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Re: How Craigslist Makes Money

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Post by creepydata »

hackunomatter wrote: post #128
fragmede wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Airplane travel is a good example where you just end up chasing the dragon. You start by wanting to make enough money to take a trip every once in a while. Then the cheapest economy class tickets aren't good enough - start making more money, and you just buy a ticket, no need to spend an hour finding that perfect ticket. Then economy class isn't good enough, so you get business class seats. Then you get lounge access…

I like to say (not sure if it's original or not), "anyone who says 'money doesn't buy happiness' has never traveled First Class". I got bumped into FC once, and it. was. amazing. Especially on a long haul flight, you actively enjoy the time spent there.

I flew first class once. It's the difference between being uncomfortable and being slightly less uncomfortable.

Re: How Craigslist Makes Money

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Post by creepydata »

SimbaOnSteroids wrote: post #105
accountyaccount wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair point. I just don't relate to what pushes a wealthy person down the path of ludicrous wealth. Do they really just love doing what they're doing?

Power and influence, setting up your kids for that life, your grandkids for that life, or they just enjoy it.

The kids blow the wealth more often than not and the grandkids spend every last dime of what the kids couldn't.

http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/

(That's ignoring the fact that people who grow up 'set for life' tend to be truly terrible human beings)

Re: How Craigslist Makes Money

#163

Post by derefr »

ouid wrote: post #142
derefr wrote: post #133

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Craigslist are so quiet about their tech; I'm surprised there's even that much. I'd love to hear their opinions on operating some of those things at scale, given that their problems are likely much more like those of the average CRUD-y SaaS business (scaled up) than they are like those of e.g. Twitter or Facebook, who have to care about things like "realtime demand-based geographic read-only partial replication of ev…

I believe this based on a thing I think I read a long time ago, but isn't all of CL's tech focused solely on preventing any indexing of the site? It's no wonder they would keep it quiet.

I would like to believe this, but given the amount of spam that gets posted to CL—and given how well a sophisticated, heuristic anti-indexing WAF would block spambot request traffic as a simple side-effect—I find the idea a bit dubious.

Re: How Craigslist Makes Money

#164

Post by nunez »

ouid wrote: post #142
derefr wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Craigslist are so quiet about their tech; I'm surprised there's even that much. I'd love to hear their opinions on operating some of those things at scale, given that their problems are likely much more like those of the average CRUD-y SaaS business (scaled up) than they are like those of e.g. Twitter or Facebook, who have to care about things like "realtime demand-based geographic read-only partial replication of ev…

I believe this based on a thing I think I read a long time ago, but isn't all of CL's tech focused solely on preventing any indexing of the site? It's no wonder they would keep it quiet.

that cant be right given how you can find cl pages on google

Re: How Craigslist Makes Money

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Post by nunez »

njarboe wrote: post #126
fivestar wrote: post #103

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Hell, I have just over 1/10th and I'm trying to extract myself from the workaday life. What is truly ridiculous is that I can't yet do so, largely due to the high cost of buying health insurance yourself. It's like the whole US is designed around debt slavery and moving the goalposts further and further out. $5-10M is probably the low bar for living a kick-ass non-tied-to-employment lifestyle in the US. Certainly peo…

I imagine you have heard of the Mr Money Mustache and his wife who became financially independent at age ~30 with both of them just working regular tech jobs. You should check out his blog[1] if you haven't. His philosophy is low spending while still having "kick-ass life". Offspring, travel, great food, etc. They own their house and spend about $25,000 per year. [1] http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

yes they went financially indy by becoming super duper frugal which is kind of like saying one can stay skinny if they ate 1200 cals a day without ever eating out

sustainable for some but not for everyone

Re: How Craigslist Makes Money

#166

Post by bognition »

DGCA wrote: post #115
donniefitz2 wrote: post #100

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I had to copy the text and paste it into Notepad to actually read the article.

Have a bookmarklet: javascript:(function()%7Bwindow.location.href %3D 'https%3A%2F%2Foutline.com%2F' %2B window.location.href%7D)() It'll open the article using https://outline.com/ . E.g. https://outline.com/xX7xe3

Wow

Re: How Craigslist Makes Money

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Post by detaro »

nunez wrote: post #164
ouid wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe this based on a thing I think I read a long time ago, but isn't all of CL's tech focused solely on preventing any indexing of the site? It's no wonder they would keep it quiet.

that cant be right given how you can find cl pages on google

or they just decided to allow Google?

Re: How Craigslist Makes Money

#168

Post by nunez »

fragmede wrote: post #119
accountyaccount wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair point. I just don't relate to what pushes a wealthy person down the path of ludicrous wealth. Do they really just love doing what they're doing?

Airplane travel is a good example where you just end up chasing the dragon. You start by wanting to make enough money to take a trip every once in a while. Then the cheapest economy class tickets aren't good enough - start making more money, and you just buy a ticket, no need to spend an hour finding that perfect ticket. Then economy class isn't good enough, so you get business class seats. Then you get lounge access…

spoken from experience i bet :)

i can relate on the buying tickets thing. i used to buy tickets on priceline but after travelling every week for a year, i buy directly from american and buy first if the price delta isn't crazy (i always buy prem economy though because anything else is asking for a bad time

Re: How Craigslist Makes Money

#169

Post by nunez »

creepydata wrote: post #161
hackunomatter wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like to say (not sure if it's original or not), "anyone who says 'money doesn't buy happiness' has never traveled First Class". I got bumped into FC once, and it. was. amazing. Especially on a long haul flight, you actively enjoy the time spent there.

I flew first class once. It's the difference between being uncomfortable and being slightly less uncomfortable.

not on international flights from what i hear

Re: How Craigslist Makes Money

#170

Post by nunez »

creepydata wrote: post #162
SimbaOnSteroids wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Power and influence, setting up your kids for that life, your grandkids for that life, or they just enjoy it.

The kids blow the wealth more often than not and the grandkids spend every last dime of what the kids couldn't. http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/ (That's ignoring the fact that people who grow up 'set for life' tend to be truly terrible human beings)

who cares what happens when you're dead
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