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  1. doublethinker

    Ideas to monetize a local arts and wellness community

    I have a stake in a business within this community. I saw that by helping this community- basically creating a simple hyper-local and unbranded website to band this community together, it would help generate goodwill for this business, which has already paid off both in local news coverage...
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    Ideas to monetize a local arts and wellness community

    I've recently become very acquainted with a growing community of arts and wellness related small business and solopreneurs within my city. They are all of the younger generation and conduct their businesses primarily on Instagram and TikTok. They don't have websites, but wouldn't mind having one...
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    Genius Accuses Google of Stealing Their Lyrics - Used Morse Code as Evidence

    Good move by Genius. 100 copies is much less than 1%, even if Genius were to pursue this legally- any court would be hard-pressed to find this as blatant, fragrant or intentional infringement of copyright- assuming copyright of written lyrics by someone else is even a thing. That's why LyricFind...
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    VIEW: We're a decade from authority signals being deprecated in favour of 'quality content'

    You know what another word for authority is? Trust. Do you know what Youtubers, instagrammers, influencers sell? Nothing but Trust. Have you wondered why Youtube spends millions of dollars automatically translating youtube videos? Syntax, to find context. Have you ever wondered why Paul...
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    Best Proxies for My Project + Account creation questions

    There's a new blockchain based marketplace (https://ip.sx) for the rental of IP addresses. They have data centers and commercial vendors for the supply, and in the future residential (P2P) IP addresses as well.
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    Wordpress 5.0 & Gutenberg is here + Classic Editor Plugin already doomed...

    Put on your thin foil hats ladies and gentlemen! I've been away for a good while, and I hope I'm not too late in the Gutenberg conversation! From WordPress 5.0 & Gutenberg is here... Why would WordPress effect a major release within 3 days of announcement? I agree with WordPress that it is a...
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    YouTube Now Requires 10K views to Display Ads

    I don't run a YouTube channel, but in my own view I think that the de-monetization issue isn't that big a deal. Let me weigh the benefits of YouTube: - Video hosting is expensive, YouTube is free and embeddable - It is another social network to acquire more traffic into your property - You...
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    DigitalOcean is killing it this year

    If low cost, multi-site WordPress is required- I'd imagine running WordPress completely in the backend, and use a static site generator plugin to publish the files, routed by nginx. You could probably get a lot of mileage with $5 this way since you control the dynamicity of WP Something like...
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    Do you have the balls to put a comparative ad against your competitor?

    I did it, and the world didn't end. I saw a 15% increase and a few inquiries about setting up an affiliate program. And to answer my own question, yes I have the balls.
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    DigitalOcean is killing it this year

    There is a one-click install for LAMP or LEMP. And you get everything in that stack. If you want any faster than that you can use the free tier of Serverpilot to install a reverse-proxy Nginx + LAMP into the droplet, and then depart from Serverpilot and use this trick to get the paid tier...
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    Do you have the balls to put a comparative ad against your competitor?

    The deeper explanation is an opinionated but fair explanation of the chart, which was what started my move towards positioning myself more competitively and doing the comparative ad. I like that it's on Reddit because it provides some sense of authenticity and credibility from the comments of...
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    Do you have the balls to put a comparative ad against your competitor?

    I am about to put a comparison chart of my competitors against my product because I am confident that I am top gun in the industry (right now at least). And I want their users. The chart is a simple comparison of pure numbers, and just one measurement, let's say the speed of delivery. The metric...
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    DigitalOcean is killing it this year

    They halved their prices or doubled the performance depending on whether you are a user- or about to be one. My tier literally doubled in value across the board! I may have to assess my own bang-for-buck chart for my next deployment. What beats this?!
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    Need to buy server(s) with Bitcoin

    I recall seeing an intermediate service that uses DigitalOcean as it's partner. Edit: Packet.net too https://bithost.io/
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    Forcing People To Disable Adblock?

    Why not do a loop around? No one likes to be caught red-handed and told what to do after that. 1. Detect if visitor is using an ad blocker 1.5. Use that knowledge! 2. Create an actionable item to serve to visitor - Block a portion of content to serve a newsletter form (email campaign with ads)...
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    'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw will lead to slower servers

    I don't think AMD will get a significant boost from this. Reports to tie Meltdown and Spectre so tightly together and the general public (that I've seen) seem to absorb the news as all the chip makers being affected. In fact, it seems that while the Meltdown patch will have detrimental effects...
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    'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw will lead to slower servers

    29 November: Intel CEO sold all his shares expect the bare minimum required to continue as CEO. The sale amounts up to nearly $11 million. Thinking out loud, but this could be why Intel has consistently been better in performance, by compromising security, which led to market dominance...
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    'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw will lead to slower servers

    Intel royally screwed up, and any fix will incur hit on performance. That means that as server hosts receive the updates, VPS'es that on DigitalOcean, Vultur, Linode, Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, OVH and more could end up being between 5-30% slower. Here are some initial benchmarks (second...
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    Chiang Mai SEO Conference

    I know this is a late response, and @RomesFall is right- except that I've never known conferences to be a place to learn. I worked the ground in big data analytics conferences for a year when I was employed, I've never spent any time sitting down to listen. It's one of the best places to scope...
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    WP Security

    I've taken a keen interest to roots bedrock, which is modification of wordpress to make it development friendly and security focused. I haven't used it, but the folder structure is delicious tempting me to play with it. Could it also make it easier to implement @turbin3 obfuscation method...
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