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Why Facebook’s Open Graph Will Fall Short In Converting "Social Proof" Sales(blog.richsedmak.com)
1 points by pmichaud 17y ago|0 comments
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by pmichaud 17y ago
You just need to step back and look at the incentives. The vast majority of college students are there to be "certified impressive", and socialized to cooperate in the workforce, NOT to learn. If learning were the goal, the system would loo
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Sports is a profit center for the schools, which is why they get so much focus.
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HDTV Not Impressive?(xkcd.com)
8 points by pmichaud 17y ago|2 comments
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The injunction against pictures of him is part of a wider injunction against idols. Muslims don't generally create realistic art for fear that the representation could lead to temptation to worship a false idol, which IS against the book. B
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Just for the record, the concept of the reptilian mind isn't from Godin. It's an old philosophical thing.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Obviously you didn't read the article. He was using it in the sense of "sucking visitors from the home page to the meaty content of the site," not in the colloquial sense.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Yeah, my wife and I write together.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I love meta humor...
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Summary: Orion wasn't going to work, so it's good Obama canceled it. He's looking forward to private industry solving all the problems while NASA works on interplanetary stuff. He thinks the president's upcoming speech about space is going
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by pmichaud 17y ago
MDMA might save your life (or marriage) if you find a person who can teach you how to take it (attendant... guide... whatever).
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It's a cute story, but the title doesn't really make sense. It's about a guy's positive computer gaming experience as a child.
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Successful companies focus on Responsibilities instead of Rights(sethgodin.typepad.com)
3 points by pmichaud 17y ago|0 comments
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by pmichaud 17y ago
They don't only want to homogenize the consumer, they want to also homogenize the workers. A fungible workforce is a boon.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Totally cool. The headline can act as the tl;dr summary, but basically they found 3 different species in the same family in this weird corner of the Mediterranean. They don't need any oxygen because they have something other than mitochondr
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by pmichaud 17y ago
How Not to Optimize your Wife: Using Calculus. Geeks though, you gotta love them.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
So normally, if I were a huge douchbag trying to twist someone's arm or make them look bad, I'd CC their boss or client on a message that isn't directly relevant tothem,just to shame them into compliance. So this feature could then be used
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I strongly disagree. How else will they discover the right price point?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Recursion, I love it.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The question doesn't even make sense. You're basically asking about a business rules engine, and calling it morals.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Really good actually, give it a read. The last time I offered a summary of an article to the community I was voted to -4, so this time I'll just say: worth the read.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I thought about this early on. I think there are two working definitions of retirement: 1) Financially Independent 2) Relaxing for the rest of your life because of #1 I think in our community in particular, the concept of retirement really
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"Writing a blog post like software is sloppy thinking"(petermichaud.com)
2 points by pmichaud 17y ago|0 comments
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Guy's computer specs. Boring.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
tl;dr: use better passwords. Long the better, lower, upper, special characters.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
tl;dr: Some people named Hróbjartsson and Gøtzsche did a meta analysis on clinical trials suggesting that the placebo effect is solely a reflection of bias or rigor in the given experiment, not of some physiological, "mind over matter" phen
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by pmichaud 17y ago
It makes a couple good points, but he loses credibility by fudging numbers and comparing apples to oranges, like saying we've accumulated $1.375 trillion in debt to China since 1967, when in fact that's the sum of what we've borrowed withou
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Yeah but you have to understand that the general public doesn't use facts and logic to form conclusions. They use social queues, and they need road signs--tribal banners, if you want--to know which side they should be on. We at HN are (gene
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Surprisingly poignant.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
They is plural.

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