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ryanmerket

791karma·353submissions·May 31, 2008
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They were ran by a skeleton crew for a few years after they were initially acquired by Advanced.
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Not true. Source: I was the ads PM not too long ago.
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It was a content model change, not the pixels that sent users to Reddit. Digg started allowing brands who paid them to have a firehose (RSS feed) post ability.
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Why not have both?
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Every subreddit is different. You can't judge the whole site based on one subreddit's rules...
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Check out Threatcare, it's a SaaS version of what most pentesters do.
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But their non scammy ads return positive ROI, which brings advertisers back.
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It was a direct shot at the bowel of Facebook and it failed.
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None of which brands buy on.
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How exactly was the free internet program disingenuous?
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How is that powerful? Any mobile app has geolocation data. How is that a market differentiator? That's like saying they have mobile OS targeting... So?
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Is that why they sued NASDAQ?
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>> But companies with such big daily active audience that can be targeted with ads are here to stay. That's just it. Snapchat has very little targeting data, and targeting is a force multip…
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Could you have set a breakpoint on the function and traced it while it created the new encrypted test image until you could dump the salt from memory?
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I'd love to see all the major cloud and hosting providers here.
10y ago·view thread
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I work for AWS. I believe we do offer some migration assistance for bigger startups. Hit me up if you want to learn more: rmerket@amazon.com
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Vote Bernie?
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> "These are all good questions. It sounds like she wanted to retain her personal email and be able to field personal business from that same account." Except she could have done that wit…
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Testifying to Congress is largely political theater. What really matters is if he's cooperating with the FBI.
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False. Knowingly storing classified information on non-secure channels is illegal.
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Setting up a private email server in your bathroom closet to conduct 100% of all your government and foundation business, and using an AOL account from time to time is definitely not the same thing.
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Just curious, have you read this analysis? It's extremely thorough. https://informedvote2016.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/do-i-reall... …
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...or let the guy with 45% of the delegates run in the general. Crazy thought, I know.
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Link to the source: https://oig.state.gov/system/files/statement_of_the_icig_and... …
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And when FOIA requests came in for her .gov emails, she said she didn't have any emails. It took Sydney Blumenthal's hack to get her to admit that she did have an unclassified email address.
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The Inspectors General of the Classified Community disagrees that the emails didn't have classified information: https://oig.state.gov/system/files/statement_of_the_icig…
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You keep saying Powell "did the same exact thing" -- but that's undeniably false. Powell used his personal AOL account from time to time when the official .gov mail servers were down. C…
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