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by datawaslost 3y ago
TLDR: A well-known luxury brand doesn't fit one user's unique needs. ("inconspicuous street photography" "discreet shooting") Why try to extrapolate this to some thinkpiece-level nonsense, with literally nothin
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by datawaslost 4y ago
I got about as far as "indoctrinated woke shibboleths" before I started to doubt that the author is truly interested in overcoming ideological bias.
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by datawaslost 5y ago
It's interesting how much more complicated and better thought-out that stuff is now than it was fifteen years ago. I think supply chains and lifecycles are a huge part of things, and it was barely a part of our thinking back then. It w
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by datawaslost 5y ago
What would the unveiled villainous conversation sound like? I think this stuff is a lot less complex than people think. Companies just want to increase sales with effective marketing that makes them look better than their competitors.
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by datawaslost 5y ago
Maybe! I think the one thing I've learned from my biggest clients is that slight % increases in sales for companies of that size equal billions of dollars, so there's so much room for waste. It doesn't have to be villainous -
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by datawaslost 5y ago
I can't really speak to BP's higher-level strategy, but this was the mid-2000s. The fact that an oil company was saying anything about climate change felt like a step forward. Other oil companies' ads were all about America
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by datawaslost 5y ago
It doesn't keep me up at night. In retrospect, it was probably one of the most dubious things I worked on in a decade of advertising, but I (mostly) left the industry because it was morally neutral, not outright wrong. It just felt lik
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by datawaslost 5y ago
Not my proudest work, but this was pre-Deepwater and BP was honestly putting a lot of new money towards green and renewable projects. At the time, it felt like a step in the right direction.
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by datawaslost 5y ago
Huh! It’s not every day you see your work called out in The Guardian as “insidious propaganda”! I worked for Ogilvy and Mather in the 00s and made the Carbon footprint stuff they mention, at least one version of it. Didn’t come up with the
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by datawaslost 11y ago
This guy doesn't seem to get what an 'accelerator' is besides a check. There are some valid complaints about Chile's bureaucracy to be had, but he's not making them..
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by datawaslost 11y ago
“they looked like scrap metal to anybody but me” What nonsense, I hope he was misquoted.. Like the linked video says, he bought them in Chicago from Joell Hays, another vinyl junkie (and all-around nice guy) that held on to them for a decad
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by datawaslost 11y ago
Presage is great, but to clarify some other comments - it doesn't involve any specific dataset, like SwiftKey - it simply does nice smoothed predictions when given a large database of n-grams (groups of words) and their frequencies. It