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7y ago
Unfortunately, while that may be what's needed, many do not trust the current administration to execute on such extreme measures properly or appropriately.
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7y ago
So they can empower their teams to make the best possible technical proposals that they then champion as the path forward. And that's assuming there at only technical considerations and not broader ones involving discussions with many
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7y ago
What about the 60% alcohol content hand sanitizer I'm seeing?
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7y ago
How does this guarantee it is incremental? What is to stop them from executing an extremely common e-commerce strategy of running a product feed to produce dynamic creative and retarget people who have already visited a store before? There
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7y ago
Dynamic creative from a product feed setup to serve to a retargeting audience of people who visited those pages is not a terribly difficult ad task and certainly something Etsy is capable of doing from an engineering standpoint. I'm no
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7y ago
I'm in the digital media space. I'd really want to know more here about how Etsy is doing their media buying here. As an advertiser, in general you need to watch out for things like cookie bombing where a network carpet bombs a la
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7y ago
What industries do you see this being most useful to?
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7y ago
No, but has private dashboards for free and it is hooked into your Google account for easy import from Sheets and such.
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7y ago
The issue I'm having with Selenium (well, Watir with Ruby) is booting up some automated scraping logic for a page that may be in my current session once I've done the whole authentication dance manually (so I don't have to fo
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7y ago
I've been building something that looks very similar to this for Mint in Ruby but am still implementing exception handling for 2FA. I'll have to check it out--thanks!
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7y ago
Check out Thrive. Has its own subreddit. Takes the ocean stage much further.
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7y ago
Could you use Google Data Studio for it instead?
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7y ago
Have you figured out a way to automate exporting of data from Personal Capital into somewhere else (spreadsheet, DB, etc)?
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7y ago
Can you attach it to an existing browser window/session that is already open? Ie. I navigate and authenticate to a site, run code, and it continues from there with what's on screen?
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7y ago
SEO is not free traffic. It is time and potentially money invested in creating an optimized site, producing great content that gets indexed and back links, and then marketing the hell out of said content so you actually get back links.
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7y ago
Do you own the customer relationship and data when you use them though?
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7y ago
I'm not clear if your post was implying this was the case or not, but this is an interesting, well-sourced article on the links between Cambridge Analytica and Russia [1]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/1
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7y ago
Wow that takes me back. Some incredibly thrilling gaming moments with large numbers of people that climaxed after sometimes literal hours of back and forth. I was in one of the better clans at the time and the sheer skill of some of those p
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7y ago
I feel like your "following process over better software" remark holds true to any company I've seen.
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7y ago
Any tips on the political reading piece? I've found it challenging or a waste of time because either it is hard to find concise info from a variety of candidates that is in an easy to compare format, or I distrust the candidate to actu
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7y ago
Source?
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7y ago
Is there any way to prevent them from using it for that purpose or to determine if my insurance company has access and is using it?
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7y ago
What the company to be so off with demand estimates? Would the company have been in ok shape if they would have set lower estimates? Or was that target needed for other reasons?
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7y ago
Do you think that hostile foreign nations are actively trying to end the run of the petrodollar?
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What would happen to life in the US if the dollar was no longer the global reserve currency?
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7y ago
Second one has a different vibe, but I also enjoyed it. The author has a great way of helping you understand the different senses and intelligence of the different species.
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I was very lucky/fortunate enough to be able to play D&D with the Gygax family on the weekends up in WI during high school. Gary was letting his sons run the campaign and was just playing himself, but so much of the game's imm
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7y ago
Fewer, more expensive ads are preferable in some cases. It tends to push out bottom feeding advertisers and leads to higher quality ads from bigger brands. It also allows for fewer ad placements which can sometimes be more profitable if it
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7y ago
IMHO nothing matches the truly immersive experience of Battletech that they had at North Pier in Chicago when I was growing up. It was a fully themed space and you'd walk into a room full of pods (cockpits) and they'd slide the ha
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7y ago
To be fair, this could also be to generate some fear in the industry for funding work by the lobbyist groups.
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