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by canvia 12y ago
I wonder if a competing search engine would be willing to buy your search loyalty based on your past search volume. It seems like your value as a customer would be pretty easy to calculate with this data.
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by canvia 12y ago
Don't forget BetterPrivacy for removing flash cookies: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy...
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by canvia 12y ago
It also ignores the subsidies being provided.
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by canvia 12y ago
Young people don't care about sports either. eSports like they have on Twitch.tv are more and more popular. A $35 leaf antenna from amazon gets you all the local HD channels for free.
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by canvia 12y ago
I use a snap on case so that if I drop the phone or set it on a table the contact/impact surface isn't the glass. If someone put raised rubber bumpers on the 8 corners of a phone it might negate the need for a case for the majorit
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by canvia 12y ago
Every news source has a bias. It is the job of the consumer to understand what that bias is. An informed consumer observes the perspectives of many news sources with an understanding of their bias and forms an opinion of the truth based on
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by canvia 12y ago
Apple's next acquisition is going to be Monster Cable.
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by canvia 12y ago
The Avengers was particularly egregious. It was in the top 250 movies of all time for opening weekend. A huge % of ticket sales occur in the opening weekend. There is not a doubt in my mind that these ratings are thoroughly manipulated by t
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by canvia 12y ago
This seems like a good application for a model like CrowdTilt, as long as you are able to design and estimate the cost accurately. https://www.crowdtilt.com/ It would have to operate as more of a bounty system, maybe let pr
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by canvia 12y ago
Are there any extensions that will block flash cookies (LSOs) instead of allowing them and deleting after each browser session? http://www.wired.com/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-... One current option:
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by canvia 12y ago
Has anyone ever done a statistical analysis of post voting patterns in political discussions to attempt to determine if any manipulation of the discourse might be occurring? Using non-public votes to determine comment rank seems like a ripe
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by canvia 12y ago
A lot of the commenters seem to have missed this recent submission: Stanford study finds walking improves creativity (stanford.edu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7669818
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by canvia 12y ago
If miners had to be registered and were restricted to a certain amount of hashing power per unique registered user, or had to purchase a standard mining rig (maybe one that doubled as a POS, and restrict mining to merchants) in order to par
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by canvia 12y ago
Don't forget what Disney has done to corrupt copyright law and government: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
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by canvia 12y ago
Reference: http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-b...
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by canvia 12y ago
Regulation stifling innovation. Sad.
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by canvia 12y ago
"(ketchup; bbq; anything with sugar)" Sadly those don't even have sugar in them for the most part, it's all high fructose corn syrup these days. HFCS along with trans fats have been linked to inflammation and should be a
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by canvia 12y ago
Nice straw man. Profit margins have nothing to do with the fact that the money is being spent to develop tools to kill humans instead of helping them. Not all engineering jobs are equal.
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by canvia 12y ago
That same innovation could be funded without also funding weapons development and other destructive wastes of resources. How much more innovation would there be if 100% of the funds went to R&D of non-military applications? Yes some goo
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by canvia 13y ago
Does PrivateInternetAccess being located in the US have any impact on the security of their service? They are heavily promoted and that makes me skeptical of their motivations.
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by canvia 13y ago
Many won't even stop then because of the belief that the price can/will return to previous levels if not higher. Quite the interesting dynamic.
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by canvia 13y ago
Removing clutter and unnecessary consumption gives you a lot more time to read and think. I am trying to minimize the waste in my life as well, and focus on local sustainable efforts. Reducing news consumption has freed up a lot of time for
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by canvia 13y ago
Hilary Clinton is as establishment as it gets. She isn't a valid option and it would be an outrage if she were shoved down the publics throat. Elizabeth Warren is far more likely to succeed.
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by canvia 13y ago
In Snowden's TED talk he said that the best reporting is yet to come. http://www.ted.com/talks/edward_snowden_here_s_how_we_take_b...
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by canvia 13y ago
It's awesome for YouTube and you can stream any local media using Plex.
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by canvia 13y ago
"people use credit cards because they do not have the extra money" So you think it's better for people to be able to spend money that they don't have and pay usurious interest rates and fees, decreasing the utility of th
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by canvia 13y ago
The formatting of the questions and answers could contribute to a candidate's success as well. Unlikely events could be phrased differently than likely events with the intention of skewing the success rate to the positive. I would hate
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by canvia 13y ago
www.geekandsundry.com is also well done.
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by canvia 13y ago
There is absolutely no reason for a restaurant to pay 2.9% of their revenue for payment processing. Their total profit margin is probably around that much, so reducing the processing fee to 1% could potentially result in a very significant
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by canvia 13y ago
I am really excited for the application of bitcoin to micro transaction and tipping/donation services. Typically with Paypal you pay a 2.9% + $.30 fee for every transaction. With donations and other transactions in the $2 range that eq

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