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by malloreon 16y ago
Now I only visit facebook in an incognito chrome window.
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by malloreon 16y ago
In general I don't think people like the idea of their friends sharing links with them in the hope that they (the sharer) will profit from it.
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by malloreon 16y ago
Man the title to this article means nothing. "U.S. Allegation?" WTF is that.
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by malloreon 16y ago
I do something similar, except I only take cold showers at the gym, before and after using the steam room. At home I take slightly longer warm showers. It takes about a week to get used to cold showers after which the "holy shit" feeling la
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by malloreon 16y ago
I did find them for free, but not until later. I suddenly had a hankering to read each book, and $2 total ended up being an acceptable spend.
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by malloreon 16y ago
When I owned my Kindle, I had about 80 books on it. I'd paid for 2 of them, "Les Miserables" and "The Count of Monte Cristo." The rest I got by combing the top sellers list and "buying" all the books listed as free.
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by malloreon 16y ago
Graphing COMscore data vs media mentions would a better indicator of hype/popularity differential than google query volume vs media mentions.
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by malloreon 16y ago
I don't remember who said it, but a few months ago an HN commenter brilliantly paraphrased an interview with Zuck on privacy: "When I was trying to get people to give me access to their private information, I bent over backwards to assure t
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by malloreon 16y ago
"Bilton later responded to our request for clarification, saying, “My source said it was OK to quote them, just not say who they are.” So apparently, this Facebook employee wanted this information to get out, for whatever reason." Doesn't s
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by malloreon 17y ago
Forgive my naivete, but how do you use it without using the credit card part?
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by malloreon 17y ago
At my company, about 60 people, we do the exact same thing with yahoo IM statuses. One glance at your contact list and you know who is around the office, who's working from home, etc.
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by malloreon 17y ago
This sounds like a gussied up Wordpress-MU installation with a bunch of plugins (social media, SEO, etc), adsense api (so they can switch between showing their ads and their authors' ads). Or, rather, it sounds like this idea could be recre
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by malloreon 17y ago
It's worth noting that Papillon is a novel composed of the real life stories of several people, rather than a true memoir. Great book.
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by malloreon 17y ago
really, guys? In less than a week it'll be back to normal. I don't understand why people are all "not in MY HACKER NEWS" - this is what people are talking about. In 3 days we'll be back to Clojure and Haskell and "rate my startup" and "I bu
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by malloreon 17y ago
Like Doctorow mentions, "the press has jumped all over the ipad...because journalists want a daddy figure who'll convince people to pay for content again." So while we may know what the device represents, the media hasn't been spinning it t
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by malloreon 17y ago
It's demand media with a different name.
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by malloreon 17y ago
I like the idea of voting to show how much people like a certain item, but if you use it to influence the rotation, in the long run you'll keep seeing the same content over and over.
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by malloreon 17y ago
entirely agreed. a suite of apps that took current foreign language periodicals and turned them into language lessons? Take my money. please.
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by malloreon 17y ago
Apropos comment from Reddit: summary: "When I was trying to get people to trust me with their personal details, I completely understood just how much they valued their privacy. "Now that I know just how much advertisers are prepared to pay
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by malloreon 17y ago
Came here to post this: "how is this different than PDF?"
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by malloreon 17y ago
Does this then allow you to click on the ads at right without the advertisers paying for the click? If so, advertisers will be pleased, Google will be pissed.
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by malloreon 17y ago
So this suggests..."read it more than once, writing down which parts were tough to understand?" That's...it?
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by malloreon 17y ago
They do if you're a big spender.
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by malloreon 17y ago
From what I've read, the new updates default to share with "everyone" only if you have NOT modified your privacy settings in the past. If you have, which probably anyone concerned with privacy has, they default to "not everyone" choice. The
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by malloreon 17y ago
Can payment agreements like this be used in court during filesharing lawsuits to show that if RIAA members are willing to value music at $167 per million plays there's no reasonable way they can argue that each mp3 someone shares is worth t