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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You got downvoted but I wanted to address one of your questions: "As an entrepreneur, how will we ever convince users to actually pay for products when the mob and pitch forks come out when they ask us to sign up?" Ah, but the mob don't att
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"We’ve put a lot of effort into being communicative around what we’re doing with discovery and advertising (we call it Promoted Discovery)." This sentence is a microcosm of exactly what's going on. This is not a sentence a normal person wou
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Expound is the exact right word. Dfc, are you a troll? expound |ikˈspound| verb [ with obj. ] present and explain (a theory or idea) systematically and in detail
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If anyone's interested in this topic, I highly recommend: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Mea...
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Have you heard of "The War On Drugs"?
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The researchers deserve serious props for undertaking this research in this climate, and whoever approved their study proposals for doing so. The positive effects of halucinogens on depressed, dying, & addicted people have been "known"
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They don't say "this is to avoid a bad trip" but the article clearly explains how. EDIT: Actually, they do say "to avoid bad trips." I missed it the first time but noticed the description of the environments. Yup, it pays to actually read t
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The thing is that when somebody lies about trivial but pointless stuff -- not little white lies like "Ooh, I'd love to come but I'm booked that day" or "No, that dress looks great on you" but rather, "Bob Dylan said this" -- then you can't
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Congratulations. You built a strawmen and are now knocking it down. I never said what you are arguing against - that "raising prices automatically increases profits." Feel free to address how venture capital distorts prices at any time.
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Not liking yourself is a serious hindrance to a happy life. Learn to accept yourself with compassion, flaws and all, or you'll pay the price later!
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False dichotomy. There are a million other potential explanations. As for what it is in each specific case, quite possibly different. For us, it's a combination of factors: 1. Our lower plan is for freelancers. Freelancers are basically by
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Agreed. I didn't expect anything, merely warning other people not to waste their time.
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That doesn't answer my question. Hosting Matters wasn't in the list. They also have many higher-priced offerings, and their low-priced offerings include 70 megabytes of data and not, a la Google Drive, 100GB.
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Is it really true that no one here has genuinely studied this question before? Findings from cognitive science and UI research: People attribute personalities to everything, including software. Personalized emails, with a person's name, hav
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Are any of those companies self-supporting on revenue from those products? There's your answer. It's not about what the market "lets" you do. It's about what you demonstrate to the market your product is worth to them. When in doubt, take
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What patio11 says is true. Our churn rate is under 1% on our highest accounts, and occasionally double digit on the cheapest. I've gotten lots of other SaaS owners drunk and we all share the same experience. When it comes to low prices, peo
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Sloppy all around. With a difference in annual deaths of 5.4 -- no thousand, no million, just 5.4 -- we're looking at a natural margin of error that cannot be accounted for without a lot more rigorous study. As this article points out, most
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> * Americans interact with more cultures and languages daily because it is a land of immigration* Only in a few places. You'd be amazed at how many people even in a big, multicultural city can't understand my husband speaking at all du
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Re: your firetruck analogy… that's not very common in most parts of the US. I've never lived somewhere with that level of direct democracy about infrastructure, certainly. But, let's assume you do get to have a say on whether your local fir
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What you view as "an opportunity" and what they view as an opportunity are probably very different. Speaking as a minor, non-millionaire "web celebrity," it's very off-putting to receive emails from people who want me to do something for th
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Right. I'm as great an example as any (and so egoless, to boot!). I grew up in bumfuck nowhere, suburban Maryland. Our "town's" (if you can even call it that) main draw was… a shopping mall. We had an IKEA! OMG! I never went to any fancy or
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left this comment on the post: Every problem is a people problem. Managing managers (stakeholders, whatever) is just the same. We "fixers" tend to think that what we're really doing is fixing a problem or building a new thing, but that's
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Like I said, this may not always work, but it is better for your long term relationship with your manager. Is it? I think you're making a pretty big logical jump here. It's just as easy -- maybe easier! -- to argue that letting your manag
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Germans definitely have a title fetish. So do Austrians, to a slightly lesser degree. For example, titles go on driver's licenses. They certainly do not in the US. If you use the title "Prof" or "Doktor" when making a restaurant reservation
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Simple: they close the account without appeal and there is no way to contact a human. http://slash7.com/articles/2009/3/26/google-is-evil-worse-th...
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Probably because I don't describe what I buy as "the very best," which implies some kind of universal judgment. And I think some people reading his essay think he sounds self-congratulatory. I don't think that anyone reading my comment woul
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Google Checkout closed our account because of suspicious attempted purchases of our JavaScript ebook, and kept our money. So… nope.
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I agree with you on pretty much all points, but it's still sad. Still, though, if we're talking about seeing the world in a realistic manner, a group of people who lost a mascot, one of their own, will not be able to hear your message. And
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Do you pay your hair stylist $10k+ for creating hair that will theoretically increase your bottom line? Will that hair project also require months of work? If so, your hair stylist would be very, very smart to say "No, sorry," to your reque
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Plus the ongoing psychological weight of knowing you are not doing your best work, and/or you're doing great work that is destined for the junkyard, or you're casting pearls before swine… not to mention failed projects don't look great in y

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