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by wangarific 5y ago
This is amazing, you are awesome for doing this.
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by wangarific 6y ago
In investing, this is why expense ratios and fees are so important to pay attention to. They're this.
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by wangarific 7y ago
It's less about being "smarter," it's really about identifying your advantage and understanding whether you can exploit it. This could be something as obvious as an information advantage (insider trading) to simply havin
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How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon(wsj.com)
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by wangarific 8y ago
I think the key difference is the audience. For a lot of food bloggers that share their recipes, the initial group of readers is loyal fans. They want to hear the stories and the recipe is almost secondary. When you find a recipe through se
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by wangarific 8y ago
As someone who has been quoted by major news outlets in what's likely a similar fashion - adding color to the story rather than reporting news - there is rarely "vetting" and the fact checking that occurs is merely confirming
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by wangarific 9y ago
Another benefit of publicly sharing your learning is that if you misinterpreted or misremembered something, others can point it out so you don't go through life with incorrect ideas.
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by wangarific 9y ago
Doesn't sound like you lose anything if you include roundtrip
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by wangarific 9y ago
And long enough. It's a lot of survival until you learn enough to make money.
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by wangarific 9y ago
There are a lot of blogging categories that are surprisingly profitable but in different ways. The internet is quite vast!
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by wangarific 9y ago
FWIW, that fluff is what builds a relationship with readers and for a lot of food blogs that's what separates you from powerhouses like seriouseats. You can usually just jump down to the recipe card if you want to skip the fluff.
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by wangarific 9y ago
It's a huge mental barrier for a lot of people... but can it overcome by talking to something you know is a bot?
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by wangarific 9y ago
I thought this looked familiar!
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by wangarific 10y ago
It's because most people don't take 45+ minutes so they don't know the difference. In 10-20min you just have soft brown onions... but once you truly caramelize, you know it's totally different.
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by wangarific 10y ago
We had one growing up that was the same way. Now I own one with a bazillion buttons and I only ever press one button - +30 seconds.
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by wangarific 10y ago
But then you can't exclaim Q.E.D., bitches! and it would be a terrible cartoon. :)
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by wangarific 10y ago
For 100% passive, you really can't beat this. Funnel your cash into dividend stocks and now you have a stream of income that's taxed at a favorable rate too. Even if you were to go with an S&P 500 index fund you get a near 2%
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by wangarific 10y ago
I wonder how much that guy who bought Facebook ads to be the leading referrer will get...
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by wangarific 10y ago
We have enough trouble overcoming the challenges of nature, we don't really need people making it harder for us.
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by wangarific 10y ago
They can do this but then companies will ask fake reviewers to buy the product through Amazon and then reimburse. The seller is only out the commission + price of product - it would create a small hurdle but wouldn't solve the problem.
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by wangarific 10y ago
Ha I did this too! Those were wonderful days... can you imagine the playthrough requirements used to be as low as 4x!?!? Those were the days. :)
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by wangarific 10y ago
I don't think it's cynical at all, I think a lot of how people view their job has to do with their evolution as an employee. If you fall in love with the mission, like the people you work with, it's easy to conflate family an
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by wangarific 11y ago
When you saw the subsequent layoffs, what was your reaction?
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by wangarific 11y ago
Can't the bot account for this by stating that if there's no response, call your local attorney and bring them this summary of facts?
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by wangarific 11y ago
Testing titles isn't that innovative on the whole but coupled with different teasers on the homepage and automating that test seems to be something you don't often see. For example, on the homepage now the primary headline is &qu
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by wangarific 11y ago
I've always thought that between clicks and SEO, this is why the URLs of articles sometimes can vary so widely from the title.
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by wangarific 11y ago
An eyeball attracting "typo"
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by wangarific 11y ago
There are a lot of these sites that give you free or cheaply priced products in return for a review, the reviews help that product listing appear higher in the Amazon search listings. There's often no requirement to disclose you got th
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by wangarific 11y ago
The idea is that conventional gasoline engines will pollute, electric engines won't. As for the source of electricity, it's currently not 100% clean but getting cleaner as renewable sources take over.
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by wangarific 11y ago
It's time to lawyer up and not talk at all.

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