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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Apart from the obvious media-based entries, why am I getting different results across the OG, HTML, and Lite?
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Read this comment yesterday, and by chance came across a website this morning that also uses the 5-digit notation. Example: https://longbets.org/362/ (Edit: See the <title>)
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
$130 isn't enough to really test most advertising methods, unless you're already really dialed in. I operate e-commerce businesses, and I'd throw at least $500-$2,000 on testing something new before I call it quits.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
When you're spending that kind of money on a machine, there's no way you're paying retail price. Sales reps would give you a significant discount. Also - think you meant 6 months, not 6 years anyhow :)
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Excuse my ignorance of all this: I'm assuming most drugs are priced high to start due to the R&D costs, and (I hope) they eventually decrease their costs over time as that's recouped. If Cost Plus comes in and reduces the cost
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Completely false. People buy and sell SAAS businesses all the time. 1. Sure, bad businesses exist. When they do, they're priced accordingly or just can't find a buyer. 2. It's called an exit for a reason. There are million re
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Well, Google rewarded the bug bounty, and as far as we know - didn't sue him. So, they probably think it's okay.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
I'm an extremely heavy WhatsApp user, as are most of my community. Maybe like 3-5 people use stories regularly. I only swipe to the "Status" tab to get rid of the little notification dot.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
I remember having something similar years ago. Ended up just creating a 100GB file, or something, just to get the IOPS I needed until we could migrate off EFS.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
And the people running those organizations change, biologically.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
One of the reasons? It's honestly the reason for me. Such a minor thing, and it's super annoying. Google lost out on hundreds of dollars from me on this simple change.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
News today: Spy agency spies.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
I love all sorts of pizza: Meaty, cheesy, vegan, and everything in-between. I've had some truly phenomenal vegan pizzas that I would regularly take over a "traditional" pizza. I've also had some horrible ones. But you ca
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
I very much enjoy mental models. A close friend and myself have a weekly mastermind where we go over what's happening for us on both a personal and professional level. It keeps us both in check and allows us to come to conclusions more
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Do you have a better alternative to Tor? All of my understanding and reading has lead to it being a great solution for anonymous web browsing.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Same scam, different (and bigger) method. I see this regularly on my e-commerce businesses: Some company says they want to purchase $XX,XXX of our products, they have a shipping company they want to use that will pick-up from our warehouse,
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
39 million people also places it at #37 in population if it were a country. Throw in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, piggy-backing off the US as a whole, and having a beautiful coastline and great social culture. What do you expect? I do everyth
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Think of it this way: 1) Now, if you do like bubbles - At least it's all in one bubble rather than multiple apps doing their own thing. 2) If you don't like bubbles - you can disable them all at once.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Other commenters have address your questions, but what I will add is that if you stayed the full 12 months (Or really, 330 days) then you apply for FEIE and won't have to pay federal income tax as a US citizen.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
What I'm most fascinated by is that this is a solo blog that has sponsors and plenty of affiliate links, and has over 4 million readers. Very curious what kind of revenue it's pulling in. Can't seem to find a search function
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
American living in Indonesia here. I never bother to purchase actual "minutes" on my local SIM. Instead I just buy pure data plans and run everything through there. I usually just load up ~14GB for $7 which lasts 30 days - it coul
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Whenever this topic comes up, it's always all or nothing. If you're looking to detangle yourself from the Google ecosystem, you can do so one tool at a time over any period of time. Maybe you'll get all the way off it, maybe
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
I'm in the same boat - Been in SEA for a number of years. All the locals wear masks and there's no issue. The foreigners are the ones pushing against it.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
To put it bluntly: That would defeat the purpose of outsourcing to other countries. I asked what salary she wanted, and I pay about 20% over that. She's able to support herself, put her sister through school, and help family when in ne
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
I'll share my experience, even though it's on the pro-monitoring side: I run a small e-commerce company. It's myself, and two customer service/operations team members that I have hired out of the Philippines. I live in I
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
I'm assuming you didn't actually force yourself to read on: > Disclaimer #2: My stupid jokes in this post are not intended to insult someone or impose any radical opinions. They're here for a better connection with reality
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
I've had a few experiences with this: I've gone to a meditation retreat twice. First time was 5 days, second time was 3 days. Both times no electronics were allowed, so we would put them in a locker when checking in. Another time
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
If you're only running two micro instances, I'm assuming the rest of your infra is small. Likely would have been a single day project to have everything inside of Terraform.
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Correction: If it's free, your users are the product. And an addition: If you're enterprise and need Google 360, which is very much not free ($100k+/year I believe), not only are you paying - but your customers are still the
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by tjbiddle 6y ago
Google Ads still dominates though, and if you're doing paid advertising - you're not just shooting yourself in the foot, but you're lopping off a limb - or two. I wish it wasn't the case. Any non-Google analytics options

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