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by citricsquid 2y ago
I could have the numbers wrong, archive.org is down otherwise I would check as we shared information publicly at the time. As far as I recall, we weren't taking money from the websites, we were spending on infrastructure alone with mor
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by citricsquid 2y ago
I was a teenager at the time. I'm in my mid 30s now, it feels like I was a kid back then.
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by citricsquid 2y ago
More than a decade has passed since then so I am stretching my memory. At peak we were serving in the region of 10 million page views per day which made us one of the most popular websites on the internet (Minecraft was a phenomenon and eve
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by citricsquid 2y ago
As the person ultimately responsible for the Minecraft Wiki ending up in the hands of Fandom, it is great to see what Weird Gloop (and similar) are achieving. At the time of selling out, the Minecraft Wiki and Minecraft Forum cost tens of t
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by citricsquid 4y ago
I sold httpstatuses.com (website and domain) in... 2016 I think, maybe 2017, and the acquirers kept it as-is until 2022. Someone (not me) recently relaunched the site (as it was opensource) under a new domain -- https://httpstatu
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by citricsquid 8y ago
Although undocumented, there is a way to programmatically get the camps in a town, you can check the www. town source for an example of how I've done it, the endpoint is `/camps`, e.g: https://hackernews.hypertext.town&
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by citricsquid 8y ago
A few months ago I created a project called Hypertext Town, a simple project where anybody can create "camps" (a collection of HTML, images etc.) and connect them together through "towns". A town lives at a subdomain (e.
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by citricsquid 8y ago
As I understand it the 250,000,000 number refers to total streams of all tracks on the album[1], it does not refer to plays of the entire album, so the article is wrong. The album is 20 tracks which means we're looking at 12.5 millio
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by citricsquid 9y ago
This is not what Tether is intended to be. Tether is not pegged to the value of 1 USD. The value of Tether does not need to be stabilized. Tether is a 1 for 1 USD backed coin, meaning it's entirely within the scope of Tether for the va
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by citricsquid 9y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20180111023048/https://btcmiami.... Due to network congestion and manual processing, we have closed ticket payments using Cryptocurrencies — Hopefully, next ye
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by citricsquid 9y ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/nothing-protects-black-wo... This is a longer article on the subject of poorer health outcomes for minorities, covering the situation for black women and one family's experience,
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by citricsquid 9y ago
You're incorrect about hours, WeWork provides 24-hour access at your assigned office to all members except On-Demand members who pay per-day to acccess a WeWork location. Hot Desk, Dedicated Desk, Private Office all provide 24 hour acc
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by citricsquid 9y ago
I'm also surprised that wasn't mentioned as they advertise a lot on YouTube too, they have over 200,000,000 combined views on their YouTube adverts. Paid advertising is a major component of their strategy.
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by citricsquid 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6rjpji/marijuana_comp... "Their balance sheet is appalling, and I have no idea who would loan this company the money to purchase the land, as it goes against a
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by citricsquid 10y ago
The intelligence argument is nonsense. Pigs are as intelligent as dogs. Describe the treatment of livestock (pigs, chickens, cows) but frame it as something that is happening to dogs and you'll drive hundreds of thousands of outraged m
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by citricsquid 10y ago
Most ccTLDs are heavily weighted by Google in favour of their locale, in practice this means if you use a ccTLD you can expect to suffer from a ranking penalty outside of the ccTLDs locale. If you use a .it domain you can expect to rank wel
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by citricsquid 10y ago
Your timeline is a little confusing, the article states that you responded to contact from Digital Ocean "within 22 minutes" and "Some minutes later, Digitalocean shut down Surge.sh" however this comment seems to imply y
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by citricsquid 10y ago
I think my comment may have been unclear, I apologise, the point I'm trying to make is that how we determine things as individuals and how the legal system determines things is very different, and individuals should not be admonished f
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by citricsquid 10y ago
I hate this argument and it illicits an emotional response, I will try and be measured in my response, usually this argument takes the form of "innocent until proven guilty". I have sat as a member of the jury on a case in which a
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by citricsquid 10y ago
The monthly viewership figures (50m viewers, 500m views) are interesting, I've never heard of Coub before. Are there places we might have seen a Coub and not realised it, do you have integrations with other services, or are all your vi
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by citricsquid 10y ago
Here's some more reading on the subject of the lethal injection drug shortage, including a per-state breakdown: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/04/12/how-the-drug-s...
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by citricsquid 10y ago
As a child I received some Sea Monkeys as a gift, after growing them for a couple of days I started to notice the number of individuals shrinking and the remaining Sea Monkeys growing quite large, eventually I was left with just one "S
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by citricsquid 10y ago
I would refer to them as a subject podcast vs. a personality podcast. A site could provide a determination on the type by allowing listeners to review the composition of a podcast (eg: this podcast is 20% subject, 80% personality).
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by citricsquid 10y ago
Matthew Russell is the VP of Hosting at Namecheap https://www.namecheap.com/about/team.aspx
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by citricsquid 10y ago
There are victims and families of victims who do not support the death penalty. A documentary aired in the UK a few years ago that spoke with the family of a prison officer (Daniel Nagle) who was murdered, the perpetrator (Robert Pruett) ha
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by citricsquid 11y ago
"Uber had placed a long-term order" [...] "Uber is particularly interested in autonomous driving vehicles, the magazine reported, adding that such cars are expected to be available after 2020." Perhaps the long-term orde
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by citricsquid 11y ago
Any theories on why they're using Wordpress.com VIP for this?
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by citricsquid 11y ago
There was an article in recent memory that looked at how various websites were using CDN's for delivering common libraries and if I recall correctly they concluded that the chance of getting a cache hit from a CDN is relatively low bec
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by citricsquid 11y ago
The Hatton Garden raid was meticulous in its planning, dazzling in its complexity – yet still the burglars were caught. I disagree with this premise. The Hatton Garden heist only made it as far as it did because of a number o
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by citricsquid 11y ago
"enslaved" and "misery" are not words which are applicable. Regardless of the day to day treatment of animals (which is only even "acceptable" in a tiny minority of places[1]), they are still bred to

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