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More like completely impossible for a 36 year old that doesn't have decades of previous cross country skiing or athletic experience. It is a hugely demanding physical sport and the difference between a top athlete and a proficient amateur is gigantic. He would be better off trying to get bobsled team in a tropical country off the ground and practice sprinting with a sled for a couple of years. You still won't stand a chance at winning but you might qualify.

I had a bank investigate and flag my account as suspicious because they thought I was involved in online gambling, even though I wasn't.

Have the mods been editing titles to include the year of the article recently? I've noticed a lot more of the front page articles include the year in parentheses now.

Wikipedia links are nofollow to discourage people from spamming it, not because they are worried about losing link juice.

Amazon's rates are actually pretty much the same: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?nodeId=6022

And in the title tag the exclamation point is replaced with a question mark.

Wolfram Alpha also uses Alexa which is next to useless for traffic estimates.

The huge amount of tree cover in New Hampshire historically speaking is also a pretty recent event. 100+ years ago NH was mostly farmland with little to no tree cover.

Officially according to bing/google nofollow links don't pass SEO value. However there is quite a bit of evidence that they do in fact have value.

No because only 1/10 of my friends that use it now would continue using it.

Where do you get that 0.015% is a usual CTR for FB? That's actually quite low, even for them.

Couldn't this be solved by having such a decentralized system only be text based and not allow images/video etc?

I've run a significant amount of traffic with Facebook Ads and never saw click fraud anywhere close to these kinds of numbers. By estimates it was somewhere between 3-5%, which is pretty typical across major ad networks.

It's also worth noting that Facebook has given refunds for click fraud in the past. That is if you can actually get a hold of someone in support who will talk to you, which isn't easy.

Interesting what's next to ycombinator http://internet-map.net/#8-141.12828063964844-82.50301361083...

Both Techcrunch and Forbes need to realize that no one cares besides them.

And there are already platforms for companies to create programs on their own, like hasoffers.

Not jumping for free throws isn't just a tradition. Jump shots sacrifice accuracy to make it more difficult for defensive players to block your shot. There's no risk of your shot being blocked for a free throw so players don't jump.

The same could be said for the internet. You pay for the connection but websites still show you advertisements.

Google doesn't even handle calls/customer support for paying users. Google Adwords/Adsense support is completely automated and also completely useless.

To me the CTR seems reasonable, if anything I would guess that 0.14% is a low estimate. The conversion rate on the other hand is sky high. Even for a free software product expecting a 7% conversion rate on fairly untargeted traffic is unreasonable.

This article just seems like a lot of buzzwords and unrelated points.

Or selling it in general. Given the terms surrounding the sale $250k is an insanely high asking price.