notadog

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by notadog 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23208339
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IndieWeb: A people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”(indieweb.org)
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Thanks for mentioning that, I had no idea that was a feature.
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Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269835 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23278106
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I didn't realize that pay walls on news sites were this old: > The Wall Street Journal first published online on April 29, 1996, introducing the first “pay wall”
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JSON Web Token
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I'd love to buy a foreclosed or discounted island.
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On a similar note, about Mongolia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23278312 / https://medium.com/@indica/covid-underdogs-mongolia-3b0c1624...
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The difference between Netflix doing this and gyms doing this is gyms rely heavily on people who join and don't go (even specifically targeting that audience), while for Netflix it is less than half a percent of their users. If anyone
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It's less than half a percent of their subscribers, so the cost is less than you might expect (especially considering the huge gain of users during Q1 2020). It's a altruistic and morally the right move, with the plus of having po
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For Netflix though, it applies to less than half a percent of their subscribers.
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Wow. > The loose ball was snatched up by a Chicago lawyer and sold at an auction in December 2003. Grant DePorter purchased it for $113,824.16 on behalf of Harry Caray's Restaurant Group. On February 26, 2004, it was publicly detona
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It would be nice if other subscription based products did this also.
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With 182.8 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2020, that means that less than 914,000 accounts have watched nothing in the past year.
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Link to the Netflix blog post: https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/helping-members-wh...
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> Netflix says it will now start to cancel accounts that have watched nothing in more than a year, but have still been paying subscription fees. > Netflix said less than half a percent of its user-base falls into that category. > A
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It's also linked in the article, but Great Big Story did an short video feature on him and Solitaire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x5VAg1HJIg
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It's unfortunate that the creator of it, Wes Cherry, hasn't earned anything from his creation.
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How exactly would an operating system implant people with microchips?
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This looks like an interesting project. I found the naming creative: (S)y(n)chronous (a)udio (p)layer.
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It would be helpful to include an example email of what you are offering, as that might encourage more people to sign up.
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The Online Ad Revenue Index(adrevenueindex.ezoic.com)
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Essentially the idea of the article boils down to finding a job title, creating something to help them with their job, and then promoting it to that audience.
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Here is a link to the original story with the Yahoo News / YouGov poll: https://news.yahoo.com/new-yahoo-news-you-gov-poll-shows-cor...
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The "loophole" in question is the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. I'm not completely sure that this should be called a loophole, but I am having trouble thinking of another term for it.
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It is unfortunate that Facebook still allows this: > The most interactions on the News NT Wayback Machine link comes from a public Facebook group, Trump for President 2020, which is administered by Brian Kolfage. He is best known as the
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I am surprised that Costa Rica did not make the list, as I was under the impression it had a higher biodiversity density than any other country.
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Traffic analysis of the most upvoted product of the day on Product Hunt(medium.com)
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See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23278712
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by notadog 6y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23278734

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