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by robryan 13y ago
I am confused about the $500k loan, surely this would need to be repaid before they can look at customer refunds?
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by robryan 13y ago
That is arguable, we have the freezing people but going. Sure it is being done in a very destructive way to the human body, it is a bet though that at some point in the distant future technology will get good enough that the current freezin
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by robryan 13y ago
Well, that depends on the government. All the way from the very basic necessities to keep citizens alive to a guaranteed minimum income and full health, education and other services. I don't think that there is any right level for all
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by robryan 13y ago
Governments exist to give everyone a basic set required services. I think even the biggest free market/ small government advocate would agree that access to clean drinking water is one of those services.
815.
by robryan 13y ago
And so it should, the content can only be provided for free because people are being exposed to the ads.
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by robryan 13y ago
Also it is generally really cheap to buy that ad, so even if the incremental value is small it is still worth it. It also keeps you on top of anyone else bidding on your brand, if you brand is generic enough for them to get away with it.
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by robryan 13y ago
What if all your most relevant work is owned by previous employers? Restricting hires to people with decent personal projects and/ or extensive open source contributions isn't ideal either.
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by robryan 13y ago
I think this is on the back of product listing ads which are now aggressively pushed, these combined with regular ads crowd out the organic results on ecommerce bases searches. Unlike text based ads which require significant time/ tech
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by robryan 13y ago
Anyone trying to sell products that they don't manufacture themselves. Even if you do make things amazon might be a very important distribution channel.
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by robryan 13y ago
They would be applying some search logic in memory in PHP. Depending on what you are doing it does make sense to load in a heap of data from the database then narrow it down in PHP.
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by robryan 13y ago
They would be stupid to do anything that was flat outside the rules, they just don't need to to get wins.
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by robryan 13y ago
It depends on the understanding people come away with. In some cases people will just get their hand held right through anything practical and come away not actually understanding the material. That is different to people who don't und
823.
by robryan 13y ago
One interesting bit of Yahoo news. Yahoo in Australia is partnering with Adwords rather than Bing Ads. Wouldn't surprise me if all of Yahoo went that way once their contract with Microsoft is up. Despite all the effort it doesn't
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by robryan 13y ago
$10 million vs $20 million a year? It probably cost congress more to argue about this than the cut has saved.
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by robryan 13y ago
Premium accounts could work for Pinterest. I think ads will make them a lot more, their model is well suited towards ads. Not to say they couldn't do both.
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by robryan 13y ago
Yeah, I feel weird about emailing/ iming people in the same room as me when something could be solved with a 30 second or so conversation.
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by robryan 13y ago
Sounds like a terrible policy for concentration. On the surface management might think they are getting better results (more interaction) but it is probably at the cost of individual productivity.
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by robryan 13y ago
Many of the F1 restrictions that have come in in recent years have been good and made the sport a lot more competitive, while still allowing for some individual character for each teams cars. Prefer that to some of the uneven racing of the
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by robryan 13y ago
Just like their insane duties has got amazon to warehouse there.
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by robryan 13y ago
Was thinking the same. I can see what they might be getting at if you compare Wordpress + mods vs clean Ghost. I doubt once considered fully featured that Ghost would be so much more efficient as to make it a key point of differentiation, f
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by robryan 13y ago
I didn't get that implication, I assume they are paid in some way. Even if not on an outright per tweet basis.
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by robryan 13y ago
Yes, my thought is that you have to submit your full policy plan to be costed independently at least 2 weeks before the election. This is then used by a neutral party to draw up unbiased election material that is the only material that part
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by robryan 13y ago
Personally I am a big fan of the new compose, although I can also understand why it isn't right for some people. My usage would be something like 80% very short emails, 5 lines or under with maybe a copy paste block. Occasionally I wil
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by robryan 13y ago
Better comparison would be "Samsung Android Phones", is the figure you quoted for all Android devices? Granted they are a long way behind regardless.
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by robryan 13y ago
Is this really a thing? More often than not less "popular" people on Facebook are the ones actually posting interesting content.
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by robryan 13y ago
Yes, whether they are completely disinterested or overly cheery the majority of the time they appear that they couldn't care less about your transaction. Which is fine, it just feels less weird of an interaction when it is a machine th
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by robryan 13y ago
It seems driverless trains will be held to a much higher standard than ones with a driver. As with driverless cars we are willing to accept a certain percentage of accidents, the second a driverless car runs someone over though it will be a
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by robryan 13y ago
I really like what Rakuten is doing, they are leveraging the profits that the Rakuten marketplace in Japan brings in the acquire what I would term as second tier marketplaces around the world. Buy.com in the US appears to be slowly being ov
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by robryan 13y ago
So, you invented rewards points in 2012....
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by robryan 13y ago
I wouldn't really consider them an expense in the same way as labour costs. Maybe in terms of the costs of distribution and storage for things that aren't moving. Things that are moving though with a profit margin aren't real

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