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by throwaway800 11y ago
Is this a useful definition of advertising, especially in the context of everyday purchases brought up by eterm? The most prominent brand I interact with is a major grocery chain. This is because they have a huge store 5 minutes from my hou
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by throwaway800 11y ago
Well, at least that's what advertising agencies advertise to their clients :) The best-paying sells advertisers make is to their clients and their industry peers.
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by throwaway800 11y ago
If he was a multinational corporation this would be called awareness-raising sponsorship
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by throwaway800 11y ago
My everyday purchasing decisions are mostly driven by opening my cupboard and checking if there is enough muesli left for the next three days. I haven't seen advertising inside my cupboard yet but any day now...
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by throwaway800 11y ago
The doubling of post systems as rural bankers in Europe has interested me for a while. Even today the basic bank services in Switzerland are done by the Swiss Post. It makes a fair amount of sense and there are some neat synergies. Even fai
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by throwaway800 11y ago
Loading-bar-in-address-bar was an Opera feature in the 2000s. Removed in the Blinkering I think. http://i.imgur.com/kcLWY7f.png (bad example because Google loads too fast to have a meaningful progress bar)
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by throwaway800 12y ago
I have the "anonymous" mode enabled on Linkedin. I do this for the same reason I am using a throwaway HN account, and - if I may presume - for the same reason you didn't put full name in your HN profile: When I'm casuall
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by throwaway800 12y ago
Eurozone Northern Europeans
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by throwaway800 12y ago
4b. Northern Europeans stop visiting and spending money in Athens, Rome, Algarve, Canary Islands, and buying Mediterranean produce until the end of Northern-sponsored dolce vita. This cuts both ways, and the ultimate end is economic war and
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by throwaway800 12y ago
Little known fact: the lack of copy/paste in original iPhone OS was a nod to anti-plagiarism and also an attempt to disrupt the education space
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by throwaway800 12y ago
I mostly bike around cities, and when I drive I have taken to cracking open a window because not being able to hear cars around me feels deeply disconcerting.
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by throwaway800 15y ago
> what's keeping Detroit from turning it's warehouses into startups? Imagine SOMA on a city scale. What's missing is the things start-up employee type of people are looking for in a city: density, diversity, transit, food, Asian girls..
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by throwaway800 16y ago
Hey! Copycat.
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Ask HN: number of applicants for a position?
2 points by throwaway800 16y ago|2 comments