Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
Newegg still benefits simply from you doing business with them. Presumably they are not using a loss-leader strategy - so every sale is still profitable. There are a lot of vendors out there, it isn't generally feasible to price shop all o
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by Amadou 13y ago
There is something about being human that people walking in a group tend to end up walking in lockstep. Not a military marching level of synchronization, but far more regular than random. I first noticed myself doing it as a child and sin
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by Amadou 13y ago
> Why is okay to tell my sisters that they should all be ashamed of themselves? That's begging the question. It isn't about telling people to be ashamed of themselves at all. It is about changing society to have more appreciation for
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by Amadou 13y ago
True. The problem is getting paid. The client can agree to a ridiculous rate, but actually collecting is a whole different story. My gut says clients with red flags like this will be exceptionally difficult to collect from.
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by Amadou 13y ago
> It seems odd to me that people are up in arms about the tech now, especially since you can build a rudimentary ALPR with just a webcam and the right image processing algorithms. That is precisely why people are up in arms. What was o
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm just speculating out loud here... They can mandate a minimum playback size, but do they mandate a minimum playback fps? If you played the video back at a rate of 1/60fps (dropping all intermediate frames) would that satisfy their requir
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by Amadou 14y ago
Yes, the only way to go is your own domain. Use an add-on like Virtual Identity for Thunderbird to keep track of which From address goes with which recipient. https://www.absorb.it/virtual-id (their cert seems to have expired over the wee
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by Amadou 14y ago
> I do know there exists the kind of super-supportive fan who will buy digitally and then also buy the physical cd as an expression of support ... I think they're a negligible percentage. I agree, I think that expecting fans to buy your
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by Amadou 14y ago
Not to mention the fact that referrers are an optional part of the http spec, so requiring them is bad form to begin with.
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by Amadou 14y ago
I like those "you have unsubscribed" emails for another reason beyond what you layed out. I collect them so that I can keep a record of what I've unsubscribed from, so if I ever get spam from them again I don't have any doubt as to whether
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by Amadou 14y ago
As an American I've come the same conclusion. But it is a cowardly conclusion. We need to take our medicine and correct the wrong-doings of Gitmo. I don't really care if it costs a couple of hundred million dollars, that's chump change c
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by Amadou 14y ago
The column does not directly mention H1B, but it is clear that H1B is the subtext. Here are a couple of points not mentioned. The top 10 H1B employers account for about half of the visas issued in recent years. All 10 are contract houses t
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by Amadou 14y ago
It might make more sense to switch between the type of peer based on the type of network connection. If the phone is currently connected to wifi, then run as a contributing peer. If the phone is only on 3G/4G/LTE/etc then switch to being
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by Amadou 14y ago
"Unknown" musician Alex Day released his album on the same day as Timberlake and one day in, was ahead on the iTunes sales Chart. I'm sure that didn't last, but the guy reports making more than $5K/month on youtube and $15K/month from musi
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by Amadou 14y ago
> and being a transfer doesn't make you ineligible for financial aid! That isn't necessarily the case. A close friend of mine attended a school (Bradley University, admittedly not ivy league) that gave a full ride to national merit sch
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by Amadou 14y ago
I can't say what FB did here with much confidence - its an anecodte. But I'd like to point out that it isn't hard to reverse engineer the information out of FB. Buy a targeted ad and then watch the click-throughs. Cross reference the cli
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by Amadou 14y ago
Facebook has friended Datalogix which tracks grocery purchases via loyalty cards. I would not be surprised if that's how facebook found out he bought the sauce. http://www.dailywireless.org/2012/09/24/facebook-data-linked... They have a
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by Amadou 14y ago
I actually have a domain like that too. I just like mailinator because I know I'm never going to want their email so I don't even have to put in a rule to block out. On a related note, some spammers have really done a number on me. First
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by Amadou 14y ago
Blocking third-party cookies does practically nothing to prevent such tracking. Web-bugs and supercookies, just for starters, are immune to that. Install Ghostery to get all the low-hanging fruit - you'll probably want to tweak-up the sett
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by Amadou 14y ago
100% accuracy is never going to be possible. In fact I wouldn't be surprised to see a price structure for targeted advertisements based on confidence intervals.
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by Amadou 14y ago
I use mailinator for pretty much every site that wants an email address. Pick an obscure enough address and your risks are minimized to practically nothing but you get all the convenience of "deleting" your account simply by never thinking
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by Amadou 14y ago
If this hack well and truly only modifies the PCI ID, then it follows that all of the performance difference is in the drivers - maybe with different firmware downloads on initialization, or maybe just the API exposed to applications. How w
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by Amadou 14y ago
What you are talking about is a secured loan. There all kinds of loans which are not secured - like credit cards.
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by Amadou 14y ago
While it is possible to argue about analogies til the end of days, I don't think your analogy quite captures the essence of what is going on with the DMCA. Allow me to present a refinement: There exists one law that says it is only legal to
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by Amadou 14y ago
> No. In my experience it's not the ad companies that ask for them. It's usually the advertiser That is a distinction without a difference.
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by Amadou 14y ago
I agree, I think it is just a small escalation in the arms race. Personally, I'd rather have tools that pollute the data being collected rather than just blocking it. Imagine a firefox add-on that keeps entirely seperate "cookie jars" base
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by Amadou 14y ago
KISS Privacy is kinda sorta like RequestPolicy for chrome. http://silentorbit.com/kiss/
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by Amadou 14y ago
I'm sure what I am about to say is no great insight here on HN, but I like saying it so here it is: There are two kinds of advertising: 1) Advertising that helps you find what you need 2) Advertising that convinces you to spend money you wo
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by Amadou 14y ago
Social change (without revolution) doesn't come until enough of the already empowered embrace it. So it may seem trivial to those of us that have seen far worse, but the alternative is for the white and rich to never hear about the proble
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by Amadou 14y ago
Except that, according to the author, he was accused of refusing to stop taking pictures. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, it seems reasonable for him to critise the airline based on their words, even if he suspects their words are not

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