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by punee 11y ago
Alternatives like Diet Coke? But don't hesitate to put your money where your mouth is and buy Coke put options.
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by punee 11y ago
Let me get this straight. Your contention is that if companies did not have to buy advertising to sell their products, they would subtract the advertising cost from their sales price? You have a very unusual definition of being "fooled
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by punee 11y ago
That's because you're being unnecessarily obtuse. It's fairly obvious what the difference is between not being compelled by the government to give $500,000 you have earned, and being given $500,000 worth of taxpayer money.
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by punee 11y ago
You only need to read the second sentence of his post. It couldn't be any clearer.
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by punee 11y ago
Yes, the advertising industry is made up of magicians who make people desire things they don't want. Why is it you don't believe THAT's the happy accident and byproduct, while diffusing information is the main mechanism? If y
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by punee 11y ago
Small companies sell better and cheaper products than big businesses, but somehow people have never heard about them, and that's because of "advertising". Sure, buddy. You keep telling yourself that.
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by punee 11y ago
/r/iamverysmart
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by punee 11y ago
You appear to have skipped the part where it is clearly explained that introverts are not necessarily shy. Admittedly, it's a common confusion.
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by punee 11y ago
[2002]
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by punee 11y ago
Your second point is the first thing I looked for. "No mention of Goodyear welting? These guys probably don't know anything about shoemaking." The second pet peeve is calling them "designer shoes". Men don't bu
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by punee 11y ago
The reason is that HN has crappy typography and thus crappy legibility. I don't want to resize my browser window every 5 minutes to accommodate bad design choices.
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by punee 11y ago
Independent from what? I hear that rhetoric a lot in France from people who read Mediapart, an "independently funded" newspaper and website. Their slogan is something along the lines of "Only our readers can buy us." I a
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by punee 11y ago
Is this in reference to people who are software engineers who work for big businesses that are mostly marketing, sales and advertising driven and who would not have a job if it weren't for what they're criticizing in this thread?
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by punee 11y ago
Yes. Creative people creating ads are paid billions in fees every year to make useless things. Businesses buying advertising are just that stupid. They love to spend money on useless things instead of useful ones. I mean, who doesn't?
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by punee 11y ago
You're absolutely right. I guess I was misled by the title that talks about the "water supply" when they really mean "the quality of water" or something along those lines.
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by punee 11y ago
"Worrying over fracking is like seeing an upper middle class family who are $6,000 in debt, and freaking out because one of their kids bought a gumball from a machine." http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/1
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by punee 11y ago
Maybe someone can correct me here, but that kind of approach seems ill-founded to me when after a couple examples, people are already talking about different things using the same terminology. The article says "A list is a Functor&quot
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by punee 12y ago
Yes, that's why every successful company in the world spends 0 dollar on marketing and advertising. Right? They're just that dumb. If only they knew their products could sell themselves!
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by punee 12y ago
Active funds incorporate new data in the market thereby making it more efficient, which benefits passive funds, no?
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by punee 12y ago
A critical assumption in that view is that the returns on actively and passively managed funds are independent. Are they, or are the passive funds freeriding on the work of the active funds?
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by punee 12y ago
"econometrics of rent control" brings here. The fairly consistent econ 101 conclusion about rent control is that it never works. If you're talking about another conclusion, what is it?
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by punee 12y ago
What makes you think I wasn't fooled? What makes you think that's not precisely why I wrote the comment after originally feeling misled? What makes you think that's not exactly what my comment attempted to convey? I fail to s
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by punee 12y ago
Whoa, look at this chart, it's almost like there's no active oil rigs at all!!! Whoops, looks like it's just a "data scientist" who conveniently picked the origin of the vertical axis to mislead readers. My bad.
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by punee 12y ago
> It is buying market share, without making anything with the money. Erm. Yes, it's doing something with the money. Buying market share.
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by punee 12y ago
Yes, there can.
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by punee 12y ago
I think you're confusing "value to humanity" and nerd porn.
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by punee 12y ago
See chapter 34 here, for a hilarious takedown of that preposterous conception of advertising : http://prot-adar8-5773.s3.amazonaws.com/Reality-In-Advertisi...
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by punee 12y ago
Sorry, but the metric isn't vague, it's bullshit. You can't promise a conversion rate. Probably not even a conversion improvement, since the people you're targeting won't have enough traffic for testing. I'd st
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by punee 12y ago
An expert copywriter would know he has to optimize for the "ADHD crowd" (which is about 80% of people on the internet), for example by mentioning he provides copy in at least one of the subheads, instead of keeping his head in the
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by punee 12y ago
You probably also want to revise your discount rate assumption.

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