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The value of outstanding loans of students in England at the end of March 2019 reached £121 billion

One reason Replit's revenue is growing so fast is that they're in the equivalent of a high-performance climb. They weren't just sitting around doing nothing during the preceding years of slower growth. They were building the stuff that's helping them grow fast now.

In an era of fierce competition and shifting demographic loyalties, it’s more important than ever for social platforms to keep their influencers engaged.

Yes, but it has not become that popular. Why is that? I would argue a lot of it is because there is no central namespace. The user experience with Mastodon is the same with RSS. You cannot just go by cdixon on Mastodon, you are cdixon at a server. A lot of why Twitter won is that, opposed to RSS, they had a global namespace. The problem with RSS... See more

Major new mediums change the structure of discourse. Books demand that you sit still and pay attention for long periods. Television’s demands on you are much different.

Substack, Twitter Revue, all these have eased up the production of content, you don't need to code and set up a newsletter logistics now, but your distribution is still broken, you still need an existing audience for the *reach.*