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True... though "588/user" is more digestable than "588/current user but likely accounting for future growth which is why there is a premium - though we can't be sure that userbase …

Yeah, i guess full ownership gives them all the upside/control/ability to integrate with their other projects/ambitions.

hmm you're right. I wonder why that is...maybe the percentage skew of content creators to consumers..I'm sure there's more to it too

“At a market cap of $755 billion (at point of writing) Facebook’s per user value is around $288. If Facebook is some leading indicator for the pinnacle of per user value for social…

“We’re competing against free,” Jeffrey Katzenberg says referring to the likes of youtube and social media platforms like TikTok. “We have to offer something that is meaningfully, …

The original google blog post being referenced - http://ai.googleblog.com/2020/05/federated-analytics-collabo... ‘A ctrl+f for ‘privacy’ brought the word up thirteen times – the su…

An observation as I'm just logging in/browsing for first time after the slatestarcodex shutdown post a couple of days ago and was intrigued to see NYtimes still enjoys very good en…

"Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous ex…

Edit: I'm 50:50 on whether they take the negative press hit of publishing this anyway. If they publish without name included - everyone still finds out the name of the "flippant" w…

paywalls are getting more and more effective. I remember when it used to lag and you could stop the page before the paywall kicked in!

I've heard the term seamfulness in design before without properly grasping it and it took me some time to flesh out. The basic gist as I understand it is that our experience of the…

What a beautiful way to map out the terrain - I immediately feel inspired to use this as a starting point for hobby-research projects. Only problem is now i'm inclined to check the…

Great read on the possible rationale - Summarising #1 It Hurts Google - erodes googles dominance vis a vis commercial access to geospatial data + a viable reason to collect valuabl…

"As with the carrion crow study, when these crows were presented with playback of a more familiar acoustic style—in this case a Japanese speaker—they didn’t show a strong reaction.…

Well said. I can't help the feeling that i encounter more "eager contrarians" both in real life and online (moreso online). Perhaps the way social media is though - pays to be adve…

Agree - original comment was on the meta not the specific. So where there is no specific group or context in which to place said "contrarian" - just a description of what was felt/…

As a counter-point to this being a "veiled reference" - Your comment that the article is a reference to something that's happening in the world could conceivably apply at any given…

Thanks for clarifying. Exactly what i was getting at - my "default state" was based on the Contrarian sans context (i.e. for the sake of it). Think it's an interesting thought exer…

With all due respect - I think you've oversimplified a bit. It goes without saying that "intellectual curiosity to opposing ideas is good". I think anyone would agree contrary view…

Yep - I can definitely agree with the need for checks/balances. I was just fascinated to find this implicit bias in my "starting point" and wondered if others had a similar or diff…

"algorithm shows it first to a small subset of users. These people may or may not follow the creator already, but TikTok has determined they may be more likely to engage with the v…

"You will likely have a sense of where you fall in the orbit of the group(s) you affiliate with: closer to the core or closer to the fringes of some formation. Your feelings about …