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by vinaypai 7y ago
Congratulations, of all the people who have responded with outrage on this thread, you are the only person I've found that has a website listed that DOESN'T run Google Analytics or some other third party analytics platform.
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by vinaypai 7y ago
You mean like the Google Analytics you have running on your website?
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by vinaypai 7y ago
Yeah I agree advertisers would rather have their ads next to quality content. Publishers don't always have the same incentives while it's easy to fill lots of inventory with at lower prices but make up for it in volume. A fine di
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by vinaypai 7y ago
Online advertising is pretty much always going to be a race to the bottom because everything a website does is just a dog and pony show to get people to watch ads. Why bother putting together quality content when churning out clickbait and
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by vinaypai 7y ago
I for one much prefer paywalls. I'd rather be the customer than the product.
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by vinaypai 7y ago
I realize this is an unpopular opinion around here... but can anyone explain how they have actually been harmed by this? Like for real not in abstract notions of "creepiness" or whatever. I, for one with Facebook actually figured
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by vinaypai 7y ago
Except the part where it says that it's a "Legend", and the fact that the explanation and problem are reversed in older and newer versions of the legend. --- It’s interesting to note how the “vapor lock” explanation reversed
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by vinaypai 7y ago
I don't know which model this is, but my GE fridge (bought 1.5 years ago) works just fine with a third party filter, and they even include a bypass cap which is just a plastic piece that goes in place of the filter and lets it work wit
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by vinaypai 7y ago
This is someone who was in a meeting and decided to go leak something they heard to a journalist. Asking them to recall more than "she used the word grooming" is not a high bar to clear. You can believe whatever you like but it do
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by vinaypai 7y ago
"Go Puff" seems like a good description of how SoftBank's investments tend to go these days.
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by vinaypai 7y ago
If they don't have the quote, a credible journalist wouldn't run the story.
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by vinaypai 7y ago
What did she actually (allegedly) say? As far as I can tell from the article she said reporters "groom" sources, and The Information then extrapolated that to draw a comparison to sexual predators because "the term ‘grooming’
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by vinaypai 7y ago
Yeah, Google now shows organic results with similar styling with a favicon so you can only tell the difference by the "Ad" shows next to paid ads. Everyone should switch to DuckDuckGo which shows search results with a favicon and
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by vinaypai 7y ago
I don't understand why this is on the front page of Hacker News. 100k monthly page views is 139 per hour. Even if you assume the peak rate is 10x the average, that's several seconds per page load. A standard install of WordPress r
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by vinaypai 7y ago
Interesting that the text in the search bar in the screenshot says "AWS Pinpoint Alternatives" doesn't actually line up with the text at the bottom where it says "Searches related to Send with SES — AWS Pinpoint Alternat
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by vinaypai 7y ago
> I'm not really sure of the mechanism for CO2 emissions from pipelines They aren't talking CO2 emissions per-se but greenhouse gas emissions in "CO2 equivalent". This is an important distinction because there are oth
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by vinaypai 7y ago
It is not the fault of the students who wrote the paper, but this is an exceptionally good example of terrible science reporting in popular media. Practically every sentence of the article is wrong including multiple errors in the title. &g
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by vinaypai 7y ago
Getting the counterweight to orbit is not the hard part of building an earth space elevator. The hard part is the 36,000 km cable from the surface of the earth to geostationary orbit that can support its own weight against earth's grav
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by vinaypai 7y ago
If 5 is red, 1 must be violet. So I guess 0 is an ultraviolet flag.
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by vinaypai 7y ago
Non-work stress can certainly intrude on work life, and you can help out with that as long as you tread very carefully. Years ago, I noticed one of my reports had been performing uncharacteristically poorly, often late to work, making slopp
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by vinaypai 7y ago
The resolution of this satellite is about 5-7 cm per pixel which is about the limit of what's possible with the 2.4m mirror it uses. You'd need a mirror at least 10x as large to read license plates, and that's if they were po
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by vinaypai 7y ago
Sorry, typo. I meant to say vantablack will heat up slightly faster, not the other way around.
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by vinaypai 7y ago
All matter has a rate at which it emits radiation that depends on its temperature ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation ). Ordinary black pigment which might absorb 95% of light will only heat up slightly
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by vinaypai 7y ago
The idea is that the cheaper effective prices encourages foreign buyers to buy more, generating more economic activity. Of course it also makes imports more expensive but if the country is a net exporter, the net effect is positive for them
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by vinaypai 7y ago
Yes I wonder why they didn't use an industry-standard wireless protocol. Possibly one named after a Norse king and built into basically every phone made in the last decade or so.
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by vinaypai 7y ago
And what happens when you lose your phone and need to pair it with a new device?
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by vinaypai 7y ago
> any HN reader could solve this way better This thread is full of dumb ideas that don't hold up to two seconds of scrutiny.
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by vinaypai 7y ago
Yeah, for the toddler who just discovered light switches.
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by vinaypai 7y ago
So if you have this installed in a ceiling fixture, you have to get a ladder, take off the shade, hope the bulb happens to be oriented the right way in the light fixture for you to access the switch. Or, you could play that video and follow
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by vinaypai 7y ago
So it resets every time you leave the bulb off long enough for the capacitor to discharge?

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