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arst | 15 years ago | on: Mixpanel buys a billboard, declares page views are dead.

While HN's reaction to DDG's 'war on Google' has been mixed, their search traffic doubled in January (according to Gabriel's newsletter, not sure if there's a linkable source on this), so I'm not prepared to consider the strategy a failure.

arst | 15 years ago | on: Predictions for the World in 2030

Economically China will have surpassed the US and Europe and will therefore also have a higher standard of living than US/Europe

How does that follow? Do you expect China to surpass the US and Europe not just in absolute terms but also in per capita income by 2030?

arst | 15 years ago | on: Aol clones Groupon with Wow.com

Indeed. In the Scoble interview posted a few days ago, pg mentioned the surge of groupon clones applying (and being rejected) to YC this round.

arst | 15 years ago | on: EFF Begins Accepting Anonymous Donations via Bitcoin

Roughly, bitcoins are generated by hashing some metadata about the state of previous transactions together with an incrementing nonce until you find a hash below a certain target value. If other users verify the hash and you were the first person to find one this round then you get some bitcoins.

As the computational power of the bitcoin swarm increases, the hash target is automatically decreased, leading to a roughly constant rate of generation.

arst | 15 years ago | on: For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance

Presumably someone (Coast Guard/border patrol/TSA/etc.) would have the authority to inspect the ferries and passengers headed to these offshore airports even if they didn't have jurisdiction over the airport itself.

arst | 15 years ago | on: Apple Rocketed Past Microsoft In Revenue This Past Quarter By Over $4 Billion

Naturally, it’s important to note that Microsoft still has a lead in profit — $5.41 billion to $4.31 billion — but that’s because one is mainly a software maker (huge margins), while the other is mainly a hardware maker (lower margins).

But comparing revenue between the two makes so much sense... What a misguided post.

arst | 15 years ago | on: The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)

(instead of made money, as you suggest)

I apologize if that's how you read my post; I certainly didn't intend to suggest that or to belittle the amount of work and money that you've put into this project.

arst | 15 years ago | on: The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)

While I think the web is probably a better place with reocities than without it, slapping ads on this content feels a tad bit slimy to me. I'm curious to hear your take on the ethical and legal implications of it.

arst | 15 years ago | on: WikiLeaks to Release 400,000 Secret Documents as Funding Concerns Loom

Though I hardly know anything of wikileaks, the wiki part in the leaks sort of suggests that it is kind of like wikipeia, so that anyone can leak whatever they want straight away I guess without going through some sort of filtering system.

This is not how WikiLeaks works, though it was the original idea behind it and the source of the name. Today all submitted documents go through a series of reviewers, with Julian Assange ultimately having the final say on what gets published.

arst | 15 years ago | on: Taking Uncle Bob to school

The author talks about how friendly the Clojure community is in the first paragraph but then goes on to take some silly potshots at other languages in the very next paragraph:

I asked around and learned that he wrote a book called "Clean code" and that he likes Ruby, which just makes no sense to me at all - How do you unify a tool as unstable, unpredictable, untamed as Ruby (second only to Perl) with Clean Code?

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