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Weird, searching for ycombinator https://soundcloud.com/akharris this podcast comes up and not the one linked on soundcloud above

Facebook makes most of its money on mobile ads which are not affected by ad blockers. So why make a big deal announcing efforts to block ad blockers? A smart company like Facebook doesn't make moves accidentally. This announcement is more targeted towards publishers than it is towards ad blockers. Doesn't matter how affective the work around is - it sends publishers, who are holding off from instant articles and more Facebook hosted content, the message Facebook is the only way out; You will lose the war against ad blockers; sign up with us for instant articles and other Facebook hosted solutions and we will fight with and for you.

http://qz.com/743988/facebook-is-an-unstoppable-force-on-mob...

> In the second quarter, mobile sales made up 84% of its $6.24 billion in advertising revenue

The founder has a lot of ecommerce experience. Sold diapers.com for ~600 mill to amazon and had other similar ventures

very similar to what spotify is for the google cloud

What's a good resource to learn? Also what other than money can/should be negotiated?

American Anti trust laws are present to protect consumers. European anti trust laws are present to protect competitors.

Kim is easily in the top 3 writers ever at techcrunch

What's a tactical map

End of the day everything is competing for your time. So in a way facebook, snapchat, twitter, email, tv, radio, etc are all really competing to occupy whatever free time you have available when you are not sleeping. If the core joy provided by the service is of high enough value to a large enough number of users then that service will win.

straw-person /s

Some people like climbing mount everest, others like giving speeches, others still like flying planes, driving fast cars. You have 5 fingers on your hand and they are all different sized. Expecting them to all be the same is imbecile.

http://recode.net/2014/08/21/ycs-jessica-livingston-was-hit-... this is the article in question?

100% agreed. I use it because I have to not because I want to. It literally messes up the command tab/command tilde behavior. This in addition to being a terrible interface overall and the general nuisance of notifications not being synced up with Android

Same way with piracy. Most people who are pirating content weren't a potential customer in the first place.

Payment isn't necessarily in cash. You pay with your time, commitment, interest, attention. If there is literally anything else you could be potentially doing but are spending time with a girl with the hope of getting sex out of it then you are paying for it.

Might have been an article around some match making service which took a bunch of girls from NY to SF to resolve this supply demand mismatch

Any sources on this?

fk, that is sickening :(.

The article by Ben Thompson on Stratechery is a good one to go along with this one. https://stratechery.com/2015/why-web-pages-suck/

The ad exchanges don't care for repeat viewers. Its purely a numbers game. More clicks more revenue.

Don't think so. This is just a one location to easily use some of the things which have been around for a while on Google. In addition this is likely another move to appease the EC who have been making a lot of noise about Google search and their news industry

>They then got complacent upon the business side and then ended up going in a panic as they used the share price as a indicator and not feedback of how things were going and with that had extra delays in seeing what was wrong.

What does share price as an indicator and not feedback mean?

Inclusivity when it fits their narrative.

Inspired a little bit by Aaron Swartz?http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany

There was an awesome pipe which allowed you to get a rss feed of commentators you want to subscribe to. Sadly no more

Can you recommend a starting point to building your own cms?

How does the site find where the words are spoken?

A display at the bus stop showing when the next 3-5 buses are going to stop approximately solves the problem

Great points. The idea of having to switch companies to get any meaningful raise or using it as a threat is a misalignment of incentives that over the long term leads to bad culture