jdangu

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by jdangu 14y ago
I have the feeling this is in reaction to the capped total value of the bitcoin monetary system which generates deflation over time and incentivizes sparing currency instead of using it. By adding a component of inflation, you increase exch
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by jdangu 14y ago
I think you always win in that cat and mouse game. Add some fake entries to the list of plugins, to the list of fonts, ...
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by jdangu 14y ago
A good workaround for panopticlick would be to append a random string to the useragent for example, effectively making your fingerprint unique all the time.
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by jdangu 14y ago
Was pleased to see a reference to Fravia in RMS's article. For the sake of comparison, here's a 1998 essay about what Microsoft was specifically doing in Win95: http://71.6.196.237/fravia/mmstory.htm
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by jdangu 14y ago
Thanks for clarifying
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by jdangu 14y ago
This is significant, because Bitcoin exchanges are illegal in Europe, unless they get a payment processor license. - Converting to/from BTC will become easier - Accepting Bitcoins as a merchant will be easier
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by jdangu 14y ago
The activity of a Payment Service Provider is heavily regulated in EU, a license is required - But no mention of this on the site.
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by jdangu 14y ago
Test it, measure your revenue per 1000 and dump it if doesn't work for you. There's plenty of competition in this space.
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by jdangu 14y ago
FWIW, CSV upload for ACH payment is a typical feature of online banking for business accounts in the US.
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by jdangu 14y ago
Check out NameCoin http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
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by jdangu 14y ago
> the new Socialist administration proposed to tax an entrepreneur’s capital gains as ordinary income Actually, they plan to tax all capital gains as ordinary income, most of that comes from stock/financial investments. The article doe
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by jdangu 14y ago
Your Free plan says: "5,000 files/month $0.005 per file over" Looks more like $25 then, what's the catch? :)
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by jdangu 14y ago
I see some potential in ad tech. How does caching works? Is there any focus on security? Multiple geolocations? I liked the TOS :) ---- Diffbot.com is made available for personal, non-commercial, and commercial purposes. Services are provid
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by jdangu 14y ago
The business of adding a friendly web service on top of these SMS and IVR aggregators is already commoditized: Most aggregators will give you 10s of countries in a single integration. Then it's a question of volume to reach higher tiers / l
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by jdangu 14y ago
Massive alienation of users through invasive ads is the beginning of the end.
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by jdangu 14y ago
Check out Haiti vs. Dominican Republic too: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002600/a002640/
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by jdangu 14y ago
Software is priced on perceived value, not reasonable calculations. You seem to imply that setting high prices is a dishonest practice. If you don't find enough value to justify the high cost, just move on, that might not be true for others
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by jdangu 14y ago
and Julian Assange too.
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by jdangu 15y ago
Nowadays, those techniques are mostly used by malware/viruses. Downloadable try-before-you-buy is dead.
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by jdangu 15y ago
http://nycstartupjobfair.com/
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by jdangu 15y ago
I'm interested in this for web apps. FWIW, I tested on IE7 (broken) and IE8 (some quirks but ok)
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by jdangu 15y ago
Publishers are lacking control over who tracks what on their site. My full time project http://www.clarityad.com monitors third-party ad tags and reports pixels dropped.
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by jdangu 15y ago
1) The industry is finally realizing that a massive amount of people got pissed by flashing display ads. Up to 14% of the online population uses an ad blocker (much more on HN :). Last month, the IAB published their new guidelines, includi
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by jdangu 15y ago
I don't like how this public profile URL can't be turned off.