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by dcx 16y ago
I agree with the research, but that does sound oddly tautological. Of course the people sampled preferr life! You can't sample the ones who didn't... (One would hope that was controlled for though.)
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by dcx 16y ago
That's so true! In fact I can sort of see the corporate pattern: 1. Steve -> Engineer: Whats with the delay? At this point, almost nothing the engineer could say shows him in a good light - "sick" doesn't cut it at the power difference
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by dcx 16y ago
To generalise and confirm the other posters' answers - build yourself structure, and scale up gradually. Set small, visible, non-negotiable targets. It takes 10,000 hours to become deeply skilled at something - I try to keep that order of m
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by dcx 16y ago
(And also - what kind of demographic would your advertisers be able to target at that level of payment?)
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by dcx 16y ago
Hmm, how would you compensate the twitter user for giving up their time and social credibility?
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by dcx 16y ago
That's true, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing. Epigenetics is a pretty hot topic these couple of years. Straight from Wikipedia: As reported in MIT's Technology Review in February 2009, "The effects of an animal's environment during adol
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by dcx 16y ago
I found myself thinking that too, but unlike some typical logic puzzle situations the underlying events seem sound as well. If you really do provide free public wifi access (from your house or a cafe), how does the law handle random peoples
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by dcx 17y ago
I found the below comment on the 2004 slashdot discussion. IMO this is the best way to handle this - thought it would add value to discussion on HN (edit - formatting): "1. Immediately(!) purchase the stolen software, using a Mastercard or
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by dcx 17y ago
Agreed - this is a very hard problem. "Out" works well as incompetence/slow progresss is very obvious. But as OP suggests "up" is more tricky due to its less objective nature. And worse, if you try to make it objective by quantifying achiev
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by dcx 17y ago
I think we're interpreting this wrongly - this sounds like a piece of satire about consumerism and how marketing companies see their job and consumers. "Marketing trumps product quality, consumers operate solely on impulse, are insecure and
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by dcx 17y ago
Because if you offer competitive deals, that opens you to market segments who purchase based on price. That often means they are lower income, meaning a lower hourly rate, meaning spending time haggling may be rational for them. Also low in
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by dcx 17y ago
That may be a separate factor: that people who believe intelligence is malleable tend to recover better from failures - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/instance/1838571/ If you've been taught to judge your worth by your intellige
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by dcx 17y ago
I would argue that yes this still is debt, because exactly as you said "you want to rewrite it, but you dare not touch it". Businesses using this software are stuck with ten-year-old processes and systems because the cost of changing the sy
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by dcx 17y ago
You should get together with this guy! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752544
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by dcx 17y ago
Nasubi - http://www.quirkyjapan.or.tv/nasubi.html It's like a study of this in action - insane but you can't look away.
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by dcx 18y ago
I think your numbers sound about right. If you assume each user subscribes to 15 sites, that's 30c per site per month after transaction costs, so a special interest blog with a thousand visitors nets $1,080 a year. Semi-pro mommybloggers an