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by Regardsyjc 8y ago
A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg I'm not sure but I heard Little Brother by Cory Doctorow c
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There are a number of lawsuits. This is one. https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-scam-lawsuit-bowser-washing...
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The organization name is ominous but I learned about "truth decay" last night. According to a report from the RAND Corporation, what we're seeing today in terms of "fake news" is not new at all, and has been seen mu
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See Clickfunnels 2 comma club.
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This might be counter-intuitive but in addition to stoicism, I love helping others when I can. Whether it's answering easy questions online, helping a friend with a business problem, somehow being a startup mentor, or volunteering. I f
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One of my biggest nightmares is that money might bring out the worst in people whether myself, my family, or my friends so if I was lucky enough to get $10M, it would ruin my life by destroying everything that I love. Sort of like the data
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These are some games I played 10 years ago: Snake, Pacman, Space Invaders, Oregon Trail. These games weren't addictive because they were so repetitive and the difficulty level increased to the point where it was frustrating and impossi
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Stardew Valley can be super addictive. It was like crack for me. People talk about putting in 60+ hours within their first week for this game all the time.
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Just because an IG has a high number of followers doesn't mean anything. I'm not an IG marketer, but there are metrics that you can check like engagement rates and even those can be faked. I only specialize in Amazon marketing but
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You can sign up for one of the multiple marketplaces for influencers and see all the metrics. I've seen simple things like number of followers, videos, views, comments, length of video, etc. The category their YouTube channel is in. Re
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I'm launching a physical consumer product, reusable cloth pads, but I'm going to open source the pattern so people can make it for free too if they'd like. My main goal is to fight period poverty so my thought process is that
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I've read that narcissism is a spectrum. It's good to have healthy amounts of narcissism, it is only bad when you're on the wrong side of the spectrum. For everyone in this thread freaking out about potentially being a narcis
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I started playing my first fps game in college and learned how to get really good at it. It was cool to learn about esports from people who played in the first tournaments for games like Unreal Tournament. In my experience, everyone at a ce
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This might be fake news but I thought this was hilarious when I saw it. "Russian spy service punishes trainees who drove through Moscow in a luxury convoy to celebrate graduation – and allowing themselves to be photographed " htt
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Have you read about the labor practices of Burning Man and related suicides? I'm not surprised. https://www.magneticmag.com/2018/08/report-burning-man-accus...
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My gynecologist is on this street. Flushing is a dark place. I grew up here. Some dark things that go on here on a regular basis: Exploitation of immigrants. Don't pay them at all and threaten to call ICE. A famous Korean restaurant Ku
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If this is unhelpful information, please let me know. Please take everything with a grain of salt. I found r/electronics and r/AskElectronics helpful for electronics questions but the best help I got was from asking engineers dire
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I live in NYC and the deeper you get into the boroughs, the more a car is necessary/helpful, especially with how unreliable the MTA is these days. Also most parts of NYC with good transit, shorter commutes are also probably more expens
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I read somewhere that fake reviews are technically illegal in the USA. Reviewers who received a steep discount or for free are supposed to disclose based on some law supposedly- because it may be promotional. Like YouTubers, Twitch streamer
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I struggle with consistency and I saw someone on HN recommend the writings of Barbara Sher. I'm currently reading "Refuse to Choose! Use All of Your Interests, passions, and hobbies to create the life and career of your dreams&quo
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I use Viral Launch's Market Intelligence to get data on # of reviews, estimated sales, review %, etc. I also use Helium10 to get keyword search data supposedly from the Amazon Advertising API. Between those two sets of data- it's
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Fake negative reviews are a tactic of nasty competitors. I'm an Amazon seller and they are rampant. The more competitive the category you're in, the nastier it gets. They will bomb you with negative reviews using certain keywords
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Thank you for recommending this documentary. It was horrifying because the photography looked like a breathtaking scifi dystopia but it was real life. The woman who makes 400 gadgets at a factory a day, the laborer who makes 20-30 yuan ($3-
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Does anyone have tips or resources on how to improve their listening skill? I know I'm a terrible listener because I'm always looking for solutions but I know that 80% of the time, they just want to be heard. I can barely turn off
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That sounds like 2 extremes. There has to be a delicate middle ground. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
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I recently started reading The Politics of Cancer by Samuel Epstein. It was written in the 1970s and I hope/wish it is outdated because what I've read so far is terrifying. Someone reviewed the book on Amazon as a real life thrill
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Pdimitar, thank you for sharing. I really appreciate it. I'm sorry that you are going through a terrible period right now. I feel like I'm a little in a similar boat in that I am turning down lucrative opportunities that don'
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My grandmother and grandfather lived through Japanese colonization and the Korean War. My grandfather pulled all his teeth out (except 4) to escape fighting for the Japanese army. By today's American standards, they grew up in extreme
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I think I'm happy and I agree with this paper. I've been struggling with my relationship with money for months and I wish I had read this sooner. After covering your basic needs, money gives you the freedom to pursue your greater
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In my experience as someone who started and ran a small business for a few years now- entrepreneurship carries a lot of risks. Financial, social, and emotional. If you have a business background or previous professional experience with a va

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