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by ssharp 12y ago
Online drug dealers may not cause violent crime directly but you have no idea what their supply chain looks like. Unless they are manufacturing the drugs themselves, which is unlikely for most big-money drugs, there is likely blood in their
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by ssharp 12y ago
I was building an electronics project last year and found it to be very helpful to go to my local RadioShack and just browse the components. Although they didn't have a huge selection and the employees knew nothing about any of it, any
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by ssharp 12y ago
We use Yammer at our company and it's much more like Facebook than Twitter. It's not the be-all and end-all of our collaboration tech nor do I think people spend more time on it than actual work.
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by ssharp 12y ago
I decided around two years ago to abandon "owning" most of my music. I started with Rhapsody and moved to Spotify. I find that Spotify has almost everything I want to listen to and the $10 / month (actually, $20 since I have
725.
by ssharp 12y ago
I don't want to get too specific into our paid and organic strategies, but I can say that our numbers don't support that people will be more likely to click on the ads than the organic results. This is for both popular, competitiv
726.
by ssharp 12y ago
I disagree with you, but I certainly would like to know your reasoning behind this. Most people are going to use a search engine if all they get are paid ads. People go to Google for the organic results and sometimes the paid ads are useful
727.
by ssharp 12y ago
There is some good technical execution advice here, but the basic premonition is wrong: "From a development point of view SEO is the concern of how well a robot can read and understand your content. As we will see, a robot being able t
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by ssharp 12y ago
California poker isn't typical of most other regional casinos. Look at the Bravo poker app and browse through what games are spread across the country. I have fond memories of limit poker thanks to the old 6max games online, but limit
729.
by ssharp 12y ago
Limit Hold Em pales in comparison to No Limit at every cardroom I've been in the past 10 years. Yes, limit still gets spread, but the limit choices are very poor in most casinos.
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by ssharp 12y ago
Abysmal headline. The bot conquered heads-up, limit hold 'em, a game with next to no popularity. Conquering heads-up may be a good first step, though I'd reason that making a bot that can beat a full limit table is exponentially h
731.
by ssharp 12y ago
There are 30 people in every industry, so it's a lot more than 30 total.
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by ssharp 12y ago
You can go to cars.com, punch in a 150 mile radius and probably find multiple cars for sale with the specs you're looking for. When I bought the car I currently drive, I actually did have a hard time locating exact alternatives to the
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by ssharp 12y ago
Dealers don't list their used car prices at attractive prices, but they will come down. From the research of done when buying our past two used cars (in 2013 and earlier this year), the information asymmetry was still plentiful. Dealer
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by ssharp 12y ago
The most egregious cost with these cars is not the thousand or two over in profit to the dealer, but rather the massive depreciation over the first two years. That's a substantial expense that almost everyone overlooks and one that can
735.
by ssharp 12y ago
I'm not going anywhere near this, just like I'm not going anywhere near any BitCoin wallet service. I realize the underlying assets are subject to some of the same risks as owning BitCoins themselves. The person who said do you tr
736.
by ssharp 12y ago
I see the down votes but I'm genuinely curious. I'm assuming the Winklevi stand to profit from this and hold a large number of BitCoins that would probably be hard to get liquidity from.
737.
by ssharp 12y ago
I trust my money in E*Trade, Fidelity, etc. far more than I trust it in any BitCoin wallet service.
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by ssharp 12y ago
Is this the only way to cash out a large amount of BitCoins?
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by ssharp 12y ago
Read http://darkpatterns.org/ I'm not even sure if I'd call exit intent pop-ins a "dark pattern", let alone call it the most bullshit and annoying one, considering the examples listed on the darkpatterns
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by ssharp 12y ago
I don't know how picreel operates, but other services like BounceExchange can do behavioral targeting so you're not giving every visitor exit intent pop-ins.
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by ssharp 12y ago
The idea behind conversion optimization is to convert more of the Maybe's in to Yes's. Alienating the No's shouldn't be too much of a concern as long as you aren't turning your Yes's in to No's. It's
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by ssharp 12y ago
A lot of people on HN seem to be adverse to using these modal pop-ins. I'm curious to find out why people here hate them so much. In practice, they can be very effective, almost shockingly effective, at increasing conversions. I know t
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by ssharp 12y ago
" especially in the beginning when the show is slow to get into" When I re-watched it, I was surprised how slow the start of the show is. Maybe all the fantastic memories of seasons 3 and 4 made me forget that the first few episod
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by ssharp 12y ago
I've long suspected that A/B products "confidence" stats are intentionally bad. I see far too many egregious declarations of "wins" in VWO. Even if they temper it by saying "you should wait a full seven da
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by ssharp 12y ago
Optimizely just changed their pricing and only have free and enterprise tiers now. Their free tier is much nicer than you'd expect, as well.
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by ssharp 12y ago
Because the article was trying to say that Flatiron's costs were lower, yet they're charging more. Granted, my calculations were dumb. I took the 4.3 years the article used as time to finish a 4-year degree and multiplied it by 52
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by ssharp 12y ago
You can't discount your traditional education from your ROI on Flatiron. They aren't exclusive investments. In cases like yours, Flatiron is complementary to other education. If Flatiron wants to make their ROI case stronger, they
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by ssharp 12y ago
I started college at the start of the dot com bubble. I remember network engineering was the hot field of the time and there were places offering fast turnaround and relatively cheap Cisco certification training. These days, I wonder how ma
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by ssharp 12y ago
This isn't even close to an apples-to-apples comparison and looks like mostly an advertisement. You're looking at broad academic institutions preparing students for a huge range of careers vs. an institution that takes advantage o
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by ssharp 12y ago
I bought some bitcoins in early 2013 and then tried to buy some a few months ago. It's more painful to do now and I lost interest in having to tie to a real bank account, ID verification, etc. I realize that a lot of crackdowns have be

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