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by alanfang 13y ago
More like completely impossible for a 36 year old that doesn't have decades of previous cross country skiing or athletic experience. It is a hugely demanding physical sport and the difference between a top athlete and a proficient amat
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by alanfang 13y ago
I had a bank investigate and flag my account as suspicious because they thought I was involved in online gambling, even though I wasn't.
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by alanfang 14y ago
Have the mods been editing titles to include the year of the article recently? I've noticed a lot more of the front page articles include the year in parentheses now.
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by alanfang 14y ago
Wikipedia links are nofollow to discourage people from spamming it, not because they are worried about losing link juice.
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by alanfang 14y ago
Amazon's rates are actually pretty much the same: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?nodeId=6022
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by alanfang 14y ago
And in the title tag the exclamation point is replaced with a question mark.
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by alanfang 14y ago
Wolfram Alpha also uses Alexa which is next to useless for traffic estimates.
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by alanfang 14y ago
The huge amount of tree cover in New Hampshire historically speaking is also a pretty recent event. 100+ years ago NH was mostly farmland with little to no tree cover.
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by alanfang 14y ago
Officially according to bing/google nofollow links don't pass SEO value. However there is quite a bit of evidence that they do in fact have value.
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by alanfang 14y ago
No because only 1/10 of my friends that use it now would continue using it.
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by alanfang 14y ago
Where do you get that 0.015% is a usual CTR for FB? That's actually quite low, even for them.
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Vice: Special Operations Forces Trade Show(youtube.com)
1 points by alanfang 14y ago|0 comments
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by alanfang 14y ago
Couldn't this be solved by having such a decentralized system only be text based and not allow images/video etc?
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Map - Facebook Ad Prices by Country(blog.adjackal.com)
2 points by alanfang 14y ago|0 comments
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Rethink Digg Survey Results(rethinkdigg.com)
2 points by alanfang 14y ago|0 comments
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Blackbird wind-powered car sails against the storm(bbc.com)
1 points by alanfang 14y ago|0 comments
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by alanfang 14y ago
I've run a significant amount of traffic with Facebook Ads and never saw click fraud anywhere close to these kinds of numbers. By estimates it was somewhere between 3-5%, which is pretty typical across major ad networks. It's also worth not
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Music Labels Won’t Share Pirate Bay Loot With Artists(torrentfreak.com)
3 points by alanfang 14y ago|0 comments
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by alanfang 14y ago
Interesting what's next to ycombinator http://internet-map.net/#8-141.12828063964844-82.50301361083...
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by alanfang 14y ago
Both Techcrunch and Forbes need to realize that no one cares besides them.
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EA's Battlefield 3 ad campaign on Facebook shows 440 percent ROI(joystiq.com)
2 points by alanfang 14y ago|0 comments
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Strip Search - Penny Arcade Reality Cartoonist Competition(penny-arcade.com)
2 points by alanfang 14y ago|0 comments
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by alanfang 14y ago
And there are already platforms for companies to create programs on their own, like hasoffers.
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by alanfang 14y ago
Not jumping for free throws isn't just a tradition. Jump shots sacrifice accuracy to make it more difficult for defensive players to block your shot. There's no risk of your shot being blocked for a free throw so players don't jump.
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Show HN: My Side Project, an Ad Network Search Engine(adjackal.com)
4 points by alanfang 14y ago|0 comments
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by alanfang 14y ago
The same could be said for the internet. You pay for the connection but websites still show you advertisements.
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by alanfang 14y ago
Google doesn't even handle calls/customer support for paying users. Google Adwords/Adsense support is completely automated and also completely useless.
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by alanfang 14y ago
To me the CTR seems reasonable, if anything I would guess that 0.14% is a low estimate. The conversion rate on the other hand is sky high. Even for a free software product expecting a 7% conversion rate on fairly untargeted traffic is unrea
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by alanfang 14y ago
This article just seems like a lot of buzzwords and unrelated points.
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by alanfang 14y ago
Or selling it in general. Given the terms surrounding the sale $250k is an insanely high asking price.

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