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I will attempt to argue against email marketing as a channel for any startup (B2b or B2c).

1. Channel is extremely crowded. Everyone has read the same best-practices and optimization techniques. So emails from most companies (each one of them thinking that they are ‘differentiated) regress in quality and content to a mean.

2. Because it is so measurable (a marketer’s dream), this channel becomes less about what the emails say, but more about tricks to get one to open and click.

3. Excessive click optimization might erode “brand” (my conjecture). Since “brand” falls under the “soft stuff” in marketing, it gets attention as a second class citizen after one has taken care of the measurable stuff. (Defining brand as the ‘impression a word creates in your mind when you hear that word’)

4. Once a startup gives up on the ‘crutch’ of email - may be the team will think anew and innovate. Due to its measurability, my personal opinion is that companies don’t explore other channels - meaning, there isn’t a lot of invention going on.

If one visited a random saas startup and saw a day in the life of their “email marketing team”, I bet they are all roughly doing the same thing and have the same goals. I fear that no one wants to lose out on the 1% out of 1 million attention that emails are able to get - consistently and repeatably - and are thus like a drug that one can’t get off of :-) and thus companies don’t risk inventing new channels.

This is probably an ignorant rant (Eg a good counter argument would simply be - “email is popular because it works!”).

Given the number of emails I get, I do wish more companies tried more creative techniques to grab attention. (The Snapchat vending machine for spectacles comes to mind as a good attempt at innovation. I must confess I have zero knowledge of how the numbers on that approach worked)

In ecommerce, companies like brandless are doing well at getting attention without playing the standard email game (standard email game = ‘buy lists—>optimize—>$’ -> repeat).

Having said this, the advice in this article is very sensible - if someone comes to your site and didn’t complete the purchase, it doesn’t hurt to ask again. I am just raising a caution against taking email marketing for granted - esp if an entrepreneur is just starting out - presumably she can take some risk and try innovative ways of grabbing attention, than just email.
500 for a single incident seems pretty expensive...

Usually when you buy a product the company supports it without additional fees.
Aaron got it all right he just missed one important thing. News is a product and you buy it, so what is it selling you if the content itself is so unimportant?

The answer is news sells an emotion. Mostly it sells outrage and worldview confirmation. Its basically the exact same thing as a social feed only you select it instead of it tailoring to you.

The notable exception are people who use the headlines to make investment decisions.
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I don't know much about the logic used in self-driving cars - but I do wonder how they will handle roundabouts. We have a lot of them here (Australia) and you have to give way to a car that is approaching or entering the roundabout on your right - which often is opposite you. How will a self-driving car cope with detecting a vehicle behind the concrete barrier of a roundabout?
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The reason why people don't take Tumblr seriously is because white males like myself are a socially dominant and often armed plurality of the country. It's also kind of farcical to think of women eliminating men, society would dissolve in a generation, so it's easy to regard this kind of talk as simply sublimated angst that is an exaggerated response to real concerns.

However, when this kind of talk comes from the socially dominant and aforementioned armed folk, it is much more of a serious matter simply because we have a history of actually doing the kinds of violent, enslaving, and oppressive things we claim we'll do.

There's the asymmetry.
Have you tried just pausing history instead? https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols
If you want to get rid of a large chunk of coerced sex-work, just make other options easier to attain, or give those sex workers support. But the US has an annoying trend of implimenting solutions without looking into whether that solution is effective.
What's the marketshare for each of the things you've listed? Do they even have 1%?
Word works best on Windows. Google Doc works best on Chrome. It's totally expected that if you go with the vendor's full stack, things will run better.

I've worked—at Google—extensively on documents using Google Docs on a Chromebook and the experience is pretty smooth.
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> having a second system running that can't coordinate with the self-driving system

It seems like "not running into stuff" is about the only level of coordination necessary here.
Remember GWB's "ownership society"? That's what you get in an ownership society - massive rent-seeking.

When you have systemic rent-seeking, any sort of gift-economy is priced out.
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I work on ECUs like this. High end stuff is doing computer vision, but 99% of what is on the road is pre-calibrated motor/solenoid control and that’s all.

Even adaptive cruise, steel camera object “detection” are just pretty simple systems. Almost nothing is doing even pieces of what the whole-package SDCs are.
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I'm finding it funny sitting around thinking about all the different bad scenarios associated with climate change and then thinking ah but they can just go to war to take what they want instead of paying for it.

