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by robryan 9y ago
Yeah it makes no sense, a read more button that sends you to a screen that is basically just a text box with the notes would be enough. It has been requested for years on their forums.
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by robryan 9y ago
First movie was pretty good, second was solid, then they went downhill from there. I didn’t hate the last one but that is definitely a case of coming in with very low expectations and having then slightly beaten.
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by robryan 9y ago
For advertising purposes it really only depends as a whole how truthful a picture the likes tell. If the likes are on average 70% truthful it is still going to be more effective targeting than not using them at all.
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by robryan 9y ago
Using Facebook in limited ways can hurt them nearly as much as deleting. Monthly actives might not go down much but revenue per user will.
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by robryan 9y ago
Or just harvested out of a friends contacts who has the phone number and email address.
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by robryan 9y ago
The opt out button is also "Not Now" so they can hit you with this screen again and again until you accidently opt in or want to make it go away.
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by robryan 9y ago
Only if companies perceive this as stable. It might take 10-20 years to pay off the investment of moving manufacturing to the US. Trump policies are very unstable themselves but there is a good chance these policies might be quickly reverse
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by robryan 9y ago
A self driving car should be far better than a human at turning them on and off. In Australia it is relatively common in semi rural areas with similarly sparse street lights that you would turn high beams on and off depending on oncoming tr
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by robryan 9y ago
The only places I am seeing now that get away with this in Victoria are small towns/ holiday destinations. I don't see the economics of cash only working anymore here anywhere where there is decent competition.
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by robryan 9y ago
It keeps Uber honest. I have no idea at any time if Uber surge pricing is reasonable, being able to check against another app will help.
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by robryan 9y ago
As a non recruiter that isn't looking for a job I just find it useful for looking into people from 3rd parties I am currently working with. Things such as who else they work with, their exact position in their company, where they have
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by robryan 9y ago
> At what point does Tesla start acting like a ‘real’ company and decide these kinds of defects aren’t acceptable? They aren't even close to having a production line that can push out the preordered cars in any reasonable amount of
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by robryan 9y ago
Amazon is doing a lot of this now, for example into India. They take a prepayment for duties, clear it for you and refund if it ended up costing less to clear.
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by robryan 9y ago
It is one of those things people will say they want but when it comes to it won’t pay enough extra for it.
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by robryan 9y ago
Yeah, they have no trouble finding the next person in line or cutting their own deal to replace the supply they have kicked off for anything remotely high volume.
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by robryan 9y ago
Yeah, they have nowhere else to take this ad spend. They can't risk being left behind by getting rid of digital advertising.
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by robryan 9y ago
If their yearly "new and improved" marketing is to be believed then we are a long way from perfecting any of those products.
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by robryan 9y ago
AB InBev has a 28% global market share for beer. Interestingly as beer consumption shifts towards craft beers they are buying up a lot of the more well known and successful ones.
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by robryan 9y ago
Depends on the treaties setup with the US, assuming that is where the company is based. It may be possible to take some EU judgements to a US court and have them enforce it.
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by robryan 9y ago
I read that they were now limiting the amount of cruise ships they get a year because of the issue of them crowding the city a lot without spending much.
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by robryan 9y ago
Isnt it mostly just that phones have a lower profit margin than digital ads?
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by robryan 9y ago
Ideally everyone on your friends list would see your post. If they no longer care for them they can either unfriend or hide your posts.
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by robryan 9y ago
From an advertiser perspective it is much nicer to use Google Shopping than the old days of attempting to use the regular text adwords to advertise products. Also better for customers on the regular search results page to find products with
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by robryan 9y ago
Don’t take on the customers then.
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by robryan 9y ago
I suspect their metric is probably time taken to answer, so coming back to someone with a non answer that deals with them for another few days probably makes the metric look okay.
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by robryan 9y ago
Google made websites manually go through and disavow low quality inbound links to have ranking penalties removed. Twitter could suspend people and have them disavow followers. People having to clean out hundreds of thousands of fake followe
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by robryan 9y ago
It shouldn’t be too hard to get at networks. If you identify an account with suspect followers and then look at the followers common follows and follow dates. They can spread out the follows but still to get it done it any reasonable time t
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by robryan 9y ago
I had to do 20 or more of these to get some post tracking data recently. Found the same thing with most objects where a very small part of an object hadn’t been classified as containing that object.
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by robryan 9y ago
At their current rate of launches it probably just doesn't make any sense to put a lot of resources into it. There has been upgrades in automation for the ranges last year which allow a higher frequency of launches. Plus they started l
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by robryan 9y ago
And you can handle the other direction with a lag. Charge the old lower price for 30 minutes.

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