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by arbuge 7y ago
People are writing about it - saw this trending on HN just yesterday: https://prospect.org/article/how-digital-advertising-markets...
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by arbuge 7y ago
> Everyone is always asking why US healthcare is so expensive. People blame it on the insurance companies and the hospitals, but my theory is it’s the providers. I worked at Vanderbilt on their payroll system, and I would regularly see g
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by arbuge 7y ago
Brought to mind this story: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
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> For the public system, assign to every participant a true unique identifier, rather than the SSN which explicitly states should not be used as such. How do you make this proposed new unique identifier more secure than the (admittedly v
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by arbuge 7y ago
If I could suggest my company's own tool as an addition to this list, https://ReferDigital.com is an affiliate marketing platform without any signup/monthly fees, and no volume tiers at which this phases out. (It earns
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by arbuge 7y ago
One interesting anecdote about plain text not being the default in most popular email clients come from my own PublicEmails.com email-to-blog-post project. People would experiment with it and the allowed list of HTML tags for formatting ( h
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by arbuge 7y ago
Out of curiosity, how else were you thinking a search engine would be making money?
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about: Founded Wufoo (YC W06)
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> On 28 March 1945 the submarine departed from Kiel for its first training patrol in the North Sea, returning on 30 March. I find it amazing that at this point in the war when the end was imminent, they were still going through the motio
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Many in SUS haven't started a real company yet...
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by arbuge 7y ago
I'm working on ReferDigital, an affiliate partner network with no monthly or startup fees, subscription tracking (monthly commissions for the life of the customer), and some other features currently in beta. https://ReferDig
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There are many such interfaces - including free options like phplist...
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There are free alternatives to Sendy et al. I've used phplist feeding to AWS SES for many years now without issues.
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If you read the article to the end they claim they're not cybersquatting. Sounds pretty disingenuous to me. One of the rationales given is that they'll transfer the domain to the restaurant if the latter requests it. Most of those
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by arbuge 7y ago
If you want to go back to where it all began, I recommend "A Thread Across the Ocean" by John Steele Gordon: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410958.A_Thread_Across_t...
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by arbuge 7y ago
Wow - thanks for bringing that to my attention!
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by arbuge 7y ago
Anybody who finds Arabic interesting might also like to take a look at Maltese, an Arabic offshoot which is the only Semitic language written in Latin script: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language As a Maltese
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Consider this article: http://fortune.com/longform/single-family-home-ai-algorithms... If you read it, you'll find that their methods to value homes and renovations are based on algorithms written to value mortgag
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> I'm seriously considering moving to Texas because of debtor laws - any health incident can cause one to accumulate a large amount of "debt" in a hurry, and being able to tell creditors to pound sand gives a hell of a lot
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So how do they make money bidding on those keywords? Assuming a 20% conversion rate, which is probably very generous, that's £150 per customer. Is an average plumber call in London many times more expensive than that then?
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> Mr. Abuhazim tried reaching Google to explain his dilemma, but he was repeatedly routed to an offshore call center. Operators, he said, “treated me like I’m stupid.” With his businesses pushed off the first page of Google Maps results,
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> The comment form of my blog is protected by what I refer to as “naive captcha”, where the captcha term is the same every single time. This has to be the most ineffective captcha of all time, and yet it stops 99.9% of comment spam. This
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by arbuge 7y ago
Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, etc. (I'm guessing here that Craigslist and Facebook will survive.)
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Cost of global ad fraud could top $30bn(thedrum.com)
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> To make billions of dollars out of Uber, like Benchmark Capital did, the secret is to invest millions of dollars in the Series A and then allow other investors to invest the extra billions needed to scale the business and fund ongoing
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> However, given the inflation South Korea, Iran, Venezuela, and numerous countries in Africa, I find Bitcoin has a real use. South Korea doesn't belong in this list at all. > I'm sure many of those citizens do not want to b
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> Have the page redirect until ad is approved, profit? Wouldn't work - they do periodic checks after approval. Something more sophisticated appears to be going on here. >Google needs to abolish this link policy, I don't see
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It appears here that the redirection to the ebay.com destination url is not happening and that the user ends up on a different domain. That kind of situation is usually detected when ads are entered into the Google Ads* platform for review,
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> By the way, 200M is less than 2500 requests/second which is easily doable. They are probably not spready uniformly throughout the day...
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> the nearest two are V616 Mon at 11 solar masses and 3000 LY away, and Cyg X1 at 15 SM and 6000 LY. The nearest known ones, that is. They were detected due to their gravitational effect on binary companions we could more easily detect.

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