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by stvswn 10y ago
Just occurred to me after seeing the other comments that this use case was already supported by gift cards.
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by stvswn 10y ago
Many people don't use banking services at all. It's pretty common to cash a paycheck and then manage a weekly or monthly budget by dividing up the cash into "accounts" -- put this much aside for rent, this goes away int
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by stvswn 10y ago
Everytime we do this on HN, the same argument shows up -- "MBAs are the worst." "Well what about these popular CEOs?" "Well they're not really MBAs, c'mon." Sundar Pichai went to Wharton for his MBA
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by stvswn 10y ago
1-5% click through rate on a display ad is pretty normal. If had impressions on 400k sites, the distribution of impressions per site had a long tail, and then you removed all of those that had no clicks, you'd expect to have a small s
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by stvswn 10y ago
Where to start? What makes you think that they reduced their spend by 99%? They simply limited their campaigns' targeting to a whitelist of 400 sites, there's not any indication that they were spending equal $ per placement. I&#x
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by stvswn 10y ago
Each individual advertiser on Google can provide "negative keywords," which are keywords that the advertiser would like to make sure they never show for. Yes, you're right that buying one's own brand keywords is a defens
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by stvswn 10y ago
Interesting. I wonder if the Clinton campaign tried to get too clever against Bernie by dividing his support -- tell Blacks he's not committed to civil rights, tell Hispanics he's anti-immigration, tell women his supporters are a
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by stvswn 10y ago
I think that there's an argument to be made that Hillary didn't rally the Black vote well enough, because she assumed that it would transfer to her as part of a new permanent Democratic majority instead of being an artifact of ent
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by stvswn 10y ago
I think you're assuming that there won't be over-the-top optional healthcare that we'd all (as in, people w/ good insurance at the moment) have to buy in order to meet the same quality we currently have.
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by stvswn 10y ago
I'm in my 30s as well -- I make a great tech salary and own small house that cost me a ton to buy. I pay a lot in taxes. I support a family of four off of my salary. At the end of the day we basically live the same lifestyle that I g
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by stvswn 10y ago
As a matter of fact, the ACA does legitimize alternative medicine by mandating that state licensure be the standard of legitimacy. Whether that's troubling or not is matter of opinion. As an opinion writer, Kevin Williamson shared hi
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by stvswn 10y ago
It's just "National Review" and it's the preeminent conservative opinion journal. If it's illegitimate, then there can be no legitimate opposition I suppose? Maybe that's your point?
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by stvswn 10y ago
Here you go: https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/politifa... ,and this one: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/414434/politifact-and-m...
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by stvswn 10y ago
I'm confused by his warning that there are few opportunities for advancement as a product manager, and that PMs end up becoming marketers. Is this true in smaller companies maybe? Definitely not the case at big tech cos.
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by stvswn 10y ago
Peninsula? I live here with my two kids, it's full of kids. Burlingame, San Mateo, Belmont, San Carlos, redwood city, Menlo park all seem full of people who moved from the city when their oldest was ready for school.
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by stvswn 10y ago
Because the date of Manning's release (May 17th) is international LGBT day
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by stvswn 10y ago
He appointed Steve Bannon to be a strategist and advisor. Many were worried that Bannon would end up the chief of staff, which would have been a significantly more powerful position. Instead Reince Priebus is the chief of staff. 48 hours
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by stvswn 10y ago
As an Eagle Scout and former Army officer, one of my enduring life lessons has been "false motivation is better than no motivation." When you're cold, wet, and tired it helps to pretend you love it. It's infectious, too
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by stvswn 10y ago
I agree that it sounds fantastic, but they've jumped into the muck before. For example, they removed Milo's verification checkmark just to punish him (I tend to think he deserved his eventual banning for violating rules, but it&#
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by stvswn 10y ago
As a homeowner, I want speculators to drive up the prices in my neighborhood. I want them to snatch up and renovate the homes in disrepair and then rent them out at high prices to people richer than me. That would drive up my property val
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by stvswn 10y ago
Management companies and big developers are too visible to avoid it, but individual property owners cheat the system all the time. For example, if you have an in-law unit attached to your home in San Francisco, you'd be smart to reach
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by stvswn 10y ago
(I'm a PM for AdWords, sharing my personal opinion based on experience and not speaking on behalf of Google) If you want to avoid a money pit, I think you can. The trick is to pipe conversion data back to AdWords. This is pretty easy
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by stvswn 10y ago
24/7 operations team at the NOC. Billing. Collections. Technical support. Physical support. Lawyers. Local easements. Sales and Advertising. Cost of capital. Goes on and on. If you're a cable company who already built all o
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by stvswn 10y ago
No, the West does not need to respond in kind. Unilateral free trade is better than tit-for-tat escalations. Let them protect their own; in the long run we'll be better off for allowing free-trade even when our counterparties do not.
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by stvswn 10y ago
American progressives tend to use Sweden (and Scandanavia generally) as models of how socialism can succeed, probably unaware that Sweden is a highly-productive, modern, capitalist society with capiitalist notions free trade, property right
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by stvswn 10y ago
Care to provide evidence for such a claim?
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by stvswn 10y ago
Californians (I am one) can certainly decide this. Many actively hold this view. If we decide this, we have to live with the consequences, which I believe are indefensible from a moral standpoint. We're making it untenable for lower
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by stvswn 10y ago
Your comment seems to presuppose that all regulations are responses to abuses of the commons. Even if one were to grant that notion -- and I don't -- it is still possible that the treatment is worse than the disease. Are you just refl
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by stvswn 10y ago
right, and lets stop saying "gun deaths" and trick people into thinking we mean "murders." There are twice as many suicides as homicides in this country, but we're only about average in per-capita suicide compared
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by stvswn 10y ago
"gun deaths" is clever semantics, but I'm not sure suicides are relevant here

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