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    I guess you wouldn't pay $499K for a $1M/$0 flip

No. But the discussion here is about shares. And they are not $499k a piece.

We are discussing if the share price of a company that publishes numbers in line with expectations should go up.

If that is true, then I will happily buy $1.1/-$1 flips for $0.049 from them!

Well, if you pay me more then $0.05 for the $0.6/-$0.5 coin flip, I will happily sell you some. How much do you want?

No. Imagine a coin flip where you earn $1.1 on head and lose $1 on tail. What is the value of such a flip? $0.05

Now I offer you a coin flip with less uncertainty. It earns you $0.6 on head and loses you $0.5 on tail. Would you pay more then $0.05 for it? No. Uncertainty was reduced, but no value was created.

Is that $5B fine deductable from taxes?

Have you built an API based business before?

Why on earth is the text of Home/Explore/Notifications etc on the left bold and twice as big as the content aka the tweets?

You see the navigation every day. You know where it is. Its not that you have to read through it. So if anything, shouldn't it be smaller?

I don't see such a limit. When I search, I still can scroll. Just tried and it worked all the way down to 2011.

If you don't need transactions, then MySQL with the MyISAM engine has several aspects I love:

1: Blazingly fast. As it simply hands DB writes to the OS and benefits from all the caching and optimization the OS does. Depending on your storage medium, insert/updates/deletes often are 100x faster then with an ACID compliant engine.

2: Simple data structure. Want to see the sizes of your tables? "ls /var/lib/mysql/your_database" and you see each table as two files. One for the data, one for the indexes.

3: Easy to copy the data "cp -r /var/lib/mysql/your_database somewhere" and you are done.

Searching for it on Youtube brings up videos of a pretty ugly interface. With 80s style text windows.

I like OPs version because it just puts a one pixel border around the window and except everything is black.

That's cool!

Are there other versions of this idea around? Maybe older, more stable and trustworthy solutions?

Ah yes, I came across that DB once. Cool.

You make it sound like somebody gives up their copyright by using a certain data encoding.

Where is that data from?

Also, it looks like you republish recipes from other websites. Do you have their permission to do so?

The web already is decentralized. Most HTTP requests are fulfilled by a computer that is part of a CDN, not by the publishers computer.

IPFS is like Wikipedia, Uber, AirBnB. There have been encyclopedias, taxis and hotels before. But now it's easier to participate.

My computer has this article cached right now. So if my neighbor want to read it, he could get it from me. The infrastructure is just not there yet. IPFS will add it.

It would be interesting to simulate a little world with species that evolve via genetic crossover. And let them have an aging gene that is just a number: The average lifespan.

Wonder what evolution in the simulation would come up with as the best lifespan.

Could be a fun weekend project.

No, you can't.

You can uses CSS as part of a keylogger in conjunction with Javascript that triggers your selectors based on keypresses.

There are sites that already ship javascript that change attributes that trigger selectors on certain keypress events. So by adding 'pure css' to these sites one would be able to log keystrokes on certain fields.

One example is Instagram. It ships Javascript that changes suitable attributes of the password field on every keystroke. So adding the right CSS to Instagram could result in passwords being logged.

Thanks for the info!

I tried your site and I saw that it adds the VAT when the user selects their country. Since the order page makes network requests to ChargBee, I guess they provide all that functionalilty.

Would you say ChargeBee is also a good solution for small one-time-payments?

When you say it abstracts away 'most of the pain' - what pain is left?

One thing I would love to know more about is how European SAAS startups handle invoicing and taxes. Afaik the tax situation in Europe is super complicated and you have to charge the tax of the country the customer is from.

I am in Europe and want to start a SAAS service that caters to individuals and small companies. I wonder if it is feasible to do so in Europe. Do I really have to ask each customer where he is based, if he is an individual or a company and then tax him accordingly? Do I have to create invoices?

US based startups seem to simply not care. Even big companies don't. They just ask for your credit card number and thats it. For example I used Amazon Mechanical Turk recently to outsource some work. And there simply is no way to get an invoice from them.

Do European startups have a big disadvantage in this regard or am I missing something?

Are there services that abstract that away? Deal with all the invoicing and tax issues?

The glossy screen is a showstopper for me.

Interview with the mother: https://www.wired.com/story/10-year-old-face-id-unlocks-moth...

You can upload pages to archive.org? Wouldn't that open the door for spam and other abuse?

I checked some other site and the Adsense code is not changed by archive.org. So something is strange.

Maybe Gwern experimented with different types of ads and on that page at that time did not use adsense?

I do see the adsense code in a snapshot from a year later:

http://web.archive.org/web/20160629230243/https://www.gwern....

Good question. Even if it does not load, it should still show the adsense code in the html. But looking at some random post, I don't see it:

http://web.archive.org/web/20150304235943/http://www.gwern.n...

Adsense is usually a script loaded from googlesyndication.com which is not in the source here.

Maybe archive.org rewrote the html so much that it is not there anymore?

Well, the point of the guide is the nice 2-D visualization. Which he cannot do for the 100-D problem of course. It would be nice to make the same guide but with a harder 2-D landscape.

I looked at some of your pages on archive.org but saw no ads either. Can you give me a hint how to find the pages with the ads?

Where do your ads appear? On your site I do not see a publisher signup page.

He seems to not show how the ads looked like on his page. He seems to only attribute it to load time. But maybe the ads were visually annoying? Why no screenshots?

I would love to see this with a more complicated search space. The two examples are too easy to climb.

Would be really interesting to see how the different algorithms travel through a landscape where it is hard to find the optimum.

And to make it perfect: Put information about the performance below each visualization.

Ideas are worthless. It's all in the execution.

Usually I hate every additional button. But anything that fights AMP is good. AMP is one of the biggest threats to the open internet at the moment.

Any numbers on how much traffic a news publisher loses out if they flat out refuse the AMP blackmail and don't offer an AMP version?

We the tech crowd should help publishers to come up with creative ideas to subvert AMP.

I wonder if it would work to only show 50% of the article and then have a link "Read the full article on our website".

If a publisher had a great mobile experience, they could get even more aggressive about it. Like have a big disclaimer on top of the page "We have a great mobile website. Unfortunately Google blackmailed us to give them our content. You are currently reading a Google version of our site that we had to make because Google is hiding the open web in their search results. If you want to read the original, click here. If you want to try a search engine that searches the open web, try one of these: ..."