Coastline shrinking, New York gone? go to war take some coastline from Canada and Old York from England!
Do any other big tech companies offer interfaces like this?
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My fuckfriend was an escort for about 3 years and I think most people have the same misconceptions that I had.

When I told her that she must have encountered some nasty customers, she said not that much because she didn't have a pimp and always chose her customers.

If the guy didn't look clean or she had a bad feeling, she would refuse to have sex with him.

Regulations like this are putting a strain on the "good" side of this work because it's making it harder for girls to operate independently since they can't post ads.

So they will have to operate with pimps that will feed them customers and make sure they are kept stoned enough to make them money hungry (and thus lowering their standards or at least make the choice harder for her).

Let's not kid ourselves, this bill has nothing to do with protecting sex workers or improving their lives.

Just like Cannabis, the problem will never go away, so you either regulate it or let the black market take care of it.
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They would rely on mobilized grassroots action. Which would be far more effective if we weren't getting shouted out of the room by lobbyists in the first place.
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Can second this. They're well reviewed, do well and last long.
Social unrest and war are also good for creating activity.
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There are alternative mobile OS options, such as LineageOS or Plasma Mobile.

There is also NextCloud, which has an impressive number of apps that could help make getting off of Google easier.. mail, calendar, contacts, notes, drive, xmpp chat, video chat, trello clone, password manager, music player....

Collabora can also be installed to give an alternative to Docs / Sheets / etc..
According to sources, Foxconn really didn't want to buy Belkin but that's all they had at the store.
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Ah yes, the "The poor aren't poor because they have refresher"-argument, straight from Fox News.
And there wouldn't even be a way to prove it was happening. Given the opacity of deep learning models, it's possible that no one, not even the people at Facebook who developed the algorithm, would realize that it had trained itself to induce suicides.
I don't actually know what a self driving car should run on, I would want to make it in Erlang or Rust but - what do you think a self driving car should be running on?
Not scary. Insane.

The societies we live in are doing insane things for profit and greed, and there is very little compassion for people who make mistakes or who is weak. The way we treat each other is quite bad on this planet.

We are quite insane in how we worship money, power and science.
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And now we have WebEx and they're trying to make a Slack competitor.
In Mountain View, I once saw a Google/Waymo car trying to cross traffic and turn left onto Rengstorff Ave, which is a pretty busy street in the evenings. As a human driver, I wouldn't know how to do it unless there was a miraculous break in traffic, I would have just turned right and go the opposite direction and make a u-turn elsewhere. So like you, I'm curious how it handled that situation as well.
Google and Apple's data is viewed as trade secret. Facebook, on the other, hand sells access.

Quite a huge difference there.
When the collision detection system kicks in and determines that you're going to hit something in the next couple of seconds, then braking probably is the best option.
Uber did not get unlucky -- they are simply an evil company. Their cars need human intervention every 13 miles as opposed to Google's every 5,600 miles -- they were not fit for the road but Uber let them out anyways.

Uber should be shut down and the principals should get life without parole.
One could almost draw a parallel with mob bosses trying to screw over Trump to the Democrats trying to screw him over.
Well that's when you're grateful that along with your forward collision prevention, your car's ABS and electronic stability control systems are also still enabled.

As for tailgating, this seems to be a problem with U.S. attitudes, not vehicle mechanics. Stop making it acceptable to tailgate! If you're close enough to the vehicle in front of you that any significant braking on its part will cause you to hit it you are too close and it's your fault if you hit it.
reddit would be a much better place, that's for sure.
That’s funny, I just enabled location sharing with friends in gmaps, and I enjoy the timeline view where I can click a day on the calendar and it shows everywhere I have been.
>usecase

Dynamo db handles burst traffic (scaling up and down on server count) better than mssql. Dynamo also handles big data better than sql.

The last time I tried (2015) no amount of indexing or sharding was allowing for decent performance on joins across tables with 300+ million rows in sql server. I've seen dynmodb used in map reduce functions with more data.

