparently ready to buy HTC
Disaster in the making
bekman··on Wall Street Is Giving Up On Twitter
of course, it's barely growing.
bekman··on Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
Well the coming quarter is a non-holiday.
bekman··on Ask HN: what would you do with $750k that you just inherited?
Buy $750,000 bitcons.
bekman··on A new search engine
Congrats, search my name and satisfied with the results,