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Going from the mass hate for QR code menus you would think not? Honestly, what's up with these polar opposites on HN. Never a middle ground.

Everyone around me that has wealth built it up from simply talking and connecting with people. Going out for golf and drinks where people tend to let their guard down and just enjoy themselves allows people to build trust.

This would, in my opinion, truly define their success as luck. I will outwork them, out hustle them, learn things and do things yet I am a whole Everest beneath them with wealth.

But they will strike up a conversation in a hot tub in Mexico and end up partnering up on a major project/deal over mojito's and bubbling water. Whilst I build my landing page stuffed with SEO keywords because I have 'data' to guide me.

It's odd because it almost seems like a middle ground of having both options is unacceptable. It's chalk and cheese, black or white.

You can literally have both physical and digital menu's and cater to everyone's needs. No harm done.

People who loathe the idea can carry on, people that love the idea can carry on.

Sounds like a bit of sleazy PR to me. Considering the roots of this entire platform...

I remember seeing that there is an actual section dedicated to income from illicit income in the tax forms. Which is honestly amazing to see, and confusing too.

I tend to just load up on information in short blasts, let it fester and then go back for more. Then sleep on it and time after time I generally find the solution, with a clear head.

But I also do believe that time-sensitive problems can also pull the best solutions because I don't have the time to over-think which tends to destroy ideas for me.

Just use Webflow. It does everything for you, has templates can scale to your needs and also export the code needed to transfer the site somewhere else.

I do lean more towards coincidence but since then there's been no Trivago ads.

To be honest, the ads on TV are basically on repeat so this is why it stood out so much, the fact that I can practically give you the schedule of ads that I am about to be shown during a break which does not include Trivago is what gets me.

I have an amazing story.

Moved into a new place, in Poland. Bought a new smart TV, it was a Samsung (kaput after 2 years). Me and my wife decided to have an impromptu singing session just bellowing out 'Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, Hotel, Hotel' in a Pitbull (Cuban rapper) style whilst looking for holidays to book.

Within the next 5 minutes, Trivago was on the TV. Now bear in mind I have literally never seen Trivago being advertising on the TV and all of a sudden their catchphrase at the end of the ad got me 'Hotel, Trivago'.

Safe to say me and wife had a few minutes of WTF just staring at the screen then each other. That's when I truly became convinced that everything is listening. Could have been a coincidence though but it was an almighty coincidence to say the least.

And like people's lives, no one cares about anything until they get the bad news. Finding out your data has been used against you is like getting news of a major health issue. Most people knew the potential problems, they know what is good and bad for their health but consume regardless. This is no different to our attitude with personal data too, IMO.

Glad I'm not the only one that noticed this. The link itself to 'audit' is basically as small of a clickable link as possible. I am honestly surprised they didn't just hyperlink 'a'udit at this point.

> my own blockchain (a spreadsheet

Gave me a good chuckle

If you were to input some sort of contract terms into a cell, snapshot it, upload it to the cloud and only provide view access to the public, you would have a full fledged blockchain platform.

Can't use Google Sheets because that would centralize it, I imagine?

NFTs remind me of 'buy a star' companies.

You apparently 'bought' a star but anyone can look at it, I imagine that multiple people own the same star and everyone is none the wiser.

I assume this is why NFTs work. Make someone pay for 'exclusivity' (real or not) and then just assume that most people won't look into the details, where the devil is.

PiS right now needs some wins. They have consistently screwed up and their avid fans are even sick of it.

No, it rarely works but FOMO is the worst with marketing people. Have been doing it 10 years now and I still refused to accept pop-ups as anything useful.

Good riddance.

It's nice to see those Youtube ads paying off....

So this is interesting because right now the search rankings are a steaming heap of crud because of what seems like daily algo changes.

It's gotten to the point where spam sites with out of date articles are now ranking number 1. Yet everyone else is being thrown around page 2+. Google is inevitably only concerned about Ad spend so this instability of rankings forces you into their ad spending machine.

Organic results in the last few months have been a cesspit and so by the looks of it we are now in a full stream of shit with Google. Ads are scams, organic results are not what they should be due to endless 'algo updates'.

What's the solution? I ponder this daily. Without Google and Facebook targeting, starting a successful, long lasting business just got hard again.

I would honestly hazard a guess that there's no marketing person on the team yet. If the founder is in charge of the content of the site, which could very well be the case, they are more likely to use technical terms because it's natural to them. Plus, it's the more boujee option.

Sounds like this is a world wide problem and the idea of a company that does 'good' is nothing more than a CSR/PR play. Everything you have described can also be said for Google, Facebook and Amazon.

Pinch of salt with these 2. I've worked with one on a full-scale, full year up front lead generation fee and it just didn't work. I knew it wouldn't based on SEO metrics but they insisted that it would. They were wrong.

The other just keeps harassing my for leaving a review on a piece of software that I was working for at the time. Never got a gift card either....

IMO look at how many 'competitors' are in a category on those sites. Finding a category with <50 competitors can provide some great opportunities, probably niche though.

This is growth hacking at it's finest. Eeking out .5% gains anywhere just to get some form of validation. Most think that they are able to infiltrate niche forums/sites and act the part but ultimately the 2nd message is always 'wow, I've just been using this tool for X and I got Y!'.

The fact that they will need to pay Google for this service after a certain threshold also limits taking them on. Pennies but still paying them.

> HTTPS adoption is now very high[1]

This is simply because they told SEO's that HTTPs takes precedent and effects ranking - if you want mass adoption of anything then just tell a bunch of SEOs that rankings will be effected (AMP is one that has thankfully not won the fight).

Google passed it off as security but I cannot believe this to be the case when you see the shit that litters the Play Store.

> I'm wondering how people got convinced

FOMO and PR. I have friends that have plenty of money and read the latest reviews/gadget magazines. They assume whatever is in the recommended area you should be buying it or your neighbours will have it first.

Well with the current rate of Unicorns going public and raising obscene amounts of money and valuations being somewhat in the WTF levels these predictions sound about right......

There's a whole heap of EVs coming from the established brands and honestly, I would choose them over any Tesla. If the VW camper van becomes reality, oh my oh my. Mach-E looks incredible! Even the Skoda EV looks amazing - it's a SKODA?!

Whenever I try to 'push' myself I always remind myself of about 8 years ago when it was 12 - 16 hours on the computer, sleep and repeat.

In my mind at the time I felt like it was being productive and doing good. Reality was that it was a lot of clicking around, trying to focus was impossible and my productivity was just shot.

Now I work solidly for 7 hours and that's it. If I have enough juice to be able to focus on an article or do some of my course then I'll do it but if I have to re-read the same sentence 3 times, I tap out. Tomorrow is a new day and so far my obsession with 'optimizing' every waking minute has provided me with exactly nothing so now I'm trying to switch things up to a more placid life.

>5. Do their thing very quietly without anyone really knowing.

6. You've never heard about.

I love going to industrial estates and checking out what is going on in there for this exact reason. CNC machine, 3D printing, endless engineering all of which will never be appreciated or create a fan boy cult but they will keep many, many other businesses operational and growing.

These places actually build things too, real tangible things that have requirements and so forth.

For about $1000 you can get Instagram and Facebook verified accounts so I imagine Twitter is even cheaper/easier to do so.