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by unreal37 12y ago
It is odd how, with all the "shocking" revelations, nothing has effectively changed. It's like Snowden did the NSA a favor - exposing their secrets and so now they can act exactly the same but not in secret. Like a husband ca
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by unreal37 12y ago
Paul Revere's observation of events happening and reporting back in his own words isn't a great analogy. A better one would be to intercept all stagecoaches at their midway points across the entire United States, and manually copy
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by unreal37 12y ago
The Techcrunch article announcing the company was closing sheds some more light[1]. "This decision sentences us... to pay damages for publishing our opinion about Referencement on Twitter. ... This sentence means we cannot go on. &quot
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by unreal37 12y ago
This comment really undervalues the craft of "writing good things", by a lot. These writers, editors and staff deserve a good wage. Not to work just for "the press".
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NPR Blog: What It's Like to Be an Uber Driver(npr.org)
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Uber's Response to Senator Franken [pdf](franken.senate.gov)
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Uber limits 'God view' to improve rider privacy(money.cnn.com)
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Internal Memo: Sony Could Not Have Prepared for ‘Unprecedented’ Hack(time.com)
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by unreal37 12y ago
Doesn't really answer the question of the title. The authors can't determine what happens during a detox because the detox sellers don't mention any toxins by name.
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Uber backtracks after jacking up prices during Sydney hostage crisis(washingtonpost.com)
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by unreal37 12y ago
Agree that they understand that fraud exists. And they are not immune to it any more than you or I. But they don't look at it as "being bled". They pay X cents for a click, and they get Y sales per click. And Y has to be grea
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by unreal37 12y ago
Interesting paper, Patrick. I understand that markets with asymmetric information drive out good sellers and so only bad sellers remain, but I wonder why the markets themselves don't go out of business? We don't see places like fi
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by unreal37 12y ago
It sounds like having an open vacation policy is what leads to not respecting those days off in others. Also, what the leaders do, the staff generally do. It sounds like a healthy place to work to me. I'd love to work there.
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by unreal37 12y ago
The money comes out of the pockets of publishers. Collectively, they are making less than they should be for a pageview or a click. The advertisers have a budget for ads, and they will only pay that. At some point, when the ad is not effect
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by unreal37 12y ago
I don't believe that. I've worked with some companies that spend millions per year with online ads. They are sophisticated.
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by unreal37 12y ago
I think you're right. It's not "the end of digital advertising". It's just another factor among many that lead to lower PPC prices. When GM left Facebook because they claimed Facebook ads don't work, it was a h
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by unreal37 12y ago
That's not what I was talking about at all. And tell me how a being forced to solve a captcha prevents free speech.
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by unreal37 12y ago
Spearfishing and hacking accounts does indeed cost some people their life savings and cause elderly people with semi-comfortable retirements to go into poverty. I think hackers do indeed cause society harm. It`s not just some email in a fol
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by unreal37 12y ago
What does this mean? If I recall, patio11 was making $20k/$30k per year from bingo card creator years ago. Even today, with appointment reminder, at the core he is delivering real value to real customers for which they pay him money. I
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by unreal37 12y ago
I would argue that the problem of spam and hackers is a greater burden on society as a whole than someone in Iran not being able to get past a captcha.
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by unreal37 12y ago
I'm not sure how they came to the conclusion that the hackers have a "banking background". Is it that difficult to determine that hacking certain people's emails is likely to lead to insider trading tips? Do you need a &
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by unreal37 12y ago
I'd like to see the followup post, "how we spent time and money creating a useless infographic". If the data is just bad (see HN comments here), how is it in any way helpful? You have to start with valid data.
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My Experience Launching a Course on Udemy(coursemania.com)
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by unreal37 12y ago
Interesting link. I'm sure there's a lot more to come if what they have is true. But the comment about the popcorn doesn't seem right. Is it entertaining to watch him get dox'ed? Shall we encourage hackers holding info f
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by unreal37 12y ago
That's wishful thinking. Undercover cops must commit minor crimes all day every day to be truly undercover in a drug ring. If the cop had to stop and say, "Sorry, I can't drive over the speed limit", they wouldn't b
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by unreal37 12y ago
Agreed. Authorship was supposed to be a revolution in search marketing. Author Rank was the new Page Rank. It was the Next Big Thing (TM). And now it's dead.
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by unreal37 12y ago
His not so subtle point is that it's been 10 years since Gmail, and if that was the last successful non-bundled product, that was a long time ago.
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by unreal37 12y ago
Yes it seems Oracle gave itself the highest score, and then redefined what the highest score meant. Then gave themselves a middle score for something else, and redefined what the middle score meant too. That's hilarious actually.
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by unreal37 12y ago
It's no coincidence that the leading browser (Chrome) is produced by the world's largest advertising network (Google). And so you ask, why isn't cross-browser cookies disabled by default? Well... why would a company do someth
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by unreal37 12y ago
For me, it was painless to get one. I used an agency.

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