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by dageroth 11y ago
There is a good podcast by planetmoney explaining it. Mostly it is because there are so many industries and interests touched that regardless of what you negotiate, there will be public outrage and pressure on the negotiators which make it
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by dageroth 13y ago
Feedbackarmy.com did this a couple of years ago, with a really minimal form. Very nice to see a tuned version with more structure.
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by dageroth 15y ago
One year ago the nyt ran an article describing how one company makes a killing by angering people into giving bad reviews on such sites: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html?pag... It's rather maddening to think that b
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by dageroth 16y ago
I'd find the number intersting how many users would pay, if there were no free option available - my take is that it would be much more than the one percent of users that seem to be the rule in the freemium model. Of course a free plan attr
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by dageroth 16y ago
Rational Choice Theory says you are right, but it can't explain why people vote nonetheless, even though the perceived cost is so high for the small actual gain. Some people seem to get value out of voting itself, regardless of the outcome,
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by dageroth 16y ago
Well, as the chance that the vote one casts is actually making a difference is so miniscule and the cost of informing yourself about the poltical agenda of parties rather high it is rational and utility maximising not to vote and to stay ig
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by dageroth 16y ago
Another option is to set up an affiliate program and pay for leads / sales. That way people will start on the one hand to create landingpages or put your ads on some pages, but they will also try to earn money by bidding on keywords and sen
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by dageroth 16y ago
That's too bad, I always recommended the service for easy collaboration and sharing, was one of my favourites. But well, Facebook will hopefully make good use of the technology and the many channels drop.io had already incorporated to exten
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by dageroth 16y ago
Well, if you are frustrated with College anyway, you might send an application to Peter Thiel's dropout funding: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/27/peter-thiel-drop-out-of-sch... Starting a startup gives you immediately a lot of freedom, a
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by dageroth 16y ago
Great offer. Perhaps a small idea for those looking to put an original element in their CV that I used successfully: Put your Skills in as a Tagcloud. Strong skills get a bigger fontsize than minor skills. Additionally I used grey tones to
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by dageroth 16y ago
Hmm, I have the opposit feeling, that is compared to me many seem to be more intelligent. I stumble into many different fields and know some basics, but whereever I go people can tell me stuff I have never heard of and seem to comprehend st
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by dageroth 16y ago
that's quite brilliant, it should work probably much more reliable than our guessing.
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by dageroth 16y ago
We didnot play with our own money, but with the coupons on the back of the cinema tickets. But even so, we should have made slightly less than 300 a month, but we did a slightly more on average. We did not really have an optimal betting str
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by dageroth 16y ago
I bootstrapped my first startup by playing roulette in a casino every night. A Cinema close by was giving out 10 Euro coupons for the casino to play with, so we went first to the cinema every night, asked the people coming out for their tic
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by dageroth 16y ago
I think two useful pieces information could be added to the ranking algorithm: the ratio of clicks/view and the ratio of upvotes/clicks - basically the conversion rates of an article, which should be more telling than just the total number
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by dageroth 16y ago
it seems to draw more eyeballs than an unveiled window, but still, cool idea ;-)
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Moneybookers freezes wikileaks account(guardian.co.uk)
7 points by dageroth 16y ago|0 comments
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by dageroth 16y ago
I am a fan of Wordpress in combination with buddypress. There are tons of plugins to tailor the community to what you like, from Chatmodules, groups, extended profiles, etc. And it is very easy to set up a few pages about the community, rul
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by dageroth 16y ago
Analysis is a hot field, so although most startups don't need a full-fledged Business Analyst your knowledge should enable you to spot an opportunity in this sector and to use your knowledge to create something to make analysis for companie
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by dageroth 16y ago
Well, it does not say anything about the methods they are using... cross machine tracking definitely seems somewhat strange and unexplainable to me...
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by dageroth 16y ago
"Sibyl" is by the way from greek mythology and referred to a woman who could predict the future, a prophetress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl Wikipedia mentions there were as many as 10 Sibyls, although it does not mention that "the"
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by dageroth 16y ago
Challenging project for sure, I'd actually be quite interested in the data mining techniques employed, but I guess that any private company who'd even research such a thing would be considered as evil as they go... Say what you will about g
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Automated and intelligent surveillance project INDECT pales 1984(indect-project.eu)
2 points by dageroth 16y ago|1 comments
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by dageroth 16y ago
If you are hosting paid video content then you probably don't have so many people accessing your content simultaneously, so hosting it yourself is not that difficult? I rented two servers at hetzner.de a few years ago. 49 Euros per month, 5
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Web accessibility as a legal duty for US Businesses?(out-law.com)
1 points by dageroth 16y ago|0 comments
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Media sites sued for "zombie cookies"(zdnet.com)
2 points by dageroth 16y ago|0 comments
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by dageroth 16y ago
at what sizes is it getting sensible to compress an answer to the server on the client? Could one use that for file uploads?
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by dageroth 16y ago
http://www.jimdo.com is another one. Posterous creates a webpage for you consisting of your social media activities, blog posts, etc. and you can post easily via Mail.
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by dageroth 16y ago
I am working for an analytics company and it really depends on your needs as there are dozens and dozens of tools out there. We are specializing in indivualisation, integration of other data and the ability to filter and segment on any reco
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Ask HN: Time series analysis
7 points by dageroth 16y ago|2 comments

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