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by lucumo 18y ago
Forget auto -collapsing, I'd like to be able to collapse period. It happens quite often that I've already read a really long thread and just want to skip over it to the new stuff, or that the topic discussed in the thread is just not that
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by lucumo 18y ago
The NYT is a site where registration is unnecessary[1]. Registration was harder to do for them than it is to not have registration at all. I was talking about situations where you store data on a user and link more data to a user. Sure, you
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by lucumo 18y ago
I'd love to see some numbers on "Lazy Registration". How many users does it save? How much effort goes into implementing it? I've seen the idea before and I'm not really convinced. Sure, it sounds like a great idea, but let me offer some th
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by lucumo 18y ago
> The language "save my info for later", and versions of that, are much better. While I understand what you're saying, I believe that would trip me up. I'm very much used to scanning for "Register", "Sign up", "Join" or "Create accoun
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by lucumo 18y ago
Thanks for your answer. Our page rank is 3. Do ad networks use that to discriminate the quality and/or the payout? Or do you sell ads yourself?
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Jeff Vogel on changes in your products(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
20 points by lucumo 18y ago|3 comments
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by lucumo 18y ago
That's better than us. We're currently in the sub-dime range :( Do you have any tips?
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by lucumo 18y ago
> 10: This has been shown time and again to be FUD. I won't even bother linking the appropriate articles. Please do link them. I haven't heard this before, so I'm curious.
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by lucumo 18y ago
But you can hang them inside. We don't have a clothes dryer and the weather here is generally wetter than the clothes are. We just have two drying racks. Works perfectly for a two-person house hold. I don't think it's hard to scale up for m
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by lucumo 18y ago
Well, on the other hand... There was a short period where (some?) people were massively enthusiastic about getting in Second Life. Companies were buying virtual property to market their brand. That didn't last too long.
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by lucumo 18y ago
It is misinformed to say that you shouldn't eat pork, yes. But I don't blame the misinformed ones, as you seem to imply. I'm just thinking of solutions to help people grasp the situation better. Being afraid is - currently - somewhat an o
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by lucumo 18y ago
The problem is that education about the current situation is not reaching them very well. The author suggested that health organisations put updates online as soon and as often as possible. Injecting education into the online information st
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by lucumo 18y ago
On top of that it suggested two similarities between the 1918 flu and the current swine flu, without explaining in much detail why it happened. "There were 3 waves of the 1918/19 pandemic. The first was in summer of 1918 - very unusual, as
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by lucumo 18y ago
And their family and their friends and their colleagues and their neighbours... Somewhat in that order.
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by lucumo 18y ago
To me it wasn't the "Mac person" comment that convinced me of the point. Just the thoughtfulness that was apparent in the post. There was mention of facts, and it obviously wasn't a rant. Kneejerk "Microsoft rules" or the opposite should
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by lucumo 18y ago
From that Snopes link: > Does this mean that everyone who warbles "Happy Birthday to You" to family members at birthday parties is engaging in copyright infringement if they fail to obtain permission from or pay royalties to the song's
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by lucumo 18y ago
Let's be fair. It's not just that reddit has a million jokes, it's that all these jokes are a rehash of jokes before it. Posting a million lines of text and then ending it with Bell-Air was funny. The first time. Same for masking a link to
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by lucumo 18y ago
What unbelievable blabla. The Pirate Bay dudes are going to burn money if they had it? If the courts say "money goes there", it goes there. That cannot be stopped unless a massive people's uprising comes into play. As for the HN title. We'r
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by lucumo 18y ago
But an Internet-savvy sample of one. I just learned about it yesterday after researching the iDEAL system in The Netherlands. I bounced upon an online payment system of my bank which accepted the German Giropay. It said it was like the Dutc
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by lucumo 18y ago
I like the ending. "Now, fast forward five years to 1997, when The Trentonian decided to look up William Figueroa to see how he was doing after his hour of fame. By then, he was a 17-year-old high school dropout who had fathered a child and
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by lucumo 18y ago
How about Giropay? Is it taking of?
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by lucumo 18y ago
Maybe, but the TechCrunch article talks about a "nation-wide sales force"...
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by lucumo 18y ago
Link for your clicking convenience: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569607
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Ask HN: How do people prefer to pay online in your country?
8 points by lucumo 18y ago|9 comments
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by lucumo 18y ago
> Credit cards are pretty rare in Austria, too. (I blame the banks in part; getting a CC here has been a nightmare for me and has taken over half a year!) There's also a fee associated with having a credit card here, so unless you use
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by lucumo 18y ago
> People think it's absurd to be sued for signing happy birthday or reading a book outloud to their child. When did that happen?
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by lucumo 18y ago
Unfortunately, paying online is also quite an inconvenience if you live in an area where credit cards are an exception, not the norm. The Dutch banking sector solved it quite nicely by creating an online payment system (supported by almost
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by lucumo 18y ago
It was also likely to result in illegal actions, which cannot be said for the bankers. Now, it's possible to argue about whether or not either should be illegal, but such is not the territory of courts, it is the territory of politicians.
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by lucumo 18y ago
Definitely in favour of that! Also, it would be nice if it got linked from the front page, like the green icon and "Search HN".
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by lucumo 18y ago
> Moral relativism is for the spineless. I'd say there are plenty of things where you and I will differ about the morality. You may call those grey areas, but I'd say there's a whole lot more grey than there is black and white.

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