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What’s up with nano?(asty.org)
126 points by wdr1 10y ago|79 comments
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by wdr1 10y ago
For the vast majority of advertising, CTR isn't terribly important.
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by wdr1 10y ago
If I remember correctly, domains used to cost around $78 to register. When the price dropped dramatically, there was discussion on Slashdot about the effects. Most thought it was great ("hey, I, a poor college student, can get a domai
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by wdr1 10y ago
The challenge is "loophole" is in the eye of the beholder. Is the backdoor Roth IRA contribution a loophole? The mortgage deduction? Tax-loss harvesting that carries for 20+ years?
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by wdr1 10y ago
Was anyone claiming otherwise?
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by wdr1 10y ago
I've had the opposite experience. I've avoided naming the number at least twice where the company then offered something higher than the range I had in mind. Better, since I didn't start, I was able to still negotiate on top
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by wdr1 10y ago
Did you read the article? It talked about how MS, Google, and others worked to prevent this type of behavior.
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by wdr1 10y ago
> But riddle me this: what do you do when someone on BI has a financial emergency or, as will happen with some regularity, just flat-out blows all their money and now can't afford rent and/or food? Do you tell them "tough
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by wdr1 10y ago
For better or worse, that's already the case. There are several pieces of ransomware where if you pay, your money effectively just disappears into a void.
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by wdr1 10y ago
My favorite was the server that couldn't send email further than 500 miles away. http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by wdr1 10y ago
I don't think it was presented as a dichotomy. Just that you can't cherry pick the parts of the past that you like to support your theory.
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by wdr1 10y ago
I would agree the CIA is a reason, but I think it's faulty to call it the reason. There are several factors at play, including European colonialism of the early 20th century, as well as the tendency to split countries in a divided
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by wdr1 10y ago
> What happens if they decide to keep the company private? The shares can still be sold, but it's limited to qualified investors. The primary issue is that obviously the same information of a public company isn't available &am
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by wdr1 10y ago
Do the prices include tax?
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by wdr1 11y ago
Any support evidence?
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by wdr1 11y ago
> I make 200K+ and Mark Zuckerberg makes 35 Billion. There is no sane reason for this kind of BS. I don't understand your argument. It's insane for Mark Zuckerberg to make more than you, but it's not insane for you to mak
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by wdr1 11y ago
Working under the assumption the FBI works for us, the people, I would hope two things: 1) They disclose the vulnerability to Apple and make us all safer 2) Having now unlocked the phone, disclose if there was additional information that ma
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by wdr1 11y ago
> I simply didn’t realize how little room you have to advance as just a programmer I think this is one thing that has changed dramatically (and for the better) in the last ~10 years. I started as a developer in the 90s. The only way to
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by wdr1 11y ago
> I've never been unhappy with flying with them. I've had the reverse. My experience with them is always miserable. Honestly, they seem an airline stuck in the 1980s. For example, after we married, my wife changed her name &
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by wdr1 11y ago
> I'm really beginning to wonder where the ad-blocking wars are going to leave us. I don't know all of it, but a lot of it will result in a big increase in native advertising. By its nature, it's harder to block due the la
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by wdr1 11y ago
> Its not news, its entertainment. And when you can't disambiguate the two, its fucking dangerous. I consider the Daily Show both, as do many others.
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by wdr1 11y ago
Eh, I've lived here & haven't found that to be true. Sure, I do know people who work in the entertainment industry, but by and large they're regular people. Some are assholes, some are kind. I found the same to be true
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by wdr1 11y ago
I hope it continues. I've been caught in a bind twice in my career when Microsoft offered their product on a non-Windows platform and once it started to develop critical mass, the platform was dropped in favor of Windows only. (FoxPr
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by wdr1 11y ago
> Tesla is doing anything they can to make sure there is no aftermarket for their vehicles This seems to fly in the face of evidence, considering Tesla directly facilitates aftermarket sales: teslamotors.com/models/preowned
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by wdr1 11y ago
When he says Google shouldn't make this possible at all, I'm not sure what he's asking for? Isn't the alternative basically vendor lock-in? Or that this would mean disabling things like IMAP & POP? Fleep sounds like
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by wdr1 11y ago
> Making braces optional in single-statement if/else/while/for clauses is one of the biggest anti-features in C. What's frustrating is that K&R still has a lot of example code like that as well. It would be wonde
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by wdr1 11y ago
> "We should just have used Json for everything!" - said everyone currently. Protobufs FTW.
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by wdr1 11y ago
Hear, hear. I've been on a history bug about the Revolutionary War & the founding of America (admittedly, triggered by Hamilton). In a nutshell, America has been incredibly partisan since 1796. It doesn't make me like it bet
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by wdr1 11y ago
Malibu residents are fairly tone deaf as well. Fake garage doors. Fake "No Parking" signs. Fake red-painted curbs. Rent-a-cops with real guns. And that's to keep the public away from existing public beach access points.
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by wdr1 11y ago
Given these are email , why the heck is the government providing PDFs of printouts? Why aren't they providing a text version?

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