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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
It's a classic form of metrics dementia. They see that putting the popup increases their signups. 'Objectively,' this was the correct decision, and may have been arrived at by testing. What they may not see is that it turns o
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
The reason for this would be that GA filters out bot traffic differently than other vendors. That includes legitimate bots like search engine crawlers. Web analytics are just not that accurate. The number quoted by the Xoogler in an analyti
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
This was also my take. Also, during the period being written about, Adsense fraud at scale was a really huge issue.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
One issue is that it's not really possible to form long term employment contracts that are legally defensible. Only executives seem to get these kinds of packages. What this means is that employers are unwilling to invest in long term
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
It was a book written and updated annually by Benjamin Franklin extolling the practical virtues of prudence, saving, hard work, humility, and so on and so forth. You can read a rambling summary of his views in this essay 'The Way to We
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Freelancer/oDesk are terrible middlemen that don't achieve what they promise to. Businesses tend to go there looking for cheap labor rather than value. It's the white collar version of a boss driving up to the Home Depot park
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
It's going to be a lot harder to maintain an open, global internet without the moral legitimacy that derives from liberalism. If the internet is just going to be a means to make states and criminals more capable of predating upon ordin
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
I don't think we know. They should be audited. Eventually, when the general ad fraud scandal [1][2] starts to really harm a lot of companies, there will be pressure to audit usage metrics more stringently. Supposedly though FB has held
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
A lot of 'work' friends may have garbage taste in restaurants. Exactly.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
It's not really cloaking, because it shows a snippet first. It's a good product for publishers who don't want to clog their pages with display ads. Would you rather that, or a godawful interstitial?
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Dunno. My uncle has worked at UPS for decades. The job treats him well. The only bad thing that happened is once he was knocked off his feet by chemical fumes due to a mislabeled container, but he turned out alright. I guess you have not se
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
They do now, sorta. It's called Amazon Locker: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
No, you have to read maybe 10+ books at a minimum plus a lot of other stuff. I would start from federalreserve.gov and go from there. There's also an educational site set up by the Fed here: www.federalreserveeducation.org/about-t
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
>There are a number of gross oversimplifications here. Yup. Dunno if I'd call them 'gross' or 'over,' but sure. >Productive assets are great, but valuation matters. When everyone is chasing yield and you are f
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
I didn't say that. I compared it to other steep depreciations. I also dislike Peter Schiff for various reasons.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Probably? We see a lot of examples where they depreciate quite quickly, both in American history and worldwide more recently. Look at a JPYUSD chart, or ask a Japanese guy. Whoa Nelly, that's a steep drop from 2012. I agree that there
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
VC is private equity, so generally we do not know who invests in whom. But many of the ways that VCs receive investment are through highly diversified means. VC is some fractional line item allocation for diversified investors. The Sultan o
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
This is the most honest article that I've seen from a mainstream financial figure about why valuations are so high. ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) means that money is near worthless to financial institutions that can run the carry tr
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Public relations: having your CEO and other key contributors guest post at semi-reputable news sites and blogs in your niche (ex. not at the spammy places that just got murdered by Matt Cutts). White hat link building isn't that disti
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
This is a great point. The 8 billion channel situation with an unusable guide channel seems like it was put together and maintained by a bunch of cokeheads with no sense of a sane user experience.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
who just want it to keep going without involvement. Binge-watching happens because Netflix autoplays the next episode each time. They could take it one further by making more content decisions for the user, going beyond proffering recomme
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Normal people will load their computers with malware when they attempt to pirate anything. Cable TV is idiot-proofed. Which is why the ad rates are still so excellent on many channels. You're overestimating the technical competence of
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
In bad sales orgs, the sales people may also be held to a contact quota that does not take into account their close ratio. He may be just trying to pad his contact numbers.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Yes, I noticed that after my original comment and liked it a lot. In my head (before I've used it) I'm thinking that I could edit these to match the client and what I think their knowledge level is. Another pain point for me is ge
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Weird. I was looking for something just like this earlier today, and got frustrated because the only thing halfway decent I could find were some documents from RocketLawyer. My only comment would be that my honest thought is that I would si
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Not to be too much of a jerk, but how is this special? Why would I use you for a client and not the GOOG? All of these things are possible with Adwords. Some of them require a little bit of scripting (ex. https://developers.googl
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Flippa: https://flippa.com/ Popular for sites like this, as long as it doesn't take much skill/knowledge/connections to administer.
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
Sounds like you got hacked by a bookhacker using a classic titlehack which hacked your decisionhacking process. Even though you didn't like the book, you still got acquihacked as a customer thanks to the author's brilliant title o
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by hagbardgroup 12y ago
I think it's more that various powers that be want protection from other powers that be, and thar be profit opportunities in providing that protection. The consumer follows that trend as real material consequences impact individuals an
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by hagbardgroup 13y ago
With enough budget and motivation, it'd be easy to paint even you -- regardless of who you are and what you have done -- as a villain, especially with the cooperation of the press.

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