> In many ways OF feels like a positive step because it allows the removal of toxic middlemen that stand between the model and their customer.
Wait, are you intentionally ignoring the fact that OF is the middleman? Because it definitely is, making about 1 billion dollars off of 5 billion dollars of transactions. Or are you saying OF is a "good non-toxic middleman".
If OnlyFans is taking a 20% cut and Apple is taking a 30% cut of transactions on their platform, it seems that Apple is 50% more toxic than OnlyFans.
I've never done business with them and am not interested in buying that kind of content, but it certainly seems like an improvement over any more traditional sex-related work for those who are interested in being in that market.
I don’t know the ins and outs (pun intended) of Onlyfans but it certainly seems considerably less toxic than a lot of pornography producers, based on past stories I’ve read. If your numbers are correct a 20% take is orders of magnitude better than previous arrangements.
There's always someone who will reply with something along the lines of "I don't use anything I learned in school on the job" or "Software engineering is not about coding, it's about X"
With due respect, in my experience as someone who did not major in CS, it was a rough first few years because I had weak knowledge of data structures, almost no knowledge of computer networking (showed itself why managing containers etc), didn't know even the very basics of bash/linux.
Nowadays, when I work with CS majors vs non majors, it has noticeably been more difficult to get the latter group up to speed and productive. Of course there have been notable exceptions (there always are when it comes to people matters)
100% likely depends on what you’re doing but I work in FAANGY tech and if anything CS majors lag behind people with real work experience, any real work experience. DA&A is not relevant to writing a CRUD app or service. It’s not relevant to collaborating or getting things done.
For a single manager setup, high concentration is one of the best ways to beat the market. Not necessarily the best way to invest, but if you want to have a shot at beating the market (and you're not using a specific trading strategy(ies) a la Rentech) you need to hold concentrated portfolio. Then you just try to get as much attention on CNN as possible when you're picks are doing well and stay out of the limelight as much as possible when you picked wrong.
"When I graduated from MIT in 2008, I failed many job interviews. I claimed "The people hired over me are not better. They are just good at interviewing." My poor attitude kept the number of job offers at zero. Eventually I learned that all of my successful classmates had spent time to prepare. So I solved a few practice problems and landed a job with Microsoft in Redmond."
