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Ask HN: Is TechCrunch Disrupt London Livestream?
Saw they had some events in the past streamed. Anyone knows if they do it with this event?
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Ask HN: Please Help Me Decide the Brand Name
Twice a week curated newsletter for entrepreneurs, startups and marketers. My options so far: - GrowthZoom.com - Growth.Press - Growth7.com - none of the above Please let me know y…
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Show HN: Ethical Influence and Persuasion – How to Get It Your Way
My wife just released her new course on "Ethical Influence and Persuasion" and we are happy to share this free coupon with fellow entrepreneur HN'ers. We hope you will enjoy it. ht…
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Comment #7365236
It's not impossible to disagree. Since they post it as absolutism it means this should work on all cases not just this one. There are a gazillion wrong answers on internet and no o…
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Comment #7312692
Actually the correct analogy to ad blockers would be downloading a free trial/demo and cracking it for own use without paying for it - would you consider that piracy?
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Comment #7312314
Completely agree with you on the points about the risk of brainwashing and impulse buying and people not realising how powerful and dangerous ads can be. I would not go that far an…
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Comment #7312259
TV and Web are different channels. I agree that the right analogy is blocking with a cardboard when ads are in show. Is it piracy when crackers remove part of the software that sec…
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Comment #7312211
You say you never clicked an ad. If you are visiting sites relevant to your industry you should actually check out the advertisers to keep an eye with what is happening in your ind…
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Comment #7311871
The TV ad example is a false analogy. If the page has ads that you don't want to see you can close it(no one forces you to watch it) or go for the toilet break. I agree that people…
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Comment #7311846
That is a publisher and advertiser problem as they did not create an ad relevant and/or engaging enough. With retargeting ads this days it becomes easier to show relevant and targe…
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Comment #7311822
Do you see how that is in perfect connection with the reason people pirate stuff? Anti-piracy main reasoning is that if it's too expensive(too many ads in your case) just don't buy…
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Comment #7311767
As someone that has been involved in online publishing for over 10 years I have a strong opinion about ad blockers. In my opinion using ad blockers is borderline piracy. Refusing t…
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Comment #6782785
www.chessclub.com and www.playchess.com have the best and strongest player pools. They also have educational materials and coaches if that is what you are after. Only ChessClub has…
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Comment #5749600
Or you could have built a list of buyers and survey them on what else they want to learn and have an instant market for your 2nd book since they already like your writing.
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Comment #5380724
I was like this many years ago and managed to fix it. I am strongly considering developing an online course about this and to get some more hands on experience I am happy to help f…
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Comment #5229267
I will give you a different angle. Do you want to develop it for fun/fame/experience or for profit? If the former you should do it.
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Comment #5197680
You should check out Alfred for quickly launching apps and many other useful things. Probably the most used app by many mac users.
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Comment #5006842
I won't deal with a company that uses small terms pricing. It was easy for me to spot the displayed prices are for 3 months only but I stil find it deceiving.
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Comment #5006839
Thanks for the recommendation. I did not found them when lurking the webhosting forums but they also got recommended to me on another forum so they are now my top choice with racks…