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by ssharp 11y ago
Advertisers are willing to pay more money for the right to put an ad on a webpage than website visitors are willing to pay to view the webpage. Until that math changes, ads will prevail.
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by ssharp 11y ago
Those deals require business development / sales to happen, which requires time and/or money. Those are expenses that many sites can't afford. Slapping on SSP tags, on the other hand, is cheap and starts bringing in money rig
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by ssharp 11y ago
There are lots of innovative and imaginative folks all over the world. ...and ads are still the best solution to certain problems.
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by ssharp 11y ago
I do many of these things as well. I've always been curious if it's some mild form of dyslexia or ADHD. It bothers me but I don't think it's been an obstacle.
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by ssharp 11y ago
> As a user why should I allow this for something that provides me no value (ads, tracking, js comment systems that I dont care about etc). You're presumably getting value from the page/site you're on. The person running t
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by ssharp 11y ago
I have an MBA from a mid-tier school. Top 50 but not top 12. I don't really have any regrets other than I initially started at a third-rate school and decided to transfer after two semesters. The differences between the materials were
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by ssharp 11y ago
Not remotely true, though any ridiculously broad statement like probably won't be true.
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by ssharp 11y ago
That may have been an autocorrect or may have been my mind not functioning correctly, but yes.
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by ssharp 11y ago
I wonder if they found certain types of Mandrill users were destroying their deliverability metrics and were starting to cause issues with major email providers and their spam factors. These ESPs can't exist with poor desirability, so
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by ssharp 11y ago
This drum keeps getting pounded, but a cogent answer to the question "why would I use Bitcoin when I can use existing payment methods?" has yet to be given. The benefits of the internet were pretty clear and obvious. The benefits
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by ssharp 11y ago
I was interested until I saw "Bitcoin" in the title. At that point, you can pretty well figure out the quality of the content.
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by ssharp 11y ago
While the government can actively access and track most of your life, the one thing they can't track is whether or not you own a gun. Attempts to create a national gun registry are routinely attacked by the same politicians who want ac
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by ssharp 11y ago
In my experience, Bing Ads are far more profitable than AdWords anyway. I don't know if it's an audience thing or if businesses ignore Bing altogether or underfund/manage it.
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by ssharp 11y ago
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by #2, but I think you're number #1, combined with "universally the businesses that pay for keyword ads" is way, way, way, way off-base. Of course shit and scams surface in search ads
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by ssharp 11y ago
There are things you can't do when bidding on competitor's brand names, but essentially, you're correct.
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by ssharp 11y ago
How is it net-positive from a cost perspective? From what I remember, 21 takes a large cut of the Bitcoin "mined" and you'll spend far more on electricity than you'll get in return for Bitcoin.
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by ssharp 11y ago
Besides it being utterly ridiculous to have a mining chip in your computer, you are ignoring that Bitcoin is terrible for micropayments. 1) The blockchain can handle approximately 3 transactions per second, which if actually spread evenly a
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by ssharp 11y ago
Maybe I'm the wrong demo for this product, but the main reason I've paid for MailChimp in the past is so others not that familiar with email marketing, personalization, HTML for email, etc. can easily put together email marketing
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by ssharp 11y ago
I remember actually getting infected with one of these when I was a teenager. From what I recall, it was mostly harmless. Me and some friends pooled together and bought a couple of CD-ROM's full of warez from some guy we found online a
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by ssharp 11y ago
I switched to OSX originally because the company I was working for was all-Apple. I probably wouldn't have thought XP was shitty enough to change otherwise, even though it obviously was. Conversely, I'm now working at a company th
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by ssharp 11y ago
OSX doesn't need to handle that many hardware and driver issues, so I don't see how that's relevant to a Windows comparison. I've been using OSX since just after Panther. I generally agree with the idea that some things
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by ssharp 11y ago
You can't erase student loan debt with bankruptcy either, so its not something you can really walk away from like a car or house.
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by ssharp 11y ago
I was lucky enough to not have to take out loans, but we did finance my wife's law school education predominantly with loans. The thing I never understood was the interest rate. It seemed like we were locked into a 6.5% rate no matter
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by ssharp 11y ago
Or people don't see the issue as black and white, where he either did nothing wrong or everything he did was wrong.
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by ssharp 11y ago
The area I live in was supposed to be headed towards a fracking boom and it mostly fizzled. The combination of dropping prices and lower-than-expected output from test wells kept the drilling far more isolated than it was supposed to. I sus
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by ssharp 11y ago
A lot depends on how well you can model attribution. If you're measuring last-click, you're going to see a wildly different story than if you can measure the impact the measure of a impression, mid-stream click, etc. I'd gues
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by ssharp 11y ago
Cars have steep deprecation over the first two years. After that, deprecation flattens out. When you continuously lease every two to three years, you're paying far more depreciation expense than if you kept the car longer or bought use
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by ssharp 11y ago
> who would drive a car for more than five years anyway? Just get a new one when the warranty expires. That sounds ridiculous to me but it's probably a pretty common sentiment with people who spend 100k on a car, considering there a
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by ssharp 11y ago
You're not entirely wrong, but due to funding models of state colleges, these priorities may be a bit different. In Ohio, for quite some time, state funding was based on enrollment, so that's what state universities did: enroll as
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by ssharp 11y ago
I've had two iPads now, both given to me, and both have mostly sat around collecting dust. Except for a few rare use-cases, I'd rather be on a laptop. My parents, on the other hand, are the polar opposite. Since getting an iPad, m

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