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by eavc 16y ago
I have heard of it, and I'm interested in it. I'd love to see an event in Atlanta.
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by eavc 16y ago
Kind of neat, but the weird salute to Ashton at the end ruined it for me.
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by eavc 16y ago
Digg's biggest problem is the cartel that determines what stories will get to the front page. There's an illusion of democracy, but behind the scenes, there are people pumping and pumping to get their content to the front page for SEO purpo
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by eavc 16y ago
I'm sorry, I don't have any sources other than Michael Pollan's book, "In Defense of Food," which I highly recommend anyway.
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by eavc 16y ago
"In Defense of Food" has an interesting account of how that came to pass. Basically, scientists told the politician, "We don't know what's causing it. Our advice is to eat less meat and dairy and less food overall." The politician said, "I
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by eavc 16y ago
Vespene gas.
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by eavc 16y ago
If the only way for the average person to use the service is to pay for it, that's going to be a very tough hill to climb.
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by eavc 16y ago
With your comment, we've left my technical understanding in the dust. That said, would it be possible to get research universities to act as the network? I assume people would be trusting of that. Or is there a way to encrypt data or split
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by eavc 16y ago
If a scintilla of the glamor of being drug-addled and minimally employed gets leeched by ambitious programmers, that's probably a net gain.
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by eavc 16y ago
If loads are distributed across a network, how secure would your information be? I guess you could get around that by being explicit about how open your data is and discourage people to post sensitive info. Also, by re-federating the servi
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Academia, Job-Hopping, and Facebook
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by eavc 16y ago
Because what constitutes personal and friendly is context dependent and highly variable from one person to another. Neutral is often the right way to go. What kind of language should the American Cancer Society use? What about the Departmen
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by eavc 16y ago
If academic writing is obese, business writing is anorexic. Both unhealthy, but in different ways. My metaphor breaks down here for a second, but what I think they share in common is laziness of language. In my experience, the scholar is to
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by eavc 16y ago
True, but that's a different post/article that he didn't write. In fact, your final sentence there would make for a much more interesting article than, "Business language suuuucks."
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I have it in quotes for a reason. If you're going to be that literal about it, all businesses are run by and comprised of humans, so how could they be anything other than human? I'm talking about the idea that everything needs to be friendl
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by eavc 16y ago
Great point about, "full-service solutions provider." It's the kind of language I'd try to avoid using, but the alternative is to use 100 words to say something like, "Our company can handle the entire process, from strategy and planning to
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by eavc 16y ago
That's good copy. I think it's very good, actually. But it's use of "global impact," "interoperability," "integrated," and passages like, "The award-winning EpicCare EMR is known for being fast and physician-friendly. Integrated access and
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by eavc 16y ago
Totally agree and well said. You've hit on my major frustration with both Fried and Seth Godin. It's almost snobbery. Expecting a level of fun and "humanness" from ALL businesses when really that only applies to a scarce few. That's why we
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by eavc 16y ago
Yeah, that's a good idea.
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by eavc 16y ago
That's interesting. I'd like to hear your argument/read your thinking on that. Maybe something for its own post. The dynamics of sharing, promoting, and finding content are highly relevant to this community.
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by eavc 16y ago
I almost posted something to this effect a moment ago. If 2/5 of the articles you submit hit the front page, it shows you have good discretion and a good understanding of this community. I'd be willing to bet that a huge percentage of the a
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by eavc 16y ago
If it's that easy to create a separate site, it'll be easier to reach the relevant audience with distinctive branding and naming and without the clutter of peripheral sites with limited interest. I emailed a few medically-minded friends, bu
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by eavc 16y ago
The fifth is for this article, a guest post of hers.
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Why would they do that?
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by eavc 16y ago
You're right. My mistake.
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by eavc 16y ago
I didn't intend this to be rude. I was trying to point out that, for raw numbers, of course unattractive people are going to commit more crimes. There are more of them (by definition).
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by eavc 16y ago
[reply edited to something more appropriate] That's an interesting question. If they do, it would be interesting to see if people were good at discerning which types of unattractiveness correlate to higher crime-rates. Or said differently,
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by eavc 16y ago
There are a ton of tricks for it. Give yourself a reward to work for. Take frequent breaks. Delimit your tasks into very specific chunks of time. Usually, just getting started is a huge factor.
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But they do gain a substantial savings for not having to incur any licensing or development costs on the OS.
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by eavc 16y ago
I thought about it for 30 seconds and didn't get the light bulb. Could you share your thoughts?

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