id like to know which ones? id consider relocating.

1. They don't know, but assume some Western European country fits that description.

2. They misunderstand German privacy laws.

i imagine its similar to how drugs and weapons dealers meet. when you know seedy people, you get connected. birds of a feather and all that.

they shouldnt be storing it anyways. thats not PCI compliant.

as a mac user, i always prefer to download the dmg directly. i only use the app store for OS updates, xcode and itunes updates.

seems like a hard nut to crack, considering there are constant changes to google algos that could screw with test results mid-test, and many other moving parts. I think what you are doing is great, have built similar tools in the past and always ran into issues due to so many moving parts, but im not a statistician.

Also what do you consider success? what if one title/meta combo gets a better rank but fewer clicks(ie; the bots like it but the users dont)? which one would you keep? I know many people like to brag about how many rankings they have but as an SEO for over a decade, i think traffic count is still king. in that id rather rank 11th for an extremely high volume term, then rank 2nd for a low volume one.

another thought... a blackhat site gets banned halfway through one of your tests and you move up based on no actions you took. thus you would get a false positive, no?

Though cannabis use can increase apathy, i don't think there is a lot of correlation, lots of kids step out of sports and other activities as they age, for many reasons. I am a daily user and have always had a burning desire to improve myself, my situation and the world around me. My list of hobbies and interests increases constantly and I haven't dropped very many, even the ones I suck at.

Blanket statements are rarely correct.

business is business, i wouldnt be mad/bitter at a co-worker for attempting to better themselves and leave a bad situation for one they thought to be better.

many people with lots of privileges to not see themselves as privileged, simply because they know nothing else.

That's a false dichotomy; you can recognize that you're privileged without simultaneously feeling bad about it.

Except all rhetoric I see involving privilege is ultimately about me having to keep my mouth shut about real issues or concede benefit to another, all because I'm a white guy. In fact I didn't inherit wealth or any "privilege", but I'm meant to feel as though I did something wrong by virtue of my skin color. You may not say "feel bad" but the type to use that word sure are.

> if my ancestors worked hard to provide for their families and I, down the line, inherit some land or money I should feel bad about this? Why?

You don't have to feel BAD about it; just recognize it. People inherit vastly different conditions by sheer accident of birth.

So what is the point? I have "privilege", now what?

Now you're supposed to feel bad about it, because the word connotes injustice by virtue of denoting a concept of "private law" - one rule for me, another for thee. But people who want you to feel bad about it don't want to be seen to be saying they want that, so they ignore the denotation and the connotation in their rhetoric, whose every deployment demonstrates further that it is enormously unhelpful toward its stated purpose, but which persists nonetheless. One wonders why.

why so defensive about being privileged? it almost illustrates the concept for us... you claim to be privileged but also claim to not understand how it might make you different.

anybody that does a lot of machine/wood work knows a few friends with missing parts. whole fingers or partials.

i had a roommate for years, was a very skilled machinist... we called him "nine and a half" although he was really only missing about 2mm from his right index finger... state compensated him $10k for those 2mm's though.

I nicked the tip of my index finger on my table saw a while ago, and all my friends called my Johnny-nine-point-nine-eight for a few weeks.

they just need to get more creative with monetizing traffic.

I bet no one at Medium has ever thought about that before. You are a genius.

i wasn't assuming they hadn't thought of it, i was stating they need to get better at it.

thanks for the comment though.