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social media was very important in this election and trump did a much better job
Re:8,760 Hours: How to get the most out of next year on Sunday December 25, 2016 @11:09PM (#13256883)
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Re:Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers on Thursday May 23, 2013 @03:59PM (#5759152)
Katrina refugees put the last nail in the coffin at Windsor Park
Why do you need a cerebral solution? Isn't trial by fire good enough?

Everyone looked like an idiot as a child learning to socialize. Enough exposure, criticism, praise, etc will curb your actions away from looking like an idiot. You just need to adjust your self image and realize that looking like an idiot at that specific time does not mean that you can't learn adapt and look like a socially adept human at a future time.

> For the record, this is not just Google. Facebook, twitter and others need to step up as well. Or else what? To what benefit? Do they need to step up or would you just prefer if they provided customer service?
Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @03:53PM (#5333821)
You've gone to Amazon, had to do an extra click, and decided not to buy because of that?
Re:Adderall Addiction: The Last All-Nighter on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @03:36PM (#5333706)
I noticed my tolerance to adderall going up. I did a 4 day juice fast and now I'm a lightweight again.
Re:Silicon Valley is high on innovation. And pot on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @03:24PM (#5333601)
Keep your modafinil use sparse and don't drink on it.
Re:Google Fails the Turing Test on Thursday February 14, 2013 @10:26AM (#5219834)
They are customers of google search in that they buy search results in exchange for screen real estate and suppliers for the reasons you stated above. Google cares deeply about satisfying their search customers because they are also the suppliers of page impressions and personal information.

Why must it be one or the other?

Re:Google Fails the Turing Test on Thursday February 14, 2013 @10:10AM (#5219751)
>For most customers, the product is search results, and their payment is to let part of their screen be occupied by ads.

Would you say adblockers are theft?

Is every consenting value exchange a customer-provider relationship?

>the ideal of such a relationship assumes perfect balance -- two people with things worthless to themselves, but valuable to the other.

Not worthless, just worth less. If I buy a product/service, I felt my money had less worth than what I was buying and the provider held the opposite stance.

Re:How To Make Trillions Of Dollars on Thursday January 10, 2013 @06:14PM (#5040357)
The original article on the author's blog asks for an email address at the bottom of every article. http://www.raptitude.com/2011/01/how-to-make-trillions-of-do...
Re:Cards Against Humanity: Results of "pay what you want" on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @10:48AM (#4937983)
There's a concept in the info marketing space called the "invisible funnel"

You collect credit card info upfront, deliver the information they opted in for with their cc, then the option to not process your cc is presented.

Re:Nootropics – The Facts About “Smart Drugs” on Thursday September 13, 2012 @04:57PM (#4518565)
And affiliate links where you can buy.
Re:Throw Out Everything You Know About Ads on Sunday April 08, 2012 @05:10PM (#3814917)
I have been running facebook ad campaigns for over a year now and consistently found that by hand writing something in paint on a relevant image, i get much better ctr than just the relevant image.
Re:Ask HN: Converting Mobile App to Paid Version on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @10:11PM (#1785773)
It seems like the casual user wouldn't be willing to write complex xml. Have you thought about adding a gui level creator?