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by davemel37 10y ago
> If you think a wall is going to do this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you. Maybe you are right, but whats the alternative. The status quo of doing nothing? I will almost always side with action vs. inaction. (not to say I
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by davemel37 10y ago
> I think you may be the one misunderstanding in this instance. He states very clearly he is only deporting the 2 million Criminals...not the 11 million Illegals. I really think you are the one who misunderstood his intent. Edit: I reloo
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by davemel37 10y ago
>Perhaps Trump should ask Israel for help in building his wall. I'm sure he will ask them for engineering help and guidance.
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by davemel37 10y ago
I'm not going to pretend to understand the nuances of these issues, but it seems to me that governments are artificially creating these trade deficits with tax and import/export tariff schemes. I don't understand them, but I
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by davemel37 10y ago
> Screwing the country over further economically sounds like the worst way to solve this problem. First, I am just a random uneducated and ignorant American, so take my two cents for what it is...only two cents. From my vantage point, cu
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by davemel37 10y ago
> It doesn't make sense to demand that Mexico pay for it. It's like building a wall on your property and demanding your neighbors pay for it. When buying a house, wouldnt you try to negotiate for seller concessions like paying
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by davemel37 10y ago
Most agency advertisers have known about this for well over a year. To my knowledge, no one is particulary interested in it.
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by davemel37 10y ago
>You could hope to find one person to fill any two of those jobs, but all you'll get out of a 'scrappy content marketer' is a vacant position and a series of burnouts. One person can easily manage all of this and more very
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by davemel37 10y ago
Exactly. I find it ironic this article cites Snowden while literally sounding like the very spying that Snowden exposed and fought.
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by davemel37 10y ago
It has less to do with what the public clicks and more to do with the level of quality competition amongst advertisers. As more and more brands get smart about native, the networks will push out the arbitrage sites and other bad actors. Bad
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by davemel37 10y ago
TL;DR dont throw out the ad networks with the bad advertisers. Its often a precursor to a better solution for everyone involved. All you really need to know is that when ad networks work, the first people to exploit are bad actors taking ad
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by davemel37 10y ago
Even ad arbitrage can be a net win. If Foxnews buys a native ad on drudge report for a timely article, thats probably a net win for users... but technically, since Fox is supported by ads, its ad arbitrage. The "viral" and "s
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by davemel37 10y ago
I wrote in a different thread about Cointent that I believe the "pay for ad free" model is addressing the problem in the wrong way. First, the pain of annoying ads already has a solution. We are already bombarded by content that i
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by davemel37 10y ago
Technically, all advertising is arbitrage between the value of the eyeballs and the cost to reach those eyeballs...Adwords and Facebook were swamped with arbitrage advertisers until they got better at relevancy. Arbitrage by definition will
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by davemel37 10y ago
The underlying idea of promoting content natively while reading other content is a better user experience than other advertising and can democratize smaller publishers (with laser targeted relevancy placement opportunities) and brands reach
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by davemel37 10y ago
It is surprising to me how little people seem to know about native/ content amplification ads. Here is a brief primer: First, as far as quality goes, there are different networks with different quality policies. In general, Outbrain i
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by davemel37 10y ago
I heard about blendle, signed up for it....and than never used it!!! As per my comment on this thread, I think the switching costs of finding other content to occupy my time is to low to cause me to even think about paying for actual conten
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by davemel37 10y ago
The more I think about services like this, the more I think everyone is thinking about this problem the wrong way. People are thinking about the problem, as a)it costs money to produce great content, b) great content should be supported by
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by davemel37 10y ago
Very True. I would add that conflicting priorities and/or conflicting preconceptions. In other words, conflicting priorities reflects bias in general, but cognitive bias could be independent of self interest priorities and simply be ab
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by davemel37 10y ago
I once heard that our senses primarily function as filters. I.e. our eyes only see by filtering out all sorts of other visual stimuli, our ears hear by filtering out other noises, etc... That means that we are only capturing a "tiny sl
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by davemel37 10y ago
I would agree. For me, the most important thing to know is that there are biases that could be impacting me and to always leave room for a) a competing viewpoint can be sincerely held and possibly correct over the viewpoint I am convinced o
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by davemel37 10y ago
I did an analysis of the best deals in the early days of Groupon, and they were all classes that were better when attended with friends. (I think the best selling one in the early days was a cupcake baking class.)
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by davemel37 10y ago
I'm not sure this is true. "Groupon keeps itself in cash by collecting money immediately when it sells its daily coupons to consumers while extending payments to the merchants over 60 days." - http://www.wsj.com&#x2
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by davemel37 10y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I mistakenly assumed you were referring to "any non technical person with an idea (who can't build it himself)," ...as opposed to jerks who overvalue their contribution, thinking everyone else owes them
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I disagree. His comment about "idea guys" is indicative of him saying "cops lives dont matter" not "black lives matter" Had his comment not stuck in that tell, I would agree with you. But he certainly seems to
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by davemel37 10y ago
Shouldn't respect be a two way street? His comment implies it should be a one way, just the opposite way of this evil Kevin guy. Edit: Just to be clear, I am drawing my assumption from the second part of his post that tries to correlat
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by davemel37 10y ago
>do everything they can to make you feel small and worthless. It's utterly backwards. Backwards? That's a bizarre word to use to describe behavior that is NEVER appropriate. Are you implying that the freelancers should be maki
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by davemel37 10y ago
Am I the only one who thinks it's weird someone would hire a law firm to expunge a record and than publicly comment/review the service on Facebook? whats the point of wiping a record and than publicly sharing you had a record?
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by davemel37 10y ago
Increasing time value is hard when you do it arbitrarily...its easy when its based on opportunity cost. In simpler terms, the best way to win a negotiation is to be willing to walk away from the project. As your opportunity cost grows, you
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by davemel37 10y ago
Its really quite simple. As a seller, you want to frame your price in terms of value created. As a buyer, you want to frame the discussion around the cost to deliver the product or service. Hourly pricing revolves around cost to deliver, no

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