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by arn 18y ago
I found it interesting for a few reasons - makes money on merchandising rather than ads - generates a lot of traffic (80 million pages views/mo) - he thinks only a couple of dozen web comic authors actually make a living off of it. - believ
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The Business of XKCD(nytimes.com)
34 points by arn 18y ago|26 comments
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by arn 18y ago
Again, I believe you simply don't understand percentages, or statistics. The numbers were statistically significant, which means the differences were not likely related to random chance. The statin prevented 1079 people from having a stroke
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by arn 18y ago
I agree that the cost is not free. The point being is that these medications do do something. They aren't sugar pills. You're first assertion was that these medications don't actually do anything. I simply am pointing out they do do som
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by arn 18y ago
it's 1.8% percentage points which is not the same as 1.8% lower chance. It's a 13% lower chance. And that's just from dying. It prevented many others from having a heart attack or stroke which can be pretty bad to. You can dismiss it if y
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by arn 18y ago
I'm not saying they are the only gatekeeper. But point is, pharmaceudical companies can't just create a medication and claim it "does xyz" and expect that people will pay for it. These medications are reviewed before being "covered" by in
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by arn 18y ago
"[statins] have absolutely no affect on mortality rates in the typically prescribed case" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12114036 The Heart Protection Study (HPS) randomly assigned 20,536 subjects to simvastatin (40 mg/day) or placebo
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by arn 18y ago
"Doctors are largely in the pill dispensing business." You do realize that doctors don't make any more money based on medications they prescribe. "Problem is, the pills don't work. ..... and the treatments are empirically known to do nothin
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by arn 18y ago
I disagree with this. A site like this isn't getting the bulk of their search traffic to their homepage. They have thousands of minor pages indexed for search terms that only a handful of people search for. Multiply this by 10,000 and yo
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by arn 18y ago
This is why splogs exist to do exactly that. However, there's a big difference in building an actual site and a splog site, and this is reflected in traffic and search engine ranking. Getting that traffic is the trick.
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by arn 18y ago
try http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/ works for me.
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by arn 18y ago
And you are getting 3G and GPS.
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by arn 18y ago
I never really loved that domain. I understand the reason behind it, and its great to have a fabricated word as it's very trademarkable... but it never sat with me well.
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by arn 18y ago
this article presumes that's twitter's outages are because they don't have enough money to spend on the problem. Twitter seems to be very well funded. Charging $$ isn't going to fix the uptime problem when millions in VC money hasn't.
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by arn 18y ago
I find this comment ridiculous. I don't think anyone, including Apple is worrying about the iPhone cannibalizing Laptop sales. A Laptop and Cell Phone (even the iPhone) are complementary. People will buy both, not one or the other. The i
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by arn 19y ago
This is a long article, but interesting. Basically, guy gets stuck in elevator for 41 hours and it ends up ruining his life. here's the time lapse of the 41 hours on security camera http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_
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by arn 19y ago
The startups who turn down acquisition offer do better thing might have a bit of reporting bias. ie. the ones that fail, we never think about. Except of course, there was a big famous example -- Friendster. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/
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by arn 19y ago
yep. digg was outsourced.
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Compete.com’s Margin of Error (traffic estimates)(normalkid.com)
1 points by arn 19y ago|0 comments
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The Genius of MacHeist: Putting Users to Work(normalkid.com)
1 points by arn 20y ago|0 comments