MrDunham

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by MrDunham 4y ago
Sadly it’s likely to only get worse. Google‘s new "helpful content" updates have the SEO world in a frenetic search for unique images, videos, etc. to stuff into articles. If I remember right Google even states that it prefers to
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by MrDunham 4y ago
I wonder if that's (algorithmic) selection bias? IE you only see dumb memes or clever ways to be funny because they are the only thing that garner enough likes to break through the newsfeed noise? Or if companies just found out that th
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by MrDunham 4y ago
> People tend to not want to follow companies Also many companies got burned thinking the smorgasbord of free traffic on social platforms would never end. It turns out that when your primary business model is selling traffic (via ads),
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I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message(twitter.com)
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by MrDunham 4y ago
A shared garage is an interesting idea. Back when Orchard supply hardware existed in the Bay Area they had started moving towards places where people could do some making/building on site. Perhaps as a loss leader towards eventual sale
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Thanks for the kind words, friend! The chain is CoHatch and they are predominantly in Columbus but I believe they’ve expanded to at least Cincinnati, Cleveland, and I think several other cities in the surrounding states now
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by MrDunham 4y ago
As someone who helped launch two start up accelerators, one for Singularity University, I can say that the economics of accelerators are actually pretty garbage outside of the top few ones. Pareto (80/20) and such I guess
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by MrDunham 4y ago
I feel for you, friend. they just don’t seem very viable outside of a subsidized university setting like when I was getting a mechanical engineering degree. crazy enough, they let me and everyone have full access to the shop with minimal to
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by MrDunham 4y ago
You nailed it. Thank you for clarifying for me
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Correct. The owner of the co-working space was able to get rent for one dollar (for the co-working space, because it drives tons of foot traffic with meetings and such) and the coworking space is wildly profitable. However, his opinion on m
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by MrDunham 4y ago
"There's no money in maker spaces." I so wish this wasn't true. I want to open my own to inspire young inventors to learn and build (because I wish it had existed for me). A few weeks ago I was talking to the founder of
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by MrDunham 4y ago
To pile on here with a tangential analogy: My parents worked at IBM in the 70s through '00s. They told me when new hardware came to the office that had a gigabyte of storage and their reaction: "A gigabyte! What would you ever do
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by MrDunham 4y ago
I, too, use namecheap. In fairness I’m not as sophisticated as at least 95% of people on hacker news but it has certainly met all of my needs for the half dozen sites and 2 dozen domains I own
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by MrDunham 4y ago
> Email Security: ...Should someone gain access to another user's inbox, they simultaneously receive the keys to logging into profiles that run on magic links. Therefore, a single cyber-attack on your email could lead to unwanted ac
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by MrDunham 4y ago
People use the term mind-blowing loosely but it really fits here. That’s an utterly astounding, incomprehensible number of stars. And this image is “roughly the size of a grain of sand held at arms length” of the night sky.
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by MrDunham 4y ago
> watches, they are socially accepted forms of men's jewelry. after advent of smartphones they are hardly about time anyways. its mostly style & flex. As a daily wear of a “dumb watch“ I somewhat agree with this statement. Havin
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Not exactly what you’re asking for but Ryan Holiday makes the “yellow journalism is back again” point in “Trust Me, I’m Lying - Confessions of a media Manipulator”. It’s a (terrifyingly) good book and he goes into how he engineered nationwi
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Go get convertkit. It's bloody awesome, cheap, and they even have an address of their own that you can use if you don’t wqnt to share your physical address. The sequenced auto responders that they have boost my open and click rates as
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by MrDunham 4y ago
It's a user experience thing. Too often product designers (myself especially) think that a user should remember/do an action/etc. However, I believe most failures are design failures VS user errors and that a better designed
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by MrDunham 4y ago
I had the privilege of working in a co-working space in Tahoe that also subleted out to outdoorgearlab.com/techgearlab.com. Having been on their private list where they resell items that I purchased I can say that they do purchase and
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Here’s my biggest critique of Enso: It’s not very easy to send myself a reminder when I’m back at my computer to use it. Content: i’m currently on my mobile phone and I absolutely adore the idea of Enso (funny enough I’m currently holding &
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by MrDunham 4y ago
I found these parts also interesting from that study: "...it is competitive in terms of sustainability. It has half the energy demand of DACS, avoids land-use competition of other land-based technologies (Bioenergy with Carbon Capture
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by MrDunham 4y ago
Sorry, it’s early and I’m dumb… GFC? Great financial crash? If so, then I agree. No money down plus predatory loans combined with some greed for some staggering wealth destruction
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by MrDunham 4y ago
> Homes in America and Britain are selling faster than ever. I only made it this far in the article (roughly the third sentence) before I had to drop it come here to tell a story of a one week delay (likely) costing my family $200k. My m
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by MrDunham 5y ago
Any chance you have a source or reference to the people who disagreed? Not trying to snark, I’m genuinely interested in seeing the counter arguments. Thanks
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by MrDunham 5y ago
I came here to mention this exact thing. When I was last dating CMB was one at a time. I had some of my best dates on that app and response rates were through the roof. Granted, I joined eHarmony and married a woman I met there. Anyways...
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by MrDunham 5y ago
I'm convinced that the prices of audible books for people without a membership were solely to drive people to memberships (Much like how Vail ski resorts has admitted they increased ticket prices by over 200% so that they can say a sea
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by MrDunham 5y ago
There's a bit of a fine line here. I used a credit on an audible book that was just rehashed, mediocre content and empty promises. The gulf between the marketing promise and content was very, very wide. That was one I read in its entir
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by MrDunham 5y ago
Correct, though it's interactions between any of doctors, payors (insurers), and information brokers (more like clearing houses if I remember correctly) - between themselves or each other. So if any of them or their business associates
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by MrDunham 5y ago
I vaguely recall back in one of my engineering classes we did the math on turning all of the stationary bikes at the gym into power generating units. I believe the result was that the value of power generated was so utterly dwarfed by the c

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