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by citricsquid 11y ago
This happens fairly frequently to Jeffrey Way of Laracasts and there's a lot of money involved in stealing his material: Hey @udemy - For the third time this year, my content is being stolen and sold on your site. Don't
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by citricsquid 11y ago
This was big news when it was first announced in 2014. This launch has been long in the making, you can find lots of articles that cover the complaints independents had about having their videos removed: https://pando.com/20
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by citricsquid 11y ago
If you sign up with someones referral code then you get free credit (the amount varies depending on country, in England it's £10 at present) and the referrer gets credit too. Anyone with an Uber account can refer people, for example he
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by citricsquid 11y ago
Doesn't this argument work both ways: "Once the visitors pay for the bandwidth they use accessing my websites, they can visit without adverts"? And if so, isn't the solution that if you're not happy with advertiseme
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by citricsquid 12y ago
OKCupid is smart about that too, based on how attractive you are you'll see -- and be visible to -- people in a similar "league" to you. You're not going to be seeing beautiful women who could model if you're an una
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by citricsquid 12y ago
and OKCupid engages in price discrimination too, and has done for many years. The price you'll see for OKCupids premium service ("A-list") is based on a variety of factors: attractiveness, age, location, gender... an attracti
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by citricsquid 12y ago
Uber make grandiose claims about the amount their drivers can earn, these claims have been demonstrated to be false, Uber drives down the cost of using Uber which in turn drives down the amount that drivers earn[1]. Driving for Uber is unec
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by citricsquid 12y ago
http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease
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Rackspace: How to Royally Poop on Your Customers (8 Ways)(ericknopf.com)
40 points by citricsquid 12y ago|11 comments
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by citricsquid 12y ago
A copy of the blog post if the site is down: https://archive.today/TbJQh Xbox announcement: http://news.xbox.com/2014/09/games-minecraft-to-join-microso...
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by citricsquid 12y ago
http://www.hitbox.tv/notch From his channel there is a link to the project repository: https://github.com/xnotch/dark/
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by citricsquid 12y ago
This is interesting given that Mojang doesn't actually own the Minecraft IP, they license it from Notch who owns it (I believe) exclusively, that's how he's able to pull in hundreds of millions per year while Mojang makes a m
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by citricsquid 12y ago
For the sake of clarity it's worth noting that in England tenant rights are quite good. For an eviction to take place it must be ordered by the courts and a landlord can only apply to the courts for possession after providing a tenant
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by citricsquid 12y ago
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-holder-faqs-2012-... If I bought a name through one registrar, am I allowed to switch to a different registrar? Yes. The Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy,
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by citricsquid 12y ago
Your comment is quite disingenuous. The major ISPs offer parental filters that can be used to block many different types of content, and specific websites, but they are not the default: they are opt-in. The default (opt-out) filter with BT
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by citricsquid 12y ago
The BBC did a feature earlier in the year about London property and Hong Kong investors, it provides a good insight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dINbQGgVEN8
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by citricsquid 12y ago
The lack of affiliate links has nothing to do with honour, he's doing it to try and avoid having to take down the music used: http://theraptest.com/copyright.html
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by citricsquid 12y ago
> How is this good for anyone? A significant number of Minecraft players do not understand that servers are not ran by Mojang, they don't understand that the servers they're playing on are ran by independent third parties (ofte
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by citricsquid 12y ago
That's a conspiracy theory that doesn't hold water. Preventing servers from selling items does not encourage people to use Minecraft Realms, Realms serves a completely different player base. Realms are limited in capacity and limi
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by citricsquid 12y ago
He did not own the majority of S.DICE and he lost 550 BTC (>10% of his holdings) when MtGox fell apart, he's certainly well off but he is far from 8 figure rich. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments&#x2
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The hidden world of Steam trading(polygon.com)
3 points by citricsquid 12y ago|0 comments
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by citricsquid 12y ago
fwiw http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Laravel%2C%20symfony%...
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by citricsquid 13y ago
The comic (as I understand it) is using a persons right to free speech in the colloquial sense, the legal right to free speech and that, as the comic states, only applies to the government. The comic is addressing people like the person t
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How about a 'citizen's income' instead of benefits?(theguardian.com)
2 points by citricsquid 13y ago|0 comments
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by citricsquid 13y ago
There's a Vice documentary [1] in which reporters visit the "garbage island". The "garbage island" is not how you imagine it, it's literally an ocean of tiny broken down particles of plastic[2] invisible to th
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by citricsquid 13y ago
The (most?) interesting part of this was the final 14,000,000 donation came from someone going by "savethemhood". They claim... I take from the greedy to feed and blanket the poor. I'm here today because I believe
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by citricsquid 13y ago
I think saying that he "warned them" is a bit dishonest. He said the following as a side note 4 years ago: I've just checked and you can obtain the password through an API call after you register a new API user.
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by citricsquid 13y ago
That's fake, look at the URL via google cache, it wasn't there a couple of months ago: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
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Satoshi Nakamoto denies being Dorian Nakamoto(bitcointalk.org)
280 points by citricsquid 13y ago|173 comments
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by citricsquid 13y ago
I hope Spotify acquire last.fm at some point.

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