Dynamo also doesn't completely suck at typical transcational work, and it's convient to have one datasource across the warehouse and application layers.
more realistically than the OP, americans endlessly bickering at each other about pro/anti-trump/anti-hillary sentiments during the 2016 election, and posting links to both "fake news" websites, "real news", snopes, etc.
Also curious...
I don't see many people in the US carrying Android devices. Everyone I see seems to have iPhone. Android is more concentrated in Asian and South American countries IMO.
I highly doubt you did those things you claim, because if you did you wouldn't say people "choose" to work two jobs and that it's just a matter of "deciding" to stop being poor.
> algorithmic jail

Not sure if that's succinctly prescient or absurdly reductionist. But it would certainly describe the age we have entered.
>That's an odd brag. I might be from a bygone era but it used to be the case that filesystems were particularly conservative and rollouts equally so. Getting one deployed in "record time" is hardly difficult because everyone else is so conservative it can take tens of years in some cases.

Point missed entirely.

The "hard part" they've managed is getting it right (with few/no incidents) in record time, not just getting it out on record time.
I disabled most of it 12 months ago, not just because of privacy but because they were continually in my face attempting to make the data useful through google now. Through no prompting google worked out where I lived and would "notify" me of my commute time every morning, except it didn't realize I was taking PT and traffic didn't affect me. Every time I had lunch at the train station it would notify me of train delays, even though I wasn't catching the train and had already left the station. More than once it notified me of a delayed flight that wasn't really delayed. So all the data I was giving to google was a net negative to me.

Disabling everything is only the start though because google does a really poor job of actually respecting this. The maps app is constantly prompting me to re-enable the tracking. I'm forever one dark pattern or one urgent "just f-ing work" instance away from re-enabling this tracking. For most cases It's easier to give up google products entirely rather than be eternally and infallibly vigilant when I use my phone.
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> What is it about Americans that make them believe that things that work perfectly well in many other countries (publicly funded television, gun control, universal healthcare) are impossible?

What gave you the impression that I am an American? I, unfortunately, am one who had to endure the non stop propaganda perpetuated through state run media in my country.

> reporting is much better than the commercial news

How do you decide it is 'much better'? Could it be that you just happen to agree with it? (or not). Since you mentioned America, there are lots of people in America who take Fox News as sole source of truth. And perhaps equally large group who regard MSNBC as such.

And it's pretty interesting to observe that you pulled the conversation right into politically charged topics of healthcare and gun, when I was merely pointing out that news is indeed valuable, and there is always bound to be this friction between the profit oriented but free of government influence vs state run media.
In case 2, losing weight is still down to diet and exercise, it's just that these options aren't currently available to you. Neither of these options is at the root of the causal tree (if you can will to change your diet an exercise, there's a reason why) but they're both required at some level.
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I guess I dont see what is wrong with what I'm saying. Apple does refuse to do these things.

I'm not at all saying that people shouldn't have the right to choose. In fact, I stongly agree that if someone does want to use Apple's software, they should, and damned what I say.

I'm just pointing out that the poster was continuing to spread a myth that we have no proof of, and in fact we have evidence pointing in opposition of.

I stongly want people to make their own choices, but more importantly, I want them to be properly educated before making those choices.
Except your competition may get a lock on the supply contract because they were early-adopters. Or they figure out how Tesla is doing it, and risk competing with Tesla, outcompeting you.

Companies that don't innovate better be ready to be disrupted.
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I love Asus networking products.

The N generation like the RT-N12 is dirt cheap now. I deploy them in client offices and they have uptime measured in years.

It's not WiFi Ac and I don't care. It stays stable, has guest WiFi networks, and usable firmware.
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Already have one, perfect child, active, social, caring, chatty, curious, definitely nowhere near the spectrum. Which is a relief because on her mother's side there's a brother on the spectrum.
But I'm able to spend a lot of time with my little family, so that makes it easy for me to grow with our child, make sure she doesn't feel rejected because I'm a weird guy.
This is a very big deal if they can make it practical (that's a very big if).
I totally agree with you except on one point:

> there is no technology that would make the product viable

Unless it's only a matter of R&D before we have vehicles that can fly without blowing air around. It's plausible that a technology may exist in the future which makes this viable.
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If people were to switch from using Facebook to Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp it would be hugely destructive to Facebook's market cap.
In Europe we have a lot of roundabouts that work the opposite way, priority is given to anyone inside/exiting the roundabout, which would seem easier to handle for automated systems.
One can only speculate at this point, but the only thing consistent about Uber is their recklessness and disregard for others.
Im sorry, but I cant take any of what you are saying seriously. You can ignore the facts all you want, but an uncomfortable truth is still true.
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No, the roundabout rule is that a vehicle entering a roundabout must give way to any vehicle already on the roundabout, or a tram that is entering or approaching the roundabout.

