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Thanks for sharing. This is run by my brother and I.

Legality is an interesting one, we sought counsel before starting. There is fair use protection for a parody or caricature of a celebrity. We’re doing this out of nothing but respect for Elon, and we hope it brings people some fun!


We're seeing the same thing for Tablo, big spike in China downloads but no change in impressions or sessions.


This was also sent as an email to people with a KDP account


lol, and they dare to mention Orwell? Are you kidding me?


All Facebook Login sites are also broken.

*The internet is down.


Down from Australia


Minor bug, if i type in a number and click 'add to cart' it says I won it for that number.


Yeah :D WTF? "You got it for $25.00 Initial bid was $100.00. Shop wouldn't have sold for less than $75"


Yes to Chrome, no to form fillers.


Thanks, the reason I ask is that there have been a couple of articles lately on how much form data Chrome stores. (a somewhat rabid piece is here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/cybertruth/2013/10/10/google-c...) I keep wondering if that is an actual threat or not and if so how we could detect it.


See callmeed's comment above. Most likely that's the source.


Nope, just signed up and left.


Waiting for their answer now. Haven't posted any stripe code publicly. Could be a very good coincidence.


Just random musings: say that you signed up at a random point in time within a two year period, and that they also e-mail people at a random point in time within a two year period. The odds of their e-mail arriving within 40 minutes of you signing up are then about 1 in 26,000. Low, but you'd expect it to happen to a few people.


They're presumably only open eight hours a day, so you can probably cut two thirds of that number. Also, did you consider the birthday paradox?


I'm not sure how the birthday paradox would apply here, since we're matching up two events per person, not matching up nearby events where you're looking for pairs among multiple people.


> Could be a very good coincidence

Literally the last two times I have text my wife suggesting pizza for dinner I have had an advertisement SMS from Dominos moments later. If it wasn't for the shocking state of Dominos tech (website and mobile app) I would think they had some crazy surveillance going on!


Some kind of pavlov's dog response? IE Dominos sends SMS marketing on a roughly predictable timetable, and on a couple of days those messages arrived late, causing you to subconsciously anticipate pizza news and suggest getting pizza?

Probably not, I'm talking out of my ass.


Seems possible actually. Wasn't there just something yesterday on Dominos using pizza-smelling ink on DVDs? The DVD would heat up in the player and produce a pizza smell, inspiring hunger and hopefully a trip to Dominos. That's pretty dastardly. Timing advertisements seems to be much more in the realm of possibility.


I hope so, that would be awesome.


With the current state of mobile app permissioning, I wouldn't be surprised if analytics companies are mining text message history for signals. This should be easy for you to test though.


Your cell phone provider could be selling them that stuff, seems like a really good revenue stream and easy to implement


Somehow this seems much more creepy than Google doing the same with emails.


Do you browse the web logged into Linkedin?


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