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by amayne 16y ago
I mentioned "secular zealots who hate individuality" in fairness of my inclusion of "religious zealots". Just as not all religious people are zealots, not all secular people are zealots. As mentioned, I'm an atheist. Which would make me a
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by amayne 16y ago
I loved those novels. I think the thing that gets lost is that we usually imagine aliens as only incrementally more advance than us - like comparing an aircraft carrier to a Viking longboat. I think a species capable of interstellar trave
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by amayne 16y ago
I absolutely agree that changing morality had an effect on the abolishment of slavery. However the mechanical harvester and other machines made slavery inefficient. While the cotton gin increased the potential yield from cotton (and increa
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by amayne 16y ago
Correct. No one said that it was. My link was to the communist party which is an avowed secular organization. Unlike a group like the Christian Socialists or the Nazi party. I used them as an example of secular zealots because that part
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by amayne 16y ago
Comparative Advantage increases prosperity for all when both sides can reinvest and become more efficient and more productive. That's why industrialized China is a better trading partner than a non-industrial China was. Coerced, uncompensa
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by amayne 16y ago
Very true.
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by amayne 16y ago
Secular zealots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_party
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Why we shouldn't fear our alien overlords: Comparative Advantage(weirdthings.com)
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FAQ design
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Any podcasters out there want to help us beta test an ad platform/model?(podcastr.com)
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An illusionist explains why Apple products really are magical(andrewmayne.com)
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by amayne 16y ago
I have the latest build and can see the mic icon. But it doesn't seem to work for me on my Mac.
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Should Google Create its Own Currency?(hiddenfrequency.com)
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by amayne 16y ago
They did say "2007" in the title...
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by amayne 16y ago
As consumer, I'm happy listening to full podcasts. If my listeners don't, I'm doing something wrong as a producer.
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by amayne 16y ago
Yes, those are ways to monetize podcasts. But so far they're not effective ways of doing so. That's why after almost a decade podcasting is still a niche market. Inserting ads without tracking puts you at a competitive disadvantage to oth
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by amayne 16y ago
"Skip ad" would only be an option if the producers put that in there. Think of it like banners or audio iAds. You have to know it's there to skip it. If Kevin Smith asks you if you want to hear him talk about product X, most people will s
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by amayne 16y ago
Odeo tried to solve the wrong problem. iTunes and tools like GarageBand solved the content and distribution problem. Odeo was never going to compete with that. What was needed was a scalable solution for monetizing podcasts that worked a
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by amayne 16y ago
Flash isn't open or a cross-platform standard. They have yet to implement anything like this in the mobile space yet because of all the hardware variations. Putting it at the browser level in HTML5 solves all those problems for the most pa
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How HTML5 Will Save Podcasting and Make it a Billion-Dollar Market(hiddenfrequency.com)
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Is Google’s Book project just another content scraper?(hiddenfrequency.com)
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Why do we refuse to believe Mark Zuckerberg can grow up?(hiddenfrequency.com)
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Are your friends calling you the Mayor of Doucheville behind your back?(hiddenfrequency.com)
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by amayne 16y ago
I think it's really hard for mass media people to understand its value. I produce television, but I understand that Twitter is a totally different medium than people just consuming what I produce.
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Twitter isn’t your audience. It’s your community.(hiddenfrequency.com)
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Why we forgive Facebook(hiddenfrequency.com)
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The Trillion-Dollar Metaphor(hiddenfrequency.com)
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How we plan to protect you from the wicked evil ghosts we’re going to capture(weirdthings.com)
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by amayne 16y ago
Wired's headline is false journalism... Phil Plait, a Hubble astronomer politely debunks the Wired article here: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/10/re...
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Apple’s iAd will probably not destroy life on this planet as we know it(monetizethis.info)
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