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by ssharp 10y ago
In my opinion, with Sirius when the digital compression is noticeable, it's a worse listening experience than normal FM analog compression and fidelity, so I'd imagine that's true for other over-the-air digital compression.
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by ssharp 10y ago
To be fair, almost all cases where you're listening to FM radio, you're listening on a crappy device. I remember having Sirius in two of my previous vehicles and not noticing it being that poor of sound quality from low digital co
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by ssharp 10y ago
It would be fun for other recording professionals and hobbyists, to deconstruct a record, and maybe some super fans, but overall it seems like something people wouldn't care that much about. But how granular would that get? Would I be
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by ssharp 10y ago
Might just be a terminology thing, but I don't think mastering engineers work off of tracks. I think they're given mixdowns and adjust from there. There are some fascinating isolated tracks out there, but I wonder if knowing that
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by ssharp 10y ago
Why is it any less of an art to record something than to perform it?
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by ssharp 10y ago
What phone is "hip"? Phones might have reached the point where there isn't going to be another big paradigm shift anytime soon that changes the ways phones are used like the iPhone changed things. So Apple (and Samsung, etc.)
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by ssharp 10y ago
> I always find it amazing to hear my coworkers who make six figures moving around letters on a screen and eating catered gourmet lunches in the company cafe go on a screed about the amazingly overpaid people who teach their kids, delive
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by ssharp 10y ago
For non-profits, you could reach out and see if they'd do something special for you. I used to work in for a higher ed institution and they were gracious enough to give me a free account.
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by ssharp 10y ago
I'm talking about economic mobility.
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by ssharp 10y ago
Yes, a 25 year old has far more mobility than a 90 year old.
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by ssharp 10y ago
Yeah, I don't know too many companies spending more than paltry amounts of money ads who aren't closely monitoring performance. $1m+ is probably overstating the line at which most companies want to see performance by several multi
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by ssharp 10y ago
You have to understand how ad exchanges work (and what they are) and what intermediaries there are. Ad Exchanges handle the actual delivery of ads. They have a massive inventory of ad slots available on a massive amount of websites and it&#
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by ssharp 10y ago
A few comments on this: 1) The company might be better off capping their impressions to you. 2) The company might be better off focusing on setting their remarketing pixels further down the funnel (unless you entered their funnel as part of
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by ssharp 10y ago
The test I use to understand most "but with Bitcoin!" ideas is simple: imagine the application "but with dollars". In this case, 21 isn't using Bitcoin is some way that makes it substantially different than what cou
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by ssharp 10y ago
The DSPs I've used address a lot of the concerns here -- fraud, what sites show your ads, etc. on top of what they do for optimizing spend, targeting, remarketing, and making your life easier. However, the article is treating the DSPs
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by ssharp 10y ago
There are ways to get close to a true value of viewthru to compare to clicks, especially as you start spending more. Throw a small % of your creatives in your campaigns to a non-profit. See how those banners perform compared against your br
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by ssharp 10y ago
I'd say the tweet's sentiment is still on target, if not more on target, given this excuse.
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by ssharp 10y ago
But they don't have to and they aren't going to be held accountable if they don't.
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by ssharp 10y ago
I'm assuming WhatsApp had a pretty clear growth trajectory to better justify that valuation. Yahoo has been stagnant for years.
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by ssharp 10y ago
Let's not forget this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/31xp48/why_di...
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by ssharp 10y ago
The security risk is not remotely the same because in order to do anything other that store your Bitcoins (e.g. spend, transfer), you have to expose your money online. My dollar bills are never out there on the internet, so my only risk of
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by ssharp 10y ago
I'm not sure what Bitcoin equivalent of "leaving cash on the street" you're inferring. It might be helpful if you elaborated on that. Bitcoin's non-physical nature (as compared to paper and coin currencies), I think
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by ssharp 10y ago
There is also a camp of people who don't think Bitcoin has much utility when compared to established alternatives, let alone other advances in other crypto/blockchain tech.
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by ssharp 10y ago
Exactly. Most people logically arrive at this conclusion when considering Bitcoin's merit as a currency. And that's before they even learn about the deep security issues, how hard it is to protect, how most Bitcoin services cannot
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by ssharp 10y ago
You've missed a golden opportunity to claim "most ironic business model". Go ahead, charge that monthly fee :)
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by ssharp 10y ago
All feet in the door are not the same. When you're iterating on ad concepts, maybe CPC is an okay metric, or at least an early indicator. But these ads weren't really interations. Without a baseline CPA and running ads related to
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by ssharp 10y ago
> It is important to note that we only measured who clicked through our ads. That means the irrelevant images could have lower conversion rates on the site. The people who ended up on the SketchDeck site may not need or care about design
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by ssharp 10y ago
It's not useful comparing Universities and private companies in these cases. In the United States, Universities behavior on discrimination and harassment is subject to Title IX and the government can investigate and audit how a Univers
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by ssharp 10y ago
They all utilize the three, but none of them feature it quite like Curry. KD has a lot of shooting in his game, but Westbrook and Lebron are both relatively poor three-point shooters and don't shoot close to KD's volume, let alone
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by ssharp 10y ago
It seems like a fairly common sentiment when comparing the '96 Bulls to '16 Warriors is that the Bulls would win under '96 rules and the Warriors would win under '16 rules. There were also players who shot the ball extre

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