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by cheald 11y ago
I dropped Memcached in favor of Redis for caching a long time ago, because as far as it matters for my purposes, Redis is a strictly-superior superset of Memcached's functionality, and I have no desire to maintain multiple pieces of
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by cheald 11y ago
Consider contexts like news websites, though, with broadly-applicable audiences. Specialty or niche sites do just fine with site-derived advertising targets. Other things do much less well. There's also the fact that targeted ads resul
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by cheald 11y ago
> Now, just restrict access and require a subscription. Have trial periods. You realize that this has been tried and widely deemed a failure, right? Paywalls are a problem because they actively drive your audience away to next-best alter
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by cheald 11y ago
> Lastly, we hate tracking. I can't overstate that. They kill profiling we kill ad blocking. Simple as that. As a nerdy guy, I'd much rather see video game ads than tampon ads. I get the ideological argument against targeted ad
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by cheald 11y ago
> ads stopped being pay-per-impression around 2001 or so. This is flatly false. CPM models are alive and well. You don't need to look any further than AdSense for proof of that.
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by cheald 11y ago
That's not really relevant to this subthread, though.
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> I am literally a worthless view to them. In fact for any ad that's beyond static text I am more likely to remember your brand and deliberately not buy your stuff in future. So effectively, any site that was being supported by my v
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by cheald 11y ago
15? It's arguable that the government's institutional abuse of power to spy on law-abiding citizens began in earnest with J. Edgar Hoover, who began his tenure as the head of the FBI in 1924.
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by cheald 11y ago
It's not obvious, because inclusion on the Essential Medicines list means due to the TRIPS agreement, manufacturers can ignore patent restrictions on it entirely. The ACA makes it possible for insurance to refuse to cover Turing's
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by cheald 11y ago
If this were the case, chances are very good that this drug wouldn't exist at all. Drug R&D would become politically driven, with earmarks being given by politicians which benefit their constituents rather than actually advancing t
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by cheald 11y ago
And if Uber drivers were salaried employees, they would be required to drive a larger number of hours per day than they currently do, increasing Uber's income-per-driver and decreasing the number of drivers that Uber would employ. Acco
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by cheald 11y ago
The endgame of your position is that the content you'll receive is that which has zero marginal production cost. I hope you enjoy bot-generated content farms.
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Homemade electronics are pretty fragile. A hardshell case is entirely appropriate for transporting such a project.
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> if you see them at a school with a device like this and it's beeping, I think it's reasonable to call the police. Or...you know, ask them about it. A bomber wouldn't carry a Hollywood-looking bomb in a Hollywood-looking
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by cheald 11y ago
Amazing. It's the horrible "buy gold to unlock this artificial constraint!" gimmick from terrible F2P mobile games, except now they're sellign the another chance to peek at naughty bits. They're going to make a but
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by cheald 11y ago
Certainly, and if we dig deeper, it's not that you want to live with your fiancee, it's that you want human companionship and sex, and we eventually get down into Maslow, but the fact of the matter is that you are making the choic
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by cheald 11y ago
You want it more than you want not having any real estate, or having real estate in some place that isn't Boston, obviously! You want real estate in Boston - so do many other people, many more than who can physically own real estate in
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by cheald 11y ago
The people who want interactivity with their TV have game consoles. Even on those wildly successful, high-use consoles, the "apps" (as opposed to "games", the first-class use case for the device) typically do rather poor
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by cheald 11y ago
Yeah, they do. The problem is that very few people actually want to load their TV up with apps - they just want Netflix. "Apps...on your TV!" has been a promise on multiple platforms for a few years now and it seems like nobody re
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by cheald 11y ago
I generally agree with you, but Apple's brand image is "luxury"; it does seem odd that what is ostensibly a premium brand would not be targeting premium features. To put it another way, people who have 4k TVs today - the luxu
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by cheald 11y ago
I don't think that the trend towards SaaS and IAP as primary revenue models is an accident - reliance on control of the distribution channel for a good with zero marginal cost is a losing proposition as internet access, speed, and reli
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by cheald 11y ago
Many photographers travel with a flare gun or starter pistol in their equipment case specifically for this reason. The $10/hour grunt workers can't get access to your super-expensive equipment if you're transporting a gun and
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To paraphrase Han Solo, "yeah, but who's gonna pay for it, kid? You?"
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https://www.db.com/cr/en/docs/cost-trajectory-s.png via https://www.db.com/cr/en/concrete-deutsche-bank-report-solar...
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by cheald 11y ago
This was true several years ago, but the cost of solar has come down substantially even without considering tax subsidies, and is continuing to decrease at a healthy rate. For example, Sunroof estimates that a 5.75kWh system would cost $2
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by cheald 11y ago
Would that be a sunk cost, or would a new roof increase the value of your home?
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Flagged for exceedingly bad form. A page explaining the issue with a link that the informed user could click would have been far more constructive. It's an interesting thing to discuss, but this link is the wrong way to do it.
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by cheald 11y ago
I should have been more specific - I was more remarking on the period between 1911 and 1914, which saw crude prices rise; that seemed rather interesting, since I'd expect an antitrust ruling to have the opposite effect if Standard had
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Without any comment on the business practices of Standard Oil, I do think it's interesting that the price of crude actually increased substantially after the antitrust ruling.
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by cheald 11y ago
I had knee surgery recently. Before I was given any medications, I met with my surgeon, we verified what he was going to do, and he marked and signed the area to be operated on with a sharpie marker. It took less than a minute and gave me a

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