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by lingben 13y ago
After they deported the original ethnic group, the Crimean Tatars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat...
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by lingben 13y ago
I just watched two BBC programs about the Great War (WWI) [1] and the similarities between that episode in history and this one are chilling. Don't get me wrong, I don't think we will have WWIII but the way the pieces are moving o
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by lingben 13y ago
I've learned to never underestimate the supply of stupidity in the world. We could ask the same thing about a myriad other things: scientology, religion in general, creationism, denial of climate change, racism, etc.
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by lingben 13y ago
"Why is it a currency's job to provide consumer protection?" I think you are misunderstanding what I'm saying. It isn't the currency's "job". It is a fundamental prerequisite that the currency have a
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by lingben 13y ago
citation: see bitcoin /snark But seriously, it is difficult to not approach the question with sarcasm as it is so self-evident. Put yourself in the shoes of one of the hundreds of people who lost their bitcoins via the Mt. Gox fiasco a
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by lingben 13y ago
The number #1 requirement for a currency is trust and confidence in it. Why would anyone trust a currency which has no consumer protection whatsoever and provides zero recourse for when things inevitably go wrong? What I mean is, everyone i
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Who Stole $400 Million From Mt. Gox?(theverge.com)
4 points by lingben 13y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 13y ago
very happy client of DNSmadeeasy, imho the best DNS provider bar none, they were the first to have ANAME records: http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/services/aname-records/
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by lingben 13y ago
compare and contrast this whitepaper with arguably one of the most common optimization apps out there: https://help.optimizely.com/hc/en-us/articles/200133789-How-...
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by lingben 13y ago
thanks but what does "expected conversion rate" mean exactly? it isn't defined and I couldn't find that term anywhere else on the site. EDIT: ah, ok, got it. but why is their default expected conversion rate set so high?
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by lingben 13y ago
ok, water expands when it is frozen and contracts when it melts, so the question is by what factor to allow for the water to either overflow or not. and are we talking about icecubes floating in the glass or filling up the glass so they are
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by lingben 13y ago
True, but you have to check each of those break points to make sure things are a-ok.
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by lingben 13y ago
LoL oh god! thank you, I haven't laughed that hard for a while, especially with all the terrible global news out of venezuela, thailand and ukraine. the w twins are an infinite font of folly! i look forward to the inevitable crash and
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Beat big businesses by owning your small size(customer.io)
2 points by lingben 13y ago|1 comments
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by lingben 13y ago
why exactly?
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by lingben 13y ago
Great new feature and video but yeah, the techno 'music' was totally out of place
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by lingben 13y ago
hubski
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Tom Perkins Willing to Say What Rest of Ultrarich Secretly Thinking(nationaljournal.com)
9 points by lingben 13y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 13y ago
this is ignoring several key costs associated with bitcoin: 1) knowledge (the average person needs to invest time to learn what bitcoin is, how to use it, how to protect themselves from fraud, etc.) 2) hidden cost of buying and selling bitc
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by lingben 13y ago
Off the top of my head, two ways: using proxies and having the fake account artificially listed as having an address or location in the US while the actual owner is not in the US.
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by lingben 13y ago
Actually there is a fundamental reason why you're exposed to click farms: because fb exposes your ad to a small sample size of your audience first. Then based on the engagement the ad receives, it will target it more to those 'typ
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by lingben 13y ago
If you haven't yet watched Derek's earlier video about "the problem with facebook", you should: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZqXlHl65g because in it he lays bare several fundamental structural issues
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Google reaches antitrust deal with EU(america.aljazeera.com)
1 points by lingben 13y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 13y ago
If a slew of people with zero knowledge of programming, computers, technology, etc. decided one day to start pontificating incessantly about code, programming languages, etc. hn would first sneer at them and then rightly ignore them. But if
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by lingben 13y ago
actually according to dewey: From their forum: "As nearly 270,000 of you now use hubiC, we have been able to confirm our technical decisions and this volume has enabled us to further optimise our infrastructure and its performances. Re
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by lingben 13y ago
what if you don't use CNAMEs? A records are much better imho
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by lingben 13y ago
Right now firefox beats the pants off chrome for memory usage - that is why I'm using it.
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by lingben 13y ago
doesn't really matter, just be consistent
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by lingben 13y ago
> Microsoft’s customers don’t like change. That is a ridiculous statement. Users don't like change when that change is for change's sake or when the change is for the worse. Users do LOVE change when it makes the UX/UI bet
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Because they ask questions only the user would know about the account and its history: We will need to ask you questions to verify your identity. These questions will be different based upon your account and history with us. Please understa

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