See the Australian Road Rules, Part 9: https://www.pcc.gov.au/uniform/Australian-Road-Rules-19March...

If you are approaching the roundabout and someone enters it from your left before you get there, you have to give way to them.
This is a good article for educating people that we need machines and implants to be complete beings. Classic illuminati thinking that people will most likely embrace once cute implants are available in white, rounded plastic with names such as memory pod :)
That's basically it; control for economic situation, race, etc and then evaluate advice and tips based on that.

1. Statistical anomaly is interesting, and it is where I spend time reflecting on advice I give people that I mentor. Is given advice wise? or just bragging? or just flat out bad.

For the article, I think it is good advice. Open minds see more possibilities and can see more things to try. However, you need resources to try multiple things.
Thinking about it, this actually reminds me of an eerily similar anecdote from a completely different context. Researchers tried to use an evolutionary algorithm to evolve a robot that could walk (in a computer physics simulation). Since none of the initial randomly generated robots could make consistent forward progress, they started out by optimizing for maximum distance traveled before coming to a complete stop. As the evolution proceeded, the robots kept making it farther and farther, until they seemed to hit a limit. When the researches looked at what the robots had evolved into, they realized that the robots had evolved to simply fall forward and roll or slide as far as possible. The limit they hit was the farthest a robot within the designated size constraints could possibly fall. This was obviously an evolutionary dead end from the perspective of evolving a walking robot.
All the more reason to get rid of companies like Uber, who endanger the entire self-driving endeavour with their habitual reckless behaviour.
> My first encounter with racism in search was in 2009 when I was talking to a friend who causally mentioned one day, “You should see what happens when you Google ‘black girls.’” I did and was stunned.

> These are the details of what a search for “black girls” would yield for many years, despite that the words “p__n,” “p__nography,” or “s*x” were not included in the search box

Nonsense. The writer doesn't show the search results for "White Girls" in 2009. I bet it would be very similar.

Of course, there's no way to confirm that now, is there, since Google have long fixed their search results to include or exclude NSFW, enable 'safe search' and such, and the author did a search only for 'black girls' in 2009 to "confirm" his hunches.
Especially in China, almost all the android apps will steal your personal info, such as all your contracts, all your sms, all your photos, all other apps and etc.
I tend to not be logged in for the times I use their search engine. This is easily achieved by using the tab containers in Firefox. So for my mail, I'm logged in in a tab container. So when I go searching at their search engine, I just press Ctrl-t to open a tab (which isn't the same container as I'm logged in) and search.

I was surprised of how little data they had just by doing this.
yeah, evolution deals with "dna-jail" by mutating to a certain degree. and we already see that in the recommended clips algorithm by YT. we are occasionally offered stuff from outside your bubble.
Oculus has a strong network effect? Since when? Here in India its next to zero.
Last time this came up, in Google Solve for X in 2013, it was quickly picked part in physics forums by scientists.

It's a brainchild of Thomas McGuire, aerospace engineer who has studied some fusion in the graduate school. His team don's seem know what they are doing.

I wish there would be betting market for this kind of stuff.

edit: Here is actual critique from plasma physics laboratory
http://www.ipp.mpg.de/3787558/cfr
I actually trust the waymo cars more than regular ones now when I'm on my bicycle or motorcycle. Granted they are absurdly "cautious drivers" and can be mildly annoying to be stuck behind in a car.
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Yeah, when running on my gamer ring.

Android Studio's performance made me loose interess on JetBrain products.

Xeon class CPU, SSD and at least 16 GB RAM should be written on the box.
Do we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater? We can have regulation that bans the use personal information for political ads but allows it for toothpaste ads
This is helpful for illustrating the manipulative nature of a society which has normalized unexplainable support of brands and advertising.

Of course, the reasons to believe (2) and (3) were enacted as a means to a different end are bottomless. They were accomplished by undermining our cultural, emotional, existential perceptions of the world we live in and depleting our capacity to make intelligent decisions.

How was this accomplished? By advertising; the same things motivating Facebook’s entire business model. (and Google’s)

Our campaign financing norms are absurd, and have unruprisingly ruining our whole political complex.
I don’t have a professionally calibrated evil-meter...

But I’ll tell you why I trust Comcast and Verizon more than Facebook and Gooogle... the former two are completely honest about what they are, the latter two are not.

Typed on an iPhone because Apple is right upfront about what it is the do and how they make money.