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by imron 9y ago
Internet advertising sounds horrible. I marvel that so many people still put up with it.
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by imron 9y ago
"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" -- Abraham Lincoln
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by imron 9y ago
Government bureaucrats were promoted based on GDP and tax revenue, and I for one am shocked, shocked , that this led to inflated GDP and tax revenue figures!
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by imron 9y ago
This reflects my experience too. Several years back I made an input method for typing pinyin with tones [0] and released it for free with a donation button. In 5 years and tens of thousands of downloads I could count on two hands the numbe
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by imron 9y ago
The problem is not hard to fix from a technical standpoint, but from a practical standpoint it is impossible to fix due to breaking too many sites that were created without case insensitivity and that likely contain conflicts.
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by imron 9y ago
No, they are saying that encouragement and reinforcement work better over time, however if you only look at a single example you will get the opposite impression due to regression towards the mean.
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by imron 9y ago
Ignore most of it! In the grand scheme of things, most of the 'good' content really is not that good. It might be interesting - or more interesting that what you should be working on, but a year from now most of it will be irrele
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by imron 9y ago
According to zerodium's faq, there are bonuses for exploits that meet specific lifespan requirements.
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by imron 9y ago
There's also the fact that if you have an exploit for a recent iPhone, that can sell for upwards of a million dollars (edit: $1.5 million for a remote jailbreak with persistence: https://www.zerodium.com/program.html ).
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by imron 9y ago
I remember watching the artists impression animation video of how the the falcon heavy launch and landing would proceed, and when it showed both boosters landing at the same time I thought "heh, I wonder if they'll be able to pull
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by imron 9y ago
> Eventually, Musk hopes to be able to turn rockets around in less than 24 hours and have reflown boosters go up twice in one day. This will be amazing.
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by imron 9y ago
Yep, it was strongest I've felt in 4 years of living here. There has also been a bunch of smaller earthquakes happening regularly over the last few days.
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by imron 9y ago
Yep, and not just for kicks, it's also to demonstrate they can launch a payload far enough to reach the orbit of Mars if required.
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by imron 9y ago
Initially from Musk's Twitter feed, but there's now also a Wikipedia entry about the car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster There's also an artists rendition of the launch and
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by imron 9y ago
For the curious, it's Musk's midnight-cherry red Tesla roadster, with a dummy in a spacesuit in the drivers seat, David Bowie playing on the stereo, and a towel in the glove box along with a copy of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
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by imron 9y ago
> Historically, the market has always recovered from slumps. Historically, this isn't even a slump (yet). The dow can drop another 3,000 points and still be up 1,000 points from what it was this time last year.
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by imron 9y ago
> The things you describe explain why people keep their finger hovering over the "sell" button, they don't explain why precisely today they decided to press it. How much was fingers on buttons, and how much was just automa
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by imron 9y ago
> imagine how frustrating it would be to put a real dollar value on every day browsing of content Sure, but the user is in control of that to some degree with how it's currently implemented in Brave. I can choose to exclude sites f
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by imron 9y ago
Not yet. I only found out about it recently (in the last month) when they held a token giveaway. So I have $5 of credit from that which will (according to them) be paid out to creators after a month. After that I will likely pay in to it
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by imron 9y ago
> You are kind of saying you want some perfect solution from your end and content creators can starve until you get that No I'm not. I already support content creators who create things that are valuable and that I enjoy. Unfortun
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by imron 9y ago
I had a paypal donate button on a piece of software I created and gave away for free. Over 5 years, I could count on my hands the number of people who donated. If I had a dollar for every time it was downloaded I would have been making a c
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by imron 9y ago
> You can do that now You really can't. There are no browsers I know of (besides brave) that make automated payments to content creators based on how much I visit their site. Not to mention I don't want a dozen different subscr
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by imron 9y ago
The problem is not that it is hard to compete with free, but rather it's inconvenient to make small payments to people you think provide value. Not to mention no-one wants to sign up with their credit card info to a few dozen different
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by imron 9y ago
> So, blockchain advertising Not blockchain advertising at all. Rather I nominate how much I want to spend each month and the browser keeps track of what sites I visit and pays them proportionally to the amount I visit or optionally how
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by imron 9y ago
I'd just rather be done with advertising on the web completely. Bring on Brave's Basic Attention Token.
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by imron 9y ago
I don't even know any C++ programmers who thought Eclipse was a good editor, let alone the best. That Eclipse is now pretty much gone only strengthens that position.
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by imron 9y ago
> Today's launch marked the sixth time that SpaceX has lofted a spacecraft using a pre-flown booster. Well done SpaceX!
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by imron 9y ago
What ads? I didn't see any and if you did, uBlock origin will improve your web browsing significantly.
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by imron 9y ago
I bill by the hour too. It's the only sane way to do it, and contra to your intuition it stops micromanagement and makes clients respectful of your time. Clients don't know or care about context switching for other clients, they c
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by imron 9y ago
> sesquipedalian This is my new favourite word.

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