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by xNeil 5y ago
That's a very fair point, thank you!
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by xNeil 5y ago
Thank you, that was very helpful!
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by xNeil 5y ago
Thank you! Any reason why? Does it get harder to make friends as you grow older, or are the friends not as close to you as those made in your teenage years? How many friends do you still have who you knew when you were a teenager?
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Ask HN: What do you wish you had known as a teenager?
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by xNeil 5y ago
Absolutely - I have noticed the same in effectively all startups. I'm not even out of high school yet, so take my words with a pinch of salt, but my guess would be all companies may start out as 'enthusiast' brands, of sorts.
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by xNeil 5y ago
Alright, glad I could help!
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by xNeil 5y ago
Brave does make money off of them - they get 30%, you get 70%, I believe. And yes, the idea of sending BAT to websites directly was excellent. The website needs to have registered for the BAT wallet though. (Not a big deal, of course)
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by xNeil 5y ago
That's a very fair point, I had not thought of it in that way at all. I guess they are two ways of approaching it - 1. Brave is replacing Google Ads with their own ads. 2. Brave already blocks Google Ads, they might as well make some m
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by xNeil 5y ago
Not disputing your point at all - genuinely! But would you be fine if Google started serving you ads in your notifications? I'm just rephrasing it, because for some reason it would be creepier for me if Google served ads in notificatio
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by xNeil 5y ago
While I can't be sure of what they were trying to say, my guess would be they were referring to the fact that Mozilla earns money from partnering with Google, while Brave doesn't need to do that, they have BAT, and so Brave might
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by xNeil 5y ago
Of course! And while that is a valid point, my issue is not that you can turn them on or off - it's the fact that they are there. Again -I totally understand they have to make money. This is only my opinion - that's all - but it
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by xNeil 5y ago
I used to use Brave a lot, not so much now. They seem to be trying to become a privacy-friendly alternative to Google, which I respect, but I'm not sure why, I thoroughly dislike their Brave Ads. Not because their (edit:they're) i
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by xNeil 5y ago
I hope this link helps, although the picture has become much, much smaller. https://outline.com/DZ9VmT
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by xNeil 5y ago
I'm studying for the JEE and Yes! Irodov is a beautiful book. That, along with Krotov, tells me Russia must have had an excellent program, with their Physics books from the above, their Chemistry books from Landau, and their Math Circl
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by xNeil 5y ago
https://www.similarweb.com/website/photopea.com/#overview SimilarWeb says the website has had 8 million visits in the past 6 months. His CPM must be very, very high.
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by xNeil 6y ago
Thank you very much!
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by xNeil 6y ago
>To put it very cynically, our system currently works by allowing average people to feel like we have control over it, while China's doesn't use that tool so much. In truth, average people don't have any real control over
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by xNeil 6y ago
Couldn't have put it better myself.
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by xNeil 6y ago
I just use https://search.creativecommons.org . Any photo I want/need is available, and I already clearly know the license. Unsplash etc. are good, but this is solid.
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by xNeil 6y ago
Switched to Vivaldi. It's amazing!
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by xNeil 6y ago
Found the original article, I hope this helps :) https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/15/would-it-make-us-love-or-h...
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by xNeil 6y ago
Some did the math - the price Facebook would need to charge every user would be $11 a month. Sorry I can't remember WHERE I read it though.
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by xNeil 6y ago
Just checked it out, thank you!
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by xNeil 6y ago
Seems nice, thank you!
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by xNeil 6y ago
Thank you!
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by xNeil 6y ago
Seems cool, thank you!
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by xNeil 6y ago
I really, really wanted to learn BASIC, just for fun. Any idea how I might do it? Which BASIC should I use? What software do I need to run BASIC? Any help is really, really appreciated.
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by xNeil 6y ago
This might help: https://www.theverge.com/22275453/reddit-app-pop-up-turn-off...
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by xNeil 6y ago
That's amazing! Were you friends with him?