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by ssharp 10y ago
The top data table, comparing AMP vs. non-AMP traffic, that makes up the reason for this investigation seems flawed. They did correctly isolate organic traffic to blog posts, however the "Trafico NO AMP" group might contain deskto
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by ssharp 10y ago
It's half true. I have a Mac laptop and Windows desktop.
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by ssharp 10y ago
I've only answered the phone once with these scammers. I told them I was using a Mac and after confirming three times that it was a Mac, he said "you're a liar!" and hung up.
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by ssharp 10y ago
A simple way to try and block out bots is to just not allow your ads to show to Linux users. It's a tiny fraction of most website's traffic but the largest share of bot traffic. I'd further speculate that real desktop Linux u
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by ssharp 10y ago
We absolutely should not throw up our hands. To some extent, I appreciate that Google and Facebook are at least aware of the issue and want to act on it. My skepticism is that as a result of these efforts, Google and Facebook will be consid
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by ssharp 10y ago
Nearly all fact-checking organizations are considered to be biased and untrustworthy by a sizable percentage of the population. I'm skeptical that this will actually lead to change in people's critical thinking as applied to proce
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by ssharp 10y ago
My immediate reaction was to try and confuse it, so I played "Roll Call" from the Thomas show (kids are obsessed !) It's a bit chromatic so I thought it would have trouble, which it did. Next, I tried putzing around on the wh
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by ssharp 10y ago
1. Employees don't vote for their CEO. 2. There is strength in numbers. Your message might not get through but if it's the same message as 1,000 others it will. If you want change, cynicism like yours is crippling.
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by ssharp 10y ago
> As has been told, they're the first recording format that was replaced by one with inferior sound. What about records largely getting replaced by 8-tracks and cassette tapes? In the long-run streaming services will move towards h
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by ssharp 10y ago
I don't think theaters make much, if anything at all, from ticket receipts. That's why concession are so overprice. Some theaters even flat-out tell you this. I think the "a la carte" model is much more realistic than th
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by ssharp 10y ago
Aren't they torrents?
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by ssharp 10y ago
The entertainment industry isn't stupid. They are doing their best to maximize revenues from their products given the current landscape of cable networks, streaming providers, on-demand, etc. The ability to make bolder strategy choices
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by ssharp 10y ago
The point is getting the public to care about this stuff. I don't think the average person spends much time thinking about politics. I think most may see some stuff online or on TV but are largely locked into their beliefs. You probabl
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by ssharp 10y ago
I have been a long time user of Mailinator but recently needed to run a gambit of email tests wanted to avoid typical Mailinator blocks and also would have preferred the emails to persist longer. I started Googling options, considered just
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by ssharp 10y ago
There is also this Steve Ballmer reaction to the original iPhone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U It's funny in retrospect but the iPhone didn't really start to take off until the 2nd generation, when
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by ssharp 10y ago
Because US dollars are controlled by the evil US government and not the not-at-all-self-interested Chinese bitcoin miners and speculators \s.
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by ssharp 10y ago
For most businesses, focusing on the math and making incremental improvements to the statistical methodology is a waste of time. There is a "good enough" approach to using tools like Optimizely and VWO. Instead, they should be foc
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by ssharp 10y ago
It could be that the ads are making more money than they're losing from conversion decrease.
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by ssharp 10y ago
It's dependent on the officer. In Ohio, you can be charged with a DUI automatically if you refuse the breathalyzer. I'm not certain if this extends to the roadside test. My original comment was more that you might be able to refus
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by ssharp 10y ago
You can refuse to submit to the test, get arrested, and then do breathalyzer at the station. Police also have a portable breathalyzer you could submit to roadside. I have an eye condition that makes the gaze test, in my opinion, unreliable
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by ssharp 10y ago
Dash seems limited by being tied to one item. I don't get the appeal of Dash either because items I know I need a reoccurring supply of, I get a subscription to.
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by ssharp 10y ago
Patio11 was blogging about his old Bingo Card software for many, many years and became one of the most high-profile members of Hacker News because of it. I don't think a flood of competing Bingo Card software came in. A lot of the time
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by ssharp 10y ago
If you strip away the shell-game effect in BI (working people pay in $x and get back <$x) and remove unknown economic issues like inflation, you end up with essentially the welfare system the U.S. has today. We provide the poor with subs
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by ssharp 10y ago
I think it's worth adding how DSPs and ADXs fit together. There are only a handful of ad exchanges out there -- Google ADX, OpenX, AppNexus, etc. Some brands and agencies are large enough to buy inventory directly through these but for
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by ssharp 10y ago
Attribution tends to be terrible on display ads. Platforms proudly cookie bomb impressions and if you're not really careful, you end up falsely attributing sales. I'd guess most of the big brands doing advertising look at it more
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by ssharp 10y ago
This sounds like a bad way to salt, depending on what you're cooking. I think it's better to salt parts of the dish independently during cooking. That brings out flavors individually like the dish intends. Salting at the end tends
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by ssharp 10y ago
re: retargeting Before you go off shoving fistfuls of money at display ad retargeting platforms, I'd highly suggest running placebo tests first. The platforms will tell you how you're converting people into paying customers at a $
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by ssharp 10y ago
...there is a legal remedy for it.
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by ssharp 10y ago
It's not that fair to compare the work put out by open-source project teams vs. the work put out by a company trying to make a profit. They are two much different goals, the latter of which typically has much more mobile goal posts.
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by ssharp 10y ago
I've never done work for a law firm but have talked to some and the small shops specializing in easy cases like DUI's and personal bankruptcies can pretty easily fill up their billable hours by turning an AdSense campaign on and n

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