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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Apple's store does the same stuff and takes a 30% cut. They aren't directly comparable, but they are charging the 30% for similar services (streaming/downloading, platform support, browsing/discovery, and they add payme
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Do you have a reference handy for your statement "radio is super-effective at advertising higher-revenue-generating products..."? I don't necessarily doubt it is more effective for certain things, like local events (although
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
You are right, of course. Some simple research would have enlightened me. Appreciate the detailed response. I think my memory is being influenced by what I remember vs. what I read in history class. Reagan did say "We’re taking down
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I would appreciate it. My email is in my profile (I also signed up using that address).
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I was too young to remember his presidency. But my understanding was that he started the war on drugs as a major component of his platform. I could see his war on drugs falling under economic rescue, although my understanding is that this
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I'm interested in seeing some drip campaign examples. Just signed up for an account on raffle creator. Will this trigger your drip campaign to me?
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
This is an interesting line of thought. What if UPS could scan your package and interpret the bits on a memory stick inside? Would that be reasonable? (They could frame it as "we scanned the bits, transferred it over the internet to
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
When I use incognito mode, I see about 200k of Javascript. I wonder why we're getting different sizes. The largest file I see is the ?shva=1 /mail/u/0 file, clocking in at 173KB.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
How did you do these measurements? I would be shocked if the entire gmail webapp is 7.2KB. Just looking at the Network tab in Chrome's inspector, I see a lot more than 7KB being transferred. It seems the main page on gmail is just loa
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
It sounds like you're suggesting that people eat as much salt as they like. Where's the harm in cutting back on the salt? I agree with you that a lot of our diets (especially fad diets) are based on little to no science. At best
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I don't buy it either. There is every single possibility that the person who leaked the document has a financial stake in CNET and the Guardian and made the whole thing up for pageviews. </s> I'm not sure what you mean
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Working with economic development groups in your area. They have large rolodexes and are generally well thought of by their clients. Offer reduced cost in exchange for feedback. Helps you get traction and feedback; makes economic dev group
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Could you elaborate on why using tcpdump is a better idea?
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
There are many potential narratives that explain why companies are going iPhone first. An alternate explanation to yours is that companies are going iPhone first because it's trendy. We all know about the SV echo chamber. Following trends
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Interesting. So if Tesla did well, they would be able to repay the loans and keep the (more valuable) equity. If they failed, the DOE would have some worthless stock... Still, compared to the other similar loans offered by the US governmen
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I respect your desire to not be tracked via referer headers, and to turn them off/use SSL/use extensions. You are a person, and your privacy is important to you. I also respect a site owner's desire to track your referer, and to decide the
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Can you explain more what you mean by QS and social engineering being the way Google is raising prices? My understanding is that AdWords is a an auction system, where your position in the auction is a combination of your Max bid, inventory,
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
On first glance, I'd say somewhere around $500-700 per month.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I'd work on your marketing. Do you have a series of case studies explaining the benefits? Is their ROI calculated for them? If you're providing them with that much value, maybe you just need to bring their attention to that value. That go
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Adsense "users" are actually business partners with google. You share revenue, pool resources, etc. In my mind, that arrangement should encourage a higher level of service than most customers. I'm saying that the poor service offered Adse
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
This seems like a pretty absurd response to me. First, as OP noted, they could have just unsubscribed. Annoyance gone. Second, they wrote, "if startups keep sending forward e-mails, everyone loses." This is false. Anyone who learned abo
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I'd focus on who would get value out of your features. Figure out what your top 1-2 features are, and think of who needs extra privacy. People in the government, in purchasing? Senators? I think your pricing is way off unless you can fin
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Government sponsored embarrassment isn't the same as putting someone in jail, you are right. However, taking away someone's ability to make a living (see the Hollywood blacklist, etc.) is leverage that can be used to control behavior. The
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
It wasn't too long ago that the US had the HUAC committee, and ruined many people's reputations by digging up what they'd said in the past.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
The Phillies 1B played himself in the office, IIRC. He pitched some absurd idea to his marketing guys about a movie wherein he was a super hero. Very tongue in cheek, I found it pretty funny.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Sure, but they probably feel more a connection to people locally. This is reflected by the psychological concept of propinquity. It's a powerful influence in our world.
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I'm pretty sure I agree with you, if you have a specific agreement with one of the parties. What about "anonymous" scraping, however? (I put it in quotes because I know you can reverse DNS/UserAgent/etc. identify... but that's simple to sp
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
Can terms of use prohibit scraping for reuse, while still allowing Google, et al., to index? I genuinely wonder this. Can I say, "it's OK for XYZ to scrape, but not ABC?" (Or is it general use -- scraping OK/not OK?) I think it's differen
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I'll confess something similar, but a bigger whiff on my part. Wifi was becoming common when I entered college. Around that time, laptops were underpowered, especially compared to desktops. I thought wifi was a fad. After all, you general
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by monkeyspaw 13y ago
I agree with you. But the reason cigarettes are banned is because they affect other people. American rules/regulations aren't built around the concept of proving something is safe. Tobacco is different from the norm because of how much ev

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