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in California bars sell only 600ml glasses that are individual.

my Californian American friends when in Brazil said he was very disturbed by our "communist" approach to beer

Re:Is Node.js declining already? on Saturday June 13, 2015 @10:40PM (#9713650)
what the clueless developer says: it's concurrent

what the clueless eng manager says: the same code can run on the server and client. no more front end hiring hell!

Re:Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers on Saturday June 13, 2015 @10:35PM (#9713631)
even big publishers like Yahoo can't do that because there's an average of 20 companies between then and the brands advertising. publisher would love to be alone in the field and pocket the .20 per click. but ad agencies go a long way to doubt the publisher reports etc and try to pay less.

every month a new layer show up, with the sole promise of allowing the ad vendor to pay less for the publisher. the fad du jour is viewable.

Re:Sidechains and Lightning, the New New Bitcoin on Saturday June 13, 2015 @03:04PM (#9712185)
while this is true, there was always transitional periods that you ignore.

paper was once issued by a bank clerk while taking your gold or other goods. the govt started to issue them and allowed you to exchange back to gold at any time. eventually they undid all that.

checks and credit cards also are tied very closely to existing monetary concepts to start off.

bit coin start alone. that's why most people consider it crazy. when money was being adopted, if it failed you could still use the coin metal or exchange it to metal. if bit coin fail, though luck.

in Portuguese you have two translations for excuse me. one means sorry "desculpa", the other means get out of the way "com licença". the later when used forcing your way thru a door at the same time as somebody else is extremely rude. and that's how Portuguese speakers hear excuse me in this situations.
> serving drinks to everyone before filling your own glass

this happens in almost every culture but Americans, British and Germans.

Koreans even have extra rules (it must be the older person at the table).

Re:ES6 in Depth – Symbols on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:59AM (#9704895)
yet another duct tape kind of feature, from people already too corrupted by js, that will be further abused and cause yet more duct tape features in ES7.

this is nothing but a more convoluted way of the pattern that sets a unique object as a unique value for comparison. well, it adds a label for easy debug. hooray.

that's very similar the home computer boom. if you look at the offerings at the time, everyone was running in a different direction. so many wonders. and in the end, cheap and available won.
you mean, just like a dvi port?
Re:The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (2006) on Monday June 01, 2015 @04:32AM (#9637340)
but with awful aim

> model S cost 40k and the next will be half of that

Re:Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud on Sunday May 31, 2015 @12:54PM (#9634710)
exactly. it is a trade off. user privacy vs price on expanding inventory. they choose the later
Re:Google Photos – Can I get out? on Sunday May 31, 2015 @12:53PM (#9634702)
Google drive will limit when and how you can get the data out.

it will limit how you can use that space. (file size limit, etc)

it will require spyware apps to be able to upload photos

Re:Google Photos – Can I get out? on Saturday May 30, 2015 @02:19PM (#9631160)
the cloud only exists because storage is cheap.

it should actually kill the cloud because storage is cheap. but all cloud providers go out of their way to make their platform painful to use without their cloud.

Apple makes backing up photos with iphoto annoying. Google makes backing up photos via an app much easier than via usb or rsync on your home network... etc

Re:Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud on Saturday May 30, 2015 @02:13PM (#9631138)
see the big picture.

every ad networks have fraud.

fraud causes ctr to not equal advertiser profit.

advertiser pays less and less for ads that do not create profit.

you get less and less for your site.

fraudsters get more bots and keep their earning stable while prices goes down.

back to step one

Re:Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud on Saturday May 30, 2015 @02:09PM (#9631110)
also being an volume ad middle man in the industry, I can bet what the top comment was referring was price.

adx is the cheapest, because it's the worse. your ad will be seen by users in spots previously occupied by "the banks hate this guy" kind of click bait ads. which have ridiculous ctr!

everyone I run experiments there I keep getting calls from clients to take their ads out of some and some sites before brand sees it. it's a nightmare.

Re:Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud on Saturday May 30, 2015 @02:03PM (#9631076)
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Re:Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud on Saturday May 30, 2015 @01:59PM (#9631052)
Google removed itself from the IAB's working group on safe frame, which fought for user and publisher safety. among things like preventing the ad from knowing what's on the page it's served on it also handle if the ad is in view, preventing most of those bot net traffic that uses 1x1 iframes or insert ads with low zindex on the page. the only vulnerabilities left with safeframes are giving the user a executable when they click on the ads (nothing can prevent that) and flash exploits (although the most common exploits are blocked fine, it's still vulnerable when it's a full control bug in flash)

but Google got out when they realized it wouldn't give as much info from its adsense network of third party sites as they are used to with insecure adwords (when it shows display ads)