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by SippinLean 8y ago
It looks like it's made to appear as much like non-ad content as it possibly can while still maintaining plausible deniability on your part. We stopped advertising on reddit after the rise of the_donald and other white supremacy subs l
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by SippinLean 8y ago
Was anyone else unable to scroll through the article? The entire page is wrapped in a div with position:fixed applied to it. Also some funny TODO's in the page source: TODO: Add real logo for DMN TODO: Add articleBody if analytic
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by SippinLean 8y ago
Time Warner Cable the company no longer exists. It was acquired by Charter Communications. Time Warner Cable the internet brand also no longer exists. It was rebranded as Spectrum (Charter's existing brand).
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by SippinLean 8y ago
>The events that literally shook the foundations of the financial system Was there an earthquake at the NYSE?
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by SippinLean 8y ago
I was a fan of this palindromic short story (also in honor of the year 2002): http://spinelessbooks.com/2002/palindrome/
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by SippinLean 8y ago
>comments that are considered valuable are voted up I don't believe you're naive enough to believe this is the whole truth. If you are, take a look at this thread, where the parent comment (that you compared to other irrelevant
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by SippinLean 8y ago
>How would the share size impact the SEC's decision in this regard? Critical to the SEC's decision is investor access to the products, so that less knowledgeable investors are protected from unsound investments. A higher share
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by SippinLean 8y ago
You're comparing the parent comment to other irrelevant comments elsewhere, in implicit agreement with me. This article is about a specific ETF. How many people upvoting the parent comment understand that, say, the Winklevoss ETF was s
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by SippinLean 8y ago
I'm aware. What makes the parent comment particularly relevant to VanEck's ETF vs all other threads about Bitcoin?
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by SippinLean 8y ago
> specifically
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by SippinLean 8y ago
Cool. What does that have to do with the SEC postponing its decision on whether to approve VanEck's ETF backed by Bitcoin, specifically?
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by SippinLean 8y ago
That isn't an example of OCD. Perhaps OCPD but generally just seeking order.
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by SippinLean 8y ago
Complicated even more by shopper loyalty programs. Following Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods, now checking out involves an extra step: the cashier asks every patron "Are you a Prime member?" Then a number of things can ha
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by SippinLean 8y ago
You probably shouldn't trust AB+ either (but switch to uBlock instead) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_...
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by SippinLean 8y ago
So did they change their mind regarding cryptocurrency being ‘frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices’ or did they just decide they wanted to profit off of it again?
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by SippinLean 8y ago
Thanks, this looks helpful. If you have a friend who's a native English speaker you might ask them to read it over for you. There's some awkward phrasing and tenses used throughout (I'm guessing you're European). Not com
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by SippinLean 8y ago
>I was unaware that Mexico has mass political repression Interesting, then you should really read almost any basic summary of Mexico's current government. http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/23/obama-pena
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by SippinLean 8y ago
Github still uses floats for page layout?! In my flexbox-capable browser?
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by SippinLean 8y ago
>I appreciate that it's the only major nav app that doesn't constantly record my position in the cloud. What do you mean? It certainly stores your location history, albeit it's not as precise as Google Maps.
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by SippinLean 8y ago
It's an advertisement for Eero and (a competitor) Google Wifi? One that calls out their comparatively high price? One that does not disclose itself as an advertisement? Seems like that would go against their own advertising policy:
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by SippinLean 8y ago
Time Warner's cable business was spun off as Time Warner Cable , which Charter Communications later acquired. Charter's cable/internet/tv brand is Spectrum.
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by SippinLean 8y ago
There's a Facetime-quality video chat app that runs on Apple and non-Apple hardware already, it's called Google Duo
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by SippinLean 8y ago
>Better Window Management YES! Please add native Snap in MacOS (and native Exposé in Windows).
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by SippinLean 8y ago
I had no idea how this clickbait even made it on HN, until I realized OP just spams all their own blogposts on here
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by SippinLean 8y ago
Bitcoin's protocol has no central actor to disproportionately redistribute new investors' money to old investors, a Ponzi scheme would be impossible.
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by SippinLean 8y ago
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. A review on Goodreads sums up the introspective qualities quite well: >it is a loping colloquy between Faith and its mate Reason, Free Will and its mate Fate; I read in it that I should make my way We
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by SippinLean 8y ago
I highly encourage all my competitors to use this immediately
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by SippinLean 8y ago
This article is more about typographic considerations for charts, not replacing graphics. Chartwell is a neat hack made by clever people, but on the web we should eschew icon fonts. Your interface should not rely on custom typefaces making
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by SippinLean 8y ago
>>Most of the big mining operations are run on 100% renewable energy sources. >Admit it, you just made this up. I thought both Bitmain and Bitfury were using renewable energy in places like Canada and Iceland?
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by SippinLean 8y ago
>WebKit in Safari now supports loading H.264 encoded MP4 video with an HTML tag. I was confused by this sentence, but it actually says "HTML <IMG> tag" (the "<IMG>" part of the text is unescaped, and does

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