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Does psychology have a public relations problem?(sometimesimwrong.typepad.com)
2 points by vkb 11y ago|0 comments
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LeBron Discovers Little-Known Technology Company Called JPMorgan(bloomberg.com)
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An Introverted Writer’s Lament(theatlantic.com)
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by vkb 11y ago
Is the tradeoff then visibility and platforms or obscurity and freedom? It seems to me like there's a middle ground somewhere.
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by vkb 11y ago
Very powerful. I read this article at the same time as this one [1] this morning, about the powers and limitations of content platforms. Both say the same thing to me: many people think the web today is inherently broken by middlemen, like
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Mutually assured content(theawl.com)
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by vkb 11y ago
There is a lot of focus and discussion around the $1.50 figure I mentioned, and perhaps I was wrong to include it in the post. The $1.50 is not the point. I would pay $1.50. I gladly pay for Pinboard, Newsblur, The New York Times, The Econ
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by vkb 11y ago
It was via credit card, but it was a smaller site I'd never heard of (I'm into music but not enough to know this place..maybe they're legit and I just didn't spend enough time doing research) and I was weighing the respo
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by vkb 11y ago
Everyone is chiming in on this point, so I don't think I wrote it clearly enough. I would be willing to pay $1.50 for a song if it were through a known party, like Amazon Payments or PayPal. I've bought lots of music through Amazo
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Who's doing this to my internet?(veekaybee.github.io)
366 points by vkb 11y ago|293 comments
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by vkb 11y ago
What I also thought was interesting as I was reading it (surprisingly my first time being exposed to this piece) was how strange the rituals described sounded, even though it was supposed to be a lighthearted parody of ordinary life. For ex
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Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (1956) [pdf](sfu.ca)
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by vkb 11y ago
Nice writeup. I may have missed this, but how did you get the data? Did you scrape the site?
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by vkb 11y ago
Yup, you can run printcp, plotcp, and fancyRpartPlot on it to make it look nice.
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by vkb 11y ago
The author writes, "Before I started looking for an apartment, I never gave much thought to the cumulative identity I had been presenting, or even performing, on the Internet. " This is completely the opposite of my (also a millen
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Regression to the mean(farnamstreetblog.com)
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by vkb 11y ago
Agree. I've done a lot of decision trees in R lately and the two packages I've seen with the "most" documentation are rattle and rpart. I've found rpart much easier to use and understand, and it has pretty involved
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The privacy curve(blog.dilbert.com)
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Dark markets(themorningnews.org)
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by vkb 11y ago
I don't understand...are you saying that just because you are at a fledgling business, you can act however you want?
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Where have all the grownups gone?(jjdisconnects.com)
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by vkb 11y ago
Great analysis. A post I wrote recently[1], called "Use percentages" reinforces exactly why your post and Tim's comment are important. Absolute values, especially where some are growing more exponentially than others, will al
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by vkb 11y ago
Based on what I read of the article (about 2/3), it seems like the question this article is answering is, "In which entertainment medium can you make the most money in a least-hard way? " The best medium for a storyteller wi
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This Former NFL Player's $8B Mortgage Lender Started with a Google Search(bloomberg.com)
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How many users do you actually have?(veekaybee.github.io)
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by vkb 11y ago
I really think a lot of this is driven by $$$, although some part of it probably is, yes, the CEO trying to gain control of Reddit, although judging by Yishan Wong's exit, that hasn't been possible for this site previously. As som
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Reddit was amazing(blog.vickiboykis.com)
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Moscow then and now(theguardian.com)
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Mind Your Own Business(thebaffler.com)
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by vkb 11y ago
I've been waiting for this with not a little paranoia, given Google's propensity to dump products. I have over 2k pictures taken since the birth of my daughter in January, 99% of them with my Android phone and uploaded automatical

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