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by ssharp 11y ago
These sites are really at odds with teams who have chosen the leasing vs. ownership of tickets, where leasees can only transfer and sell their tickets on the officially-sponsored marketplace. I'm a season ticket holder for such a team,
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by ssharp 11y ago
Couldn't they have just used software to emulate the steady stream of Bitcoin that this thing produces? The inclusion of the miner and it's subsequent price tag (over what a normal Pi costs) makes it seem ridiculous. If their endg
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by ssharp 11y ago
I don't think it's too much of a leap to call HN a promoter of YC.
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by ssharp 11y ago
It's not changing what you copy, rather when you highlight that, it's also selecting text that you can't see because it's been positioned outside of the viewport.
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by ssharp 11y ago
I'd love to "flail around" while still having two billion in annual profits.
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by ssharp 11y ago
When I had Hulu Plus, it was actually worse than cable because it forced you to sit through commercials. If I recorded the show on cable, I could fast forward through them at least.
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by ssharp 11y ago
The option isn't really between getting it from Amazon or getting it from Walmart. Realistically guessing, there are a fair number of places within a short driving distance where you don't need to walk far to find the Sharpies and
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by ssharp 11y ago
I used to occasionally game banks for their account sign-up bonuses. You quickly learn how to set up your accounts so that it takes minimal effort to switch to something else. A few tips to stay nimble and cover your bases during bank chang
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by ssharp 11y ago
I think there are a ton of parallels between making money creating mobile games and making money in the arts. I think part of the disillusionment with budding game developers is that their core craft is still a very much in demand. The core
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by ssharp 11y ago
I think the story of passionate people pouring their hearts into their work for several years, believing they were creating something great, only to see in crumble in a few short months, would resonate with this crowd.
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by ssharp 11y ago
I don't think he'll try and do a site as big as Grantland again. I would expect him to so something on a smaller scale, however. A lot of the non-sports people he brought in have also left or will be leaving. I don't see why
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by ssharp 11y ago
Although it seems like ESPN is extremely desperate to eliminate its costs, I doubt they bail on FiveThirtyEight heading into a US presidential election. Past that, I'd be surprised to see it last. Nate Silver is still a pretty good bra
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by ssharp 11y ago
I need to take a transfer from Fort Lauderdale airport to Miami in a few weeks and was looking at pricing. Uber was definitely the cheapest, assuming no surge pricing. A scheduled private car is going to be close to $30 more than an Uber.
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by ssharp 11y ago
It's more than them saying it takes "skill". The US Government blessed fantasy sports as a game of skill and specifically made it legal. The US Government didn't feel the same way about poker and made that specifically i
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by ssharp 11y ago
I'm pretty sure William Hill operates legally in Nevada. They operate many of the sports books at smaller casinos there and I think offer betting shops outside of casinos there as well, like in sports bars. Nevada also allows online sp
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by ssharp 11y ago
That's the exact idea -- you don't know, so don't assume and do your research.
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by ssharp 11y ago
Care.com is doing similiar things with housekeeping services, although they started with matching child care providers to parents and seem to just be expanding into new verticles -- housekeeping, pet watching, etc. I think it's a good
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by ssharp 11y ago
I think Tesla is less priced for perfection and more priced for the future. Investors expect Tesla to eventually surpass companies like BMW, across the board for each model. By betting on Tesla, they're betting on Tesla being the domin
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by ssharp 11y ago
I've been using Rotten Tomatoes as my primary movie filter for a few years now. Although I don't see a lot of them, I can't think of any movie I've enjoyed all the much over that time that wasn't around or above 60%
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by ssharp 11y ago
I've never shopped paint brands based on color. I always just assume the brand will have the color I want in their collection of swatches. I have bought different brands based on perceived/researched quality. I've found perso
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by ssharp 11y ago
Crpytocurrency/Money isn't the only way to incentive people. If a group of decentralized entities have a common interest that could be solved with a blockchain-type technology, it might make sense for them to throw computing power
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by ssharp 11y ago
Bitcoin is horrible for microtransactions. I don't know if there's another blockchain besides Bitcoin's that's better for microtransacations, but Bitcoin ain't it. The transaction bandwidth for Bitcoin is laughably
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by ssharp 11y ago
I prefer AABB testing because it doesn't take me much time to figure out if the test needs to run longer and you get used to the patterns your conversion rates follow pretty quickly in tools like VWO. I've talked to some large CRO
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by ssharp 11y ago
There are still people who can statistically make money betting sports, so I'd be hard-pressed to call that any less of a game of skill than daily fantasy sports or poker. For a long time, professional sports leagues in the US were ext
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by ssharp 11y ago
When I was looking at this last year, there were several paid options to get direct access to datasets and/or API's, without having to scrape. Out of curiosity, what sport(s) were you modeling?
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by ssharp 11y ago
I signed up for an account on Draft Kings last year after seeing a ton of advertising for it. I had been seeing the daily fantasy sports stuff for years after the U.S. destroyed online poker but allowed for betting on fantasy sports, but ha
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by ssharp 11y ago
Some online sports books used to operate betting markets where you'd essentially buy options on teams, with the price of the option being determined by the demand. The house would make money on the spread. The fundamental difference be
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by ssharp 11y ago
"Why wouldn't it occur to someone that a brand-name product used on television has been paid for? Especially when every other product used has been conspicuously genericized, labels covered up and whatnot." You're correc
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by ssharp 11y ago
This is called a "view-through conversion". Just saying that it was still tracked and attributed, regardless of clicks.
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by ssharp 11y ago
Thanks for the rational reply. Some of the cynical and critical comments here strike me as far too idealistic. This seems like a completely reasonable step to take in offering websites money for ad-free content without having to subscribe t

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