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There is a huge audience for AI-generated content on YouTube, though admittedly many of them are oblivious to the fact that they are watching AI-generated content. Here are several…

This brings to mind one of my favorite TV shows, One Outs. It's about the strategies that a clever and "unsportsmanlike" player brings to a baseball team, exploiting the rules whil…

This actually sounds like the opposite of what Michael Crichton described. The Gell-Mann Amnesia occurs when, due to your domain expertise, you are able to see when a publication d…

Unclear. We know how authors get paid for Kindle Unlimited because KDP is a self-publishing platform that anyone can use and Amazon has pages that explain everything when you go th…

Note: this thread is about Kindle Unlimited , which has a different monetization/payment model than regular Kindle ebooks. KU readers do not "buy" KU ebooks, any more than Netflix …

Authors get paid monthly, approximately two months after the royalties are earned. So if you have a KU subscription and you read 20% of a KU book in January, the author will get pa…

Again: Netflix. For. eBooks. It used to be that if Blockbuster wanted to rent out Raiders of the Lost Ark to six different customers simultaneously, they needed to own 6 VHS copies…

The post you are responding to is about Kindle Unlimited , and not regular Kindle ebooks. Kindle Unlimited, as stated in the post, is Amazon's subscription service where people pay…

Your intuitions are correct; romance novels and thriller novels tend to be the most successful genres on Kindle Unlimited. Different pricing/distribution models attract different k…

My understanding is that Netflix just pays a fixed, pre-agreed amount up front (either paying a licensing fee for existing content, or funding the production of their own Netflix o…

Since you seem to have missed the point of my "Netflix for ebooks" analogy (which you quoted): Kindle Unlimited is a subscription service where users can pay $10/month for unlimite…

This is apparently how older Kindle models worked, which has made them an attack vector for fraud on Kindle Unlimited: > KDP [Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon's self-publishing pla…

One of the selling points for Kindle is that if you switch devices partway through (e.g. switch from reading on your tablet to reading on your phone, or switch from reading the ebo…

I'm not sure I relate to Paul Graham's experience of finding being a "noob" unpleasant -- if anything, I find it's the opposite, because any time you're a "noob," there's so much l…

>>while this meeting can be gotten out of, it requires some sort of excuse, and an individual's consistent absence is considered a mild crisis for the group. >any religious group t…

Japanese 21st century light novel titles have a long way to go if they want to catch up with 18th century book titles, like 12 Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen o…

The only real issue RSS has is that ads have to be baked in. Sadly I don't know if we could have an open system with personalized ads. They've already figured out how to do this. I…

There's not a lot of "discipline" that goes into paying off your credit card each month (in the sense of practice); my credit card auto-debits from my checking account at the end o…

I'm a full-time freelancer/remote worker. In late 2016, I made the decision to move to Pittsburgh, partly persuaded Paul Graham's talk about how Pittsburgh could become a startup h…

I recommend reading the submission you're commenting on, as this is actually answered in the article: “Sometimes we’ll start on a trailer before they’ve even started filming,” Grit…

has a pre-trailer to the trailer If you're wondering why this is done, it's because when the trailer is shown on Youtube as a pre-roll ad, users have the ability to "skip" the ad a…

I actually found myself doing somewhat similar when playing digital card games like Magic: The Gathering online and Shadowverse: I would "think out loud" and talk through the lines…

Are you on Android? I had a similar problem with my Pixel 2 last year, and I've seen other Android users report similar issues with other bluetooth headsets. Under Android develope…

The author of the article also seems to imply that FDA approval is the only process by which a treatment could be "proven effective." There are many treatments that are already ava…

why is robbing one person an offense that gets incarceration, but robbing a hundred people may not even get you prosecuted? In the latter case (where you describe "robbing a hundre…