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by wppick 6y ago
How do you explain paywalls then?
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by wppick 6y ago
Nothing is stopping the payment provider from taking a percentage. I pay 0.5 cents for an article and service provider takes 0.1 cents. Still $4 RPM for the news site after a 20% fee!
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by wppick 6y ago
Yes, and as a 3rd party service would be great too. I can login with Facebook, Google, etc. It would be great if I can just pay 1/2 cent to read 1 article vs signing up for monthly or yearly subscriptions. And I can choose pay with ser
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by wppick 6y ago
I guess there would need to be a 3rd party or even in house token system where you buy something like 1000 token for a dollar. And you can spend x tokens to view an article. Online advertising like Google ads is essentially doing this for a
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Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?
109 points by wppick 6y ago|188 comments
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by wppick 6y ago
People's minds are the new real estate. The power that the traditional media and social media have over people's mind seems to be quite alarming. While something is being pushed by the media it is hotly debated, and as soon as the
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by wppick 6y ago
I have a theory that for a lot of companies Slack is a negative ROI. I find myself having to turn Slack off to avoid being constantly interrupted by notifications. But on the flipside I also find myself having to go back and read through to
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by wppick 6y ago
China has them
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by wppick 6y ago
Tech stocks will drop More no code platforms will emerge and grow Fiat currencies will have major moves Bitcoin will rise big and then drop sharply once people realize how useless it is Inequality will continue to grow. More controls will b
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by wppick 6y ago
This might answer part of your question around legality https://www.docusign.com/blog/are-electronic-signatures-lega... .
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by wppick 7y ago
Salt was used to cure and preserve meat, and not just for flavoring
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by wppick 7y ago
I would think in certain societies luck (randomness) has much less of an impact on peoples lives than others. Like dropping a pin somewhere in Norway vs the US to represent where someone will be born. In the US there is may be a pretty larg
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by wppick 7y ago
It's like the person in the sportscar weaving through traffic on the highway. He can only do it because everyone else drives carefully and predictably. He gets to his destination faster, and thinks he is a much better driver than every
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by wppick 7y ago
DNS spoofing is one I think. You request mybankwebsite.com and end up entering you login info on mybankwebslte.com
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by wppick 7y ago
The problem as it's defined in this thesis sounds a lot like the problem of microservice architecture. I'm curious how something like protobufs would compare in solving this problem
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by wppick 7y ago
> What architectural problem justifies doubling the number of requests? Simplicity. If I create some "component" that declares what its data from the server needs to be (some subset of the domain), then it knows how to read&#x2
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by wppick 7y ago
No need to worry the place will be professionally cleaned and sanitized between guests /s
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by wppick 7y ago
Try skipping a meal and drinking water to satisfy your hunger. I wonder if many of us have confused the body signals for "eat" and "drink water" since we can get water through eating, but also the pleasure and enjoyment
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by wppick 7y ago
It seems like the argument is for "what is the minimum amount of water needed", but I wonder if it's still better to consciously drink more water? Could it be good for helping the body detoxify itself? I've heard drinkin
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by wppick 7y ago
The brain is connected to the gut via the vagus nerve. It's possible that humans are just a vehicle for bacteria to more quickly and interact with their environment in a more substantial way in a similar way that human use cars as a ve
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by wppick 7y ago
By the time our technology reaches the point that we could feasibly travel to and inhabit another distant planet, and with all the challenges with that (space travel, terraforming, radiation protection), couldn't we feasibly create or
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by wppick 7y ago
Unless you are planning criminal activity in the future, this feature could act as an alibi to absolve you of being in the place where a crime was committed. And, false positives aside, I think it's great that law enforcement has the t
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by wppick 7y ago
> One of the hardest challenges of paying off technical debt is that there's no visible improvement to the stakeholder. From a business perspective, they often think it's working now, why not leave it alone? I think the article
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by wppick 7y ago
I have also seen similar recovery benefits from longer (11+) hours sleeps. During a period of a few months I worked out heavily every day, and noticed better recovery and faster strength gains from the longer sleeps. One downside with the l
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by wppick 7y ago
Are exponentiation operations much faster than multiplication since an exponentiation b^n is just n additions? Given that is true, I wonder if there is a fast approximation method of solving a multiplication by solving an exponentiation tha
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by wppick 8y ago
With respect to the college admissions bribes it seems like the game just got harder. Maybe the club of people able to bribe their kid's way into a school has grown too large, and so the price has gone up. You now have to be more wealt
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by wppick 8y ago
This sounds like a "leadership" problem. I put leadership in quotes because there is a difference between leadership and management, so I'd say it's more of a management problem (with a lack of leadership). Check out the
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by wppick 8y ago
Even within a single language the words that we chose to use shape our mental and emotional states. Tony Robbins talks about this in his book Awaken the Giant Within (highly recommend)
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by wppick 8y ago
These are great points. My two cents: I think there's potentially a lot more behind this product than just the face value of game streaming. Amazon is growing their compute power with aws, and other people are paying for this. Google n
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by wppick 8y ago
It sounded to me like a pipelining architecture similar to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_pipelining with a thread pool per stage?

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