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blakeley··on Big technology companies are doubling down on New York City
What do you consider to be more income-maximizing than Facebook and Google?
blakeley··on Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight
There’s no chance this is true. Please share the listing
blakeley··on Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums
Perhaps they should be.
blakeley··on The road to Ember 2.0 RFC
https://github.com/voltrb/volt is a new ruby framework that does exactly what you described
blakeley··on Popcorntime is leaving GitHub
How is #1 not always true? In its early days, YouTube extensively benefitted from (then) copyright-infringing music, perhaps not directly via ads but certainly indirectly via a larger user base.
blakeley··on King James Programming
Yes, it's basically a mashups of the two books. Each successive word is chosen randomly in proportion to how often in appears following the two or so words preceding it in the combined text.
blakeley··on Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80%
No, this company has built its model with search engine results as a primary player.

Google just happens to be the monopolist (and, furthermore, the cartel) in search.

blakeley··on For Nearly Two Decades the Nuclear Launch Code Was 00000000
Haven't we all?
blakeley··on FTL: Advanced Edition
Missiles penetrate shields. Target their shields system with your missiles and then target their weapons system with your lasers and you should make short work of most enemies. With the starting ship (The Kestrel), this strategy can get you through sector 4 without any significant upgrade.
blakeley··on Lifestyle programming
There's the dynamite circle (http://www.dynamitecircle.com), but they're less about programming and software and more about internet marketing and blogging. Also, more emphasis on baselining your expenses via traveling / living in southeast asia.
blakeley··on What the SEO? – The shady world of small business SEO
Purportedly, Google has recently started banning YouTube accounts that are associated through common linkage in Adsense to other YouTube accounts which were banned. So this firewall you mention is not as strong as it may have once been.