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by websitejanitor 3y ago
Pynchon doesn't pretend to be anything. His material mostly consists of low culture, obscenity, and engineering nerd stuff he finds interesting. He lived through the beat and hippie countercultures and draws from them for his character
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by websitejanitor 3y ago
Yes. It's actually uncommon for a business not to take loans out. You can see how much a public company owes in the balance sheet: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/balance-sheet/
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by websitejanitor 3y ago
The base interest rate has gone up. Businesses don't pay for costs solely with revenue, they also use cash from loans. Revenue is used to pay off loans, so higher interest rates mean loans become more expensive. To maintain constant lo
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by websitejanitor 3y ago
Ordinary people will sign up for Bluesky instead of Mastodon. Removing friction is absolutely essential to growing a user base. Not everyone finds value in signaling how technical they are by overcoming/dealing with FOSS jank
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How often does Google rewrite our title tags? Turns out it's 63% of the time(portent.com)
1 points by websitejanitor 5y ago|0 comments
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by websitejanitor 5y ago
The weird thing about these is that they blame Google's search results on spam. I work in SEO and I can tell you that they are much better at ignoring spam than they were in 2010, where a lot of these people quoted still have their hea
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by websitejanitor 5y ago
I like to know which page I'm on
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by websitejanitor 5y ago
I'm going to argue no. Unemployed people are not lazy sponges mooching off of an extra, measly $300/month. The easiest explanation is that teenagers are cheaper to employ for a certain segment of jobs and won't quit when thei
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by websitejanitor 6y ago
I have read Anathem. It's math as occult magic riffing on harry potter.
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by websitejanitor 6y ago
>what if the math is the reality, what happens then? Magic. Reversing the relationship between reality and our interpretation of it literally means bending reality with ideas. In this case magic is matrix multiplication.
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by websitejanitor 6y ago
This is idealism getting lost in the sauce to the highest degree. If you ever find yourself thinking "reality is just math", you must remember: the map is not the territory .
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by websitejanitor 6y ago
>Apple's pricing isn't higher than the competition Back in the Intel days you were paying twice as much for a Macbook laptop that used the same CPU as whatever Windows laptop with similar specs.
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by websitejanitor 6y ago
Yes, but you wouldn't know it by how Google ranks news websites.
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by websitejanitor 6y ago
Except that dark matter is often described as exotic and actually existing but not yet discovered. And I'm not talking about the publications that platform charlatans like Michio Kaku
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by websitejanitor 6y ago
I always wonder if dark matter doesn't exist and it's just hard to measure the mass of stuff very far away.
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How Often Does Google Ignore Our Meta Descriptions?(portent.com)
1 points by websitejanitor 6y ago|0 comments
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by websitejanitor 6y ago
It's more complicated than this. Google links directly to search results now, they stopped using the tracking redirect years ago. They probably track clicks and scrolling directly on the SERP with JS. Google Analytics is absolutely not
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by websitejanitor 7y ago
There's nothing 'punk' about it. We just stopped being creative with naming subgenres. It's more appropriate to call it "Solarhope"
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by websitejanitor 7y ago
Finally, some Buttigieg campaign flair!
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by websitejanitor 7y ago
Also recommended for bored chess players, Shogi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi
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by websitejanitor 7y ago
So what's the name of the new algorithm?
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by websitejanitor 7y ago
>The comments here that PageRank is Google's secret sauce also aren't really true - Google hasn't used PageRank since 2006. That's quite a claim considering they were reporting PageRank in their toolbar until 2016, an