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Re:A New Income Stream for Your Website on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:00AM (#23599658)
I'm guessing there's a lot of bloggers out there that are going to find this interesting.
Re:Build yourself a weather station on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:29AM (#23526591)
I have also suggested that our ability to predict the weather at such scale and with such accuracy is one of the coolest inventions in recent history. Thanks for sharing.
Re:Retarget Someone Else's Website on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:03AM (#23498780)
I've never seen so many annoying ads on a website, but still an interesting read.
Upvoted because it was interesting, not because I like the behavior.
Re:Legos and Motivation on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:39AM (#23455970)
One of my favorite studies on purpose. Whenever you ask someone to do something, don't forget to give them the "why", or it's very unlikely to get done.
Re:What did Schrodinger's Cat experiment prove? (2013) on Thursday June 04, 2020 @06:00PM (#23422455)
My $0.02 exactly. I see this is everyday life. People think if you can't measure something it doesn't exist or isn't worthwhile. I would argue quite the contrary :)
Re:Paper Notes (2019) on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:19AM (#23416183)
Paper notes...the ultimate way of not being hacked. Different set of risks, of course, but it's a certain sense of security if you know what I mean.
Re:How I Make Passive Income and 46 More Ideas That Work on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:16AM (#23416154)
I realize some of these are a little "get rich quick-y", but I thought it was worth sharing because some are actually pretty clever.
This is going to be controversial, but Amazon in my mind is one of those companies that gets a pass. They needed to move fast and get people supplies. If that hadn't, there would have been bigger issues.

Very sad all of this is happening, but Amazon should get a little slack.

This is a great tool for Italy. It's too bad the US government can't step up their game with contact tracing -- we could really use something like this right now.
Re:The key to increase user acquisition this pandemic on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:57AM (#23390482)
I have mixed feelings about posts like this...just feels like trying to capitalize on a terrible situation, although I get it could be spun as trying to make the most of a terrible situation.
This: "Don't charge 5-10 bucks for your product. It's not really worth it and the customers who pay that are generally cheap-asses anyway."

That ^!

Learned it the hard way myself.

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