NicolasGorden

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Case Study: Reduce Facebook Acquisition Costs by 83%(nicolasgorden.com)
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
Define 'hospitalized'. I think two realities are being discussed under the same term. The way I see it, hospitalized can mean: I have great insurance and I went into the hospital for treatment because I felt some symptoms. I was f
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
I've been involved in the production of physical goods. You are right there's an increase in cost, although then the question becomes by how much. There's the option to make the same packaging but one having an empty space wh
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
If it was only about environmental reasons, wouldn't they just make it optional? As in, they could include a checkbox (that is unchecked by default) to get these items free in the checkout process. They already ask a million customizat
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
I submitted my comments to the DHS. I'm so grateful to the EFF for bringing these specific issues to the table. Donating to them is money well spent.
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
No, it's not about nipples. I know this algorithm well. Facebook does not allow advertisers to use Zoomed in images of body parts to artificially inflate CTR and play with their ad algorithm. The onion image that was banned has the exa
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
Not only do I 100% agree with you, but I actually think there's a good probability it was done on purpose and then capitalized on brilliantly. That onion image jumps at me. I must give them a tip of the hat, they know how to play the m
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
I find it interesting that when I was growing up, the person who invented the typing notification feature would have presented it as an achievement. Now these articles start with him taking the 'blame'. It feels so... like a new w
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
> So you do acknowledge that it is creepy and undesired, and your solution instead of not doing it is just to not mention it but do it anyway. Classy My solution is to use standard industry practices while supporting non profits and poli
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
not let people discover that they're being tracked. != not actively disclosing. One is actively hiding. The other is not actively revealing. The fact that you are pretending they are the same makes me feel you aren't arguing in go
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
I support organizations like EPIC and EFF. I tell people all the time in my life to support causes like these and get made fun of. > The reason people are creeped out by "I see you are opening my email" is because the tracking
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
> My advisor was hemorrhaging students, yet no red flags were raised. ... Those who planned to complete their PhD left the group or left MIT. This literally tells me nothing. What's the average completion rate in that field? What&#x
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
All data is inaccurate to some degree. This is not new. There are ways to mitigate false positives, and many of the best SAAS work tirelessly to constantly incorporate every new update and every new technique to try and correct data to make
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
Marketing guy here. 75%-80% open rate for many of my campaigns tells me the title is misleading, those pixels are firing in all the major providers. Putting people in email/SMS funnels based on which emails they read is ENOURMOUSLY ben
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
> Let's make it less shitty. 100%. For me, Western Capitalism has been doing this my whole life. When I was growing up, in the little town in Central America that I come from, no one EVER traveled on an aero plane. Now it's nor
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
> Sure, the real world sucks. I don't see that as a reason to prevent colleges from improving. Absolutely. The problem I see is the deterioration of educational quality that seems to correlate with this improvement. Also, at some po
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
> You cant expect others to toil away to benefit your "genius" Brilliant reply. Except... I never said my genius. The fact that you make up arguments and distort what I said is evidence of the emotive nature of your response. I
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
Yes, but the question is what are you going to do about it? I'll tell you what happens in other countries: Cut all the tall poppies down. I love my new home, America, because she doesn't do this and it happens in my original home
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
If there was serious abuse I'd 100% agree with you. One problem we have is the word abuse, based on the modern definition and usage, encompasses a range of activities from things that are only slightly unkind and rather run of the mill
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
> Too often I have been told to be proud of the great work I am a part of, as if this should outweigh the negative and harmful things myself and others have experienced. Actually, that's how it works in the real world from my experi
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
In crime there seems to be the oposite of survivor bias. We see the successful legal businesses without seeing those that failed. We see the failed drug dealers without seeing those that succeeded.
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
So... break the law and get my newly built houses torn down? You do understand what I'm saying, which is in TFA: You are legally not allowed to build new housing without these systems.
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
Condo dweller here with anecdotal confirmation: I would absolutely consider an EV if they had charging stations at my local supermarket. I had looked into one for tax reasons, but passed due to the charging situation. Not that I paid it muc
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
That Merv 13 airfilter they mention is amazing. I have one. I also grill my meats outdoors to avoid lowering indoor air quality. But the thing that bugs me about the article is how new homes have to have these expensive new systems. There&#
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
I'll re-iterate what strikelaserclaw said and add: maybe looking at it on a 10 year basis is too short? Humans have now about 20-30 year generations, so I think it's fair to judge our progress as a species in at least multiples of
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
I live in a tourist town and have lived in different tourist towns my whole life (even in other countries) so I'm quite well acquainted with the issues that AirBNB has. Overall, I think it's not a new thing to AirBNB. I think it&#
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
This is mentioned in the study.
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
Of course most things have a political element. That doesn't mean they are political. The study is about New York. The comment is trying to make this a 'red state vs blue state' thing. There's no reasonable basis for suc
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
Why turn everything political? Especially when it seems you didn't even read it. Just using the title as a jumping off point to put in political points. The study, if you read it is mostly based on NY data. It specifically states as mu
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by NicolasGorden 6y ago
The toxicity of social media is that it plays into the darkness of our cognitive process and hightens tribalistic thinking. And in the article about social media, instead of recognizing this, the author chooses to use social media as a jump

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