cocochanel

This PDF is hilarious. How can anyone get away with so much bullshit is beyond me.

> We have a history of net losses, we anticipate increasing operating expenses in the future, and we may not be able to achieve and, if achieved, maintain profitability.

Well, that doesn't sound too good.

The harsh reality. Many of the lifestyle habits simply become exponentially harder as we age.

Seconded from another European. HN and Reddit are big chunks of the work day. Heck, people even watch YouTube.

The Dark Ages are only dark to us.

Did you really have to create a new account to post this? Not folding clothes is not a solution.

Could you please elaborate on the downsides? Gov't has your data since you were born, complete with your photos, IDs, you name it. What makes you think it's any different now?

Is it like Menti?

Very bold indeed, I am curious as to how this will affect the so-called "influencers."

It's already a thing, see how the FBI caught Silkroad admin. Although not in the automated fashion that you suggest, I am pretty sure the algos are already in use.

Why is everything moving to types?

What if they had style guidelines like software engineers do?

Interesting, Japanese designer Oki Sato also thinks we should have more things that are stupid [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/c3TPbj2_Xjg?t=311

"the total effect on revenues is estimated to be more than seven times the retailer’s expenditure on advertising during the study."

How is this not positive ROI?

The paper is about predicting ROI, and that is a well known problem in advertising. Now, the same author of the paper you linked, Randall A. Lewis, has a paper about whether advertising actually works [1] and it does, "we find statistically and economically significant impacts of the advertising on sales. "

[1] http://www.davidreiley.com/papers/DoesRetailAdvertisingWork....

Isn't that what Google Adsense used to do back in the day, i.e. show games in gaming sites for example?

Well, Google's balance sheet tells me otherwise.

This is an interesting idea. Does anyone know if it has already been A/B tested and shown to generate less profit than say building a recommendation profile for the user? I suspect that in the long term, optimizing ads for user profile would be more profitable, considering that the marketing cycle usually takes time from the initial consideration up to the conversion.

The content is essentially an ad.

What? IDFA is device universal and only reset manually by the user.

+1 for the chuckle. This is exactly how it goes.

Correct, they are for completely different purposes. I have the feeling that a lot of people (particularly the bloggers/more vocal types) jump into newer languages for no other reason than to position themselves as experts in said language/stack, right when it's getting more popular. I've seen this happen with Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/Node, and now Rust. In this case, it would have made a lot more sense to move to something like Elixir/Phoenix.

Fantasy. Enterprise sales don't happen without a dedicated sales force, politics and influence.

Powerful for who, spammers? I don't think it is particularly useful, but if it is for some, it will definitely need to support blocking email at the generic domain.

git is incredibly simple and does not count as a counterexample at all. [1]

[1] https://wyag.thb.lt/

What's wrong with text files?

What's with the negative nitpicking? There are endless learning resources now available to people who couldn't afford an education, communities around anything you can imagine, people making a living thanks to the Internet, and the list goes on and on. Heck, I don't even have Facebook so I don't know what you're talking about.

This is exactly the reason why I like DigitalOcean name so much.

What other types of treatment do you find more suitable for depression?

CPM ads still out there, for brand awareness. But you'll be paying for ads that no one clicks. So most advertisers go for CPC.