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by flashman 9y ago
> No parent will pay $10-$20 month That's literally what my family used to pay in VHS rentals. One new release and one weekly movie, three or four times a month.
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by flashman 9y ago
That's like saying Google "just" aggregates indexed websites. I use justwatch on a weekly basis to find out whether a movie is on any of the services I use (instead of checking all three of them individually), and browse new
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by flashman 9y ago
> very unique sigh
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by flashman 9y ago
> Popular songs (i.e. if almost everyone has a Beetles album in their playlist, getting "people who bought this also bought" recommendations for anything would list Beetles I've been learning recommendation engines by look
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by flashman 9y ago
> If a giphy gets embedded on the page, maybe they count every single impression of that gif as a daily user? This wouldn't surprise me in the least. But, if they can turn a reasonable number of those impressions into sponsored impr
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by flashman 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they count someone who even views their gifs as a user. I guess at a $3 CPM they could make a buck off me in a year.
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by flashman 9y ago
> Is McDonald's? I see McDonalds integrating Giphy into a larger ad campaign. Let's say they launch a campaign around happy moments with family. That gives them scope to includes moments from the TV or cinema spots as featured
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by flashman 9y ago
The question is, how would you better define hacking? To make the letter of the law match the spirit? "Exceeding authorised access" is an early attempt that predates modern internet usage. You can't just say "anything th
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by flashman 9y ago
Having played early in the beta, and then picked it up again this year, I discovered the new need for antennas when my unmanned craft couldn't receive the commands to complete its orbital insertion around Duna. I was... not pleased.
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by flashman 9y ago
The security issues with Flash are due to it being closed-source. Make it open-source and a lot of the problems that lead it to being EOLed will be solved.
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The longest ground-to-ground photo ever taken (443km)(beyondhorizons.eu)
1 points by flashman 9y ago|0 comments
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Being a founder is a shit job(hughstephens.com)
2 points by flashman 9y ago|0 comments
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by flashman 9y ago
There was a video on building monopolies the other day[1] which pointed out that tech companies' "other bets" are designed to make them look less monopolistic. Google can say "we're not a monopoly in phone software
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by flashman 9y ago
This is like the concept of a 'trap street': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
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by flashman 9y ago
It's not the same as "what foods go together" but here's a "related flavours" graph I did using research on foods with similar flavour compounds: https://twitter.com/flashman/status/87
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by flashman 9y ago
Resale value on the GPUs is also worth monitoring. While it remains high enough, you can discount much of the capital cost because you'll get a high fraction back if you decide to sell the cards.
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by flashman 9y ago
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," said Jeffrey Hammerbacher.
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by flashman 9y ago
Stage 1 (October 2016): Australian Demographer Bernard Salt lamented young people spending $22 on 'smashed avocado with crumbled feta on five-grain toasted bread'[1]. Australians have a conniption fit. Stage 2 (May 2017): With the
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by flashman 9y ago
On the other hand, Digg died because they were effectively letting publishers buy front-page slots ahead of organic submissions. If Reddit becomes known for manipulation, it could also suffer (though its scale, heterogeneity and skepticism
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by flashman 9y ago
Look, I give them credit for coming clean to the public. And a lot of people use Reddit to promote their business, band or other brand (though they do it honestly, not by purchasing a boost). But the more well-known the technique of buying
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by flashman 9y ago
OP's Italian, go easy.
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by flashman 9y ago
It's like an artist who doesn't know when to stop painting.
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by flashman 9y ago
"Cheap energy means cheap air conditioning. We don't have to change a thing!"
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by flashman 9y ago
What workflow ends up with a Customs and Border Patrol officer connecting that domain name to Stenberg's ESTA application? Here's a guess: some blacklisted piece of software uses curl and credited "daniel@haxx.se" as req
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by flashman 9y ago
> This may kill Uber. Counterpoint: businesses in good shape don't just drop CEOs. This move might just help it die slower.
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Computational Propaganda: Manufacturing Consensus Online [pdf](comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk)
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by flashman 9y ago
> "Upstart.me let's you support influencers" Typo: delete the apostrophe!
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by flashman 9y ago
How is the Newcastle tech industry? Sydney is nigh-on unaffordable (on 1.2 incomes with two children) and we're thinking about a move, but only if there's work I can do.
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by flashman 9y ago
OP: interested to hear the story behind this. Did you come across a landlord who needed these problems solved, or are you one yourself? How many users do you have? Getting people an extra 7-10% out of their investment is no small feat. I li
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by flashman 9y ago
The problem with allowing neo-Nazis to spew their bullshit alongside the Diet Coke and Mentos videos is that it creates a normative appearance: "this isn't being removed, so there is something tolerable about it, so maybe it'

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