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Thank you! I was actually hoping the original article would get into the Shakedown "economy" that surrounds Phish and other jam bands. Not just the nitrous part, but people selling grilled cheeses, burritos, single cans of Heady Topper and unlicensed merch. Like what kind of numbers they actually do, how do they secure their spot, how do they deal with competition, are they hopping on other bands' tours, how many are Phans vs just there to make a buck, what does their typical non-tour life look like etc

Didn't see this mentioned in the article: you can still see the Cardiff Giant on display at the Farmers Museum in Cooperstown.

https://www.farmersmuseum.org/cardiff-giant/

I would definitely fact check search results as much as AI, especially the info snippets that appear at the top of Google's SERPs.

For example, until a few months the results for "pork cooked temperature" and "chicken cooked temperature" were returning incorrect values, boldly declaring too low of a temperature right at the top of the page (I know these numbers can vary based on how long the meat is at a certain temperature, but I verified Google was parsing the info incorrectly from the page it was referencing, pulling the temperature for the wrong kinds of meat). This was potentially dangerous incorrect info IMO

Why not just let me pay more for a seamless experience where I can share X number of profiles outside my household? Instead, next time I'm at my parents I have to spend time setting up all their devices again?

This is a really great idea! Is there any reason this is "for hackers" and "like code"? I'm waiting to get in off the waitlist so I haven't seen the actual UI, but is it easy enough for non-technical users to get in and set up their portfolio?

Yes! This was my first thought. Tell me a little about each fund. Even if you have some familiarity with every company in the portfolio, it might not not be immediately obvious why they are being grouped together.

If they are picking NYC, I see why Long Island City makes sense with proximity to Manhattan (and maybe Cornell on Roosevelt Island) plus its explosive growth, but still so much unused space.

I have to say I haven't heard from one person in Astoria or Long Island City (where I live and work, respectively) that's excited about this. And there has been a lot of buzz about it over the past couple weeks. The strain on the transit system and increasing rents that are already skyrocketing is definitely freaking out a lot of people.

Maybe it's a little selfish of me, but I'm pretty terrified of what it will do to our office's rent in particular...even though it's been expanding rapidly and getting more expensive, Long Island city has been a great place for cheapish space in old industrial buildings for new/small businesses. I figure we and a lot of the surrounding small businesses will be pushed out at the ends of our leases.

I am very curious to know where in Long Island City they are targeting. There are so many big industrial lots that they could build on or new construction that they could move into. I had heard they were looking at one of the Plaxall-owned buildings, but can't remember the source.

The interview just happened, so presumably more detail is forthcoming

His explanation is more or less adapted from "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions"

http://www.amazon.com/Flatland-Dover-Thrift-Editions-Abbott/...

"He was just there to fix the cable. What happened next will shock you"

Great! I am getting lots of beautiful scenery. An up vote/down vote or ratings system would be great, and then you could start compiling a list of the most beautiful (or interesting) views.

This question, in fact seems, to have been flagged as getting posted on Reddit (or maybe getting significant traffic from them?). I'm seeing this above the answers:

"Welcome, Redditors! We're looking for answers that provide serious, practical solutions to the problem stated. If you'd prefer to post a joke or launch a tangential discussion, please do so on the corresponding Reddit thread."

Thank you for posting this. My aunt bought a variation of this game for me (under the name "King's Table") when I was about 10 and it was one of my favorites. One summer when a few of my friends and me spent the summer at our college campus, we had a tradition of playing this game over breakfast. I haven't played in many years, but I highly recommend trying it out if you have the chance. Though I am not very well versed in old/ancient board games, but I found this one somewhat unique since you needed a different way of thinking depending on which side you were playing as.

"Mozart's the canonical example of somebody who didn't have to practice for years."

I'm assuming the parent was referring to information presented in the book Outliers, which provides a counter-argument to this

if you read more of the OP's blog posts, he continually points to "Think Different" as a notable exception in Apple's history of avoiding brandism in its advertising during the Jobs era

Worth noting in this whole discussion: Apple does not have a Facebook or Twitter page

EDIT - I stand corrected: https://twitter.com/Apple

>First, the decline in sales in the sugary soft drink industry is only remotely connected to their social media advertising. It is a widely reported phenomena that is usually attributed to a more health-conscious society and a widening array of beverage choices.

