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by ssharp 11y ago
You don't have to make content scrapping crud to make a buck. The alternative is to take time and build out a focused site with quality content you've come up with. There are tons of one-man-show blogs and sites out there that pro
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by ssharp 11y ago
Ad network traffic is really a last resort. In my experience, they tend to focus a lot on remarketing and not enough on testing related products/services. For a lot of sites with lower traffic volumes, you might find better CPM's
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by ssharp 11y ago
I remember reading about the development of Gillette's Mach 3 blade in the book "Good to Great". From what I remember, the spent considerable money in developing the tooling required to manufacture those blades. I think that
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by ssharp 11y ago
Maybe it's why I'm not a developer anymore, but my approach to a broken "w" key wouldn't be figuring out a workaround to using "while", but rather copying and pasting a "w" from somewhere else.
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by ssharp 11y ago
All of the investors are invested in other Bitcoin-related ventures. OpenBazaar has the potential to get people to actually spend Bitcoins, which people don't really do now. That then has the potential to increase Bitcoin's value,
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by ssharp 11y ago
I'm 100% going to give Apple Music a good try during their three month free trial period. I've been loyal to Spotify since they opened to U.S. customers and I left from Rhapsody, but Apple Music will have better integration into t
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by ssharp 11y ago
I understand the people in the Bitcoin community are trying to prepare for the future, but is there any evidence at all that Bitcoin transactions will grow to a point where the blockchain can't handle them and sidechains will actually
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by ssharp 11y ago
Radio still has to be a wildly popular format, even though I don't listen to it anymore. Otherwise, Sirius/XM wouldn't still be in business, despite having a limited selection of music and terrible sound quality. All those su
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by ssharp 11y ago
Around 10 years ago, I bought a house that had two garage doors and each door had it's own separate remote and each were the insecure fixed-code kind. I was able to easily wire-up a replacement receiver to the opener unit that allowed
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by ssharp 11y ago
People should absolutely be respectful of their applicants' time. And applicants should use how they're treated during the application process as a signal for how they'll be treated as employees. One of the best interviews I
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by ssharp 11y ago
I taught myself coding HTML by hand using Hippie. I regressed and switched to Frontpage because it was so "easy". I then went over to the Dreamweaver and stayed there until I learned server-side programming, which put me back in t
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by ssharp 11y ago
I don't have a thunderbolt device yet, but I wouldn't expect the behavior you're talking about. Being able to connect my old firewire devices might be nice, but I wouldn't expect to be able to use new devices on an old p
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by ssharp 11y ago
It's probably worse with Bitcoin because all of the community has a financial stake in it succeeding.
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by ssharp 11y ago
> Nobody will pay $1 for electricity to generate <$1 of bitcoin. Hobbyist miners are convincing themselves that <$1 of Bitcoin will be worth >$1 the future. Major miners seem to have question business models as well, where they
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by ssharp 11y ago
Related discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9537691 Maybe we can have "smart" electrical outlets that steals back any Bitcoins you mine off of someone else's electricity.
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by ssharp 11y ago
Whoever is paying the electric bill. You see lots of people talking about mining from apartments with included utilities, dorm rooms, their work, etc. It sounds like 21 Inc. wants to take this route on a massive, distributed scale. Wasn&#x2
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by ssharp 11y ago
I have to wonder how they're going to market these things to people without breaking any consumer laws. It seems like you'd almost have to trick people into using them for any extended period of time (like after they get their fir
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by ssharp 11y ago
Why is 25% a benefit? If these chips profitably mined bitcoins, it would make sense to run them yourself rather than give them away. 25% isn't going to cover the electricity used.
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by ssharp 11y ago
All for the "benefit" of mining Bitcoin. The idea is to stick these chips into household applications (e.g. USB chargers), give the appliances out for free, stick the electricity bill on you, and give 75% of the Bitcoin revenue ba
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by ssharp 11y ago
I wouldn't make a pit stop in Akron. I can't imagine there would be too many interesting activities for tourists. There is a lot to see and do in Cleveland, which is only a 30 minute drive from Akron.
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by ssharp 11y ago
It's Ohio, not Antarctica. I've lived here my entire life and cannot remember EVER being "snowed in" so bad that I couldn't make it to a store to buy food. Sure, you might stock up on canned or frozen food so you do
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by ssharp 11y ago
Weather seems like a commonly-stated reason for leaving Ohio. I'm from here, so I obviously take note of it, but I do wonder if people commonly talk about leaving places like Boston and NYC for warmer climates. Those areas seem to have
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by ssharp 11y ago
I was a little excited to read about Akron and Sandusky on Hacker News and then, of course, they're used for the backdrop of how "miserable" winters are here in Ohio.
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by ssharp 11y ago
Can someone explain why mobile data is now the expense driver for phone plans and why it's so expensive? It's obvious that data usage has skyrocketed now that smartphones have taken off, but is all that data usage draining mobile
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by ssharp 11y ago
I appreciate what you're saying, and largely agree, but I'm not sure your photography analogy holds up. Although this could just be my ignorance of photography because I'm not 100% sure what data "raw" formats hold.
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by ssharp 11y ago
*stupidly set up a cron
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by ssharp 11y ago
> Consumers will catch up to the decay that MP3 codecs cause and feel the same way about them that a millennial feels about VHS tapes. It may take a few years, or even decades, to arrive there, though. I'm not sure if that's re
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by ssharp 11y ago
It's hard to believe one person was able to successfully leak so much material. I got into album leaks in the early-mid 2000's. Even if I would end up buying the album anyway, that first listen of the leaked album was awesome.
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by ssharp 11y ago
I accidentally did something similar quite a few years ago when I stupidly set up a grep to run updatedb every two hours. There was several months lag as well between when I did that and my computer started locking up every two hours for a
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by ssharp 11y ago
Do you really listen to the chords that closely? For a lot of music, the chords are either largely hinted at (bass notes, the lead guitar or rhythm guitar lick, and how the melody move) and if there is an instrument banging out the exact ch

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