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Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by vmception » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 6:03 AM UTC

austhrow743 wrote: post #94

Kaze404 wrote: post #87

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This started as a great comment but I don't understand the non sequitur into casual mysoginy.

Equating a desire for sex with women with misogyny is in itself discriminatory. I'm not sure if its discriminatory against women or against men, maybe just both, but its certainly one of them.

> Equating a desire for sex with women with misogyny is in itself discriminatory.

It fits the definition for misandry. Ironically. Equating courtship advantage things men do with contempt is inherently misandrist (or we're at an impasse). I hope people are able to reconcile their corrosive relationships and prior life experiences to be more collaborative.

Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 6:07 AM UTC

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #62

vmception wrote: post #54

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> Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day. In my instagram marketing last decade thats what we did. While others were imagining that people "buy likes", or actually were dealing with bots, we were doing this for our clients. Basically you get meme accounts to do a promotion of a profile that is currently…

I just vomited a little in my mouth

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Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by namanyayg » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 6:28 AM UTC

vmception wrote: post #54

teach wrote: post #5

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I "participated" in a less nefarious strategy. In 2010, when the collection of short stories "Machine of Death" was about to be released, the editor Ryan North asked us not to pre-order. Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day, which certainly led to increased sales over time. Probably didn't hurt that it…

> Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day. In my instagram marketing last decade thats what we did. While others were imagining that people "buy likes", or actually were dealing with bots, we were doing this for our clients. Basically you get meme accounts to do a promotion of a profile that is currently…

What content category are these accounts posting in?

Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by jamiek88 » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 6:55 AM UTC

bryanlarsen wrote: post #31

scubbo wrote: post #8

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> Ryan North is also the author of the popular webcomic "Dinosaur Comic". And of "To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Adventure" and "Romeo And/Or Juliet", CYA retellings of Hamlet and R&J; and of "How To Invent Everything", a handy-dandy guide to bootstrapping modern technology if your time machine malfunctions. AND he is the human of Noam Chompsky, a Very Good Boy.

OK, that's the third time I've seen "How to Invent Everything" recommended in 3 very different places. Ordered.

Me too but fourth and ditto, bought.

Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by ant6n » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 7:38 AM UTC

It seems like it would be possible to hack the charts during normal times. It may involve renting a stadium, designating it a movie theatre and playing the movie 24h straight (then every 10K seats could create 10k seats * 10$/seat * 10 showings per day = 1 Million $ in revenue).

Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by northern-lights » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 7:43 AM UTC

vmception wrote: post #54

teach wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I "participated" in a less nefarious strategy. In 2010, when the collection of short stories "Machine of Death" was about to be released, the editor Ryan North asked us not to pre-order. Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day, which certainly led to increased sales over time. Probably didn't hurt that it…

> Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day. In my instagram marketing last decade thats what we did. While others were imagining that people "buy likes", or actually were dealing with bots, we were doing this for our clients. Basically you get meme accounts to do a promotion of a profile that is currently…

It's clear that you are trying to sell something here. Might as well be obvious about it. Direct marketing works best in some cases (and definitely yours going by your other posts).

Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by goblin89 » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 9:27 AM UTC

vmception wrote: post #99

Kaze404 wrote: post #96

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> In general on dating apps, women are funneling people to their instagram profile to ignore them. If you have a popular account its a night and day difference.

Can you elaborate on how you would acknowledge that valid reality? Is there a different wording you would use if it was indeed common and accurate outcome? From my perspective there is no contempt, only circumvention and the reason why.

Before claiming that group X does Y to cause outcome Z that is unpleasant to someone, it is worth considering:

1. Is Y really a behavior exclusive to group X?

2. Is behavior Y fair to generalize across members of group X?

3. Is outcome Z the intended purpose of behavior Y, or is a side-effect that someone might take painfully?

For example, the sentiment of “In general on dating apps, women are funneling people to their instagram profile to ignore them” might read like at best someone low-key thinks women owe others attention.

Using a dating profile to promote another social media profile is something any attractive person might reasonably consider, and (barring some extraordinary looks, etc.) reaching out to them from a social profile with a lot of clout could be a way to get attention—clout likely being what that person respects, as they themselves are purposefully trying to acquire it.

Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by obiye » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 9:50 AM UTC

vmception wrote: post #92

obiye wrote: post #91

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And what kind of fun hat do you wear for peacocking?

Goorin Brothers! oh shoot! It was when I said social proof wasn't it! well the other term I was specifically avoiding was demonstrating higher value. Yes, gotta update those concepts to conform to things people actually value this decade, especially when wealth and education credentials are more ubiquitous and not unique (in SF/Bay Area) and both genders have it more often. I just don't want to be associated with the…

It’s all the same stuff. I’ll never understand the appeal.

Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by chrismorgan » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 10:00 AM UTC

chadcmulligan wrote: post #69

DevKoala wrote: post #9

I find it amusing that Zoom’s user experience allowed it to capture the market to such degree that is now making waves in pop culture. How did Google, Microsoft, Cisco, etc get it so wrong all of these years?

They do have some patents https://patents.justia.com/assignee/zoom-video-communication... so there was some innovation required. I thought they may use middle out compression, but couldn't see its mentioned

Patents are an extremely poor signal of required innovation; I strongly suspect they’re worse than random. Most innovation is retained as trade secret rather than patented. Patents are more an indicator that you’re a big business, or that you are operating in a domain where hostile use of patents is rife (and video is one such area).

I just did a very quick skim through those patents (just reading what’s on that page and not the actual claims), and these are my impressions. ’390: obvious, prior art may also exist, as what it describes has been a standard technique even within video codecs for many years. ’900: obvious, also an abstract idea so it shouldn’t be patentable. ’511: obvious and probable prior art, the technique has been used for DRM for years. ’454/’218: no idea, could be valid, but (personal opinion) it doesn’t sound like it should be patentable anyway.

Re: Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

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Post by dEnigma » Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 10:12 AM UTC

scubbo wrote: post #8

teach wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I "participated" in a less nefarious strategy. In 2010, when the collection of short stories "Machine of Death" was about to be released, the editor Ryan North asked us not to pre-order. Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day, which certainly led to increased sales over time. Probably didn't hurt that it…

> Ryan North is also the author of the popular webcomic "Dinosaur Comic". And of "To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Adventure" and "Romeo And/Or Juliet", CYA retellings of Hamlet and R&J; and of "How To Invent Everything", a handy-dandy guide to bootstrapping modern technology if your time machine malfunctions. AND he is the human of Noam Chompsky, a Very Good Boy.

Oh interesting. I recently ordered "How To Invent Everything" because it seemed interesting, but had no idea that the guy behind Dinosaur Comic wrote it. This makes me think that I made the right decision.