Pepsi is falling way faster than the other major players though. Last year, Dr Pepper was down 0.5% , Coke down 1%, Pepsi down 2.5%. Pepsi's share fell 0.4. This has been the (general) trend ever since they started pulling dollars from TV and began spending big on viral marketing, social media, giveaways and rebranding in 2008

http://www.beverage-digest.com/pdf/top-10_2013.pdf

http://www.beverage-digest.com/pdf/top-10_2012.pdf

http://www.beverage-digest.com/pdf/top-10_2011.pdf

http://www.beverage-digest.com/pdf/top-10_2010.pdf

http://www.beverage-digest.com/pdf/top-10_2009.pdf

How much outrage is there over The Playbook app, which lets men share and rate pictures of their "romantic encounters"? Seemingly less than there is over LuLu, unless I missed it.

http://theplaybookapp.com/

I'm hesitant to just change the config to apc.stat=0, since I can't ensure apc_clear_cache() will be called during deployment

I'll add in apc.php to help make sure other things are tuned properly though. different settings could be appropriate for different servers...

I could be missing something, but it looks like you are using the default settings. Have you tried tweaking it all? Specifically setting apc.stat=0, which will stop it from checking the mtime. You'll need to clear the cache with apc_clear_cache() when you make code changes though. You may also want to look at apc.php to check for fragmentation and adjust apc.shm_size if necessary

Is there somewhere we can see the settings for APC?

Thanks for the great work!

I was in almost the exact same situation at 23. Broke, unemployed, car repossessed, eviction notice for my apartment and living in a town with no real jobs to be had. I was tech savvy and a beginner programmer, but no real job experience or degree. I'm doing great now at 29. You can definitely turn things around. Seems like most of the important advice has already been dispensed here. Only thing I will add: I was extremely lucky to have friends in NYC who let me crash while I looked for work. Do you have any friends that live in a cities where there are jobs and good public transport? Would they let you crash for a while? Maybe offer to do their dishes and cook them meals while you're there. If you have such an opportunity, definitely seize it.

i'm just running the php nurble() function from command line, but it seems you should reference global $nouns within the function and use either "/\W/" (upper case "W") or "/\s/" in the preg_split. am i missing something?

The pros can study it all they want. Best case scenario, the Tweeted image probably had 0.5% reach of their Super Bowl ad, in a completely unproven medium for brand marketing. Outside of some niche groups interested in advertising, the Tweet will be forgotten just quickly as the TV spot. EDIT: maybe a win for 360i, who will no doubt garner a lot of interest here. I just don't see what this does for Oreo though.

How is this "winning" the Marketing Super Bowl? How many people saw this? A few hundred thousand at best? 108 million people were watching the Super Bowl. A Tweet does basically nothing for Oreo's brand when compared to an actual Super Bowl ad.

>If they tag you in something that's set to 'public', that thing could now be seen by far more strangers far more frequently. There's no good solution to this: You can harrass your friends about their tagging habits, waste countless hours un-tagging yourself every month, or delete your profile altogether.

You can also change your profile settings so you have to approve all posts you are tagged in before the tag can be viewed by the public. I've found this to work a lot better for me than untagging

Gary Johnson? Jill Stein? Virgil Goode? Rocky Anderson?

Why is @AnonymousOwn3r receiving press again? When he claimed to have "hacked" Godaddy, the source code he released was actually from some open source project.

Seems like irresponsible/sensationalist journalism to print his claim without anything to back it up.

I definitely second this. I used to work a children's website, where kids would often take their parents' credit card and make purchases, and we'd inevitably end up with many chargebacks (even though we offered refunds, many people went straight for the chargeback option instead of contacting us). The chargebacks not only cost the company extra - even if the company wins the dispute - and if chargebacks happen too frequently, banks may shut down the account.

I have also won 3 chargebacks against companies who never delivered their product or used deceptive practices. The process was not too difficult, and I believe the CC companies tend to side with the consumer. Verdicts on the disputes can take several months to process though.