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by showerst 16y ago
What they failed to mention is what percent of that boost came from autofillers/spammers. They say they successfully used timestamp/honeypots to keep out spammers; if so, how many spammers did they keep out? If it was tons, then say so, tha
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by showerst 16y ago
Do you have permission to use those stock exchange logos? Doing it that way makes it look like they're customers of yours, which is probably illegal without their permission.
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by showerst 16y ago
That's not terribly common in the US. It's possible to buy VISA or AMEX gift cards in some stores, but the markup tends to be significant (10%+).
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by showerst 16y ago
My understanding is that we can't rebuild a certain gel that's used in some older nuclear weapons, because we've lost all of the formulas, all of the production processes, and the handful of people who had both the scientific understanding
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by showerst 16y ago
Interestingly, one thing we DID do that's observable from earth is to put an array of retroreflectors onto the moon, so that we can bounce a laser off of it. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lunar_Laser_R... My sample size o
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by showerst 16y ago
This is a great infographic idea, but the census 'incorporated city' boundaries/populations is not that good of a data set for this use case. Metropolitan statistical areas would've been a more reasonable choice here, since in many cities t
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by showerst 16y ago
Population of the incorporated city in 2009 from the census. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_Unite... They probably should've used metro area, but that might've been a data challenge if they lacked lat/lon for each
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by showerst 16y ago
They just pulled the top 50 cities from the census, Cleveland is 43, Pittsburgh is 61. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_Unite... (Cities vs metro areas, oh the perils of using census data.)
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by showerst 16y ago
The circles are scaled by population, and according to the census city boundaries they're measuring LA is 3.8MM compared to DC's 600K, which is a pretty dramatic difference, although it's just an artifact of which data they chose to use for
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by showerst 16y ago
The issue isn't really the city scale then, it's the numbers for the avg house price: http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Diego-California/marke... http://www.trulia.com/home_prices/California/San_Diego-heat_... breaks it down better
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by showerst 16y ago
I believe that they're basing this data on stats collected by the census, so you have take the city as defined by the census bounds, which aren't necessarily similar to common conceptions of what area is 'in' a city.
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by showerst 16y ago
See also: http://bgpatterns.com/ and http://www.stripegenerator.com/
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by showerst 16y ago
IANAL, but my understanding is that this would give Amazon a 'retail presence' in most US states, thus requiring them to charge sales tax on online transactions.
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by showerst 16y ago
In fairness, it's not all that uncommon for Starbucks to be full of people talking into thin air to no one (blue tooth cell phone headsets). The (theoretical) advantage of voice recognition is that you can speak _much_ faster than you can t
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by showerst 16y ago
I'll (attempt to) draw a counter to that: A machine need not understand out brains 'native' language processing, just a trained 'output' version. There is already a crude toy out there that will 'read your mind' and raise or lower a ball ba
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by showerst 16y ago
I think it depends a bit on what you mean by 'ubiquitous'. Eventually voice will probably supplant the keyboard for many written communications, and gestures for navigation (which is more about replacing the mouse anyway), but voice is actu
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by showerst 16y ago
It would be cheaper, but not acceptable to the vast majority of the public.
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by showerst 16y ago
Ahh, that would make sense. I was thinking perhaps it was a misguided filter because they had sh style "IF/FI" blocks in their template code, but your suggestion is much more likely.
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by showerst 16y ago
This is a random aside, but did anyone else notice that every single occurrence of "fi" on that page was doubled? Do a find in page for "fifi" and you'll see it everywhere. I'm assuming this was some kind of misbehaving filter, but I wonder
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by showerst 16y ago
I think that it depends on your definition of 'foreseeable'. One of the first markets I can see this disrupting are things like war-gaming miniatures, and board gaming pieces, which have a HUGE markup, but could be reproduced in plastic rel
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by showerst 16y ago
There are a few free/cheap version control systems out there for PSDs. Pixelnovel timeline is reasonably good, although currently their storage plans are quite small. Adobe's own version cue server (which they annoyingly discontinued) is pr
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by showerst 16y ago
I think that brand loyalty has certainly shifted, but is far from dead. People used to use brands as a denotation of quality , because they lacked information whereas now they tend to be used to denote status (because they lack other sig
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by showerst 16y ago
It's one thing to have an imbalance of sheer number, which may well be a reflection of reality. It's another thing entirely to make 90% of the women you do depict into sexbots. Putting ugly people on the covers doesn't sell magazines, but
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by showerst 16y ago
There is in fact a very strong correlation in both cases! ... just no causation in any direction in any case. =) * Any case out of the 2 cited by OP. (Thanks Alex3917)
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by showerst 16y ago
It's a tiny detail on an otherwise cool site, but the 10 character maximum on the password when you create an account is really annoying.
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by showerst 16y ago
I've found firebug's profiler to be quite useful: http://michaelsync.net/2007/09/10/firebug-tutorial-logging-p...
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by showerst 16y ago
...and incredible, painful winters. Minneapolis is really really nice... from May to September =).
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by showerst 16y ago
I think it's important to note that these people weren't targeted as a result of their search history, they were already targeted, and the search history was just used as evidence for further action. So me searching for "how much antifreeze
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Getting People in the Door: Shopping patterns in physical stores(museumtwo.blogspot.com)
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by showerst 16y ago
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