hcon

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by hcon 11y ago
Top quality cringe. How can anyone watch this video and not see that it's a braggart looking for some fame?
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by hcon 11y ago
Well, it's the model that works for almost everyone until some sort of shift happens. For example, the ease of Adsense is the only reason why my forum is still alive. It's a medium-sized collaborative fiction writing forum with
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by hcon 11y ago
I mean "nobody" in the sense that it doesn't scale and people like you, god bless, do not replace ads for the vast majority of websites. At least not until some sort of shift happens in how we pay for content which I think is
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by hcon 11y ago
Ever use Adwords or Adsense? People click on ads. Fewer and fewer, but they still do and with enough volume to prop up entire businesses, small and multinational.
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by hcon 11y ago
Obviously nobody does that. My favorite example is when you see a popular github repository with a donate button (Flattr, Bitcoin address, etc) only to realize they've made a whole $14 in the past year. Wow, thanks world! It turns out
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by hcon 11y ago
Yeah, I'm sure Adsense will let you proxy requests through my server soon or release some similar offering. It would come at the massive expense of high-quality tracking and thus incur a massive reduction in ad revenue, but it's a
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by hcon 11y ago
> If the only revenue stream you can rely on is ads, > then probably there is a problem with the stuff you > offer not being valuable enough to people. Not quite. What people are willing to pay for has a large s
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by hcon 11y ago
> Is there a reason more sites don't do self hosted ads? Google Adsense (for example) is a live auction clearing house where you paste a snippet of code into your site that resolves into the highest bidder for the keywords
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by hcon 11y ago
This is my reaction whenever I hear someone suggest that "we should be rioting in the streets." I have daily personal struggles and work that I'm trying to pin down every day with all my energy. And my remaining time/ene
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by hcon 11y ago
Ending statements with question marks doesn't make them less committal, so just end them with periods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNIBV87wV4
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by hcon 11y ago
Despite its name, the deepdream project seems more like an approximation of what happens in close-eyed mental visions you get from hallucinogens, especially the perspective flattening effect that you point out.
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by hcon 11y ago
Sounds to me like your issue is with the author of Zombie.
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by hcon 12y ago
Your comment has that weird Euro-omniscient voice I usually see on Reddit. I'm Norwegian, have lived all over the world, and currently live in Prague. Produce has looked the exact same to me everywhere from Whole Foods to Walmart to Li