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Re: What Happens Next Will Amaze You

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Post by pjc50 »

renlo wrote: post #16

When websites become regulated web developers will be like the general contractors of today. Only licensed web developers will be able to legally build websites, keeping everything up to the regulatory code. There will be inspectors and red tape. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Building codes are there for a reason. Have we had our equivalent of Tacoma Narrows or Triangle Shirtwaist yet? The event that Schneier said would be the "privacy Exxon Valdez"? Possibly the OPM hack qualifies as the latter.

Provided we get codes that recognise the difference between personal, small business, and large business, it won't be so bad.

Re: What Happens Next Will Amaze You

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Post by Paul_S »

I don't understand the disdain for technically literate people shown a few times in the article. Solving the problems is the better solution but in the face of how impossible it is due to the changing landscape maybe it would be a good idea to educate tech illiterate people instead. I think it's a viable alternative with possible positive side-effects of getting enough momentum to make legal solutions possible as well.

Additionally, sad news is that there a lot of people who don't care about their privacy or the homeless however hard you find that to believe.

Re: What Happens Next Will Amaze You

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Post by kaybe »

mozumder wrote: post #2

The correct answer is to never use programmatic ads. Ever. If you own a site, just curate a set of ads on your site that actually enhances your sites appeal. A fashion site should have matching fashion ads. A tech site should have matching tech ads. A local site should have matching local ads. Reach out to advertisers to get these ads. Never use an algorithm. You, as an editor, should be better than the algorithms. A…

My current setup blocks almost all ads by simply blocking trackers. It's ridiculous, really, since there is no targeted adblocking going on.

The only ads I see are native ones like you describe, and they're usually actually useful.

Re: What Happens Next Will Amaze You

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Post by bsaul »

mozumder wrote: post #2

The correct answer is to never use programmatic ads. Ever. If you own a site, just curate a set of ads on your site that actually enhances your sites appeal. A fashion site should have matching fashion ads. A tech site should have matching tech ads. A local site should have matching local ads. Reach out to advertisers to get these ads. Never use an algorithm. You, as an editor, should be better than the algorithms. A…

That would be an idea for an alternate ad network. Simply let website owners select ads, every week, to be displayed. Or in order to scale better, create pre-agreements for some brands.

Ad networks work by letting you select categories, but not much more. Obviously that's because they want to keep control and maximize short-term revenues.

Re: What Happens Next Will Amaze You

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Post by buffoon »

dagw wrote: post #44
coldtea wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? What have SpaceX and Tesla done "for the world"? Provide rich people with electric sports cars?

Tesla has shown that electric cars can be both viable and cool. Even if if Tesla itself remains a niche car, Tesla should get the credit if/when in the future electric cars become the norm. In addition Tesla is betting big on making better batteries. If they can pull that off then that will end up being their true legacy with the whole car thing becoming a neat historical footnote. As for SpaceX they'll go down in hi…

I don't think Musk has proven anything yet but has given people some hope that things are certainly possible.

I genuinely don't believe we need electric cars though at all. We need less travel and transport and redistribution of facilities and skills. That's a much bigger problem. At the moment, the hub/spoke and centralised model of society has no redundancy and providing ubiquitous cheap transport isn't going to solve that, just make the problem hang on longer by forcing people to remain sitting on their butts on a freeway in a slightly better car rolling into a job they could probably do at home or doesn't need it exist anyway.

Also batteries need to be filled up, recycled, disposed of still. We'll see how that goes shall we...

SpaceX isn't fundamentally changing the model of anything, just packaging the same turd differently. That might be to build capital (customers = capital) but there isn't anything fundamentally different to what they are doing at the 10,000ft level. ESA have had a similar model for a couple of decades.

Re: What Happens Next Will Amaze You

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Post by gozo »

dagw wrote: post #50
gozo wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well. If SpaceX succeeds in its goal of making putting things in space significantly cheaper, they could enable a lot of nasty things like weapons in space, global surveillance systems, increased use of military drones etc.

The reason the military is or isn't putting weapons in space has nothing to do with launch costs.

I guess that your opinion. The point is when you change the variables you change the outcome and it won't magically be for the better, especially since there's little precedence. It's pointless to loose karma over this on HN though when I can and regularly do talk about it with actual aerospace engineers.

Re: What Happens Next Will Amaze You

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Post by zero-rated »

icelancer wrote: post #20
jay_kyburz wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was actually my plan (sort of) for my online sci-fi strategy game Neptune's Pride when I ditched AdSense. I was going to hand select things on Amazon that my players would be interested in. Science Fiction books, dvd box sets, that kind of thing. Then present them to the players with my affiliate code where I would normally show a google ad. I didn't fully implement the idea because I think the affiliate rewards…

My company's blog does this for related products that we don't personally sell in our online shop. It's good to the tune for $10k/year without trying much, but you have to get good at writing the copy into real blog posts, not just random spam. It works pretty well. Conversion rate post-click of about 8.5% this month.

If you don't mind, please drop a link to your company blog. It's good to see examples.

Re: What Happens Next Will Amaze You

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Post by dagw »

gozo wrote: post #57
dagw wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason the military is or isn't putting weapons in space has nothing to do with launch costs.

I guess that your opinion. The point is when you change the variables you change the outcome and it won't magically be for the better, especially since there's little precedence. It's pointless to loose karma over this on HN though when I can and regularly do talk about it with actual aerospace engineers.

I will certainly concede that there are scenarios where it works out to be for the worse. However I don't believe that any of those scenarios involve military weapon platforms. I am however more than happy to hear arguments as to why I am wrong.

Re: What Happens Next Will Amaze You

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Post by EwanToo »

pja wrote: post #22
rplnt wrote: post #14

I know HN is pedantic about original titles, but shitty ones like this are better to be edited.

In this case, the URL alone is enough to tell you that it’s probably worth reading.

It's not, unless you already know the kind of content it carries.

It's a terrible title...

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