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by robryan 9y ago
Having switched from Telstra HFC to NBN HFC my biggest complaint is variable latency. Ping to the same servers tends to vary from 20ms to 120ms. I haven't looked into too much but probably coincides with peak hours in the evening.
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by robryan 9y ago
That is probably largely down to cost. People don't want to pay $99/month.
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by robryan 9y ago
Hedging against that small chance they get really big. Why risk another snapchat if these guys getting traction can be bought off cheaply now.
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by robryan 9y ago
Doesn't Microsoft also basically have a bottomless checkbook to spend on search? And Bing can't compete.
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by robryan 9y ago
Stronger economic incentives may actually result in more bands/ artists being manufactured by labels, which generally produced worse music. Costs of prediction are pretty low now, everything except the cheapest indy albums sounds great
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by robryan 9y ago
256 gig iPhone7 in Australia is over $1000 USD
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by robryan 9y ago
Twitch gets me which is unfortunate because they are generally providing a good service. They hit you with one of these ads pretty much every time you change channels, no matter how frequently.
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by robryan 9y ago
It is more about when the car is costing you enough per year to fix that paying for a new one would be cheaper overall. Also perceived safety/ convenience, a car might be good for another 100k km but appear unreliable enough that it mi
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by robryan 9y ago
Yeah, I would never book a Taxi for spur of the moment travel in Melbourne but with Uber there will pretty much always be one within 5-10mins.
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by robryan 9y ago
Visa itself is only charging a small portion of that fee, around 0.5% typically.
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by robryan 9y ago
But either Amazon will have the product or it will still be valuable to another middle man. Amazon have a lot but are a long way off having everything. Health and Beauty for example, they may have the top 50k sales ranks pretty well covered
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by robryan 9y ago
Initially when people come from myspace they were using it similar to myspace. Facebook was all about profile widgets, although they still fit a more consistent layout.
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by robryan 9y ago
At the price which will maximize total profits.
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by robryan 9y ago
Twitter did the same thing recently.
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by robryan 9y ago
I am surprised that the Taboola style related articles ads that appear below pretty much anything news like online these days aren't a bigger growth area.
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by robryan 9y ago
I suspect RRP/ MSRP have nearly always been useless. Comparison is the only way to get a true sense of what a regular market price is for something. Too often I will see something on a 50%+ off sale which might just be matching the mar
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by robryan 9y ago
Discord makes me think Electron apps are the future. I use it across windows/osx/Linux and ios, works great everywhere
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by robryan 9y ago
"90% of kids learning guitar quit in the first 2 months" - I wonder if when the industry was doing well it mainly just meant that there were a lot more guitars out there collecting dust.
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by robryan 9y ago
There is some mechanism where you can take control of your trademark on adwords.
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by robryan 9y ago
A lot of websites would have a bing ads tracking Javascript.
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by robryan 9y ago
Or just not use new ones that actively make the internet worse.
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by robryan 9y ago
Yeah, encountering pages that are less useful than the or original or outright broken is a big reason for me.
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by robryan 9y ago
8 tons to GTO is the expendable weight limit. With reuse it is around 5.5 tons.
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Ask HN: Anyone else noticed very poor eBay desktop site performance?
2 points by robryan 9y ago|1 comments
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by robryan 9y ago
So all you would need to do to make your autoplay video ad acceptable is place some of your content after it?
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by robryan 9y ago
In Amazon terms a 4,5 is positive, a 3 is neutral and a 1,2 is negative. Anything other than positive is bad so essentially it means 4,5 and good and 1,2,3 are bad.
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by robryan 9y ago
Would DuckDuckGo be viable though without the Bing API?
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by robryan 9y ago
In my experience with these tablet ordering restaurants I suspect that they will also make the restaurant more money. Often it is too hard to get a waiters attention to make multiple small additions after they have been around to take order
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by robryan 9y ago
Yeah very strange how they have done the rollout. Surely they would have been better off rolling out to densely populated inner suburbs first. Cover the most people and get those most likely to take up the service initially.
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by robryan 9y ago
In this case it is arguable whether it was actually cheap, after having the transport everything to a remote location.

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